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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. Monday, Miy 25, 1959 MEDFORDtWRIBUNE "Iveryone is Southern Oregon Reads The friail Tribune" Published Dily exceptSarurday by MUJFOAD PRINTING CO. 83 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor EIRB GRE'X Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulatiop Mgr Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 a"J auu "'"J " --- Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday uniy -ne year By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunOay 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier ana Dealers c o p y xuc All germs iasn in novanre Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jacuson county United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WTT5T.Hni.mAY CO INC. Of. fices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver b l. O1" NEWSPAPER publishers association MATIONAl EDITOR! At 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 25. 1949 (Wednesday) Medford residents gird for Friday's bond issue election for funds to permit comple tion of the Hawthorne park swimming pool. Wallace Iverson Is appoint ed head of the Medford rent advisory board, while land lords form an association to seek rent control removal. 20 YEARS AGO May 25, 1939 (Thursday) Leonard B. Mayfield, of Grants Pass, is named new principal of Medford's senior high school. 77" A-tV.... Vann'l "V Smudge Pot" column: "Some of the valley corn is now up to the first rail of the fence." 30 YEARS AGO May 25, 1929 (Saturday) A lady autoist gets excited and drives into Swan's dis play window. Mrs. James C. Collins is elected head of the Greater Medford club. 40 YEARS AGO May 25, 1919 (Sunday) Light showers fall over the valley, but more rains are earnestly needed. More women are employed as thinners as the valley labor shortage continues. 50 YEARS AGO May 25, 1909 (Tuesday) Promoters abandon a plan to link Medford or' Central Point to Crescent City. The irrigation system for the valley's northwest section from Central Point to Gold Ray rapidly nears comple tion. . What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. If six black balls and six white baUs are thrown into a basket in a dark room", what is the least number of balls you must pick out to be sure you have two of the same color? 2. Add the next two num bers in this sequence: 3,9,7,6, 18,16,9,27,25,12,-,-. 3. What fish shoots out a cloud of black liquid as pro tection? 4. Cattle have no upper front teeth; true or false? 5. "What is the lowest de nomination postage stamp now used in the U. S.? 6. How many guns are fired in a Presidential salute? 7. What did the ugly duck ling turn into? 8. U. S. Senators are regu larly elected for terms of how many years? 9. Who wrote the novel "The Last of the Mohicans"? 10. With what university do you associate the name of Knute Rockne? Answers: 1. Three; 2, 36,34; 3. Squid; 4. True; 5. Half-cent stamp; 6. 21; 7. A swan; 8. Six years; 9. James Fenimore Cooper; 10. Notre Dame. In the Spirit of Compromise Concessions which both the Soviet Union and the United States have been making in the nu clear tests suspension talks at Geneva are at least steps toward closing the gap. After a period of impasse in which it seemed certain the delibera tions must- end in futility, these new maneuvers hold promise of perhaps some meaningful result, however small a beginning. The somewhat brighter prospect is f urther en hanced by the second note on the subject sent by President Eisenhower to Premier Khrushchev and believed to have been accompanied by a sim ilar note from Prime Minister Macmillan. TTHE United States has agreed to give careful study to the Soviet proposal fpr a limited num ber of inspections annually. It has ,agreed to a mixture of nationals and foreigners manning con trol posts provided the Soviet Union will agree to a reasonable number of foreigners. The Soviet Union, on its side, has indicated that it would be willing to give up its demand for a veto over inspections if the proposal to limit the number of inspections were adopted. MONE of these moves looks toward a complete or ideal solution, but all of them offer meas urably more than we have now. As the "New Statesman" of London aptly says: "Even with an imperfect control system, 'pirate tests cannot remain undetected for long; and once a breach is proved, the agreement automatically lapses. From a military standpoint, we should lose little if Russia broke her word-and our political gains would be immeasurable. On the other hand, by failing to accept this risk, we should be condemning an unknown but predictably enormous-number of our children. Confronted with such a choice, which of us can hesi tate?" Four Blocks of Fun It's beginning to look as if this Centennial is going to be a lot more fun than we had thought. The merchants of Eugene have decided to close Broadway to motor traffic from Chamelton to Pearl, and make of it a Centennial showplace for a month. , Of course, they still need the city council's approval, but there's not much doubt that it will be given, and gladly. Everyone we've talked with about the merchants' plan is enthused. e I70LK dancing, hay