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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford", Or. Monday, May 18, 1959 MEDFORDe rTMBUHB "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dtily except Saturday by MJJJFOrtD PRINTING CO. 33 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBL?T W RUHLs Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager CETALD LATHAM, Business iigr ERIC W ALLEN JR-. Managing F.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor PALE EHICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Mediord. 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 SunUsy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty 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. 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASKpCMTl(a 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 Mar 18. 1949 (Wednesday) Robert A. Duff, Medford water superi ntendent, re ceives the George Warren Fuller award for distinguished service in the water supply field. ' Phoenix may join its sani tary sewer system to Med ford's. 20 YEARS AGO May 18. 1939 (Thursday) From "Side Glances": "Bob Duff taking his new honor as a water association vice chair man lightly, he not letting it go to his head." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The June peas, and the July weeds are coming along fine, in many gardens." 30 YEARS AGO May 18. 1929 (Saturday) C. E. Gates is elected presi dent of the Jackson county fair board. A company is organized to build a lime plant near Ruch. 40 YEARS AGO May 18, 1919 (Sunday) Mayor Gates proclaims next Thursday as "Clean-Up" day. E. M. Wilson of Medford is named a member' of the state accountancy board. 50 YEARS AGO May 18. 1909 (Tuesday) Ashland's park commission acquires 40 acres in Ashland creek canyon for a park. B. Conner, Sams Valley orchardist, discovers a nest of "mouse-birds" in his coat pocket. What's Your I.Q.? U; Ikii eanwer ia SUDCrlar: seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good 1. What is the next number in the series: 7,8,6,7,5,6-? 2. How often is a population census of the United States taken? 3. Walter Reuther is a well known official of the U.S. government, a labor leader or a Hollywood star? 4. Correct the following "Each of the boys did their work well." 5. "Slapsie Maxie" is the nickname aDDlied to what boxer? 6. Is the highest mountain peak in North America locat ed in California, AlasKa, Colo rado, or Canada? - 7. Unscramble the follow- in g countries: ROCUEAD, YILTA, TRIBNIA. 8. What is wrong with this sentence: "Betsy Ross "is said to have sewn the first U.S. flag on her own sewing ma 9. Which of the following is the antonym for "de pressed": depraved, hopeless, eager, cheerful? 1 0. Does the Statue of Lib erty carry the torch in her right or left hand? Answers: 1. 4. 2. Every 10 years. 3. Labor leader. 4. " . . did his work well." 5. Max Rosenbloom. 6. Alaska. 7. Ecuador, Italy, Britain. 8. Sewing machine not invented until 1830. 9. Cheerful. 10. Right. Purge in Little Rock As if the degradation of the Little Rock school system had not already been carried to pitiful lengths, die-hard segregationists on the school board are pressing it still further through an at tempted purge of principals and teachers who have not slavishly toed the prejudice line. - The principal and two vice principals of Cen tral High School, the principal of the Horace Mann School for Negroes and principals of seve ral elementary and junior high schools are among the 44 who are under fire. TTHE president of the school board, Ed I. Mc- Kinley, says openly that he and the two other segregationists on the board are trying to fire some of the teachers for statements they made on integration. The three moderates on the board, whom Gov. Faubus calls integrationists, walked out on the meeting at which the discharges were proposed, and are contesting the purge as illegal for lack of a quorum. - One of them, Ted Lamb, says the Faubusites want to strip the school system of teachers so that it cannot be operated, for lack of personnel, if federal courts order it reopened on an integrated basis. LIOW destructive racial prejudice is, and how endlessly its destruction goes on, the tortured children and parents of Little Rock have now had the unenviable occasion to learn at first hand. Not only has a year of schooling for children of both races been wrecked. A Dark Age of dictated thought, of official revenge against dissent, and of willful, methodical destruction of a city's edu cation system has settled down on the Little Rock schools like a miasma. The plight of Arkansas has long since spread far beyond the boundaries of a purely racial prob lem, and taken on the dimensions of a light lor its life by education against the forces of igno rance and superstition. Language - and the West Time was, not very long ago, when all the tools a Western diplomat needed to do his job anywhere in the world were a full dress suit, some acquaintance with the odd customs of the native population, and a working knowledge of French, English, German or maybe Spanish. Almost by definition, anyone who couldn't speak one of the universal languages in addition to his own simply didn t rate. Evidence of how changed is the conference of Oriental and Afri can language specialists which convenes in Lon don next week under sponsorship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Participants will be trying to develop cooperative plans for filling woeful