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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, May 27. 1959 MEDFORDtgTRIBUNB "Everyone tc Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published Dtily except Saturday by M7JJFCMD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fli St Ph. SP 2-6141 " ROBIP.T W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager - GErXLD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W AIXEN JJU Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER WMien'i Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mar An Independent Newspaper Znterea aa second class matter at Medforri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. nAlt mrr4 CimHaD.l VMT 215.00 TJailv and Sunday 4S mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday OnlyOne year 84.20 n f : Tn li4aMMM,(lfnM Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point JacKeonvme, ooia mu. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dail7 snd Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Official Papv of City mf Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU " OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: flees In Ne York. Chicago. De troit. San rranctsco. uom Angeies, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C ac NEWSPAPER publishers association NATION At EDITORIAl ' Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Vlail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 27. 2949 (Friday) Jack Bierma, route 1, box 390, waits hopefully for an other warbling chick in his present brood of Hampshire Rprls to match the one that brought him nationwide . re nown two years ago. A "general policy of liber alization" in the administra tion of rent controls is an nounced. 20 YEARS AGO May 27, 1939 (Saturday) Peak of the local straw berry picking is expected next week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A num ber of rural residents have limbered up their wrists and signed petitions against this, and for that. Experts claim the average citizen: will sign anything once." SO YEARS AGO. May 27. 1929 (Monday) The Red Cross swimming school is to open June 10. The state highway commis sion refuses to consider build ing a road between Roseburg and Trail. 40 YEARS AGO Mav 27. 1919 (Tuesday) A Medford party reaches the rim of Crater Lake after a battle through the snow drifts. . , Bardwell Fruit company plans immediate expansion of its plant. , SO YEARS AGO May 27. 1909 (Thursday) L. H. McMahan, Salem at torney lighting the Crater Lake road appropriation, em barks on a campaign against funds for a bridge across the Snake river as well. Medford decides condemna tion proceedings are necessary to get land for the water lines across Mike Hartley's property, VhaPs Yoar I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; eves or esjht is excellent; five or six is good. , 1. In which European coun try is the port city of Le- Havre? . ... 2. Elephants ' cannot swim; true or false? 3. What governmental act was known as "Seward's Folly"? 4. Which State leads in the production of grapefruit? 5. In playing poker, if one player should hold a royal flush in spades and another a royal flush in hearts, which would win? 6. Does automotive traffic keep to the right, or left, on roads in Sweden? , 7. .Will radio celebrate its 34, 39, or 45 year anniversary in November of this year? . 8. What is Soviet Russia's national Parliament? 9. Does the word "brogans' suggest a type of headgear, footwear, or cloak? 10. Correct the fillowine: "The slation broadcasted the President's speech." Answers: 1. France. 2. False. 3. Purchase of Alaska. 4. Florida. 5. Neither. (Evan) 6. Left.' 7. Thirty-ninth. 8. Su preme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. 9. Footwear. 10. "Tho station broadcast Small Enemy i .. An odd STjrinp-. it's is less than a month away. , Its coming is heralded by the most ubiquitous of the buss. Musca Domestica better known as the common housefly. With a sufficient degree or detaenment, one can work utj a rudimentary sort of empathy with some insects. Mosquitoes, say, which, while pesti ferous, at least go about their rounds of blood letting in an honest and forthright manner. Ants, too, have a direct approach to tood which, u not admirable from the human point of view, is at least understandable. Not so Musca Domestica. . j' - TTHE HOUSEFLY is the juvenile delinquent of the insect world. He glories in obscene activities, flitting from garbage and offal to food. He buzzes around one's head with infuriating insouciance. He lip-hts iust Ion? enoucrh to nermit one to roll a newspaper and ;i i : ii. - 1.. vainsiies, leaving me uumei Lceuciing uii a ciiui. He established a beachhead on the rim of the sugar bowl, knowing, full well the human's choice is merely an admonitory wave, or spilled sugar. He sits, rubbing his evil little legs together, like some demoniac, miniature Scrooge. As he flies away on his next mission one can almost be convinced one hears the tiny cackling of disrespectful laughter. E.A. . . . and His Cousins The world of bugs is a far more extensive one than most of us realize, despite the constant warfare waged against them. -7 . Indeed, it is estimated by the men who make such things their business to know, that fully ninth-tenths of all members of the animal king dom on the face of the earth are insects. There