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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfori, Of. Wednesday, May 20, 1959 MEDFORDJSKrTBIBUNB "Everyone is Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Dnily except Saturday by MJ.DFOrU5 PRINTING CO 33 North fli St Ph SP 2-6141 , ROBiRT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRETt Advertising Manager GEPALO LATHAM, Business Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing f.ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women s Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Intereo as second class matter at Aacdiorri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES O mjf 4 1 In ArivanM CooV 10e. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily an Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 a r-i. Tn AHuanrp Mprifora. Tiaiiv nci Minnav o mum. o.uv Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv Timt and nn motor routes. Dall7 and Sunday 1 year 118.00 Daily ana sunvy i mo. Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ah T,rmi rjwh in Advance Official Paper of City t Medford Official Papet oi jacusun United Press International- Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 May 20. 1949 (Friday)' Sub freezing temperatures last month destroyed 60 per cent of the local strawberry crop. Secretary of State Earl Newbry, his son, Lyndel New bry, and Ralph Cook form Brookhurst, Inc., to extend an orchard and packing enter prise, the original holding of which is Brookhurst orchard on Crater Lake ave. 20 YEARS AGO May 20. 1939 (Saturday) Sixty-five per cent of Med ford's repaying program has been completed. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Most of the residential streets re cently ironed out, are coming to the front rapidly as new speedways." 30 YEARS AGO May 20. 1929 (Monday) Owen-Oregon company con tinues plans to make a survey for a railroad into the east Jackson county timber. Local sportsmen find fish ing slow in the Rogue, and plan a protest to the state fish commission. 40 YEARS AGO May 20, 1919 (Tuesday) Code Hall returns home from service overseas. The George Dunn ranch near Ashland is sold to V. H. Chapman. 50 YEARS AGO r May 20, 1909 (Thursday Medford ponders whether to celebrate July 4 on July 3 or July 5. CoL F. L. TouVelle claims he has grafted a strawberry to an alfalfa to form an alia berry. What's Your I.Q.? Nine -or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What was the name of the place of crucifixion of Jesus? 2. If a bottle and its cork cost $1.10, and the bottle costs $1 more than the cork, how much does the cork cost? 3. Which noted composer wrote some of his most im portant music while complete ly deaf? 4. Is a gibbon a gallows, an organ of a cnicKen, or a species of ape? 5. For whom was the city of Pittsburgh named? 6. Is cygnet the name for a young swan, a seal on a land deed, or a kind of ring? 7. Who was the Spanish- American War hero of Manila Bay? 8. The name of one State of the Union ends in K; what State? 9. A' cow is to a heifer as a mare is to a colt, filly, calf, horse, or gelding? ' 10. In what country is Tass the official news agency? Answers: 1. Calvary. 2. Five ceas. 3. Beethoven. 4. Ane. 5. The elder William Pixt. 6. Young swan. 7. Com' xnodoxe George Dewey. 8, New York. 9. Filly. 10. So viet Russia. Make Mint Oregon! .Anvnne enamnrerl nf own list of "favorite" places. But it takes some- lilri T"aiV TnVnrnm in nrof Oil o lief TVnHl'ICrl- ed in a national magazine. Oregon's junior senator, long a successful and highly accomplished writer, has done so in the current issue of Pageant magazine, in an article entitled "Make Mine Oregon!", which is a paean of praise to the state of which he is a native. Southwestern Oregon comes out well in Sen ator Neuberger's list, meriting two of the five spots he likes the best. OEREisthelist: n 1. Timberline Lodge, on Mt. Hood. 2. Ecola State Park, near Cannon Beach. , 3. Eagle Cap Wilderness Area, in the Wallo wa Mountains. 4. Crater Lake National Park. 5. Ashland Shakespearean Festival, in "the lovely Rogue River Valley." No one can quarrel seriously with this list, for it does include five of the lovliest and most in teresting spots in a lovely and interesting state. fJNE can, however, add to it with no harm done. V We'd hate to have to boil our list of favorite Oresron soots down. to five. For instance, the Ashland loop road, winding. along the summit of the Siskiyous, with the Rogue valley and Cascades to the north and east, the I Trinities and Mt. Shasta to the south. Or the summit of the .McKenzie pass, sur rounded by lava beds, and with the towering masses of the Cascade snow peaks to both north and south. Or Vista House, where one can look east and west along the magnificence of the Columbia Gorge. Or high on U. S. Route 30 above Pendleton, where one can, amidst conifers, look down on the vast rolling expanses of Or the nmrock country north of Bend, where craggy rocks form a foredrop to tjie backdrop of the .Three Sisters on the western skyline. Or Os West State Park, where a short tramp from the highway leads one through the tangled rain forest to Short Sands Beach, a perfect gem of a cove, surrounded by massive cliffs. NE could go on and on about the expanses of spectacular