rides, historical displays, beautif ication of the four-block strip . with flowers and potted shrubs all these features of the plan tickle the popular imagination. So do the merchants' plays with pioneer themes business district, their parKmg and public transportation arrangements, and their thoughts of benches for those who wish to rest or simply stick around to enjoy the fun. The retail merchants executive committee of the Eugene Chamber of Commerce is to be con gratulated for this stimulating plan of action, along with the Lane County Centennial Commit tee and others participating in its development. CPRLNGFIELD showed greater pioneering spirit when that city's merchants tried the down town mall idea two years ago, after their Eugene rivals had turned it down. But now it appears that the Eugene retailers have mustered enough initiative to insure a "topper" success, at a most appropriate time. It's certain sure that this entire metropolitan area will enjoy having its own major Centennial attraction. Eugene Register-Guard. Recreation vs. There is a disturbing overtone to. the hope of Richard E. McArdle, chief of the Forest Service, that the use of national forests for mass recreation will more than double in the next 10 years. National forests certainly should be avail able for national use, but is a forest still a forest after it has been adapted to mass recreation? Of course, some are almost as domesticated as pas tures. Others, however, still are wilderness; and roads, lodges, restaurants, boat docks and gaso line stations essential to mass recreation an nihilate wilderness. Surely, a bit of it should be preserved, if only for the sake of finding another Burroughs or Muir. THE over-running of Yellowstone and the oth- er national parks illustrates the Government's dilemma. Somehow it seemed undemocratic to keep automobiles out of the parks, but once they were thrown open to Americans on wheels some parts of the parks were despoiled of their grand eur. The forest problem might not be quite so dif ficult if greater eff orts were made to save more of our remaining wilderness from corrmercial ex ploitation. Then a bit here and there might more readily be preserved for contemplation. - - -- - - . St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis Post-Dispatch schemes for window dis throughout the central talk of providing special Contemplation Dennis the 'See if vou'szb em lonzsqmb, ' KRB.ttTTY.ItlTTY, KITTY.. .' " Wilson Reviews Hoffa Quote, Concludes Stories Correct By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD From where I sit there just isn't any doubt that the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa is lying about that general strike speech he made the other day in Texas. Neither is there any doubt that Hoffa knows now that he spoke out in Lyle C. Wilson turn. He rammed his foot m his mouth and far down his gullet. Hoffa's proposition, as re ported from Brownsville by United Press International and by the Associated Press, was that he would call a gen eral strike if unions were brought under anti-trust laws. A nationwide transpotation strike " would paralyze the United States. A general strike is just one . degree re moved from civil conflict as is well known in Great Britain where organized labor got too big for its plus fours back there in 1926 and called aU union men off their jobs. Frightening Threat Hoffa's threat of a general strike of his transport work ers shocked and frightened many a citizen and public of fical. The reaction was instant and angry. Hoffa sensed that and he is claiming now that he was misquoted, which surely is not so. United Press International staffed Hoffa's speech with Darrell Mack of UPI's Edin burg, Texas, bureau. Mack is a good reporter, a pro, or he wouldn't be in our Edinburg bureau. The Associated Press is quite competent and able to speak for itself. I have competed with AP men for nearly 40 years, and I have found them to be sound and accurate reporters. The AP does not send boys out on a man's job either. So it was the night Hoffa spoke in Brownsville. Our man, Darrell Mack, and the AP reporter were in agree1 ment on what Hoffa said in Brownsville. Story Checked I checked with Preston Mc Graw of the UPI Dallas, Tex., bureau who was the respon sible man by remote control. Preston told me that Mack's story came by telephone to Dallas bureau. McGraw saw this young man's report of what had come over the tele phone from Mack, and Mc Graw realized that the gun was loaded. So McGraw, a press assoc iation professional of long ?nd . distinguished standing, put in a telephone call to Mack in Brownsville, to make Try and By BENNETT CERF- rMELY POLITICAL SQUIB Will Rogers: "They took me I said, 'Mr. President, I would jokes.' "You don't have to, Will, he answered, them."' 