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MAIL TRIBUNE, MriforJ. Or. Thursday, May 21. 1959 MEDFORDtS-WTBIBUNS "Everyone tt Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dnily except Saturday by M7JFOrtD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBLP.T W HUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM, Business fcfgt ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Managing hditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Womeni Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as icmnd class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 8.01. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.ZU Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and SunOcy 1 mo. 1 JO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ef City mt Medford Official Paper of Jackson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of- fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver .c aa& NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsgbcfATIN J J .in -r m i Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of Th Mail Tribuna 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 21. 1949 (Saturday) The Ashland city council hears discussions of the smoke and soot problem there. The Southern Oregon col lege production of Tennessee "Williams' "Glass Menagerie" draws general acclaim. 20 YEARS AGO May 21, 1939 (Sunday) Interest grows in the Girl Scouts' day camps in the new Medford park on Bear creek south of town. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Min ing experts report there is not enough gold around J'ville. This is a very common fault." 30 YEARS AGO May 21, 1929 (Tuesday) L. A. Banks, California fruitman, prints an ad in the papers declaring "smudging is waste of money." Rogue River cannery is to start as soon as cherries are ready for canning. 40 YEARS AGO May 21, 1919 (Wednesday) Summer water regulations are put in force by the city council. Local Methodists partici pate in a nationwide drive by the church to raise $105, 000. 50 YEARS AGO May 21. 1909 (Friday) John R. Allen, of Wall st., becomes new owner of the P. and E. railroad. A local attorney rebutts L. M. McMahan, the Salem law yer who has declared the Crater Lake road appropria tion illegal. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ia superier; seven or eight is excellent; five Of six is good. l.'The late F.D.R. was a philatelist; what is a philate list? " 2. What river in the United States is known as "Father of Waters"? 3. .What great painter was also an inventor and an ex pert anatomist? 4. In World War II, which American General was nick named "Old Blood and Guts"? 5. Which State is nicknam ed "Sunshine State"? 6. A fork is to a plate as a spoon is to a platter, knife. tray, or cup? 7. What is the length of a "hand" in measuring horses? 8. What is the unit of weight for diamonds? 9. What is the name for a triangle having two equal sides? 10. What is the capital of Wyoming? .Answers: 1. Stamp collect or. 2. Mississippi. 3. Leonardo da Vinci. 4. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. 5. New Mexico. 6. Cup. 7. Four inches. 8. Carah. 9. Isosceles. 10. Cheyenne. 23 5 Deathless Years in t Hermosa Beach Traffic Hermosa Beach, Calif.-flJPfl-Hermosa Beach, a Los Angeles county city of 16,000 persons, this week celebrated its fifth anniversary or no iramc ia-talities. Hail Research It is possible that the are dome: now what should have been done some years ago, namely, finding out more about hail before embarking on a But, back in the days assured that hail suppression worked, there was no way of knowing this. comes easy. At any rate, the research program now being undertaken is a fascinating project, which holds great promise. It is of much more than local im portance, too, for hail is one of the major threats to crops of all kinds in many parts of the country. DUT HAIL, oddly enough, is one meteorological phenomenon about which little is known. We know what it is frozen rain. But how it is formed, in what manner, exactly where and under what conditions, and a number of other questions, remain unanswered, or an swered only in part. If the answers are found, then a hail suppres sion program stands a far greater chance of suc cess. It is a logical approach, and one for which the orchardists (who have taken a beating in other areas) are to be commended. f)NE ASPECT of the research which we expect to find interesting will be the statistical com parison of hail incidence before, during and after the now-abandoned hail suppression program. Perhaps it will not be conclusive. And there was sufficient damage to the orchards last year, during the program, to add weight to doubts about its efficacy. . , Yet our own purely unscientific observations would seem to indicate that hail was reduced by the suppression program. 