are some 800,000 species of insects, and their numbers are vastly greater than the combined forces of fish, birds, and land creatures, including the genus homo sapiens. I N THEIR proliferating pervade, if not dominate, huge areas of the earth. If they do not fly in the air, they creep on the ground, or burrow under it, or dig into the struc tures of men, or swim in or under the fresh waters of the earth although, for some reason, few have adapted to the oceans' depths. Insects come in an amazing variety of sizes and shapes and adaptations front the grubbiest burrower to the airy delight of a butterfly. , COME INSECTS are beneficial such as the P honey bee, the silk worm, or, on a more aes thetic plane, the butterfly, again. Some are bene ficial because they are other of mankinds enemies. (In northern Cali fornia there is a monument to a particular kind of beetle, which eradicated a noxious weed pest.) But most of them, from mankind's point of view, are foes, and cause millions upon millions of dollars worth of damage every year. The boll weevil, the corn ear worm, the mos- auito, the house fly, the termite, the grasshopper, le clothes moth, the potato beetle, the cinch bug these and their cousins are destructive to the work and welfare of men. CONTROL is expensive, difficult and chancy. Insects form a definite part of the ecology of an area, and if the balance is artificially dis turbed, the consequences, which can be entirely unexpected, can also be damaging. Also, if transplanted, insects in a new environ ment may escape the natural enemies which kept down their numbers in their native heath, and multiply at a frightening rate. Some of the worst pests in this country have been imported, perhaps one or two at a time, and then "exploded" into major pestilences. , , . . IT MAY be little realized that the preponderance e of insects are not harmful, however. Perhaps this is simply because the harmful ones are those which draw themselves to our attention. . The World Book Encyclopedia reports: ". . . In spite of the great damage insects do, we should remember that there are really very few harm ful kinds of insects. One summer, the U. S. department of agriculture made a census of all the insects that were causing damage on farms and in the cities, that were harming man, his crops, and his domestic animals. The total of this list came to only 235 species-less than one twenty-fifth of 1 per cent of the species known to , science." This doesn't mean that we have to LIKE them, though. And, with the possible exception of a few of the more decorative species, we don't, although we save our greatest animus for Musca Do mestica. E.A. . Teen-Ager Killed In One-Car Crash Caldwell, Ida. (D?D - A car careened out of control on a curve west of Nampa Tuesday night killing one teen-ager and seriously injuring two others. Sheriff Dale Haile said that Howard Wayne Bivins, 16, Canyon Hill, was killed in the one-car crash. Taken to Caldwell Memo rial hospital were Fred Bou dreau, 17, and his 16-year-old brother, Hubert. been. And now summer start stalking him then 4.. -1. billions, they quietly the natural enemies of Siskiyou District To Graduate 347 Yreka-A total of 347 stu dents " will graduate from schools of the Siskiyou Union High school district at cere monies the first week in June, according to Dr. J. E. Hurley, district superintendent. Thirty-three will graduate Thursday at Butte VaUey; 11, Tuesday, Fort Jones; 33, Wednesday, Happy Camp; 32, Friday, McCloud; 47, Friday, Mt. Shasta; 68, Friday, Weed; and 123, Thursday, Yreka. Dennis the 'MMmMM&GQtmPUJT! HfyyOUGUYS! Of tier v ' Today & Tomorrow By Walter DULLES: A TRIBUTE John Foster Dulles lived long enough to know before he died that among his coun trymen he had no enemies and that his critics and op ponents liked and admired him. This is unusual and s i g n i f icant. For Dulles was a highly con troversial Walter Lippmann figure in a dangerous time, and when we have explained to ourselves why at the end he stands out above his bat tles, we shaU have paid him a fitting tribute. The explanation does not lie in this or that policy or in any moral generalization. It lies in the fact that he was in the great tradition of what is required of a man in his public and his private life. The eulogies speak of him as a dedicated man, and in the exact sense of that over-used word he was dedicated to the function of a public servant. PERHAPS the highest func tion of a public servant in free and democratic . society is to preserve its oneness as a community while he fights the battles which divide it. John Foster Dulles never lost sight of that. He never forgot, as so many public men do, that after the issue which is up for debate is settled, those who took part in the debate must still live and work to gether. That is the reason why among his countrymen, there is no rancor, and why the sorrow of his opponents and critics is genuine. Like most men, he prefer red praise to criticism and agreement to opposition. But he did not demand conform ity. He did not regard dissent as perversity, he respected de bate and the practice of free journalism. 