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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, May 15, 1959 "Everyone tc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dnily except Saturday by mxji JJ1L ftu.N lXiNti to. 33 North fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBS.'OT W RTCTTT. Ertitr HERB GREV Advertising Manager CEPALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD EWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women" Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medxorri Oreeon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 I In Advance. Copy 10c Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday -8 mos. 8J30 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. ' Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes - Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sumlsy 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper ol Jscaion county United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Arfvertlsinff ReDresentative 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 Of NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOR! At A - Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mai! Tribune" 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10' YEARS AGO Mn 15. 1949 (Sunday) - Tinn Whalen. of Timber 'Products, Medford, is named to the board of directors of tne . Willamette Valley Loggers Southern Oregon Historical society officers, plan a visit to th old Jacksonville court house to study its possibilities ' as a museum. 20 YEARS AGO Mav 15, 1939 (Monday) Grants Pass carries off top honors in the third annual Emigrant lake national catfish derby. From Arthur Perry's "Ye 'Smudge Pot" column: ."Record heat marks are being estab . lished by the Chamber of Commerce thermometers, out side the orbit of courthouse lawn .sprinklers." 30 YEARS AGO May 15. 1929 (Wednesday) Owen-Oregon company plans to extend the Butte Falls railroad into Klamath county. , Medford Ice and Storage plans to erect its $80,000 addi tion in time to accommodate this year's fruit crop. 40 YEARS AGO .May 15, 1919 (Thursday) The Elks lodge buys 12 acres of land along the Rogue river for a picnic grounds. A shortage of labor in the valley for farm and fruit work continues. 50 YEARS AGO May 15. 1909 The Medford city council receives petitions from all parts of town for water mains. Business and building grow rapidly in Ashland. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or -ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Name the capital of Ar kansas. . ' . : 2. Are ocean tides caused by gravitational pull of the sun, or of the moon?. 3. Name the White House Press Secretary. 4. The sum of 20 cents can be made up from seven U.S. coins, name them. 5. A U. S. citizen who mar ries a foreign 'national auto matically confers American citizenship upon the spouse; true or false? . 6."Gopher State," is a nick name for which State? 7. Women's nylon 'stockings were first placed on sale na tionally about 15, 20 or 25 years ago? 8. Judas Iscariot received how many pieces of silver for the betrayal of Jesus? . 9. Mary Baker Eddy found ed whaV religious organiza tion? 10. Who wrote the lines, "Oh, East is East and West is West, and "never the twain snail meet"? Answers. 1. Litlle Rock. 2. Both. 3. Jim Hagerty. 4. Dime, nickel, five pennies. 5. False. 6. Minnesota. 7. 20. 8. Thirty. 9. Christian Science Church. 10. Rudyard Kipling. FORMER EDITOR DIES Philadelphia - (CPU - John A. Lutz, a former president of the Poor Richard club, died at 80 here on Wednesday. For many years, he edited the club's Poor Richard Alma Buttonholing The Army, Navy and at the drop of a hat over defense department re organization or who is to develop what missile, may well wax hot under the collar at a recent proposal to standardize buttonholes, and buttons, in military uniforms. But we hasten to salute it. The Pentagon pur chasing agents who told Congress of this scheme presumably have as their object some long-range saving in uniform costs. It may, however, prove a far greater blessing on another front. We refer to its potential effect on the honor able art of buttonholing, defined by Webster's dictionary simply as "to detain in talk." THIS practice, also known vulgarly and incor- rectly as "collaring," derives from the Roman tradition of the togahold. In the Ancient Forum any man, however noble or ignoble, could by the simple act of snatching a section of another's toga, preferably at a point near his ears, gain for himself a captive audience to whom he might de liver anything from a fenatch of soothing verse to a tip on the chariot races. Down through the centuries, the term has changed with the times, or, more exactly, with the apparel of the times. Each time the apparel changed radically, the results were usually disastrous. Take the Roman Empire. When the Goths swarmed across its northern frontier, swathed in bear skins, the Romans were at a' loss to know which was the appropriate part of this foreign garment to grasp. Soon afterward, Rome was sacked, t 117E SUSPECT the reason for this phenomenon may be that extended human communica tion at close range, such as buttonholing affords, has proved an effective deterrent to strife. When buttonholing is made difficult or impossible, dis chord inevitably results. How many times have you heard someone say, "He disagreed with me at the meeting, but I buttonholed