1 In any event, we wish the greatest possible success to the fruit men, and their scientific col leagues, in finding out more about hail, and how to prevent it. E.A. Eliminates the Swallows If the average citizen were confronted with the phrase that follows, baffled: "NE 14 of the NE SW 14, Sect. 31, T37S, A surveyor, however, culty in reading it. It is simply a sort of of a hypothetical piece of up, then checked on the map to see where it is. It is located approximately on Highway 238 just west of Jacksonville.) THIS system ot land description grew up within idians and base lines. (There is a Meridian road in the Antelope valley; Base Line road.) A meridian is a north trarily on a map. A base line is the same, on an east-west basis. These serve as points of depart ure for more detailed measurements. Measurements from ranges, each six miles wide; those from a. base line in townships, each six miles deep. Thus T37S, R2W, simply means the 37th township south from the baseline (or 222 miles), and two ranges (12 miles) west of the meridian. I7ACH township contains 36 sections, each one mile square. They are numbered, in east-west rows, starting at the northeast corner, with alter nate rows of sections numbered west to east. Sec tion 31 (in the example above) is thus the extreme southwestern section in the township. bections, m turn, are and quarters of quarters, and so on. So the ex ample describes what is probably an imaginary piece of property l-256th of a square mile. (Note to surveyors: If blame our ninth grade mathematics teacher). THE system works pretty well, and enables one " to locate a piece of property on a properly marked map rapidly, so long as the "shorthand" is understood, as it is ioresiers, miners, ana real estate salesmen. It's better, anyway, than some earlier systems. Ila Grant, Bend Bulletin columnist, gives a hypo thetical example, as follows: "Located in the middle of Effie Hokum's dowry grant, beginning 60 revolutions of a wagon wheel north of the old spruce tree on the hill, thence west for as long as it takes to smoke three Mexican cigarets, thence south to the coyote carcass on the rock pile, thence east to the willow tree where the swallow nests, thence north along the old path to the still, to the point of beginning." This sort of thing has its drawbacks, as is ob vious. The newer' way, while it leaves something to be desired, is better, for, as Ila says, "you don't have to allow for differences in wagon wheel cir cumference, the time it takes to smoke a cigaret, or the whims of nesting swallows." E.A. I00F Installs Banks Man Master Roseburg-(nPD-Vernon Hahn of Banks Wednesday night was installed as grand master of the Grand Lodge of Ore gon of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was elected at the 103rd annual session of the grand lodge here. Mrs. Arno Vose, Portland, was installed as president of the Rebekah Assembly of Oregon. orchardists of the valley hail suppression program. when they were being Hindsight, as they say, 'he probably would be 14 of the SE 14 of the R2W." would have little diffi "shorthand descnption property. (We made it near Portland there is a - south line marked arbi a meridian are done in subdivided into quarters, there s an error m this, by surveyors, engineers, Oregon Wagon Train At Lewellen, Neb. Lewellen, Neb. (UPD The On to Oregon Centennial Ca valcade camped at the Lloyd Graves farm about six miles east of here after traveling 22 miles Wednesday in chilly weather. Today the seven wagons headed for Oshkosh, Neb. Tuesday night in the com munity of Ogallala, the 59ers celebrated with a "30 days on the trail" banquet. Dennis the THAt OME OF MY OlD CRATES. 1 COULD FLY TM4TOHB 'FORB I COUUHYAIK Matter of Fact THE RUSSIAN TACTICS Geneva' - With the Soviet and Western plans at last on the table, the Geneva confer ence has en tered what may be called the minuet stage. The strange con ven t i o n s of such rallies require the participants to perform a sort -I - 1 4os-pn Also? "A dance, miming negotiation, before they really come to grips and seek results. This seems a good moment, therefore, to take a sharp look at the peculiar . Russian tac tics which have produced this meeting and are being used here. Soviet diplomatic meth ods badly need to be better understood, precisely because they are so foreign to Western methods. "Never forget that one of the main Russian techniques of negotiation is to create an artificial state of tension, in order to be able to seem to give way later on, when they are really only diminishing the tension they themselves have created." THIS FIRST rule, laid down long ago by one of the wis est observers of the Soviet Union, has been faithfully fol lowed in the present case. The status of Berlin had remained unchanged since 1949, when Khrushchev last November suddenly an nounced that this situation, al ready endured for close to a decade, was absolutely unen durable and intolerable. As the Khrushchev announce ment was larded with the most naked military menaces, a state of extreme tension -im mediately resulted. Remembering these men aces, a great many Western ers, including even some skilled Western diplomats, are inclined to regard the smiles that Andrei Gromyko is now painfully distributing as solid and substantial con cessions. The smiles will not secure the maximum Soviet objective, Western abandon ment of Free Berlin. But even though Berlin's freedom is not to be sacrificed, the Soviets will get certain changes in Germany which will import antly benefit their East Ger man puppets. And they will also get a summit meeting. IT IS a very nice trick indeed, to get so much for so little, by the simple device of bel lowing menaces and then put ting on a false grin. It will also be a , nice trick of the Soviets to smooth the road to the summit by making the concessions needed for an ac cord in principle on control of nuclear tests. They have al ways been more eager for such an accord, most Western Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE CRUSTY EDITOR of a famous newspaper has these cardinal "House Rules" conspicuously posted at strategic points for the edification of his staff: 1. Opinions- change. Therefore entertain none of your own. " 2. Belief is for the idle rich. When I ask you, KNOW. 3. Act happy. The world will learn to love you some day. 4. Report facts. Fiction pays less than crime. 