'I appointed One of Walter Davenport's favorite stories concerned a. time that a proud citizen of Charleston, S. C, attending the University .of Wisconsin, was dilating upon the splen dors of his home town. A Yankee, thinking to put him in his place, asked, "Where is Charleston?" Turning slowly toward the enemy, the orator replied with dignity, "Charleston, sir, is that untarnished jewel shining regally at the sacred spot where the Ashley and the Cooper join their majestic waters to form the At lantic Ocean." A too talkative musician lost out on a very lucrative job. Every time he opened his mouth he put his flute in it. 1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Menace all sa ima oo&cau, ' sure that the latter's report hadbeen received correctly. Mack confirmed what Hoffa had said. The little man who owns and operates the Teamsters outfit won't get away with this peculiar variation of tak ing a Fifth Amendment exit from a hot spot. He's stuck with his public - and - govern ment - be - damned point of view and stuck hard.. A general strike threat or a contempt for law, order and the responsibilities of good citizenship are nothing new for Jimmy Hoffa. Last Nov ember Hoffa was promising that he soon would lead a mighty Teamster Union span ning the entire transport in- Editorial Comment SPECULATION ON DUNCAN Sequestered in a news item from the Optometrists' con vention in Medford, the an nouncement of Dr. Max Fried man of Portland that a group is being organized to back Speaker of the House Robert B. Duncan of Medford for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1962 calls up some other political news we probably should make of record. Dr. Friedman is very active in the Democratic party and he should know, and the facts we here present would seem to back him up. Speaker Duncan was a very capable Speaker who rode herd on his Democratic col leagues no less than on his Republican opponents with fairness. He had some tough parliamentary decisions. He dispatched the House business with orderly procedure and spoke out when he felt in clined to. The 1962 talk has validity because Speaker Duncan is undoubtedly going to run for reelection to the House in 1960 and be candidate for Speaker again - if the House is Democratic. If he does and is reelected Speaker it will be the first time in more than half a century, if not in Ore gon history, that a Speaker has been reelected for two successive terms. The. nearest situation to it was that in 1909 and 1913 when the late C. N. (Pat) McArthur was Speaker with the 1911 session in be tween. We have studied the very excellent record in Ore gon Voter Feb. 16, 1957 com piled by Fred Drager, who in 1957 completed 54 years , of service including Chief Clerk of the House on numerous ses sions and otherwise on the legislature's staff over that long span of years. He could have been there in 1959 had he elected to take what was available to him. His record from 1903 shows no Speaker Stop Me from the files of Hie immortal to meet President Harding, and like to tell you all the latest Quick Meeting Hopes Fade; Spokesme Differ on Subjects Talked 'Off Record' By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's assignment sheet: Long Summer Western hopes of a quick Geneva conference are fading fast. Belief now is that Soviet Pre m i e r Nikita Khrushchev may not be in such a hurry for a summit meeting as the West first thought. The Phil Mewsom empnasis now is one of "patience." Geneva observers are cur ious about Khrushchev's trip to Albania. They are speculating that Khrushchev, already more than halfway from Moscow to Geneva, might offer to meet President Eisenhower in the Big Four city to break through the foreign ministers stale- dustry-everything on wheels. That raised some eyebrows in Washington and Hoffa's mo tives were questioned by Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark.). Hoffa's response was this: "we will not be stopped by the McClellan committee, laws, or the courts." Perhaps neither laws nor courts can stop Hoffa. More likely, his dangerous ambi tions will knock himself out. The current Life Magazine has a piece on Hofa. Life ask ed Hoffa how he planned to make the Teamsters Union the greatest ever. He replied: "We may eventually have to do what labor unions dc ;n Europe and caU a general strike." reelected for successive terms in those 54 years. There is little doubt we think that Dun can could get it again if the House is Democratic, although four other Democrats if re elected, have their lines out for the job which pays half again as much as a member's pay and carries tremendous influence, for he names the committees, sits automatically on the Emergency Board and is the factotum in the party caucus. The several other Democrats in the field . for Speaker include Norman R Howard of Portland who in the last two sessions has shown caliber in committee and on the floor; William Holmstrom of Gearhart who pretty much got what he want ed; Al Flegel of Roseburg, very active in recent session and Clarence Barton of Co- quille who as Chairman of the House Taxation committee and on Ways and Means was in the thick of things. Howard and. Holmstrom have both an nounced they will try for the post. On the Republican side if the complexion of the House should change those most fre quently mentioned are Robert L. Elfstrom of Salem, minor ity House leader and most ef fective, and George Layman of Newberg who as Republi can Chairman of the House Judiciary committee, elected with backing of both parties was an independent voter, at times leaving the party cau cus. The Democrats planned ahead