him afterward and now we see eye-to-eye." Secretary of -State, Dulles, and now Herter, have found a skill at buttonholing their counter parts in Great Britain, France and West Germany indispensable to their efforts at Western' unity, and, ultimately, world peace. The current foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva is, in fact, nothing but a four-way buttonhole job. And students of buttonholing see a singular ray of hope in Nikita Khrushchev's taste for Italian suits, which brings him sartorially closer to the West and thus, theoretically at leastmakes him a better target for the summit rHESE are troubled times, and we must tread cautiously. After all, about the time this na tion was shifting from double-breasted to single breasted suits, with the resultant chance in but tonhole arrangement, the We realize that altering military buttonholes may cause minor disruptions in current routine. A lew Washington lobbyists may feel "all thumbs" for a while. ' But if by unif ormitv to-heart exchanges between leaders of our armed services, and thus advance toward an ultimate cease-fire in the interservice rivalry that has hampered our defense administration and at times hamstrung our missile programs, then we are ior it. And if you disagree with us, why, we'll but tonhole you on Main street tomorrow. You'll see the light. E.W. The Merits of Moonlighting Moonlighting, the holding of outside jobs by city and county employees, was challenged re cently by organized labor in Multnomah county and threatened with eclipse by the Multnomah county sheriff. . ; . . This week, moonlighting won a court reprieve pending a decision on the merits of the issue via a suit brought against the sheriff by three county employees. Labor spokesmen touched off the exchanges leading to this lunar litigation by asserting that public employees who took spare time work rep resented unfair competition in the labor market. . THE controversy's apparent center of gravity lighting, which according to the Multnomah county district attorney's office still applies. The sheriff set about enforcing it, even against parti cipation in military reserve units. But Attorney General Robert Thornton replied that moonlight ing, was a constitutional right. It should go without saying that anyone en terprising enough to carry a double work load, with its attendant sacrifices, should be permitted to do so. Employees on public payrolls so long as no conflict of interest arises, and so long as their efficiency is not impaired should certainly be allowed to supplement in this manner their generally modest incomes. '. JF MOONLIGHTING were prohibited, valuable workers might well be lost entirely to other, more lucrative employment. As for applying such a prohibition to military training, this would be sheer lunacy, We appreciate, the extent of America's unem ployment problem. But we believe it is begging the issue, . or should we say baying the moon, to seek a solution by denying public employees their constitutional rights. E.W Air Force, who quarrel peaceful persuasion at Korean War broke out. we can simDlif v heart- Dennis the J'll PUT THE COVfdW TO 6SD. Hg COULD PICK VPHISTO&S Washington Report By WILLIAM NOT FAIR Washington - There is a heavy political fall-out in the Senate's current row over "1 wnether Presi- hower's eight-months-old ap pointment o f Xj e w x a L. -1 4. 1 0UBUSS LO UC Secretary o f Commerce should be at last confirm William S. White ed. Indeed, one can readily see in imagination an ominous mushroom cloud rather like those that rose over the hy drogen bomb tests which Strauss pressed when he was chairman of the Atomic En ergy Commission. Unpleasant a n d possibly noxious political matter is raining down upon the Senate Republicans in gen eral, but most of all upon the modern - liberal Republicans. The Strauss nomination is under the most serious attack ever levelled by the Senate at an Eisenhower Cabinet choice. Many Democrats are hap pily .pounding away at the nominee, and are not being too choosy about their weap ons. Old Guard Republicans are defending him without a backward glance. Well they might, for this is the most authentic "regular" Republi can ever to hold high place in the Eisenhower Adminis- Editorial Comment DRIVING BUSINESS AWAY One hopes the Interstate Commerce Commission's per mission for reduction of Shasta Daylight streamliner service between Portland and San Francisco to three times a week during the winter slack period is not the first step toward cancellation of this train through scenic Ore gon and northern California. But it could turn out that it is. The Southern Pacific has been trying to curtail service on the run since 1956, con tending it has lost large sums of money through lack of patronage during the winter months. The California Pub lic Utilities Commission re fused the . request once, but the ICC now has given it under the Smathers Act of 1958, which gives the federal agency superior jurisdiction in railroad service cutback cases. One cannot see how the curtailment will save the railroad money, If one wishes to go to San Francisco today and the train doesn't go until tomorrow one can take the night train, which is com fortable and fast, or go by bus or air. Coach passengers find the daylight ride more interesting than the night train, for at night they can not see the truly magnificent scenery on the route. The result of curtailment can only