5. To err is human, to for give divine. Don't count on it. 6. I rarely do favors. When I fire you, thank me. There's a junior up at Smith college whose face is very red these days. "Remember that backless, low cut little dress I knocked 'em dead with at the Yale prom?" she prodded her roommate. "How could I forget it?" grinned the roommate. Confessed the junior, "I just discovered it's a belt!" " 1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Menace Bv Joseph AIsop ers will happily conclude that "the Kremlin is at last in the mood for serious negotia tions." Great patience, the habit of bazaar bargaining, and totali tarian control of their coun tries, are all required by na tional leaders desiring to use these methods of getting something for nothing. The Czars of the past used these methods, just as much as the present masters of the Krem lin. But another Soviet meth od that has been used in the Berlin crisis is decidedly more modern. Even two years ago, when Nikita Khrushchev accurately warned this reporter that "even our glum Comrade Gromyko could be taught to smile on occasion," he also said something else of much greater import. He forecast that the other. Western allies would cease 'to be "cpmfort able" about the American bases on their territories, when they began to realize that those bases made them "natural targets" for Soviet H-bombs. rpHAT realization has been industriously promoted by Khrushchev, ever since the Berlin crisis began. The naked military menaces of the earl ier period have now-been suc ceeded by thoughtful little lectures crammed with useful facts apd figures. On the eve of this conference, West Ger man Socialist editors visiting Moscow were told by Khrush chev, for instance, that "only eight H-bombs" would utterly destroy West Germany. There was a reprise of the same theme in Khrushchev's Kiev speech, and more reprises are to be expected later on. It should be clearly under stood, moreover, that this Soviet H-bomb rattling is al ready having some of the de sired effects on the Western alliance. The British, for in stance, are already frankly "uncomfortable" because they regard the British Isles as "natural targets." This dis comfort has' enormously influ enced British policy from the beginning of the Berlin crisis. No one can predict how far such influences may carry later on, if the American gov ernment continues to neglect the world balance of military power. " THERE, in truth, is the cen tral fact of the Berlin cri sis. This fact is already too easy to ignore. It will no doubt be blandly forgotten if we turn the Berlin corner with out being frightened out of our wits. But it is still a fact that there would have been no Berlin crisis, if the Eisen hower administration had made the needed efforts to maintain the Western nuclear lead. And it is also a fact that worse crises have to be expected later on, if the mili- Stop Me 5-21 . f . , .t'Oe Venezuela Moves Away From Reds, Bui- They Still Pose Threat to Nation n DWTT nTwcnM ln . I . - .. . . , By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Communist callers at Vene zuela's presiden tial place are'nt welcome any more. A year ago the Reds ap peared to be V e n e zuela's only disci plined politi cal force. In April, 1958, only the quick action of Se c r e t Service phii Newsom men saved Vice President and Mrs. Rich ard Nixon from death or ser ious injury at the hands of Communist-incited mobs. It was the ugly climax to what had been intended to be a good will visit. It was the success of this incident, embarrassing both to the United States and Vene zuela, that led many observers to predict a Communist Party take-over of Venezuela, thus gaining a long-sought Red foot hold in Latin America plus control of the world's largest petroleum exporter. Those pessimistic predic tions now are being revised. Picture of Serenity The main reasons center around the actions of Presi dent Romulo Betancourt, who won office last December after Venezuela's first free elections in 12 years. Betancourt is a leftist Red hater. He is a short, stocky man ot Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington " There is a Washington disease which might be called Pentagonitis. 