during the 1959 session. They voted an appropriation of $2,000 each to the President of the Senate and the Speak er of the House for travel ex penses. This is a new wrinkle but need not be criticized for there is some call upon them for travel, but $2,000 would enable them to travel the state several times on official busi ness that could have potent political influence. If Speaker Duncan should try for the nomination for Governor in 1962 after two successive terms as Speaker the public power issue is like ly to be his shibboleth. His greatest defeat this session was loss of the power bill. But there are other political shadows being cast. It was common talk during the ses sion that Senate President Pearson is again looking to ward the governor's chair and Senator Ward Cook of Port land was talked of as Demo cratic candidate for Treasurer. Of course Senator Sweetland for another Secretary of State try was generally accepted. Coincidence: Democ ratic Speaker Duncan's erstwhile law associate in Medford, William M. McAllister, now Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court was the Re publican Speaker of the House in 1943. Those in the know emphasize it could be Hat field vs. Duncan in 1962. -Oregon Voter. M ! - I irt. VU mate. There is not the slightest possibility such a proposal would be considered on a snap basis. But the Russians might consider the gesture as good propaganda. Observers rule out the thought that Khrushchev might come to Geneva on his own to push things along. He has always maintained that East-West business can be done only directly with Eisen hower. Round and Round It Goes There's a behind-the-scenes battle going on among, the press spokesmen of the Big Three western powers at Geneva- the U. S., Britain and France - on what actually happens at these private din ner and lunch meetings with the Russians. The Americans so far have brushed off these occasions as "purely social," with the con versation leaning on moun tains, snow, the weather and how the kids are doing in school. The French say the Big Four actually are talking con ference turkey, at these get togethers, although they admit that nothing concrete has been solved and no major break through recorded. The British say, yes, there is talk about conference mat ters, but nothing extraordin ary. Not a word from the Rus sians who are being extra ordinarily cagey. The Propaganda War Italy is becoming more and In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower warn ed the rongress last week that the wheat support program will collapse under mounting costs unless the PILING UP OF SURPLUSES is halted. In his warning statement he said there is already enough wheat in government storehouses to supply the nation's needs for two and a half years In the face of a situation such as that, it is obvious that SOMETHING must be done. So . . . the senate buckles down to work in an effort to see WHAT can be done. One of the proposals to be debated is , a plan approved by the senate's committee on agriculture which would boost wheat support prices from 75 per cent to , 80 per cent - of parity for farmers who CUT their average 20 per cent for the 1960 and 1961 crops. QUPPOSE that is done. Suppose you're a wheat farmer. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? THE answer is simple: You'd select your seed with the utmost care so as to get a variety that would pro duce the largest possible yield. Then you'd pour on the fertilizer. You'd do everything possible to increase your yield per acre to the utmost limit. You couldn't afford not to. The net result over the long pull would be that you'd grow as much wheat on the 80 per cent of your land as you had been growing on ALL of it. The net result of that would be NO DECREASE in the wheat surplus. "kNE other question: What would you do with the 20 per cent of your land that you took out of wheat, Here in Southern Oregon and Far Northern California, we KNOW, what you'd do. You'd put the acres taken out hay, small seeds such as clov er, alfalfa and such - all of which are specialty crops of OURS, developed by us over the years to meet the special conditions imposed upon us by our climate, our soil and our markets. The result would be a GLUT , of these crops that would seriously impair OUR economy. Why do we know this? We've been made aware of it by hard experience. We've been suffering as a result of it ever since the program of subsidies for certain so-called "basic" crops was initiated. THAT is to say: It's another PIE IN THE SKY scheme designed to farm the wheat farmer for VOTES instead of farming all the soil for crops. Out here we're getting a bit weary of pie in the sky schemes. We'd rather have better markets for our own particular specialty crops. How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place Do your false teeth annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little PAS TEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH today at any drug counter. more concerned about the Al banian buildup of troops and arms. Furthermore, they suspect that Khrushchev's visit to the tiny satellite may be the tip off to a big new Soviet propa ganda campaign in the cold war - aimed at the Mediter ranean