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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MrtforJ, Or. Monday, Jun 1, 1959 "Everyone U Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Trlbone Published Dtlly except Saturday by MJJ3FOR 33 North r'ii St Ph. SP 3-6141 ROBiBT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GEPAJuD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JB. Managing fcditor EARi. H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAJJ Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWZTT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women' Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newsnaoer Xntered as second class matter at Medforrf Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $19.00 Dailv and Sunday mos. 8.0C Dailv and Sunday 3 mos -23 Sunday Only One year $450 stv ParriM In Advance Medford. . Ashland Central Point, E a g 1 Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. 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T NEWSFAMR .BBBSl Si PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL a Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History , from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 1, 1949 (Wednesday) Ashland school district vot ers pass the annual budget with a small turnout. , Patrons of six Jackson coun ty school districts vote today on consolidation. 20 YEARS AGO June 1, 1939 (Thursday) City Sanitary service offers free dumping on its Bear creek dump grounds under an agreement wit" the Jackson county court against indis criminate dumping along country roads. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Forest Fire Season slogan: 'Chape rone your, cigarettes. They shouldn't go out alone.' " 80 YEARS AGO June 1, 1929 (Saturday) Copco buys four acres on Bear creek for a new substa tion. . Motorists to Crescent City are warned not to pick wild flowers as a new law goes into effect. 40 YEARS AGO June 1. 1919 (Sunday) A crew of girls thins apples at the Eddie Carlton orchard near Table Rock. Farmers pray for June rains. 80 YEARS AGO June 1. 1909 (Tuesday) Shipments of ties for the P. and E. railroad begins as right of way grading gets un der way near Eagle Point. A total of 40,000 feet of pipe remains before Medford Is linked to Big Butte Springs. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Mine or ten correct is superior; even or eight b excellent; five Of six is good. x 1. What poem commences with the words "This is the forest Drimeval"? 2. Which Apostle was a pub lican? 3. What is a femme de chambre? - 4. Do you identify the Mayo Brothers as famous circus performers, baseball players or physicians? 5. Name the airman who led the original bombing raid on Tokyo in worm war II. It. Correct the following. "Mumps are a contagious dis ease." 7. In what State is the Grand Coulee Dam? 8. Are bulls particularly ex 9. Which have larger seeds, blueberries or huckleberries? 10. What is a campanile? Answers: 1. "Evangeline"; 2. Matthew; 3. A chamber maid: 4. Physicians: 5. James H. DoolirUe: 6. "Mumps is . .": 7. Washington State; 8. No: 9. Huckleberries; 10. A bell tower. MTftT WADS WORTH HIES Washington ((DPD) - Eliot Wadsworth, 82, former assist ant secretary of the treasury, died at his home Friday. TDo4rarnrth had been vice f I BUd - - president and a director of the Franklin Savings bank, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance company ana several other corporauosa. Shakespeare No culture in our West? Well, we try. Over in the Ashland-Medf ord area, with gen erous help from other sections of the statethey try successfully. . We are thinking, of course, of the ' Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which annually rakes in thousands of people each summer for the produc tion of four of William Shakespeare's master pieces. The summer plays have become a major attraction not only in Oregon, but also for North ern California and to some extent, the nation. It has been pleasant to sit under the stars on a warm evening and see and hear the classic stories. - TTHE Festival was dealt a blow after last season, however, when its stage was condemned. Friends of the Festival, to whom the Festival has become a major econ omic asset, put their shoulders to the wheel of a fund raising drive all winter. Sought was $275,000 classic Shakespearean mold. The stage is almost complete now but the fund drive is not quite a success. Approximately $250,000 has been raised, leaving about $25,000 more to be realized. If the record so far is an indication, the goal will be made by the July 28 Festival opening. It certainly should be, for the Festival is a needed thing. Moreover, it s fun. The World, Coos Bay. How to Stop Smut Mail A postmaster can't cause it's secret by federal law. But he occasion ally finds out what some of it contains when irate patrons bring it in. One of the latest bits of first class mail was brought in by an outraged mother. It was pure smut mailed unsolicited to her eight-year-old son. The mailed smut racket has become big bus iness and the Post Office crack down on it. In people around the country have been arrested for such illegal mailings. This is an area where the department usually can step in without too much trouble. Most pf the material is so crude and ob vious as to rule out any claims of art censorship. A ND the means, of getting the mailing lists are ingenious. Sometimes