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MAIL TRIBUNE, McJfsrf, Of. . Tharsdsy, Msf 28, 1 95t uxx Tveryone tn Southern Orcgoa Reads The Mail TribuM" Published Dnily except Saturday by MKDFOftD PRINTING CO. 33 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RTJHL, Editor EIRB GEEK Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM. Business 12gr ERIC W AXJLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Mai U In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only -Ons year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. . Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday l mo. im Carrier and Dealers c opT lOe All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f MedforsT Official Paper or Jaenson county United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUHXAtT OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver BjC. r? NEWSPAPlt PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL FDITOtlal 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 28, 1949 (Saturday) Medford Red Cross swim- mers appear in Roseburg at the dedication of that .city'i new municipal swimming pool. . Mrs. Sam B. McNair of Ash land exhibits her collection of early American antiques. t 20 YEARS AGO May 28, 1939 (Sunday) : Samuel Finley, . California golon from Siskiyou county, says his constituents want to secede to Oregon since high way crews of the Beaver state do a better job of roadway maintenance. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Potf column: : "Pick ing of strawberries not con fiscated by the jaybirds and the robins, will be in- full swing this week. They are quite plentiful in the stores and shortcakes." 30 YEARS AGO May 28, 1929 (Tuesday) Dorothy Gore . recites an original poem before the Ro tary club. Roses are blooming in great profusion, promising an ample supply for Memorial day. 40 YEARS AGO May 28. 1919 (Wednesday) C. C. Hoover, announces that after June 1 Snider's dairy-will take over his milk route. - The school board refuses to terminate classes three weeks early despite complaints of a ' labor shortage. " SO YEARS AGO May 28, 1909 (Friday) Lionel L. Webster, Mult nomah county judge, offers to defend the Crater Lake road appropriation. Rain falls in the valley to the delight of farmers and gardeners alike. What's Your I.Q.? Nine.ar ten 'correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of six is flood. 1. What was the winged horse of Minerva called? 2. In this sentence a state is i spelled in proper order; find it: "Sam is sour indeed." 3. By what method was Sir Walter Raleigh executed? 4. The first shot' fired in the War Between the States was fired against what Fed eral fort? 5. Is a baby kangaroo at birth larger, or smaller than a mouse? 6. A yellowhammer is a carpenter's tool; true or false? 9 7. Correct the following: "He associated with a bunch of gamblers." 8. What is the chemical dif ference between beet "and cane sugar?; 9. A briquette is an adobe brick; true or false? 10. Name the 1959 winner of the Kentucky Derby. Answers: 1. Pegasus. 2. Mis souri. 3. 'Beheading. 4.. Fx. Sumter. 5. Smaller. 6. False (bird). 7. "... a crowd of gamblers." 8.. None. 9. False. (Compressed fuel). 10. Toxny Lee. . 'Antarctic "Antarctic Crossing" love-interest, or formal or studio effects. Much of it consists merely of scenes of deso late stretches of snow and ice. Yet it is one of the most fascinating, and in its own way, thrilling motion pictures we have ever seen. It is simply the documentary record of the British Commonwealth expedition which crossed Antarctica during the International Geo physical Year exploration of the southern continent. IT IS a story of high drama, the drama of. men and machines fighting the elements and the rigors of the largely-unknown Antarctic. To a resident of Medford, the story takes on added drama when one sees the big and lumber ing -but efficient Sno-Cats which were made in the factory on Highway 99 just south of town. . Seeing the color films of the vehicles rolling through the expanses of ice and snow toward the south pole, clambering over obstacles, being pulled from near-disaster in huge cravasses, arid finally rolling in triumph to Scott base, 2,100 miles from the start, is an exciting experience, even vicariously. THE TUCKER Sno-Cat Corp. is to be compli K mented for obtaining the film, and for hav ing made it available, gratis, for public viewing. It is to be hoped they also will allow others, unable to attend the public showing last Thursday night, to see it as occasion arises. The firm is proud of its accomplishments, and with every good reason. The Sno-Cats proved to be the most dependable of the several types of vehicles used in the Antarctic during the IGY, and have earned a world-wide reputation for themselves and, by association, for Medford. We wish it continued success in its work"oi making specialized over - snow transportation equipment, the best in the world. E.A. Time foVaTeash Law . It is with reluctance that we finally have come to the conclusion that Medford needs a dog leash law. . . The tragic incident in St. Louis last week, in which a small child was' killed by a pack of dogs, and the resulting recommendation and explan ation