be to drive more passengers from the railroad to other forms of transportation: Al m o s t certain consequences will be more loss of revenue and new request for addition al cutbacks. The S.P. has shown a de sire to get rid of passenger service to facilitate the more lucrative hauling of freight. One revelation of this desire was the recent closing of its downtown street-level ticket office in Portland, which was immediately occupied by an air line. In contrast, four other railroads maintain tick et offices on two of the most prominent downtown corners. A railroad has a duty to at least attempt to make a pub lic service pay out. Portland Ortgonian. ' Menace FELL ASLEEP HE S. WHITE tration. Not the last of Strauss' troubles, in a word, is that he himself is a wholly unapologetic Qld Guardist. THE liberal - modern Re publicans, too, are coming to Strauss' support. But this is with a troubled lack of en thusiasm rather similar to that of some young men in receiving those well - known "greetings" from the Presi dent of the United States which draft them, for military service. For Strauss repre sents much for which these moderns do not care at all. ' Many moderate to conserv ative Democrats are troubled, too, but in a different sense They, too, are on the whole less than mad about Lewis Strauss, as a public man, that is. But they do not relish the outwardly genteel but basic ally tough roughing-up he is receiving. What the attacking Demo crats are doing is to try Mr Strauss not so much for his actions as for his ideas. They are pursuing him for his philosophy; they . are indict ing him for his thoughts. "At bottom they are seeking mightily to prove what is al ready self-evident and self- proclaimed that he is a Herbert Hoover Republican, , THEIR charge that on many issues he is politically "wrong" is to many - includ ing this observer profound ly strong. But their case that he should therefore be denied confirmation is, to this one observer at least, profoundly weak. For, all Philadelphia lawyers to the contrary, the custom has been that any President is entitled to pick his Cabinet and that the Sen ate will not refuse confirma tion without overpowering reason. Tnere is no such reason here. True, this is not remote ly the brutal persecution di rected in the past by Senate Republicans to accused left- wingers of various hues. There is no need to weep overmuch at the cries of these Republicans that the Demo crats are pushing them around, as well as Strauss, All the same the Strauss af fair, too, is a persecution, if a far less savage one. This time the victim is a right winger. The objections to him have nothing really to do with the President's right to. have his services. Strauss' spare, bristling and perhaps unwisely unterrified frame (tact and the soft an swer come hard to him) is simply being used to hang up to public view certain pre- 1960 political garments. HERE, the opposition Demo crats are saying, is a Her bert Hoover man, an ultra conservative who .does not like public power, a big busi ness type. And he is, in fact, quite all of that. Here, they are saying, is an "anti-intellectual," a man who demand ed atomic weapons develop ment first and thought of fall-out and disarmament sec ond. This latter, he is. Harsh or not, he fought with cour age and strength to protect this country in the atomic race. Maybe he is unwise at times. But he was also indis pensible. And "anti-intellectual" he is not. The odd truth is that he himself is an egghead, but - rarest of things - a Repub lican Old Guard egghead. The shaking up being given to him, and to the issues he typifies, is entirely, under standable. It is probably good politics as well. But it does have this one shortcoming: it is not fair. . (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although ader cer tain circumstances tne 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 Conservation of Resources To the Editor: For far too long, far too much of Amer-j ica s natural resources . ana too many of Tennyson's chat tering "forever" brooks-part of one and the same-nave been nonexistant. However, if interest shown, expressions and actions by so many citi zens through Conservation Week, (some of program car ried over to the big attend ance Monday evening, May 11, at the IWL meeting, Cham ber of Commerce meeting the 13th, etc.) are shadows cast of coming events, then we may hope. If some far-sighted planning for Jackson county's future can and will be carried out, when most of the yet intact valley floor may be fields of waving, nourishing food view ed from surrounding home- studded hillsides; Bear creek a clean, pure stream where children may wade and splash, bordered by tree shaded camping grounds, then this part of the valley some of us have visualized may come true; and better plan ning lies ahead. Active cooperation on the Conservation Week program was shared by just about ev ery group; federal, state, coun ty," city. Local groups and many individuals over the county did much to make aware the public of our needs, and some accomplishments. IWL men in Ashland carried the baU. Howard Hopkins of the U.S. Forest Service and Ross Youngblood of Bureau of ."Land Management, city and county school superintendents' offices and the county court participated, in field trips, of which you may read more fully soon. The, ministerial association, through our many churches, reminded us that "The Earth is The