high school graduation lists are used. But frequently an attempt is made to get at the younger set by devious means. For example, the department has learned that a youth can find himself on such a mailing list after writ ing for an auto parts catalogue. And he can write for a model airplane catalogue or a packet of stamps and get back a The biggest protection these dealers. have is the sacredness of first class mail. And the only solution for &e individual is to turn over the mail to the postmaster. will be on its way to the the same day. i 1 1 1 ii i i - More Evidence A word, to the wise, But it must take more words to convince those who do not heed the facts. Thus, we call attention to the experience in Coquille. In the five years that residents of that city have added fluorides to their water, tooth decay among children has drop ped, 20 per cent. National figures show that the optimum results do not about 10 years, when the ies reaches about two-thirds. We have seen no reports that suggest any body in Coquille has turned blue, shriveled up, or died'of a horrible disease because of the addi tion of fluorides to the water. How long will it take Eugene and other communities, where super stition has played such a large role, to recognize the beneficial experience of towns like Coquille? - . Eugene Register-Guard Time and Foreign Aid Dr. Vannevar Bush, scientists, has stated that our program of foreign aid "must continue as long as the Communist threat endures." An arbitrary cuf-dff date, he says, would be a "calamity of the first order." Dr. Bush in making such a statement is prob ably not thinking of the Communist threat in terms of a "cold war" or of our aid as a weapon in that struggle. What he is doing, rather, is to dramatize the fact that weakness, instability, in security and fear provide a ground in which the Communist threat can flourish. , ; What we need to do is to make persons and societies strong in their own right. This not only offsets this Communist "threat" but also lays the ground for progress in human betterment. , TR- BUSH does not set any fixed time limit on Z the endurance of the threat. But he is not pes simistic. He holds that the processes of education and enlightenment, within, the very confines of the Communist tyranny, denied. The spark of true ly touch off the fire that consumes the enemies of the human mind and the human spirit. With such an end in to give the help that will enemies stronger. This is the analysis of a skilled scientist with a world-wide outlook. The words of Dr. Bush can well be heeded at this time. Can Be Fun and Ashland merchants for a new stage in the open first class mail be Department is trying to the past 12 months 293 listing of dirty films. They have promised it postal inspector's office Capital-Journal, balem. they say, is sufficient. become apparent . lor decline in dental cavit one of our most eminent cannot be permanently learning will eventual view we can well afford make resistance to those New York Times Dennis the lMN'T THINK ITS AS FAR AS Washington Report By WILLIAM THREAT TO AID Washington-Amazing is the word , for the situation of cross-currents in which the Eisenhower Administration's $3,900,000,000 foreign aid program nas been placed partiy by the itself. Two intern al struggles are going on, one in Con gress and one "Downtown," as to the whole direction foreign aid ought to take hereafter. , ' In Congress many of those most expert in foreign affairs, in both parties, are trying to put economic assistance on a long-term revolving fund basis. They want to do this by greatly increasing-in some cases by doubling-the money that wiU go into the repay able loan fund. ' Incidentally they also want to reduce military aid some what. Particularly, they would like to cut it down to little countries where jet planes are really not so need ed, or so useful, as irrigation systems 'and better roads, v. . flTHEIR real and basic rmr- nose, in a worrl. is tn spt up a non-handout kinu of economic aid with a fie-year authorization. This would mean that other countries could plan on construction schemes in the only way many can be sensibly planned upon-over a period of years. As it stands, assistance is on a year-to-year . schedule. It is possible to begin a big dam in a smaU republic: but it is not necessarily possible to finish it. The country con cerned cannot be absolutely certain that the aid permit ting a start in one year will be forthcoming for the next year. But this basic purpose has' run into complications beyond ready belief. "The Admini stration" is described as be ing opposed to enlarging the repayable loan fund beyond the $700,000,000 asked .for it by the Budget Bureau, and this is the state of affirs even though the President himself two years ago was asking just such an enlargement-and for five years. "nUT though "The Admin istration" "is taking this line the facts, underneath, are these: a very important part of the "The Administration," the State Department, is quietly for, and not. against, such an enlargement. Thus it comes down to this:' "The Ad ministration" here "really means the Budget Bureau and the Treasury Department. The function of these agencies is to try to keep the books bal-anced-and never mind what they say in Pakistan or Peru. Where the White House it self actually stands cannot be known until the President speaks up with unmistakable