by Chris Hagler. county dog control officer, seem to be conclusive evidence of the need. True, such an incident Hagler, who travels about the county and knows a lot aoout trie dog situation, gives the rather shocking verdict that he is "surprised" there haven't been any such incidents locally. WHEN MEDFORD was small, and everyone "1 VV Jf sXJr WOt, CVIAVJ. IvllXC V C jjldilvjr' ofj Vacant lots, and houses weren't too close to each other, there was little need for such a restric tion. All of the dogs in any neigborhood were known, as were their owners. Today, with Medf ord's population somewhere between 25,000 and 26,000, and another several thousand in the-immediate vicinity, the situation is different. Not only is there the danger of which Hagler speaks, but there is the increasing nuisance to traffic, gardeners, and home-owners generally to say nothing of the welfare of the dogs them selves. THE LAST reason mentioned, as a matter of fact, should weigh heavily,,at least with any one who cares about dogs. We once felt that leashing or confining a dog was a kind of cruelty. (And it would be to an older dog used to running at large.)' But if a dog is confined from puppyhood onward, he is content. And he is protected from the hazards of traffic, or irate homeowners or unwholesome food taken during raids on garbage cans. The problem of indiscriminate breeding is thus limited, if not eliminated. Dog ownership brings with it responsibilities. If they are not assumed voluntarily, for the sake of the dog itself, to say nothing of neighbors and children, it is time for society (in the form of a city ordinance) to insist they be assumed. E.A. 'Moderates' Win The victory of the "moderate" forces in the un happy Little Rock, Ark., situation, is a step for ward in the south's slow but inevitable march toward equality of opportunity. Perhaps the "moderate" forces there do not view it as such. To them it was simply a question of slow integration, on one hand, or no school at all plus the vindictive firing of teachers, on the other. Faced with this choice, they picked the path of moderation and sanity. -. IT JIVILL be many years before the white and black races will have equality which the Dec laration of Independence declares is the heritage of all men. It will come with education, for both races, more than any other single thing. - Denying youngsters .of both races education, as Little Rock has done this past year, largely the result of the demagogueiy of Governor Fau bus, does harm to white and black alike, and delays the eventual and inevitable outcome. But it has been a delay only; not a halt. E.A. Crossing9 is a film without anv plot, or Hollywood cast, is one-in-a-million. But Dennis the lOTSA GOOD TRAOIN STUFF Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop BERLIN FROM BUDAPEST Budapest -A visit to Hun gary casts invaluable light on the present situation in Europe. Seen from Buda pest, in fact, the Berlin crisis has a brand new look. I n particu lar, there are indie a t i o n s here that Ni- 1 S X TJ1 T iosDb Alsop k 1 1 a xvnrusn chev is thinking about an am bitious reorganization of the entire Soviet empire. If this is correct (and the Budapest indications interestingly jibe with high Western specula tions in Geneva and Moscow), Khrushchev wants to improve the position of his East Ger man puppets as a necessary first stage in his scheme of imperial reorganization. Khrushchev himself has given certain hints that he had something big in mind. For .example, in his speech at Leipzig during his visit to East Germany, he listed all the altered and disputed fron-, tiers of Eastern Europe - the Polish-German frontier on the Oder - Neisse; the Soviet Union's own frontiers with Poland and Romania; the Romanian - Hungarian fron tier, and so on. Having listed these potential sources of trouble, he then pooh-poohed the idea of any trouble aris ing from them. Frontier dis putes between Socialist states were unimaginable, he declar ed; and, anyway, he continued mysteriously, a time would come when frontiers within the Socialist bloc would cease to have any meaning at aU. THIS forecast by Khrush chev seems to point in just the same direction as the signs observed in Budapest. It seems to point, in fact, to wards a merger of all the existing states of the Krem lin's empire in a larger union of some sort. No doubt there is no inten tion to reduce Poland, Hun gary, and the other nations of Eastern Europe to the status of the Ukraine and Byelo Russia. That would be too radical. But it would not be radical to organize the Soviet Union, the European satellites, perhaps even China, North Korea, and North Vietnam, in a single giant federation. Such a federation would not need to make deep, organic changes in existing relation ships. The governing body or bodies - perhaps composed of all the Communist party First Secretaries with Khrushchev as chairman - would certainly coordinate economic and for eign policy for the blocs as a whole. But the Kremlin al ready does just this. At least at the outset, the federation Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A BUSINESS MAN who liked to spend many evenings and weekends with male companions suddenly realized he hadn't been