desert and hill country in southeast Oregon, and other favorite spots in the Siskiyous, Cascades, Coast Range, bteens, Och- ocos and Wallowa mountains, or along the 400- mile stretch of coastline. There are the night views, too. Most Oregon cities have at least one emin ence from which the reds, blues and whites1 of nighttime civilization form sparkling patterns from Roxy Ann or Barneburg hill in Medford; from Skinner's Butte or the Fairmount hills in Eugene, from Mt. Tabor or the west hills in Port land; from Pilot Butte Column hill m Astoria. It's easy to agree with Mine Oregon," too. E.A. Tricycle The sidewalk, as part of the American scene, isn't exactly vanishing. But neither is it expand ing much. It is still a valued space in downtown areas at least where the "mall" idea, in which vehicu lar' streets themselves are eliminated, hasn't caught on. And in older portions of most communities areas which have been established for a couple of decades sidewalks are still in place. But in more recently developed residential areas a sidewalk is a rare sight indeed. v THE reason is not hard to find. It is the omni presence of the automobile. Why go to the expense of putting in sidewalks when everyone in the family rides to where they're going anyway? Despite this practical that sidewalks do not necessarily add anything to the appearance of a neighborhood), they" have their advantages, particularly in areas where there are small children. where there are no sidewalks, the little ones will make the streets their playgrounds to their own danger and to the irritation of careful drivers. Sidewalks may not be needed for walking anymore. But they make darn fine tricycle free ways. Oj.A. Words in English The English language, we have always main tained, is a fascinating thing. For instance : Do not the words "dungarees" and "bandan nas" bring up visions of the Old West?' Do not the words "mufti," and "khaki" bring up thoughts of service in the U. S. Armv? And do not "thue" and "loot" bring to mind American law viola tors more specif icallv "Blighty" and "cootie" in World War I overseas. "Mulligatawny" brings visions of a stew, somehow Irish in orisrin. All are perfectly good words in English as it is spoken in America, so andah," "shampoo" and them are derived from alects of India. E.A. Oregon can name his wheat and pea fields. m Bend, from the Astor m Dick this time. "Make Freeways approach (and the fact We have observed that of the eansrster tvoe? are reminiscent of service are Dungalow, ver "pajamas." And all of one or another of the di Dennis, the fir r i Ates. CbSLEY, 1 vaoppeo w GRAVY At RyjWoeS ON IT Possibility of Eisenhower Veto of Labor Bill Talked By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD There is talk in town of the new Eisen hower. This new Eisenhower is a bare-knuckled battler who wants from Congress no more of what he re gards as polit ical nonsense. This image of a battling E i s e n hower began to come into focus some days Lyle C. Wilson ago. That was just aiier xne House had sustained by a nar row margin the President s veto of a bill which sought to make administrative hash of the Rural Electrification ad ministration. - The importance of that vote J was that the House upheld the veto without the usual combi nation of Republican and Southern conservative Demo crats being at all operative. That one was almost strictly on a party line vote. Future vet6es-and there are likely to be some-probably will have the support of the conserva tive combination of Republi can and Southern Democratic representatives. Spending Vetoes Seen Such a combination should prevail to. support any Eisen hower veto of too much spending. The Democratic leadership will offend Eisen hower's sense of economy, for example, if Congress sends to the White House a housing bill to spend $2.1 billion for slum clearance and require the taxpayers to build 140,000 public housing units. - The foregoing analysis rep resents the best judgment available hereabouts. Not much dispute about it. There is another possible veto, how ever, about which not much has been said or written and on which no very sound judg ment yet can be made. That would be a presiden tial veto to repudiate the so- called Sweetheart Labor bill which passed the Senate with a single dissenting vote. The bill now is before House com mittee. There Is a. possibility that the president will veto the Labor Reform bill if it comes to him in the form in which it was steered through the Senate by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D.-Mass.). Labor Control Issue Win or lose in Congress, such an Eisenhower veto would project the labor con trol dispute into the 1960 Presidential campaign. It could become the No. 1 issue, especially if the Democrats should nominate Kennedy for first or second spot on their ticket. Some Republicans would welcome such a showdown. Others would hide under the Try and -By BENNETT CERF- "VTRS. LEONORE VAIL of Michigan City, Ini, found this i' J- letter, dated December 6, 1873, in a collection in her attic: "Madam: After long consideration and meditation on the great reputation you bear in the nation, I have conceived an over-powering inclination to become your relation. Granted your approbation I shall make preparation to profess my admiration with less conversation and more osculation, giving" me. ag grandization beyond my wildest calculation. 