Lord's, we soil stewards, briefly. Are we - trustworthy? To all those who made themselves available to speak on a special phase of natural resources at civic clubs or other gatherings, those who wrote special articles for our county newspapers; editors of the Medford Mail . Tribune, Ashland Tidings, Rogue River Times, to managers of KBES- TV and our radio station man agers; to the Boy and Girl Scouts and other school stu dents; to . all who cooperated in this worthwhile program, we are deeply thankful. By woods trips and observ ing truckloads of punky white fir and dry-rot incense cedar logs-"worthless' a few years ago-now salvaged from "in accessible" and high moun tain places, we see vast changes in man's estimate of values of our forest resources; and soil, water, wildlife and other natural resources are being more and more appre ciated. Jackson County Conserva tion of Natural Resources Week Committee, John E. Gribble, Chairman Dogs at Large To the Editor: After becom ing a new resident on Vancou ver ave., in this city I have no ticed how many owners of dogs on that street allow their dogs to run out and bark and snarl at peaceful citizens in cluding postmen and school children who try to walk along the sidewalks. It seems as though the own ers of these dogs are just too lazy or indifferent to call or whistle their dogs back on their own grounds or to train them to better manners. Dogs can be easily trained to good manners if their owners so desire it enough not to allow their animals to threaten everyone passing on the street. Dogs do not knpw any better until they are trained, but their owners should know better. (Name on File) Medford Like YCC Idea To the Editor: I read that Interior Secretary Fred Seaton had written a letter opposing the revival of the pre-World War II Civilian Conservation Corps. Personally I think Fred Seaton is way off in his attitude. I put in one year in one of those camps 20 years ago. And I've never regretted doing so. I usually vote a Republican ticket but I do consider the C.C.C. one of the best pro grams ever to have been start ed. I do, however, have one thing to say in regard to ad ministration of the program, leave the Army and Navy out of it, and with it the practice of honorable and dishonorable discharges. I favor a simple hire and fire arrangement such as is used in industry. AUow each man an allotment for clothing and allow him to purchase such clothing as he prefers to use. I also oppose the requirement that he give his life history. I'd OK a re- quirement that ha tell of the Andrei Gromyko Man-of-Week With Quote-of-Week By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The man-of-the-week: So viet Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko. Quote - of-the - week "From the moment of its creation. the Soviet state is a prin c i p 1 e d and consistent fol lower of the peaceful coex istence with all states irre spective of differences in social systems or political or Phil Newsom ganization that may exist be tween them." The place: Geneva. Soviet Russia's Andrei Gro- V'itiH Ike's Attitude In Dealing With Congress By RAYMOND LAHR ' UPI Correspondent Washington -(UPD- President Eisenhower's belligerent stance in dealing with Con gress this year finds him close to 180 degrees from the posi tion he took in the earlier years of his administration. Whereas he used to propose and let Congress dispose, he now appears more willing to fight at a time when the Democrats have gained top- heavy majorities in the House and Senate. And while he has lost some skirmishes this year, he has not yet lost the war. There is evidence that the new Republican congressional leaders - Rep. Charles A. Hal leek and Sen. Everett M. Dirk- sen - have had a hand in prodding the President into more aggressive opposition to the Democrats in Congress. Message To Congress Thus he sent his extra ordinary message to Congress this week scolding the legis lative branch for inaction on his recommendations for deal ing with the highway pro gram, the wheat surplus, and housing. It was the sort of thing that Harry S. Truman might have enjoyed, Six months ago, Republican professionals nursing their wounds after 1958 election defeats were lamenting that there were not enough votes in advocating a balanced budget. Democrats felt the same way when the Senate passed bills early this year with housing, depressed area and airport programs more liberal than Eisenhower pro posed. . But now under Eisen hower's lead, the GOP is act past two years but no more than that. Also for infraction of rules a system similiar to a jury and judge be used, nothing resembling a court martial would be permitted. I have given considerable thought to the system in use at present and how it might be improved. In place of our Department of Agriculture we should have a Department of Conservation, this would include the C.C.C, O & C lands, Game and Fisheries, Soil Conservation Service, and other programs connected with conservation of our na tural resources. I do believe, that of all the programs started and used during the Roosevelt admin istrations and since, the Civil ian Conservation Corps one of the best, in the lasting results. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pift Star Rt. Butte Falls, Ore. Dogs Need Care To the Editor: There have been so many items in the paper lately of people being hittpn bv does, something must be said in defense of dogs. It is a known fact that dogs ar the most loval and friend liest of creatures if given half a chance. When treated harsn lv and especially when dealt an unsuspected blow or, kick, . ' 1 - A - his instincts are io reiauaie. NHne times out of ten when a puppy bites a child the puppy has been hurt or teased be yond endurance. Parents must remember that kittens and puppies are not toys but baby animals that need tender care and training and common sense' should tell us that it is unwise and in humane to provide a child with small animals. Older, placid animals are better, but even then it is a responsibility and children must be taught that to tease or torment a dog is likely to make him ill-tem-Dered. but treated with kind ness and consideration he will become a trusted friend and playmate. Mrs. Harper Winston, 2922 South Ivy St., Medford, myko took the honors at the Geneva foreign ministers' conference this week on two counts. On one, he followed the footsteps of such distinguished predecessors as V. M. Molo tov and Andrei Vishinsky. In most of the 15 foreign minis ters' conferences held since VE day, the Soviets have been experts at stalling tactics. Gromyko this week proved himself an apt pupil. Emerges as Champion On the other, he emerged as a champion in a field in which heretofore he has not been distinguished. He ' has been sporting a homburg hat, which among the other hat less foreign ministers, auto matically has qualified him as Changes ing as if there were hardly an issue worth mentioning after a balanced budget. It could be that, the fading of the recession made the issue more popular. Republicans in the House also discovered that they could capitalize on the rules - and the Rules Committee - of that chamber to apply brakes to the Democratic pro gram. The situation looked ripe for rebuilding the coali tion of Republicans and con servative Democrats which dominated Congress only few years ago. . Liberals Puxrled . At .the same time, the Democrats began to smart under the "big spender" label that Eisenhower and other Republicans were try ing to paste on them. AU this back and forth has produced a prolonged lull on Capital Hill before Congress moves into the final, frantic weeks of its 1959 session. And the liberal Democrats are won dering what happened to what they interpreted as a 1958 election mandate for a revival of the New Deal, Spokesmen for the liberal Americans for Democratic Action could grumble 'last week end about a "do-noth ing" Congress frittering away the gams claimed by the liberal wing in the elections last year, Congressonal leaders in both parties, however, will be more interested in assessing the political impact of this Congress after it has adjourn ed this summer and most in terested in the judgment in dicated by the 1960 election after next year's session, DOWN bi p t r , h l i .tt't l t a; v i ? 14 hi 1-1 13 Mi MN MH V feuyivK th fiTf !M1 HLu ton pv h$ mpl Mid Hie ?:J .i j -n r ; ft'vi m Li I "i lifJ iryj m Chosen "Bat Import Buy" 1. 1 5- IfeOjJr by Meckanix Illustrated y I jr"-V l SAO A $4950 1 1 Safe Front Engine Design A UniGard Body Proven Top Miles-Per-Oallon Economy Power-Start 12 Volt Ignition System Family-Size A Door, S Passenger Room Big Ride Ball-Joint Suspension Reclining Deep-Foam Airliner Seats Distributed by Chrysler Motors Corporation Parts and Service Everywhere DICK KNIGHT CO. at Geneva the clothes horse of the con ference. Gromyko, now near ing 50 years of age, bulbous nosed but darkly handsome, was a boy wonder of the Soviet for eign office. At the age of 34 he was Soviet ambassador to Wash ington. As were his predecessors, he has been able to turn the charm off and on, depending on the will of the Kremlin. This week in Geneva ihe was playing well a familiar role. First he demanded that East Germany be seated at the foreign ministers confer ence as an equal. Failing in that, he switched to similar demands for Poland and Cze choslovakia. Expected to Fail That he expected to fall in his demands is certain. But that he also had an objective in mind also is certain. The objectives had their ironies but they also had a place in the Soviet scheme. It long has been accepted that among aU the Soviet sat ellites, not one can be consid ered wholly reliable. There fore, a primary objective in Gromyko's campaign was to stir in satellite minds the be lief that Russia acted in then behalf. Headlines in satellite newspapers would be an aid. A second objective would be to set up, on the basis of minor concessions to Western powers, a groundwork for de mands for major concessions from the West later on. One of the ironies of his po sition was his argument that Poland and Czechoslovakia should be seated because they were the first victims of ag gression by Nazi Germany. Overlooks Important Fact He overlooked the fact that the German attack on Poland was cleared first by the pact reached by Molotov and the then foreign minister of Ger many, Joachim Von Ribben- trop. The pact, in effect neu tralizing Russia, cleared the way for Hitler'a Polish inva sion. As for first victims, he might also have included Yugoslavia and Austria. Throughout the Geneva conference to date, Gromyko has been the picture of an amiable and correct diplo mat. He even has cracked a heavy joke or two about the initial controversy over whether the conference should be held at a round or square table. 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