plainness. He is being asked to do that by the chief Senate Democratic foreign policy spokesman, Senator J. W. Ful bright of Arkansas. Certain Senate Republicans are urg ing Fulbright on-ithough, un derstandably, they do not care to take an open lead with him. Even this, however, is not the end of a tale of compli cations compounded. For even assuming that Fulbright and company at last bring the true "Adminstration," the President himself, onto their side, there will be yet more trouble. THIS trouble is in-built in Congress itself. For a five-year authorization pro gram would bypass the pow erful appropriations commit tees of Congress. Heretofore, these have had the final word r7"M William S. White Menace L Jj. gjly PEOPLE WNKKVS: S. WHITE on money every year. It might be possible to coax the Senate appropriations com mittee to go along. It would be profoundly difficult, how ever, to persuade the House committee to do so. The House is very jealous of its constitutional right to initiate all appropriations. If foreign aid is to be re formed in a businesslike way the President will have to join his bipartisan foreign policy backers in Congress to overcome the Treasury-Budget alliance downtown and the appropriations committee alliance on Capitol Hill. Lacking some such reform, foreign aid itself will surely die within a few years in the face of growing national and Congressional boredom and dissatisfaction with the old model. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) In the Day's News: By FRANK JENKINS One gleans from the dis patches that the world's most renowned monkeys space travelers Able and Baker wiU appear in Washington. At least, their notoriety won't go to their heads and ruin 'em. That's one advan tage of being a monkey. WHY "Able" and "Baker?" " Ask any GI of reason ably recent vintage. He'U tell you. Basically, it's the same sys tem used in the naming of danger-laden hurricanes -Anunie for the first one of the season, Bessie for the second, Clemmie for the third, and so on down the alphabet. One thing that has never been satisfactorily explained is why they started naming danger-laden storms for wom en. I SUPPOSE you've caught the brightener-upper dis patch of the shapely blonde who quit teaching because of pointed criticism of her sexy style of dress. She has turned up in Hollywood as a night club stripper. At any rate, she found her niche in life. She was out of place as a teacher and if she hadn't been she would be out of place in HoUywood. A RUSSIAN expert speaking in San Francisco explains to his hearers that people liv ings under the Soviet system don't miss freedom because the government keeps them fed, clothed and housed. It has always been that way in slave economies from An cient Greece on down. The slave is about the only per son who has cradle to the grave security. BUT . Let's get down to serious business. The dispatches tell us that Prime Minister Fidel Castro, fearful of crippling Cuba's economy, has decided to post pone for a year his plan to carve up large holdings of sugar land and distribute them in small parcels among the people. Why?, Well, it may have occurred to him that redistribution of Cuba's sugar lands MIGHT destroy Cuba's big sugar busi ness, which provides employ ment for thousands of Cubans, and result in turning over Cuba's present sugar markets to Hawaii, the Philippines and other large sugar-producing areas. - TTNDER Castro's land redis U tribution project, the big landowners might lose their lands and their businesses, such as huge sugar mills. 'But The general run of Cubans might LOSE THEIR JOBS. That wouldn't be good for Cuba. Wilson Decries 'Fat-Headed Complacency' In United States Over Communist Menace By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD The shocking story of Communist spying in the United States rambles on. it arouses less public interest than last year's fashions in w olm e n's skirts. " Why it is that the Amer i c a n people are - so com- Lyls C. Wilson piacenuy xai headed about deadly menace of Communism to the Ameri can way of life is a baffling question. The warnings have been loud and they have been sounding for a long time. Back in 1930 one Dimitri Z. Manuilsky spoke in Mos cow before the Lenin School of Political Warfare. Among other things, Comrade Manuil sky said: "War to the hilt between Communism and capitalism is Foreign Assignment Susnicinuslv! Polish By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's as signment book: Looking For Clues: Cuba's Caribbean neigh bors view with considerable suspicion Prime Minister Fi- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. . The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do' not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. - Praise for Mirick To the Editor: Your recent editorial regarding two con certs at separate schools by the students of vocal music, and your tribute to Lynn Sjolund, was much appreciat ed by all of us who work in the vineyard of good music. And your attendance there was a good thing. However I did not see you at the orches tral concert at Hedrick High last Monday. There you would have heard something to really talk about. - - - When I came to Medford in 1945 the instrumental pro gram in the schools had fallen to such a low standard that there was no orchestra and the band'was barely existant. Into this situation Irv Mirick came to bring' order out