1CAN speak here from the heart, having been for some 30 years his friend and on many questions of policy critic. Long experience has taught Children Made III By . Los Angeles-fDPD-Two small brothers, were reported in critical condition today after swallowing insect poison tab lets ' Parents of 150 other youngsters were warned to be on the lookout for 29 poison tablets still missing. Gary, 5, and Michael Nie burger, 4, went into convul sions Tuesday shortly after returning Home from a play Try and -By BENNETT CERF- WHEN MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE went abroad after her . 'husband's death, she feared a lot of unwelcome attentions would be showered upon her. But not a soul seemed to know who she was until she - - reached a very small town in northern Italy. There the manager of the inn (he could speak good English) and all his staff were lined up to honor her. "We are proud," an nounced the manager with a flourish, "to greet the wife of the great President of the United States. Welcome, Mrs. Lincoln." . An artist famous for his magazine' covers was search in? for a home in the hills near Arlington, Vt. A farmer told him he had just the house to fill the bill. "I must have a good view," the artist reminded him. "Does your house command a good one V , "That's for you to ftecide," said the farmer. "From the front porch you kin see Ed Barlow's barn, but beyond that there really ain't nuthin' but this bunch of hills." Cim by Bennett Cart. JSMxSua&toXSelmXTaatot Menace Lippmann me how rare it Is in public men to accept public criticism without private resentment, which only too often spreads to their wives and their sisters and their brothers and their aunts. To be free of that kind of resentment is the mark of a thoroughbred, and the Dulles family are thorough breds, born to and trained to the demands of public life. They really do: their public duty as they see it, without letting their private feelings take hold of them. IT WOULD be pretentious and inherently absurd to suppose that at this time it is possible to make any kind of definitive appraisal of his career. There is no dispute anywhere that he has been honorable in conception and in purpose. We do not know what wiU be the judgment of the historians. v They will be writing with a knowledge which is denied to us as to what happened in the later chapters of the unfin ished story. The judgment of history, it is fair to say, is almost always based on the results and not on the inten tions. We do not know what in Germany, in the Middle East, and in the Far East, will be the results of the six years of his stewardship. We cannot influence the historians. But we can perhaps exhort them to bear two things in mind. One is that they must discount heavily those who have a vested interest in some particular policy which John Foster Dulles used, and would now like it to be treated as one of the eternal verities. For while Dulles did not change his policies easily or quickly, he did change them when he was convinced that a change was necessary. .The other thing the his torians must bear in mind is that they should not judge John Foster Dulles only by his policies, which are controver sial and perhaps transient. They should judge him also for his public character and his public virtue which were excellent and a. noble example to his people. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Insect Tablets ground. They were taken to Morningside hospital suffer from strychnine poisoning. Officers said the boys were playing -with about 150 other children at the playground. A near-empty box which origin ally contained 40 insect tab lets was found in the play area. All but 29 of the strych nine tablets were accounted for. Stop Me Hoffa' General Strike Talk Recalls That Sit-Down Technique Also By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -UPD- Teamster boss James R. Hoffa's threat to import a deadly European strike strategy which would straighten out the employers once and for all h a s some solid prece dent in the U. S. labor movement. I V I denies that he L-J sJL&ml made any such tyie c. Wilson threat of a general, nationwide strike of his teamsters union. Such a strike would paralyze the U.S. economy. Whether Hoffa made the threat can be left for determination-under oath -by the Senate Rackets sub committee. If somebody is ly ing, then somebody may go to jail for perjury. The general strike, a stran gling strategy, is well known in Europe. It is as much a po litical as an economic weapon. Moreover, the ,general strike Khrushchev's Albanian Trip Causes Speculation Abroad m By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor For a reason still known only to the Kremlin, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev seems to be making a del i b e r a t e at tempt to take world atten tion away 41 X power foreign ministers con ference at Ge neva. Khrush chev himself . Phil Newsom has labelled his current visit to Albania a "friendship" vis it. But since Khrushchev is ful ly aware of his own publicity value and since it also is known his representative at Geneva will not act except upon Kremlin instructions, his 13-day visit to the Alban ian capital of Tirana attracts more than usual attention. This week also coincides with the original expiration date (May 27) of Khrushchev's ultimatum to the West to get out of West Berlin. While the ultimatum's expiration date now has been pushed forward into the indefinite future, it remains the reason for the present foreign ministers meeting in Geneva. A Satellite Summit Now, suddenly, Khrushchev shows no interest