and particularly Italy. Italy is one of the few West ern countries with a consulate in Albania. There have been reliable reports that the Com munist country right across the Adriatic Sea from Italy is increasing its troops, arms and submarine fleet. A number of troops-most- ly airborne have been re ported entering the country Washington Report By WILLIAM 15 YEARS Washington - Exactly 15 years ago in this late Maytime season we and the British were marshaling in England for history's ' most terrible and fateful as Isault, the cross - chan- nel invasion ; ,j against the , German oc- cupiers of Western Eu rnnp William S. . white It ,was a time of unspeakable hovering dangers, in a spring as softly green then in England as is this present spring here in Washington. It was the end, literally, of a long and hard winter. And it was the end of a far longer spiritual win ter in the hearts of the Allies. For the first time in many a weary year it was possible to have rational . faith that the last phase of a great war was at last at hand. England then, a decade and a half ago, was a meeting placer in time for an unfor gettable paradox - an hour of special, unique awareness that both hope and death were in the air over Western Eu rope. . rriHOSE who are not there - for D-Day '. have, under standably, a far rosier notion of. the inevitability of the success that followed than was ever justified by the plain facts. The invasion suc ceeded, yes! and in the short hand of history that is all that is needful to tell the story. But it was a succes only by the most awful of narrow margins. In long, painstaking work with their charts the meteorologists had decided that the early days of that June would be, for weather and for tide, the most nearly suitable to our purposes. In truth, the weather suddenly turned nasty beyond any pos sible advance calculation. The big jump across the channel had to be postponed from the original date, June 5, to June 6. And it went forward even then because the vast ma chine had been cranked up and it could not be delayed any more. Our lodgments on the French beaches were soon held by the thinnest of forces -with the thinnest of sup plies ' because much of what we needed was going to the bottom of the channel. When at last the weather broke in our favor it broke not a moment too soo. This correspondent, later on in Normandy when the crisis was behind, asked a senior Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Frank m - Perl recently. And a number of submarine bases have been undergoing a buildup. Albania already has sent a diplomatic protest to Italy warning about stationing U. S. missiles on Italian soil. Communist - stirred trouble may be brewing in the tiny Indonesian kingdom of Laos. Red China's Peiping radio has been accusing Laos of under mining the agreement reached in another Geneva meeting. That foreign ministers meet ing ended July 20, 1954, and brought to an end the war in Indochina by agreeing on a North-South division between Communist and free states. S. WHITE intelligence officer what would have happened if we had had one more bad weather day. "Disaster," he said, and turned his head to the window in the French farmhouse where he sat. a TN A WORD, the one ir- replaceable strength we had then, the one thing that not even the worst channel weather in 40 years could take away from us, was an unshakable American-B r itish unity. It brought us through, weather or no weather. With out it, we should have lost the whole invasion, and pos sibly the whole war. Now; in another spring time, both hope and danger are again in the air over Western Europe. Again the same two allies confront, in the Geneva conference, an other desperate "German pro blem." This time it is not a military problem - not yet, at least - but in its way it is perhaps even harder to re solve than that other more brutally plain one of 15 years ago. For this time the Allies are not bound in the comradeship of hot war. They are to a significant degree dispersed by the diplomacy of cold war. There are differences between the American view and the British .view at Geneva. The British seem, and are, more keen for a settlement with the Russians over Germany than we are. It may be that the British are unwise and that we are wise in this; it is unlikely that we shall ever really know. BUT ONE thing we do know. Worried British officials here know it perhaps even better, and are quietly saying it wherever they can. This is that every time the division widens between our negotia tors into real bitterness there is only one gainer, the Soviet Union. The legitimate dif ferences between us cannot and should not be wished away. But to dwell upon them and magnify them to speak, for instance, as though the British were "appeasers" is gravely to trouble waters al ready quite troubled enough. There is no posible way to cross our present channel of danger except together, just as there waS no other way to cross that other channel so long ago. It is not a matter only of sentiment. It is a re quirement of survival, just as it was then, that we do not break apart as our diplomatic D-Day approaches in Geneva. (Copryright, 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