giving his wife a fair shake, so he impulsively bought her a dozen Ameri can Beauty roses and a 5 pound box of candy. When he presented them to her, she burst into tears. "This is the last straw," she sob bed. "First the cook quit, then Johnny broke his arm, and now you come home drunkf Red Skelton picked up a pair of friss-crossed field glasses when he stopped off in Tokyo. "Very useful at races," the sauve Japanese clerk as sured him. "Not only see horse that win but horse you bet on at same time." , Romantics were distressed when a Hollywood couple split up after 40 long years. She finally became convinced he wouldn't marry her. ' C UsS, by Seaaett Cerf. Xfcotubuud by iuag f mums SyadicsU. Menace VSSB1. might be nothing much more than the Kremlin under Another name. piVEN IF purely formal in character, such a federa tion would have two very great advantages. First of all, it would afford a legal pre text, usable even at the United Nations, for re-invasion of any province that might rebel af ter the 'withdrawal of the Soviet garrisons there. This is important because Khrush chev is anxious to get his troops out of all of Eastern Europe except East Germany. Just the other day, he glee fully predicted the early with drawal of the Soviet garrison in Hungary itself, where Red Army troops are the govern ment's main prop. Obviously, any widespread withdrawal of troops from Eastern Europe would be an appallingly risky business, as long as the sequel might be a repetition of the terrible Hungarian drama on an even vaster scale. But if all the European satellites are form ally incorporated in a larger federal whole, then the new super - government can claim that any local insurrection is a "purely internal affair." The peculiar conventions of U. N. debate will thus be satisfied, and the necessary massacres can be committed with due attention to form. TN ADDITION, Khrushchev Amay well hope that a scheme of federation will eventually solve the gigantic political problem that is basic here in Hungary and throughout East ern Europe. In brief, aU Hun garians, including great num b e r s of Hungarian Com munists, regard their govern ment as a mere colonial ad ministration. As long as this sentiment exists, no amount of material progress will recon cile the masses to their gov ernments. As in all colonial situations, the opposition to colonialism will overcome all other factors. Federation would go a long way, however, towards kill ing any lingering hope of lib eration The utter loss of hope is, the surest weapon against moral resistance. And when hope has been utterly lost, the existence v and symbol of a federation may finally per suade the peoples of the satel lites to forget their colonial status. If Nikita Khrushchev is in deed considering this bold scheme, his motives for desir ing changes at Berlin and in East Germany are very power ful indeed. The indications in Budapest are far from decis ive. Yet it is clearly possible that Khrushchev has such a scheme in mind. And the mere possibility is sufficiently im portant to be worth reporting, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribuno Inc. Stop Me Haiti Is Beautiful, But Government Is Unstable; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the beautiful bay at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the trav eller steps ashore to a park like atmosphere of palms, close - clipped lawns and low - slung, gleaming sun bathed build ings built by the govern ment. This is a tropic para dise. A short walking dis tance away is the public mar ket. Here the picture begins to change. Vegetables from the day before and the day before that rot on the ground, the stench of one day overcoming me iresnness of the next. Inland, a road runs toward Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of 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 Tickets To the Editor: Last week I stopped in Medford for a cup of coffee and a refill. It cost me 65c. I forgot to put penny in parking meter. When 'I drove to police station for putting 50 pennies in city treasury, I forgot to put penny in parking meter. When I came out of police station, I saw Paladin coming down the street on his motorcycle. We both drawed, but I shot penny in parking meter before he could shoot me with parking ticket. I almost got refill on parking ticket. On my way home, I came close to gettin' parking ticket from state police. Making 20 miles in 50 mile zone. When I learned to drive we didn't have zones, we was lucky, we didn t even have speed cops. I've got to speed up or the speed cops got to slow down. Bet on speed cops. The officer wanted to see my driver's lic ense. Licenses I got lots of. Driver's, fish, dog, squirrel, jackrabbit, deer and Californ ia license. Deer, steelhead and salmon tags. I got more stamps than you could put in Fibber McGee's closet. Green, brown, yellow, pink, purple and duck stamps. I got something to put on everything but ele phants. It's a good thing we don't have monkeys in Ore gon, we'd have to go down to the post office and buy a book of monkey stamps to paste on monkeys. I only got two tickets, one a 1949 Southern Pacific tick et to Medford. I never got a speedin'' ticket, only one tick