gaps in Western knowledge of non-European tongues. Behind the meeting lies the same sense of impending isolation which inspired the inclusion of language study grant programs in last year s National Defense Education Act. IN GENERAL, U. S. language teachers have been delighted with the financial support and growing official interest in their specialty. But some professional linguists doubt that the current state i of activity can be expected to yield the desired results. The linguists, who may be dis tinguished from the merely multilingual by their Ereoccupation with root similarites in language elieve that present methods of teaching need a complete overhaul before any real advance can be made. Although every American who attends college is necessarily exposed to one or more foreign languages, tests have shown that only one in every four recruits to the U.S. foreign service retains a usable knowledge of any alien tongue. Dr. Mortimer Graves, a U.S. delegate to the London conference, believes that multiplication of language courses is therefore wrong. 1X7HAT Americans need, Graves thinks, is "language sophistication" a grasp of struc ture rather than rote learning of words and gram matical forms. For this, he says, there must be "a new cur riculum presented by a body of new teachers trained in new ways and armed with a great new panoply of new tools of teaching, study and re search." Otherwise, no matter how numerous and how exotic the languages taught in our schools, Americans will still find the world a Tower of Babel E.R.R. To Sled or Not To Sled The International Olympic Committee meets at Munich next Saturday in part to determine whether bobsled races will be included in the 1960 Winter Olympics. The rub is, no bobsled track has been built at Squaw Valley, Calif., the scene of next year's winter games, even though the U.S. government is some $4.4 million m funds. The Olympic rules provide that events must take place ."in or as near as possible to the city chosen and prelerably at or near the mam sta dium." Well, it's a long trek from Squaw Valley, Calif., to Lake Placid, N.Y., where the Interna tional Bobsled Federation wants the competition held. But the sledding huskies argue that Lake Placid has the nearest suitable run, and hence is "as near as possible." And the I.O.C., which has swallowed many a camel not strain at this gnat. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. radically things have donating the land and in the past, just might L.R.R. Dennis the 'HO, WtfZE NOT GOING TO 'SLEEP ALL DA. 6UT WE tVOUU) LIKE TO STAY HERE UNTIL StX'WJZTy'-' . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters .-ubmitted 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 cast. Figures on Consolidation To the Editor: On May 20 the . voters of the Phoenix School District will , decide whether or not they wish to consolidate the Phoenix schools with those of Talent. I urge all registered voters to study the facts. I have openly stated my preference either to remain an independent dis trict or to join the Medford school system. I am interested in providing the children of our community with the best possible education. I am con vinced that a consolidation with Talent would do little, if anything, to improve jthe educational facilities the Phoenix schools now have. No matter how attractive a consolidation with Talent is made to appear it is my sin cere belief that the taxpayers of the Phoenix district will find it quite unpalatable if the consolidation is effected. I have received in the mail a leaflet which allegedly con tains facts concerning . the Phoenix-Talent consolidation. Although it stated that the statements, in part, were ob tained from the Phoenix school superintendent's office, it did not state who was re sponsible for distributing the leaflet, nor was it signed. It is, in my opinion, misleading. Under the section "Ability to Support Schools," the as- District Assessed Valuation 1958-1959 Phoenix-Talent .. Central Point . $6,380,724.78 9.054,426.12 10,979,819.75 Ashland Phoenix 4,753.717.53 Talent-Phoenix Consolidation To the Editor: The Phoenix school district has a total val uation of $4,753,717.52 com pared to a Talent total valua tion of $1,627,007.26, which gives the two districts a total valuation of $6,380,724. In the Phoenix district one mill of taxes would yield $4,754 compared to $1,627 in the Tal ent district. The combined taxes in the consolidated dis trict of one mill would pro duce $6,381. An estimate of the tax millage for the Phoe nix district can be placed at 62 mills and at 81 mills for the Talent district for the coming year. If the two dis tricts consolidate the estimat ed tax would be approximate ly 70 mills. This means that Phoenix taxes will be from $30 to $50 thousand more each year with a consolidated school, varying wijh the mill age rate. So I ask the question, "What do we now have and what will we get with con solidation?" 1. Phoenix has a standard four-year high school wijh a growing list of vocational courses. 2. Phoenix is a rich and growing community which in the future will need a better and larger school system. Evi dence points to the fact that Barnett road will be our northern boundary which will give us a booming residential district, with a heavy school population. 3. This district owns and operates its own school bus system, and is not in debt out side the bonded indebtedness. Now look at a Phoenix-Talent consolidated school. 