of -chaos.' There was hard ly any music, instruments non existing and in poor condition and a general lack. By his own efforts, and against con siderable opposition, he has developed and carried for ward a program of growth and excellence. The vocal program has al ways been here but Mirick has started from scratch with practically nothing, and by his adherance to his ideal and willingness to. work for it, has achieved in these 14 years excellent organization, appar ently no friction, respect from those under him and the sin cere loyalty of the children besides recognition far afield. The recent consolidation will put several strains on him and his staff, but they will come through because he knows what he is doing, why he is doing it and how to do it. It will not be well for the musical program he has insti tuted if by any chance he is not listened to and consulted in this greater opportunity facing us. R. D. Werner, 531 Pennsylvania ave., Medford. Will Steel's Memory " To the Editor The fine tribute paid to the memory, of William Gladstone Steel by the Mail Tribune, comment ing on the 57th anniversary of Crater Lake Park. His many friends remember Will Steel's devoted and tireless work in saving that sweep of wonderland for the esthetic, the scenic and recreational enjoyment of people here, and the increasing numbers who include it in their itenerary. A few words of its inception might be of some value. Despite the colored lantern slides of Crater Lake and its Tiffany-like setting on a mighty mountain that once was there,' that he showed to overflowing audielnces in churches, school houses, any place he could find in Wash ington, D, C, and nearby com munities, Will Steel told this writer that he never got a firm commitment for the establishment of Crater Lake Park till late on wintry eve ning on a street corner in Washington. He managed to button-hole Secretary of In terior Gifford Pinchot. With a Senator Smathers not there with his critical, delaying in nundo, he . was able to - con-, inevitable. Today (1930), of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years (1950 to 1960). To win, we shaU need the element of sur prise. The bourgeois (that's us) wiU have to be put to sleep. 'We ShaU Smash Them' "So, we shaU begin by launching the most spectacu lar peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of con cessions. The capitalistic coun tries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They wiU leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fists." The House Committee on Un-American Activities cited that speech in a report and re marked: "The Soviet Union's protes tations of peaceful intent and a desire for true friendship with the United States are an del Castro's recent disavowal of any intent to meddle in the internal affairs of other na tions. They believe it was dic tated by more practical poli tics than by convicition and that Castro, realized he would have to secure his revolution vince Pinchot of the many values of Crater Lake for pub lic need and enjoyment. "That raw bitterly cold night," Will told me, "really helped. I was well protected in my "battle dress (as he called his Innver- ness cape, oldsters will re member) but I held the shiver ing Secretary there till I got a firm promise for his help in the establishment of Crater Lake park." That was the memorable time when, with1 three sand wiches to sustain him from the capitol back to Portland, and with one hoarded nickle for the street car ride home, best of all he would say, "I had fifty thousand dollars to start the good work." With the south and west entrances open for some time, and the north one just opened, the usual Hegira there on June 15 opening day and lec tures starting the 17th, there's assurance that William Glad stone Steel will be increasing ly mentioned in them. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point. Seeks Dog Control To the Editor: Thank you for your editorial of May 28 regarding leash laws for dogs in the Medford area. We feel that those who have dogs and feel a responsibility in their care and protection will also understand our con cern with regard to our chil dren and dogs on the school playgrounds. We of the Jefferson Parent Teachers Association have adopted a resolution stating that we will try to find some means of controlling this situ ation, be it by city ordinance or perhaps school authority. I'm sure that all of us recog nize this danger insofar as in juries are concerned, but there is also a monetary ques tion to be raised, with torn clothing and lost lunches to be considered. We would appreciate hear ing from people in this area on this question if they can help us with suggestions and we also welcome their criti cisms. Mrs. Herbert L. Roberts, Publicity Chairman, Jefferson Parent-Teachers Assn., . 