et for reckless driving. Driv ing without license, brakes, horn, lights, no hands on steer ing wheel while learnin' to drive down the sidewalk backwards, blindfolded. I didn't think that was reckless driving. I was the only one on the sidewalk, everybody else was in the middle of the street. I was accomplishing two things, learnin' to ride a bike down the wooden side walk without the handlebars, and teaching the pedestrians to walk in the street. Everett Acklin, Box 233 ' Ashland. It's Man's Fault To the Editor: I have read in the Tribune of the death of a child from the jaws of a pack of worthless dogs. This I hope shall never hap pen again, anywhere, because we are these animals' keep ers, and when this kind of in human event happens it does not speak well of man's part in a civilized country as ours. I wish to set the record straight; it is not the animals' fault but the neglect of man's part as to his intelligence. I wish to put every dog lover's mind at ease and not condemn, but to make amends so each individual will per form the duty he or she was bred for. The old saying that you can tell a man by his dog is very true today. I would like you to put this in the paper for I am a lover of animals and I know that the layman may get the wrong impression of the dog for his many man-made talents. Leo Rifenbark, 1131 Pinecroft ave., Medford. An Appeal ' To the Editor: Please print this. To whom it may concern: I am making a plea to the peo ple of this valley for a young couple who are very much in need of furniture, cooking utensils, dishes, curtains, etc. This young fellow, who was my foster boy for nine months, is doing his best to overcome a big mistake he made. His wife was in a very serious car accident and is at home Wealth, Poverty Contrasted the blue mountains. The sea breeze is a savior here. It is a road not usually used by tour ists because it runs through a shanty city of open sewers, of shacks leaning one upon the" other, of naked children, of massed humanity living in unimagined poverty. Poverty and Unrest Up in the hills are the lux ury hotels and the homes of the wealthy where the squal or below is hidden from view and it is indeed a tropic para dise. N Haiti is a land of beauty and poverty, of political un rest and intrigue, of democ racy whose strength is based on a secret police force which is the antithesis of democracy. In the midst of all this is President Francois Duvalier, who was elected in . Septem ber, 1957, and whose term under the constitution should run for six years. But it is always open season on presi dents in Haiti and in this century only three have re tired of their own accord. In this Negro republic, where it has been traditional for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, Du- Direct Distance Dialing For Congressmen Bring By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (DPD Con gress has a wonderful new automatic telephone exhange, with 3,444 phones. But i an unnerving discovery has b e en made. Each phone has - been quietly con nected with just about every city and Frank Eleazer most xowns in the country. This communications ad vance took place without ceremony on April 14 when direct distance dialing began locally. The first phone bill since then has not come in. House and Senate officials, on the basis of certain unfortunate experiences in the past, are eearinz themselves for a shock. Meanwhile, in a move born more of desperation than hope, they have withheld Grants Pass Suit Grants Pass-A suit seeking more than $209,000 has been filed in circuit court in Grants Pass by attorneys for the WS&L Log corporation of Crescent City. The suit names 19 persons and three companies as de fendants and alleges fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of certain timber lands in Del Norte county, California. Defendants include Jean R., Robert J. and Gail C. Watkins, identified as .timber or lum ber operators living in Trail; Harold C. Lacy, Crescent City surveyor; Donald H. Coulter, Grants Pass attorney; Albert G. Wheelon, Del Norte coun ty engineer; David P. Scott, Community Bans Business Firms Cincinnati, Ohio fUPD You cant buy an aspirin or a loaf of bread-or anything else-in the exclusive Cincinnati sub urb of Indian Hill. The community of 2,100 oc cupies an area one-fourth the size 'of Cincinnati, which has a population of more than half a million. Indian Hill has outlawed all business establishments ' and permits only single family dwelling units. When the village was first incorporated, a filling station was in operation, but the com munity purchased and elimi nated it. with friends. They have two little girls, 3 and 2 years old. To encourage and keep on top they need our help. Many of us have these things stored away and would like to get rid of them. This would be a good place to help. These things may be brought to 250 Bush st., Central Point, or call NO 4-1666. (Name on File) Central Point Breatheasy Complete Set Regularly $12" NOW $750 Limited-Time Offer JJreatheasy AT YOUR DRUG STORE at valier's government is setting a record as one more honest than usual and one whose in terest in irrigation projects, public housing and public welfare in general prove a desire to improve the poor