1 The symptoms I are these: a p rogressively i swelling of the W whole body J (and of the spending budget.) A curious thick ening of the tongue which soon results in the abandonment of the Eng lish language in favor of a loud, brisk, multisyllabic dia lect. This dialect only the true natives of Pentagonia, plus those whose own culture has long ago been overrun by the Pentagonians, can manage. When, in . this odd patois, they wish to say, for example, that they are going to do some thing or end something they bark the word or rather the sound - "finalize." And as English is rejected as the ordinary form of com munication, other no less fundamental changes also occur. Pentagonitis will re quire, say, the space of seven rooms for doing, the hard way, what could be done quicker in the space of one room. PENTAGONITIS means the introduction of vast num bers of "labor saving" devices. These devices to reduce per sonnel will always wind up proving that this is indeed a healthy growing country. For they will require more peo ple to operate the cutting down plans than the number of people who are in fact thus to be cut down. It would be extreme4to say that the machine, the push button, the automatic gadget, is the god of Pentangonia. But it certainly would be cor rect to say that this is Penta gonia's unique gift to the art of government. Pentagonia, of course, is the great principality whose tary balance is allowed to de teriorate further. The plain truth is that their form of society give the Sov iets certain important negoti ating advantages, such as the freedom to use military men aces almost at will. If the Western- nations must also come to the negotiating table without real confidence in their own strength, then the Western cause will be doomed in the end. (Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Congregafionalists Elect Moderator Portland -(UPD- Dr. Perry D. Avery, Corvallis, was elected moderator of the Congrega tional Conference of Oregon here Wednesday. He is pastor of the Federated Presbyterian Congregational church. Dr. Avery succeeds Mrs. F. L. Van Doozer, Portland. Others elected included Rol and Calkins, Parkrose, assist ant moderator; Dr. Wesley Nicholson, pastor of the First Congregational Church, Eu g e n e, conference preacher, and The Rev. W. J. McGetti gan, Cedar Hills, secretary. William s. White 50 who wears thick horn-rim med glasses and puffs con tinually at a pipe. He is the picture of serenity and sta bility. But he has spent 20 of his 30 years in public life either in exile or in the under ground. His history has been one of a long series of fights against Venezuelan dictatorships. His political philosophy favoring government programs aeainst unemployment, illiteracy, bad sanitation, insufficient public housing and backward agri cultural practices now is gen erally accepted by almost all Western nations. Forced To Flee This is not Betancourt's first time as Venezuelan presi dent. An army-backed coup first put him into office in 1945. Anciner army-backed coup forced him to flee the country. He had pushed his re forms too hard. Eventually, he settled in a small hotel in New York. "Betancourt returned to Venezuela a year ago after the overthrow of the Marcos Perez Jiminez dictatorship to resume control of the Democratic Ac tion Party he had founded years ago. Meanwhile, a new govern mental junta under Rear Adm. Wolfgang Larra'zabel had cleared the way for new elec tions. In another climax to his up-and-down career, Betancourt won. Larrazabel, a 1 1 h o u gh S. WHITE capital is the Pentagon - the home, across the Potomac, in Virginia, of our military htgh commands. In terms of years Pentagonia is a Jbhnny-come-lately in Washington. But in its relatively short existence Pentagonitis has moved across the river like a slow, massive tidal wave. Other government depart ments have been infected, one by one, with Pentagonitis. (In deed, one can even observe some of its effects on what used to be the completely de tached island of the White House itself.) The last of the bureaucratic strongholds to maintain all-out resistance was the State De partment. For a time "State," perhaps immunized by its own peculiar brand of local bureau cratic fevers, threw off the in fection of creeping gadgetry, the principle of subtraction by multiplication, which typifies Pentagonia. BUT "STATE" has long since fallen, too. To what used to be its "new" building in Foggy Bottom - a building quite like the parent building 6f Pentagonia across the river -now is being added another of precisely the same kind. It is a duplicate of a duplicate, except that-this second one seems, if anything, even big ger, and glossier, and colder than the first. Then, after "State" had sue-' cumbed, the very ultimate fortress of . non-Pentagonia was Congress. And the heart of this fortress was the United States Senate. For a long time, the Senate persisted in main taining quarters small enough to be traversed in less than a single day. For a long time, it had a telephone system that was the very model of old fashioned simplicity. You simply picked up the phone, asked for Senator Jone's of fice, and got it straightaway. For a long time, you could go right up to a small postoffice in the Senate wing of the Capitol and buy a stamp from a live hand. But now, what with a new office building of staggering bulk, automatic elevators, artifical light and all the rest, the Senate itself looks like Pentagonia. Progress in com munication has come, too. Now, there are not one but three telephone dial systems Gadgetry has come tri umphantly to the Senate, too. And now to buy a stamp you must put a coin into a ma chine and then dial - yes, dial -a number or a series of num bers. Thus, this is the sad end of the tale: the final victory has been finalized for Pentagonia and its system for more and more efficiency that is less and less efficient. (Copyright. 