1006 South Oakdale; Medford. A Moderate Voice To the Editor: A further word on the topic discussed by Mr. Sweeny in the Mail Tribune on May 26, and the answer by Mrs. Woods on May 29. Protestantism and Catholic ism have grown together, in this country, for over 200 years, because of a climate of relative peace. Today, how- More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH, an Improved powder, sprinkled on tipper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour Checks plate odor" (denture breath). Get PAS TEETH today at any drug counts. utter sliam. This is one fact that stands out sharply as a result of this committee's in vestigation and study of cur rent Communist espionage op erations in this country." Communism's peace move ment has been under way now for some time. Sham and phony though it be, Commu nist propaganda for peace and coexistence is firmly imbed ded in the Free World's head lines. Nikita Khrushchev oc casionally blurts something off key such as his crack, "We wiU bury you," or his promise that the current crop of U.S. grandchildren will become sociaL'sts. Red Spies Are Busy Despite peaceful talk, Com munist activities, espionage, infiltration of U. S. institu tions is booming today as rare ly before. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI regularly warns his fellow citizens of their danger, but there is little evidence that they heed his words. Book: Castro Eyed Premier L.aavinri? at home before exporting it to Haiti, Nicaragua or .Guate mala. They believe his decis ion also was prompted by the quick action of the Organiza tion of American States in curbing the attempted inva sion of Panama from Cuba. However, they say it is a breathing spell only and that the Caribbean will continue to be a powder keg so long as the crusade-minded Cuban ever, , there exists in each camp a minority, often out spoken and influential. By unjust bickering between themselves, they consciously, or unconsciously, are under mining both Protestantism and Catholicism, on their only common ground; supply ing people with the necessary means to their Ultimate End. Destroy, this common ground, and you destroy both forms of Christianity. Such a condition can only further the already frustratingly chaotic procedure of mankind. Lest we digress further from the real issue, would not Messrs. Sweeny and Woods re concile themselves to the fact they perhaps have, have al lied themselves with a harm ful minority, and further, by avoiding these groups in the future, may with the Grace of God help Protestantism and Catholicism, and therefore themselves toward their Eter nal End!x Robert J. Howard, 828 B, West 14th st., Medford. Kwaxy, Man To the Editor: I wonder what them kwazy monkeys thinks of us kwazy peoples today? Everett Acklin, Box 233, Ashland WITNESSES SILENCED Memphis, Tenn.-ffJPD - City Court Judge Beverly Bushe refused to let a dog take the witness stand Friday. Carl Elam, in court on charges that his Pekingese dogs were disturbing neighbors, ' offered to let one of them bark in court to prove the bark wasn't loud enough to disturb any one. The judge said no, but dismissed a charge of violating the city's antinoise ordinance. Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) Frank mi "tflfV Perl ff eSrjWJ FRIENDLY, Hoover's warning this month was that the Communists were stepping up their efforts to recruit young people and workers in vital industries. He said: , "The Communist aim is; of course, to eat into our eco? nomic life and freedom." - In April, Hoover warned that U. S. Communist leaders were going into "full scale action" here under new orders from Moscow. A Justice De partment official estimates that in a rather recent 18 month period the FBI refer red 481 espionage cases to the department. That is near an average rate of one a day. American citizens seem not to be aware of or td care little about Communism's determ ined plans for a bright, new Red world. In a letter , some months ago discussing this fat headed complacency, Presi dent Eisenhower wrote: "I am often astonished ... at the apparent apathy of so many Americans." . government offers haven to revolutionaries. Shakeup? -r ; . Poland's Premier Josef Cy rankiewicz is the subject of this popular story: "Poland would have been sure of a gold medal in the last Olym pics if we had entered Cyran kiewicz for the water events. He can swim in any waters." Nonetheless, reports persist in Warsaw that Cyrankiwiez is on his way out and that he probably will be succeeded by Foreign Minister Adam Ra packi. London, diplomats return ing from Warsaw say that while the Polish press speaks less frequently these days of a separate Polish road to so cialism, there is no sign that Wladislaw Gomulka, first secretary of the Communist party, is returning four-square to the Moscow line. A hitherto unpublished story about Gomulka if of a clash reported to have taken place last year between Go mulka and East German Com munist leader Walter Ulbrieht during the latter's visit to Moscow. Ulbrieht planned a fire-breathing speech attack ing the United States. Gomul ka asked him to tone it down, and when Ulbrieht refused, the speech was cancelled de spite the fact radio and TV time had been cleared and a crowd of 2,500 waited. Now that Nationalist China has been expelled from the International Olympics com mittee, Red China is expected to make a bid to compete in the games. The Reds are pur suing a state sports program that rivals the Soviet Union's for developing Olympic cali ber athletes. Radio r Peiping said last week that 70,000 Chinese primary and high school students are attending 700 "spare - time sports schools." The youngsters get training in football, basket ball, track and field, gymnas tics, swimming, skating and table tennis. We Give 4ttf GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALl DRUG Main and Central Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sonday, 10:35 a.m., sung by 'Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