'Yours, J. W." What delighted Mrs. Vail most was the note written on the envelope by the re cipient: "I Honed him!" When Max Shulman, author of "Rally Round the Flag, Boys," was in Hollywood, a reporter asked him if he had any advice to offer to young, would-be novelists. . "I certainly have," snapped Shulman. "Marry money!" 1959, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate, Menace fork. Art rr got sane . ' bed. Republicans seem not to aspire to be heroes. A veto could be good politics if it were successfully supported with this argument: That the Kennedy bill as it passed the Senate is loaded with protec tion for union members and with certain restraints and new privileges for union bosses but has mighty little in it to protect the public. Secretary of Labof James P. Mitchell supports Eisen hower's desire that the House write into Kennedy's bill some public protection-nota- Today & Tomorrow By Walter SHOCK Irit-ATMENT There is building up in this country a resistance to the foreign aid appropriations which must be taken very seriously b y the friends of foreign aid. The resistance has become especially for midable in re cent times. Walter - Lippmann because it IS unpopular to provide money for foreigners at a time when at home it is necessary to retrench on all sorts of desir able projects. The great new fact is that, the supporters of foreign aid are so disenchant ed with the existing program that they cannot advocate it wholeheartedly. ' Senator Mansfield, like Sen ator Fulbright before him, has read the signs of the times. He sees that if foreign aid is to remain part of our foreign policy, the program will have to be reformed. The cjuestion is how to bring about the reform, given the fact that the mutual aid pro grams are involved in a vast military and civilian bureauc racy, and this bureaucracy has acquired a vested interest which causes it to oppose serious reforms. Experience shows that Congress has thus far been unable to overcome the inertia of the bureauc racy, and in its frustration it r IS to this state of affairs that Senator Mansfield ad dressed himself last week. He came forward with what seemed to me an essentially moderate but, nevertheless, a searching and effective pro posal. Its object is to compel a thorough-going re-examination in the Administration of that part of the foreign aid program - which causes the greatest doubt and discontent. This is the part providing Stop Me 1 TIONEC HIM E-20 King Hussein Looms as Hew Strongman in Mid-East; New Premier Seen as Evidence By PHIL NIEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Amid the swirling Mideast ern sands stirred up by the power struggle between Iraq's Abdel Karim Kassem and Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser, a new strong man has ap peared. He is 24-year-old King Hussein of Jordan. Less than a Phil Newsom year ago he easily could have won title as a man least likely to succeed, or even to live very long, in a land noted for the dispatch with which an assas sin's bullet could erase lead ers, or street mobs change the course of history. Nor is the young king's fu ture secure even now, caught as he is between Egypt and Syria in need of the Jordan land bridge to link geographi cally as well as : politically bly firm bars against second ary boycotts and what is called blackmail picketing. It is the little businessman -the guy for whom all politi cians profess loving tender-ness-who is overwhelmed by secondary boycotts and black mail picketing. The Republi cans might pick up a lot of small town, Main street sup port on the issue of a veto of a labor bill which seems not to reach into all of the dark places briefly illuminated by the Senate s own investiga tors. Lippmann grants and gifts as distin guished from loans. It amounts to about 75 per cent of the total appropriation Here are subsidies to enable weak countries to maintain larger military establishments than their economic life, and their capacity to raise rev enue, would justify. Senator Mansfield's p r o posa'. is that an amendment should be attached to the cur rent foreign aid bill which "will require, in the case of nations receiving grants of defense support or economic assistance, that the Executive branch work out -, in detail with the recipient nation, and submit in connection with next year's aid bill, a detailed plan for the progressive re duction of these grants" so as to terminate them withi three years. The amendment does not say that direct military aid is to be terminated 'in three years. What it says is that by next year there must be plans for each country for reducing the economic aid which en ables it to maintain an over sized military establishment. The plan would show how the armaments can be reduced to a size which the country can digest. We can still supply arms beyond those which the country can Day for. We can still supply arms bjf only in the amount which the coun try can take without inflation and disorder. THE cutting edge of the Mansfield amendment i s that it would compel the Ad ministration to reappraise, to re-examine, and to justify from the beginning and all over again, each military aid program. The