1. We should never accept less than a four year high school. There has been talk of a junior high at Talent. 2. The opinion has been, with a junior high at Talent, it would be necessary to build a gymnasium at a cost of $70, 000. This would not be re quired with a four year high school at Phoenix. 3. With a four year high Menace sessed valuations, the Octo ber, 1958, Census, and the as sessed valuation per census child are given for Central Point, Ashland, and Phoenix Talent. Omitted is the figure which concerns the taxpayer- millage. It may very well be that the combined districts of Phoenix and Talent do have greater weaitn per census child than either of the two districts named. Not stated nor taken into consideration is the fact that the other two districts operate at much less cost per child than do either Talent or Phoenix. Another important fact is that Central Point and Ashland are the only two districts within Jack son county which have less valuation per census child than Phoenix-Talent would have. It is interesting to note that the county median is $4,366.59 per census child. I have adced another col umn to the ones contained in the aforementioned leaflet. The figures I have used were taken from a booklet pub lished by the offices of the Jackson County Assessor and Jackson County Sheriff and Tax Collector which was mailed to each taxpayer with his 1958-59 tax bill. Don Korth, Pioneer Road Route 1, Box 330, Talent, Ore. Census Assessed Total October Valuation per District Levy 1958 Census Child 1760 2717 3326 S3.625.41 3.332.50 3,301.20 72.0 43.3 43.3 1087 4,373.00 60.8 school at Phoenix, students from the Barnett section would not be required to go to Talent for junior high. In the event the consolidated dis trict built a grade school in Barnett section, with a four year high school at Phoenix, and with the Dresent erade schools at Talent and Phoenix, the transportation cost would be at a minimum. 4. Additional school buses will be necessary as Talent does not own, but rents- buses. 5. The larger system can operate more efficiently, with more pupils per teacher, one superintendent and one clerk for the entire system. In the final analysis there would be a few mills, differ ence in the operation of the two systems. C. J. Hunter, Route 1, Box 341, ' Talent, Ore. Approve Consolidation To the Editor: In order to clarify misinformation on Phoenix-Talent Consolidation. some questions have been asked of Dr. Mayfield, super intendent of Medford schools. One of these questions is list ed below with his answer. Q. "Are we correct in as suming that in the event of a Medford-Phoenix school dis trict reorganization, that the existing indebtedness of the two districts would be pooled?" A. "It has been the policy, and the Board feels it will un questionably continue, that whenever a consolidation be tween the Medford district and an adjoining district is consumated that assets and liabilities be combined." If we do not consolidate with Talent, we will be forced into a 'reorganization as no other plans at present have been considered by the Re organization committee, other than Phoenix-Talent consoli dation and Medford-Phoenix reorganization. In spite of all the talk of lower taxes should Phoenix Medford reorganize,' Medford Foreign News Desk: Geneva Conference, Pope's Audiences, Argentine Oil Climbs By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's assignment book: Backstage At Geneva: Western sources are guess ing the Geneva foreign mini sters conference will last three weeks, but concede it may go long er. ! The Russ ians want to get it over with as quick ly as possible. For them it's just a prelim inary bout to Phil Newsom to the main event this sum mer - a summit conference. It is a foregone conclusion now that the Russians will re ject most or all of the West's package plan" on Berlin. German reunification ' and European security. The West hopes, but does not predict, that the Soviets will go for some sort of new deal on Ber lin in exchange for tacit ad mission by the West that there's nothing doing on Ger man reunification in the near future. War of Nervei Despite threats against West Berlin, the U.S. has not and will not do anything now to millage has already been raised 13 mills or 27.7 per cent (Medford Mail Tribune, May 3, 1959) since their re cent consolidation. This does not include the building pro gram which is inevitable with this large merger. Phoenix has a low bonded indebtedness and is not contemplating any big building program. Phoenix school budget for 1959-60 has about a 6 per cent raise over last year's budget and in cludes salaries for 4 new teach ers plus 3 new classrooms on a pay-as-you-go basis besides the usual operating expenses. We should realize under re organization with Medford, we must assume their indebt edness, but in a consolidation with Talent we would only be liable for our own indebted ness as each district agrees to assume their own bonded in debtedness. With the Phoenix - Talent consolidation vote coming up, we find citizens of Phoenix who staunchly supported the Phoenix-Medford merger, are now trying to convince people that we can stay alone. Ac cording to all available infor mation this is impossible as it would defeat the aU over plan set up by the Reorgani zation Committee. The Reor ganization Committee consid ers Phoenix or Talent too small to stan'd alone under this plan.. Unless Phoenix-Talent consolidation is effected, Phoe nix would lose the Wagner Creek area to Ashland