either in his ultimatum nor in his pre viously clearly voiced demand yiat the foreign ministers reach decisions quickly so he could have his own summit meeting with President Eisen hower. . One . theory concerning Khrushchev's trip is that it is to attend a "summit" meet ing of the Soviet satellites. East German Premier Otto Grotewhol is in Albania pre sumably on vacation. Also there are top leaders of Ro mania and Bulgaria. It may be that a new Krem-, lin move involving the sat tellites is in the making and top leaders have been sum moned to be told about it. The Kremlin, however, has demonstrated it is capable of making any move it wishes without informing those most affected. There are other situations which might be discussed and which Khrushchev might feel take precedence over Geneva. One is the restored good will between Greece and Tur key, at the close of. the Cyprus conflict and the obvious drive among the NATO alliance for closer ties among Mediterran ean nations allied with the West. In this category would fall the recent visit of the Greek prime minister to Turkey and the visit bf the Greek king and queen to Italy. Related issues would be the friendship pact among Yugo slavia, Turkey and Greece and Italy's decision to accept U. S. missile bases on Italian soil. Albania is just, across the Adriatic from Italy and is sandwiched between Yugo slavia and Greece which also have Adriatic coastlines. SALE ENDS FRIDAY Yes, for another year we'll have to wait to offer you Bargains like these on our Next Anniversary. Take Advantage of These Savings Now Before Saturday LUCAS & HOWARD FURNITURE Central Point - Phone NO 4-1226 strategy frequently works. European labor has tried them all. Hoffa's threat re calls that nearly 25 years have slipped by since the left-wing of UJ5. organized labor im ported - the sitdown strike technique from .France and stopped the great assembly lines of General Motors. Start of UAW On Feb. 11, 1937, GM signed the- agreement which ended a 44-day Flint (Mich.) sitdown. From that agreement developed the United Auto mobile Workers of America (UAW) organization in GM. Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.) in the Senate on the sitdown's 20th anniversary said: "Mr. President,' 20 years ago this- month (Feb. 1957), there; took place in Flint, Mich.,, events which marked the launching of a new bill of rights for the industrial worker. From these strikes came recognition of UAW by General Motors corporation." The Communist party, USA, in their national publication, "The Worker," also commem Add to this brew two other ingredients and you have ex cellent reasons why Khrush chev should want to reassess the Communist position in the Mediterranean. One is the continued enmity between Yugoslavia's President Tito and the Kremlin. Khrushchev might feel it is time once again to try to heal this breach. The other is talk that the neutral, or uncommitted, states might have a summit meeting of their own. These states would include, among others, Yugoslavia and Egypt and their decisions ' might well go against the Kremlin. New Brazilian Envoy Passes 'Horse' Test To Win Group's Vote By FRANK ELEAZER , Washington-(DPD-Except for a horse, which once kicked .Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) m the . jaw, Clare B oo th Luce today would be our ambassador to Brazil. , Instead, we soon will have looking out for our inter ests in Rib one Frank Eleazer Jonn moore Cabot, of the New England Cab.ots, who told members of the Senate Foreign relations Committee he likes talking to people, speaks Spanish, and is downright allergic to horses. On these assurances the com mittee promptly approved Cabot's nomination as am bassador to Brazil, where there are at least the usual number of horses and 63 mil lion people, who speak not Spanish but Portuguese. Morse Fires Questions So you can see what a dif ference a few weeks can make in the Senate. Or maybe it was that Cabot is not a wom an. Or that his spouse does not publish magazines. Or then again, as a career diplo mat he never, never, never would say all his troubles be gan when Sen. Morse was kicked in the head by a horse. Mrs. Luce also had been up for confirmation as ambassa dor to Brazil. And over the considerable objections of Morse the committee eventu ally approved her And later, the Senate finally had con firmed her appointment. Then Mrs. Luce had her say about the horse. And in the ensuing furor, she had to turn in her riding habit. That's why Cabot, who has been in the foreign service since 1926 and most recently has been ambassador to Co lombia, now was up for her job. Cabot, wearing a tan trop ical suit and a proper diplo matic mustache, sat down warily in the same red leath er chair occupied with such unhappy outcome for several orated tne Flint sitdown in a nostalgic account of events in the first year of the second Roosevelt administration. Or ganized labor was heavily in filtrated and in some instances led by Communists at that time. Wyndam Mortimer, vice president of the struggling UAW, was a Communist close ly associated with Bob Travis, UAW. leader in Toledo, Ohio, "The Worker" recalled in dis cussing the Flint sitdown. Strike Leaden "Who were the people (in the Flint strike)" the paper continued, "with initiative and leadership? They were mainly an active core that Mortimer and Travis had built tip. But it