amendment does not say that all military aid must terminate in three years. It says that the Ad ministration must provide i plan for terminating it. It is implied, and should probably be made clear in the amend ment, that if no plan. to term inate it in three years can be worked out without sacrific ing the national interest, then the burden of proving that this is the case will be on the Administration. It will not be able to take the line that we must go on doing what we have always done just be cause we have always done it. In all probability, we shall find that in certain countries it is necessary to continue, not to reduce or to terminate, the grants or gifts. But in other countries we may ex pect to" find that there are over-sized military establish ments which, far from being a defense against Commun ism, serve only to arouse popular discontent, and that far from being defenses of liberty are the support of des pots. HPHE Mansfield proposal, should add, does not touch the Point Four Proaram or the Development Loan Fund These, we may confidently be lieve, are destined to play an ven bigger part in the future their United Arab Republic, and between the UAR and Iraq, each with its own par ticular brand of Arab nation alism. Nor in an area of bitter anti-Westernism is his secur ity aided by the fact that he is frankly friendly to ward, the United States. Sacks Premier Latest evidence of Hussein's determination to plot his own course came this month when he sacked Premier Samir-El-Rif ai and installed in his place 42-year-old Hazza Majali. The action came almost within hours of Hussein's re turn home to his capital of Amman after a world tour which included dinner with a bevy of Hollywood film beau ties as well as a talk , with President Eisenhower in Washington. In Washington, he had been joined by El-Rifai, who ac companied him the rest of the way home. There was no indication that any disagreement had risen between the two during the trip, but the feeling was that El Rifai's sought and ob tained resignation simply cul minated a growing determina tion in Hussein to take over his own and Jordan's destinies. Caught by Surprise But the move caught the Western world by surprise be cause of El Rifai's proven de votion to the Jordanian throne and the fact that to him was given most of the credit for saving 'Hussein against bitter attacks by the Cairo and Sy rian radios and their obvious attempts to dislodge him, and for thwarting numerous other plots against him. The new premier, Hazza Majali, had one other bitter taste of the job. Ashland Firm Gets OK by SBA Washington-flJPD- The office of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), said today the Small Business Administration has approved contracts to 14 Ore gon firms. Neuberger's office said it erred last week in reporting that "loans" instead of "con tracts" were approved by the SBA. The contracts approved in cluded: Magnolia Lumber Sales Co. Ashland, $20,400; Taylor Lumber Sales, Beavefton, $10,939; J. C. Tracy and Co., Dallas, $13,860; Star Carter Lumber Sales, Eugene, $18, 712; Interstate Plywood Sales, Grants Pass, $47,175; Michel Lumber Co., Oswego, $3,645; Ging Brothers, Inc., Portland, $5,210; Northwest Packing Co., Portland, $3,045; Voll-stedt-Kerr Lumber Co., Port land, $7,047; Mclnnis Lum ber Co., Portland, $4,811; Niedermayer-Martin Co. Port land, $5,056; Fruit Product Co., Salem, $8,003; Starr Foods, Inc., Salem, $5,048; Stayton Canning Co., Stay ton, $4,115. than they have in the past. The Mansfield proposal is, however, aimed directly at re ducing the emphasis on mili tary aid and increasing the emphasis on civilian develop ment. It can be argued that there are many in Congress who will vote for foreign aid only if they are persuaded that it buys guns aimed directly at Russia or China. They do not think that the development of backward countries is any in terest of ours. Presumably then, this isolationist opposi tion will be less willing to vote for foreign aid which emphasizes civilian develop ment. " As against them, however, there will be, so I believe, an ardor and enthusiasm for a new foreign aid program which is sadly lacking today for the old one. The Ameri can people are the heirs of generations of men and wom en who conquered a wilder ness, and they will listen to good leaders when they ex plain to them how they are invited to participate in plans to conquer the wilderness of poverty and subjection in Asia and in Africa and in South America, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat. talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline, (non-acid). kjet FASTEETH at any drug counter. He held it for' 80 hours in 1955. Majali was a pro-Baghdad Pact man, and the British were in the midst of an ill advised attempt to high pressure Jordan into joining. Under the prodding of the Egyptian and Syrian radios, the street mobs took over. The mobs stoned and fired U. S. point four buildings and Brit ish libraries. Less than four days after he took over, Majali resigned. 