which would further deplete its school census. , So much misinformation has been given that we feel it is time to collect facts from the most reliable sources. We wish to emphasize that Dr. May field does not support or en dorse any faction. Mrs. W. D. Sommer Route 1, Box 548, Talent, Ore., (School District No. 4, Phoenix). Mrs. Virgil Strong, Route 1, Box 351, Talent, Ore. Vote "No" To the Editor: I wonder if all the people who will be voting in the Phoenix school district election on May 20 fully understand the issues. Many people I have talked with are opposed to consolida tion with Medford. And in try ing to avoid this, they think the only alternative is to join forces with Talent. There is a third alternative: To keep the district unchanged. Phoe nix does not have to merge with anyone if the voters do not wish to do so. If you wish to keep your school district as it is, vote NO on the Talent-Phoenix issue on May 20. May A. Ragland, 3182 S. Pacific Hwy., Medford. Puffins and Survival To the . Editor: Vacation sea son approaches. One wishing to add to one's birdlore should watch along California's sea beaches for sea - parrots or puffins. These come down from Alaska. They are found out on Kiska, on Attu where the Japanese once hauled down the Stars - and - Stripes, hoisted their Rising Sun. To the writer, puffins are a constant reminder of his Alaskan days. He saw a Tling it Indian make a papoose rattle of a half dozen puffin bills. These were strung around a cedar cross-section. This was in the days of Chief Jake, friend of the Palefaces. On his grave was death-offering, priceless Chilcat blankets. These were made of mixed mountain goat wool and dog hair. Sometimes a dead sea-parrot is washed ashore as far upset the Geneva applecart. The Western Allies have ap proximately 10,000 troops in West Berlin, outnumbered by many times that number of Soviet troops in the immedi ate vicinity. Of the 10,000 Allied troops in West Berlin, the U.S. has approximately 4,000. There is no disposition now to increase them. Cutback: Pope John XXIII, already decided to cut down on the number of private and special audiences at Vatican City, is expected to reduce them still further when he goes to his summer villa at Castel Gan dolfo later this month or next. While his health is re ported excellent, he did lose some weight during the first ardous six months of his reign. The figures are esti mated variously at seven to 12 pounds, but he still tops 200. Gushers: Argentine oil production is outpacing the construction of storage facilities and pipe lines. From January 1 through April, production rose 31 per cent over the same period a year ago. Crude production is now running just over 100, 000 barrels a day, and target figures are being surpassed every month. It's a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There's an interesting little story in the news. "POGER HARLAN-of Dallas, Texas is an electronics whiz. Also he is a lazy man And ... he likes to keep his garage door closed be cause he doesn't like to have every Tom, Dick and Harry messing around with the gadgets he keeps there. But . . . being lazy ... it irked him to have to get out of the car and open the door and then get back in the car and drive into the garage. CO- J He put his active mind to work. The upshot of it was that he fixed .his garage door so it would open when he honked his horn or whistled in a certain pattern. So clever ly was this pattern designed that the door refused to be opened by the normal pattern of honks and whistles in his neighborhood. For weeks, it was wonder ful. Then something happened. He began finding the door OPEN when he got home! WHAT to do? Well, being of a scien tific turn, he fell back on RESEARCH - whose job is to FIND OUT FACTS. He put his wife to work. Her job was to watch that door as a cat watches a mouse-hole. Four days later, she came up with a report. She said that each; day a mockingbird came to the garage, 1 perched on a basketball hoop above the door, cocked its head in a discerning way, opened its throat and REPRODUCED THE PATTERN OF SOUNDS that had been designed by the inventive-minded Harlan. Whereupon the door OPEN ED! rpHUS challenged, the elec-J- tronically-minded Mr. Har lan REALLY went to work. He designed a system of sig nals based not merely upon sounds but also upon an intri cate TIMING of the sounds. That did the trick. The bird came back for days in a row, and worked and worked. But in vain, its gifted throat could accurately repeat the SOUNDS, but its bird brain was unequal to the task of matching the TIMING of-the sounds. So the mockingbird gave up and left Harlan in peace. Thereafter, when he came home the garage door was closed, but opened obedientlv when he pushed the button. WHY did the man win? He had a BETT BRAIN than the bird. south as Monterey. If you find one, study its bill. Compare it with the sparrow's seed-crushing bill, thrasher's worm catching one, curlew's long curved probe, pelican's fish basket. One learns from this that the efficient survive. Nowa days the most efficient are those who persist in obtaining the best possible education. , C. M. Goethe Seventh and J sts. Sacramento 14, Calif. Don't Ncgltcf Slipping FALSE TEETH Do falsa teeth drop, (lip or wobbta hen you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed by such handicap. FASTEETH, aa alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth mors firmly set. GItm eonndent feel ing of security and added comfort. Ko