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 1 1 Breatheasy Complete Set Regularly $12" NOW $750 Limited-Time Offer JJreatheasy AT YOUR DRUG STORE Communist-supported in the elections, nonetheless saw to it that Betancourt took office over the opposition of Communist-incited street gangs. In his inaugural address, Beatancourt gave warning to his Communist opponents. Communists Promintnt He said Communists would not be included in his govern ment because "Communist in terests are not in the best in terests of Venezuela." While the Communists no longer call freely at the presi dential palace, their power still cannnot be estimated. They still have two out of 51 senators in Congress and seven out of 135 deputies. The two Communist senators are among the most frequent of congressional speakers. Communists are prominent in journalistic groups, and a Communist is a vice president of the Caracas University Stu dent Federation. Reds also are prominent in the school's journalism school and in the science faculty. ' Informed opinion ,is the Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although "ader cer . tain circumstances tne use ot 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 Venugovishin' To the Editor: The Republl cans are starting to think like Democrats, if you call that think! n The Republicans thought of a tax, the Demo crats missed. No matter how good the Democrats were, they couldn t think of every' thing. No matter, how. good the Republicans are, they can't miss everything, but they tried. The Democrats quit thinkin' in 1952 and the Republicans started in 1959. When they started thinkin', they thought of taxes, what else is there! The Republicans thought of a tax on hotel rooms. If you are bothered with taxes,, this tax should make you sleep, like sleepin' in a blanket of spun glass full of cracker crumbs. I went busted on the. tem porary, emergency, inflation ary, and non-inflationary tax es passed by the New Deal in 1932 and we still have. - I'm 20 years behind on my tem porary taxes and I ain't start ed on my emergency taxes. It's a good thing the house ain't burnin up. A non-infla tionary . tax, I ain't never seen. I ain't worried about hotel taxes, if I had a hotel I'd lost it with taxes. I'm sleepin under a picnic table on some vobbestones, waitin' for a sal mon to come up the river and knock his brains out on the fishladder. Without brains, I should catch a salmon. In Limoges, France, I slept under the kitchen sink on some cobblestones. Cobble stones is the same thing as vobblestones,' only they don't vobble. Do I think everyone should sleep on cobblestones, under the kitchen sink? No! I believe everyone should think for himself, but if you don't vant to look like a vaf fleiron in the morning, you should vant to sleep in a big pile uv pine needles, VENU GOVISHIN'. ' Everett Acklin, Box 233, Ashland. A fnm WANK MCOAN . HAJtOlD DAY OR MGrfT Still "are cfmn. m . move "6. Aiicy cautiouslv torlav h.,.. they -.bc Still ar nn x - or a head-on collision. In the Day's Hews Br FRANK JENKINS Let'S tallr 1 . - -.x TOunj aooui art - imig SUDjeci. The subject I'm referring to : lias interested mankind as long as history has been written. WHY TALK about it now? Well cnmotV,.' . . pening. The IT s T.. , STOCK IS snrmlriita A day of last week, the Treas ury had about 2014 billion dollars worth of the yellow on nana. That is about u miuion dollars worth LESS than it had only six weeks ago. In one day, May 12. the TI. S , - . tcv lca mil lion dollars worth of gold abroad. In all of 1958. two Kill inn 300 million .dollars worth of gota movea out of the United States to other countries. r lat is a record movement for one year. AS OF NOW. th monty xx situation is safe enough. According to law, the Treas ury must have enough gold to cover at least 25 per cent of the money supply. Last year, -there was enough on hand to cover 47 per cent. As of NOW, there is only enough to coverW2 per cent. But The trend is DOWNWARD. If this down-trend continues, something will hav to be done about it. "TUHY THE down-trend? " The experts put it this Way: .International trade ac counts for the shift of gold. The United States has been IMPORTING large amounts of goods and services (forties automobiles are the most in- teresting item.) At the same time, there has been big drop in our EXPORTS of goods and services. The drop is continuing. IlfHY THIS situation? It's perfectly simple. American goods and serv ices are getting COSTLIER. They are getting costlier be cause our costs of production are rising. As our costs get higher and higher, foreigners are enabled to undersell us. They are able to undersell us here in our own domestic markets (no'te the rising vol ume of foreign automobile sales) and they are also able to undersell us in world mar kets. Hence the drop in our ex ports. WHY ARE our prices rising? Inflation lies at the root of it. There are two major causes of inflation: 1. Government deficits. 2. The wage-price spiral. This fact stares us in the face: If government goes on spending more than it takes in and borrowing the differ ence and if the wage-price spiral goes on spiraling, the time will come when we will price ourselves out of the markets - both at home and abroad. That would be bad. It would mean that FAR FEWER JOBS will be avail able in America. i rite Courdtauw SNODGRASS, RjNHtAl DKKTOtl' PHONE SP 2-8039 Reds