1 Reflection of Confidence Hussein's action in firing El Rif ai is a reflection of his con fidence in his own growing popular support. A year ago it would have been impossible for both him and El Rifai to be away from Amman, as they Ike's Anti-Spending Campaign Due Test In Housing Debate Washington -(DPD- President Eisenhower's1 a n t i - spending campaign got an acid test in the House Tuesday with the opening of debate over hous ing legislation. It was a nip-and-tuck battle In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Modern opportunity note: Labor Secretary James Mitchell, addressing a gradu ating class back East, said the job outlook for 1959's college graduates is "generally favor able." He estimated an average starting ' salary of $425 a month for holders of bachelor degrees. TJMMMMMM. I know one college graduate who start ed (a long time ago) for $80 a month and thought it was pretty good pay everything considered. And- Everything considered It was pretty good pay. 170R example: In those long-ago days, shave was ten cents and haircut was two bits. A reasonably stylish pair of high-button shoes (the really hot dressers insisted on cow boy heels) could be had for around $3.50, if one shopped persistently. A starched shirt, with its accompanying (separate) high, stiff collar, was about a dol lar, and a passable modish suit (short coat and skinny pants) set one back about $20 -or maybe $25, if one aspired to be a real dude. As for food, the standard restaurant price was "25 cents for all you can eat." If even that was out of reach after an expensive Saturday night, a nickel would always buy a mug of beer accompanied by a free lunch that was an adequate meal if one were merely hungry and not too choosy. So. vou see, $80 a month could then be stretched to cover a lot of emergencies. "DUT- 13 You say- There wasn't much to look forward to in those days . . not much to make a splurge with . . ..not many oppor tunities to be extravagant- and everybody loves to be ex travagant v e r y now and then. You're mistaken. Lu.those dear, dead days, a three-min ute trotter and a rubber-tired buggy with red wheels were just as desirable (and knocked out just as many eyes) as a long, slinky convertible in these days. And just as hard to come by. TTiDMUND Spencer, who liv- ed and wrote nearly 400 years ago, put it this way in his Faerie Queene: . "But times DO change, and move continually." The problem, now as then, is to keep up with a changing world-and enjoy it. f i WEDDING CHAPEL, C M. Litwiller For that happy occasion, we offer you beautiful Mountain Chapel. Adequate for your fondest dreams. An ever growing clientele ... and prices are very moderate. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close were recently in Washington, with any safety that his re gime still would be standing upon his return. Mideastern diplomats also believe Hussein would not have named Majali to the job without full confidence that Majali will follow his orders. Geographically, Jordan is important only to its neigh bors who covet its land. Ex cept politically, the land itself is all but worthless. It has no natural boundaries and financially it must exist on hand-outs from the United States and Britain and now-and-then support from Saudi Arabia. But Hussein himself today may be a balance wheel helping to preserve the Mid east's precarious peace. between two measures. One was a $2,100,000,000 Democratic bill 440 million more than the administration requested. The other was a $1,300,000, 000 substitute measure backed by a conservative coa lition of Republicans and southern Democrats. The final vote expected late today will show how effective the President has been in recent appeals ior cuts in public spending. The Senate earlier this ses sion ignored the administra tion's pleas and passed an am bitious housing bill priced'at $2,650,000,000. Other Con gressional news: Reid: Ogden R. Reid faced sharp questioning by the Sen ate Foreign Relations Com mittee when hearings on his appointment as ambassador to Israel resumed this morning. Chairman J. William Full bright (D-Ark.) said he did not think the hearing would last more than one day. The 34-year-old fceid, a former news paper executive, was warned he would have to prove his case under the committee's new policy of digging into all appointments of non-career diplomats. Strauss: The Senate Com merce Committee approved the hotly disputed appoint ment of Lewis L. Strauss as commerce secretary. Civil Rights: Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) called for enactment of a six-point "human rights bill" which would outlaw the poll tax and prohibit discrimination in em ployment. Taxes: A measure to boost income tax rates on life insur ance companies was up for Senate debate. Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) disclosed he was considering offering an amendment to the measure to apply a graduated cut in the 27 per cent oil deple tion1 allowance. Past measures to reduce the allowance have been defeated on the Senate floor. '1 I HERE'S SOMETHING I I I FOR HAY FEVER SUFFERERS Fight back against hay fever symptoms with entirely new Breath easy Tablets. Get the bene fit of 3 active ingredients, including an antihista mine, without taking any habit-forming drugs. Satisfaction guaranteed! New Breath easy Tablets must relieve the miser ies of runny nose, sneez ing and other symptoms or you get a full refund. Breatheasy Tablets also relieve asthma spasms. 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