um?nv. eooev, pastv tasts or feel- picture. The peso continues to lose ground, and president Arturo Frondizi's austerity program is unpopular even with his own party. Dumping: Light industrial goods from Red China may begin to flood Southeast Asian markets again in the near future. Pre mier Chou En-lai told the Na tional People's Congress that light industry's job was to supply foreign exchange for the state. This probably means textiles, portable generators and millions of dollars in other attractive and in Washington Report By WILLIAM GOP AND WHITE HOUSE Washington - For the first time in his six years in the White House, President Eisen-Jary. " hower is re- ! sponding to a purely parti san spur in r e 1 a t ionshiD & The Republi can pros have at last con v i n c e d him that he must "mix it" with the controlling Congressional Democrats. The immediate consequence is a marked sharpening of rivalry between the White House and Capitol Hill. This will be increasingly apparent as time goes on, assuming the President maintains his pre sent attitude. One certain consequence will be to make Congressional Republicans much happier than they have been. It is possible, too, that the Presi dent's legislative wishes here after will carry more weight, and for two reasons, "DEASON No. 1 is the coun- A try's booming job situa tion. This has seemed to vin dicate Mr. Eisenhower's eco nomic theories. And the old Democratic cries that he was doing too little too late to re vive employment have lost their force in the face of this spring's spectacular rise in job-holding. The man who got the blame for the rainfall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, now gets credit for the sunshine. Reason No. 2 and this is the theme of this piece lies in the fact that the President has at last asserted a tradi ional role as a party leader. The simple fact is this: The Republican National Commit tee for six years had been absently treated by the Presi dent as a rather crude out fit. Now the Republican Na tional Committee has got a foothold in the White House. The working Republican politicians haveconvinced the President that they are really a part of his outfit, and that he is really a part of theirs. It is unlikely that they ever would "have reached this status with the President but for their eager support of his determination to hold the line against so-called panic reme dies in the job field. He had committed himself to this policy - to this policy so dear to orthodox Republicanism -with a rare vigor. And here, at least, he began to seehat he really needed the pros. THE STORY of how they ob tained real entree to the William S. White Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Frank m Perl M2 credibly underpriced - Red Chinese wares wil be showing up again. Against them is, the report that Red Chinese tex tiles in the past have proven of little durability and to be shoddy. Japan believes it has about 90 per cent' in the bag the 1964 Olympic Games for Tokyo. If that be so, it is likely to set off a building boom second only to that which followed the end of the war. It will require a doubling of Western-style hoter rooms, new roads and special sports facilities. S. WHITE White House begins with the change in the GOP Congres sional leadership last Janu- It ends with the recent appointment of Sen. Thruston Morton of Kentucky as chair man of the Republican Na tional Committee. In Congress last January two far more partisan types took over the party leader ship from former Sen. Wil liam F. Knowland of Cali fornia and Rep. Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts. Sen. Everett McKinley Dirk- sen oi Illinois succeeded Knowland as GOP spokesman m the Senate. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana replaced Martin in the similar job in the House. These two Midwesterners from the start were much more aggressive than their predecessors. Slowly they began to put a certain touch of old-fashioned Republican ism over the White House it self. - Then Morton came along to finish the job. One week it was arranged that he should sit in - not . as a Senator but as GOP national chairman -with the President and the Congressional leaders in their weekly legislative confer ences. The next week, after the first such meetingattend ed by Morton, the President ior the first time in his career threw a "must" list of legis lation at Congress. MOW THE treat this Democrats will at best as a "maybe" list; in the end, the legislative program that evolves will certainly be more theirs than the President's. But the big point is this: The GOP pros have at long last scaled the domestic summit and entered the White House as welcomed guests. Their job now Morton's job specifically - is to stay there. This new association will never enable them to domi nate the Democratic Congres sional majority, for power is power. They will, however, be entirely content, this corres pondent knows from them, if only the President will con tinue to show some special in terest in the party. For Mor ton is going to these White House conferences mainly to build morale among the Re publican rank and file in the country. What he is saying to the faithful is this: "Sure, the President is interested in the GOP; why else would he in vite your chairman to these meetings?" (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by 'Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT FRIENDLY, HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE 0