lot of the average man. But if instability of govern ment may be taken as an aver age among Caribbean nations, then Haiti-' is more average than most. ' Still Some Opposition Between December, 1956, and September, 1957, Haiti had five governments," each installed and supported by the army. Between 1937 and 1957 there were no less than four uprisings in Haiti, in each of which the army took part. In that period, no candidate j could be elected and hold of fice without the support of the army. By various means, mainly consisting of disarming the regular army and setting up a secret force operating pri marily from within the presi dential palace grounds, Du valier has managed at least to drive his opposition under ground. from the lawmakers special I supplements to the phone book listing the out of town codes. Costs Thousands Monthly They don't really believe this will help much, at least not for long. The code books are available generaly to all telephone subscribers. Mem bers can bring 'em from home. But it is figured that the longer it takes members, and their thousands of helpers, to learn of the new do-it-yourself long distance system the few er marathon coast-to-coast conversations will show up, unexplained, on Congress' telephone bill. House Clerk Ralph Roberts has warned a House Ap propriations subcom mittee these unrecorded calls could run to thousands of dollars a month. Congressional calls, local and long distance, used to go through operators. But the load got too big and about 18 months ago a new auto- Seeks $209,000 engineer, Crescent City; Wal ter B. Robinson and Jerome Blackwell, both of Engineer ing associates; the Del Norte county firm of Engineering as sociates: "Black and White company," "Red Company," and 10 persons named as Doe One through Ten. True names of the Black and White com pany, tie Red company and the 10 Doe persons were not known by the complainants, it was explained. The complaint alleges that on April 8, 1957, at Crescent City "the defendants did con spire, intending to deceive the plaintiff and to purchase cer tain timber lands in Del Norte county," on which two of the defendants had obtained an option to purchase said timber lands from the then owners, Clear Fir Sales company. The , defendants "herein made to plaintiff certain false representations," the com-: plaint charges. i wmm LIKE THE Si Aaoa (root th FRANK MORGAN - HAROID DAY OR NIGHT Nevertheless, within his own time in office, there hava been these instances of op position: sabotage of a Port-au-Prince power station, sec ret radio broadcasts urging revolution, a suspected bomb plot set for last May Day, the hi-jacking of a government transport plane, and an eight man invasion from Miami which seized the main army barracks in Port-au-Prince and held them for a night be fore being wiped out. Most Illiterate Of Haiti's approximate four million population, about 90 per cent is illiterate. Nation al politics is decided in Port-au-Prince where the popula tion is about 200,000. Most of the other people are too poor to care. Haiti is dependent for much of its income on tourism. Shop keepers say this was the worst season yet. As of now, the bets are on Duvalier to stay in office in definitely, aided by public lethargy and his secret police. But the outlook for Haiti is bleak a continuing struggle between poverty and political bankruptcy. Problems matic switchboard was in- stalled. Until the advent of direct distance dialing a member or an employe or a reporter in the press gallery wanting to call out of town dialed 8 for the long distance operator. She made the call and, in the process, made a note on who put it in. Most members still ara making their long distance calls this way. Others inevitably are learn ing that all they heed do is dial 9, then the proper code, then the phone to be called. This kind of call winds up charged tp Capital 4-3121, which is the Capitol. From what extension was the call made? Nobody can say. Always Free-Loading Roberts, who gets $19,250 a year to worry about such problems, was careful of course not to say any con gressman would cheat on his long distance tolls. The tax payers pay each House mem ber's long distance bills any way - up to 6,000 minutes per two-year term, with compar able allowances also for sena tors. But even before direct dis tance dialing, Roberts said, somebody was always free loading on the congressional phones. For the last year or so direct dialing was possible to points in the nearby area, like Balitmore. The monthly toll for unac counted calls under this sys tem sometimes has run into several hundreds of dollars. 'Lately Roberts has balked at paying the bill. He didn't say specifically why. Other sources said one possible rea son was the frequency with which racetracks at Laurel and Bowie showed up on the list of points called. Another recipient of much congres sional telephone patronage, it developed, was a nearby book maker. "This would be a variation of the same thing," Roberts moaned, "except it would in volve thousands of dollars in stead of a hundred or so." HANDLING OF A 10VEIY ORCHID.., Deepest understanding ... a friendly hand... delicacy end beauty. Courteous. SNOOGRASS, FUNERAL D RECTORS PHONE SP 24030