was people with a socialist consciousness and association with the Com munist party and the then leftist Socialist party of Mich igan who stood out in key po sitions. "While the major leaders at Fisher (a GM plant) were Communists, the group that Finally, there are reports from both the Allied and the Communist sides that new moves are on foot to strength en NATO in the western Med iterranean. , There has been no official confirmation of these reports but they claim that another suggestion may be made soon that Spain be brought into NATO and that steps also are underway to strengthen the Allied position in both Mor occo and Tunisia on the north African Mediterranean coast. But most important of all seems to be the timing of Khrushchev's Albanian visit. Why right now? hours just six weks ago by Mrs. Luce. . . Chairman J. William Ful brighr; (D-Ark.) wondered if he had anything to say for himself. Cabot said he would stand on his record. Fulbright asked if anybody had any questions. Morse allowed that he had a few. "As you know, Mr. Cabot, I have considerable interest in the ambassadorship to Brazil," he began. . Na Horses For Him It once was said the Lo wells talk only to Cabots and the Cabots talk only to God. Morse asked this Cabot if it were true he liked to talk to the man in the street. Cabot said he finds this the best way to learn hat's going on. Does -Cabot speak Spanish? inquired Morse. He. does, Cabot confirmed, too diplo matic no doubt to tell Morse that won't help him very much in Brazil. "Will you find it neces sary," Sen. Albert Gore (D Tenn.) then asked, "in event you are confirmed for this post, to divest yourself of any equestrian interests?" "Sir?" questioned Cabot, shocked disblief in his tone. "Equestrian interests," re peated Gore, allowing him' self a small smile. "I have none," replied Cabot, allowing himself a smile even smaller. . "Are you in any sense a horseman?" persisted Gore, now sufficiently pleased with his joke to join in the general laughter. "No, sir," replied Cabot. "I'm allergic to horses." That did it. Just 12 minutes from the time he sat down, Cabot was up. The committee closed its doors. It voted for Cabot 16-0. Carthaginian warrior Han nibal used wigs, but strictly as a means of .disguise. In Peaceful Surroundings C M. Lirwiller Where peace and quiet dwells. Overlooking nature's lovely hills. Our beautiful Mountain View Chapel is adequate for every occasion. Funeral service since1935 ... WeddinflS since 1952. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Imported led the sitdowa at the Chev rolet plant (Flint) were main ly Socialists. Later the three Reuther brothers, then Social ists, came to Flint to join Mortimer and the other Com munists in the leadership." Walter P. Reuther now is No. 2 man in the AFL-CIO, So, that is the Communist version of the 1937 importa tion of the sitdown strike. The sitdown was a device by which employees auit work but remained in the plants day and night, resisting evic tion. This was a deadly effec tive device, especially when courts and Michigan'! Gov, Frank Murphy rejected com pany pleas that 'their proper ties were being seized and oc cupied illegally. UAW's own account of the sitdown back ground was this: "The 1936 sitdowns began in France. Leon Blum, France's Franklin D. Roose velt, was premier. Reform was in the air." In Ihe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS A truly great man has left us: . Of John Foster Dulles, Pres ident Eisenhower says: . "In my opinion, he was one of the truly great men of our time . . . From his life and work, humanity will in the years to come gain renewed inspiration to work ever hard er for the attainment of the goal of peace and justice. In the pursuit of that goal, he ignored every . personal cost, no matter how great." TORMER President Hoover says of him: "He was our nation's greatest secretary of state." Adlai Stevenson pays him this tribute: "I know of no man who has served his country more diligently and devotedly." From Winston Churchill: "He was a great American- a man of principle and integ rity whose example should long be remembered by those who put their trust in free dom and fair dealing." From Harry Truman: "We lost a good public servant, and I'm as sorry as I can be." And so on. Neither par tisanship nor nationalism ob scured the quality of his great ness. NEVER was there a more DEDICATED man. He be gan his diplomatic career at the age of 19. With one brief interlude, he pursued it throughout his life. The inter lude was a period when he was a private specialist in in ternational law an exper ience that added immensely to his diplomatic skill and in creased greatly his effective ness when he became Amer ica's foreign minister at the most critical period of Amer ica's history. He drove himself relentless ly clear to the end. Still in harness, he knew the end was near and he instructed his assistants carefully as to what they were to do ifyhe were stricken on the job. He look ed death in the eye as fear lessly as he has looked Amer ica's enemies in the eye. His life and his total dedi cation are an inspiration to all of us. - 0 NE MORE word from Pres- cause he believed in the dig nity of men and in their brotherhood under God, John Foster Dulles was an ardent supporter of men's deepest hopes and aspirations." 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