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o o o 0 o MAIL TRIBUNE, MaeW, Or. Friday, June 5, 1959 Traryane Is Southern Oregon Read Th Mail Tribune" Published Dnil exceptSaturday by MJJJFOrtD PRINTING CO 33 North t it St. Ph. SP a-141 -r,niT nr irmt. Editor EERB GREY AdvertUinf Manager CErALD LATHAM. BusUMSS MT IRIC W ALLEN JR. M ana srin K Kditor EARLH ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg- Editor RICHARD JEWErt Sport. Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE EBICKSON, Circulation Mg An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act 01 March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Ml In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year 1S0 Daily ana diuimj and Sunday 3 mos. AIM Sunday OnlyOne year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. El Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue ri miA m, mAtnr routes. Daii7 and Sunday 1 year SIJ.JHJ Daily and Sunday 1 no- 1JW Carrier and Dealers copy Me All Terms Cash in Advene Official Paper of City f Medfort Official Pape Jacfcaoa Cenaty United Press International Full Leased wire "MEMBEB"OFAUDlT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AdverMsini? Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC Of Mt i vw riies . rw. nets in . , troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver EC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL A, I ft I Flight o Time Msdford and Jackson County History from tha files ot ir Mail Tribune D, o, ou, u and 50 years 10 YEARS AGO June 5, 194$ (Sunday) Eugene Bennett Medford artist, wins a place in the Portland Art museum's first annual Oregon exhibition. Sen. "Wayne Morse is ex pected in Medford tomorrow for two speaking appear ances. H 20 YEARS AGO June5, 1939 (Monday)' A leisure arts class for Med ford children in the fourth to ninth grades is to start to morrow. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Cherries are ripening fast, and growers hope they will be able to beat the bluejays to them." 30 YEARS AGO June 5, 1929 (Wednesday) Jacksonville will vote June 20 on a bond election for pro curing Medford water. The city council passes an ordinance to control the sale of milk in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO June 5. 1919 (Thursday) Four Medford banks are named depositories of state funds. ; The mercury creeps up to C3 degrees here. 50 YEARS AGO June 5. 1909 (Saturday) The Medford city council passes a resolution providing for water m'ins on many city streets. A lack of mon-y dims hopes for city park concerts this summer. ' What's Your I.Q.? wi: MtMa la MMfltfi rvinej ' seven or eight is esesltaiit; five six is good. 1 In the latest Gallup Poll more persons interviewed dia, m AiA nnt oblect to Kennedy as a Presidential candidate because he is a Catnoiici : Tn the administration of which President was diplo matic recognition extended to Soviet Russia? s Ror-ause sand does not absorb .water it weighs as much when dry as wnen wei, tros or false? 4. What is ther name for a triangle with two sides of omial length? 5. What does an ill wind blow? 6. The sum of the angles of a square is how many de grees? 7. In which two gospels is the birth of Jesus recorded? 8. The American flag flies day and night over the United States carjitol: true or false? 9. May a bank refuse to re ceive your deposits? 10. Generally, may a per son injured in a football game obtain ' a damage Judgment against the player who hurt him? Answsrsr 1. Did not- 2. F. D. Roosevelt. 3. False. 4. Isos celes. 5.- No good, f . 360. 7. Matthew and Luke. True. 9. Yes. 10. No. (He assumes the risk when he enters the game.) YIDDISH WRITER DIES Vork - (CPU - Samysl Lewin, writer of Yiddish nov els plays ana snort siorws, died at the age of 69 here Wednesday. G High Desert Vrr wars nnw wp have been readme" Bill Jenkins' columns in the . ,1 x .iii.. praising trie virtues 01 me xugn uvaci u To be honest, we didn't much know what he was talking: about, and cared less. We learned better earlier this weeK, when a cnance presented itself to see at first hand what it is. As many Jackson county people know, the High Desert is just that a tremendously large arpa nf srmth-ceMral Oreeron. much of it ranging upward from one mile nmrOCKS, umimneu. CApduaca ui oagc ouu louuiv brush, most of it barren and desolate and lonely and yet with an almost inexplicable attraction. THE High Desert is virtually indescribable in words, but it's worth a try. At some spots for as far as the eye can see there is nothing but mile after mile of rolling hills, gray-green . with brush stretching to the horizon, and the narrow, rutted and dusty road in front and behind to mark man's existence. At another Spot, two curious antelope watch warily as the car bounces by. At a fork in the road one finds a battered, slightly tilted sign, al most totally illegible. At still another spot, near a Lake county road construction camp, a sign informs the viewer County Cork is 600214 miles away, by way of the Winnemucca-Lakeview cutoff. , ONCE every mile or so a cow nudges under the brush, seeking the scarce, sparse grass. At this time of year, many of them are accompanied by wobbly-kneed calves. We were told that it takes 40 acres of this empty land to produce enough forage for one beef animal. f . Occasionally one will see a rim rock sur rounded by a few junipers, and in a few spots, aspen. The knowledgeable members of the party tell you that this is the kind of spot to look for tnat Dig duck in seasun. . The thousands and thousands of acres of nothingness are occasionally, dotted with dry lakes, either flat and smooth and bare and brown, or lightly overgrown with brush. Beyond one of these is Daugherty's Slide r a massive escarpment more than 1,000 feet high, diagonally scarred with the beginnings of a new road to the Nevada line. T OTHER places on see the stow -capped range of the bteens mountains, or high, flat-topped Hart mountain. Elsewhere there are peaks and hills and summits which, while they may have names, blend anony mously into the ever-changing but ever -similar landscape. The only visible difference between Oregon and Nevada at one point is that one is on one side of a weatherbeaten, four -strand, barbed -wire fence, and the other is on the other side. At anoth er point the only difference is that the road is relatively smooth and wide (two cars could pass, if their outer wheels edged into the brush) on the Oregon side; narrow and rocky. on the Nevada side. - Everywhere the overriding impression is one of space illimitable space. . THERE are a. few oases. Trio Wamoi vnllpv is nnA TTpta flip rnifffl Kittridee ranch spreads was once a lake, and which gets enough water in winter and spring to bnng up lush crops of hay. At this time of year, each roadside ditcn is water filled to the brim. It is area in season. At a few points, tall poplar trees and patches of green indicate ranches, most of them dona tion land claims, where house and barn are lo cated next to the only water available for mile after dusty mile. Near the "town" of Wagoritire (it consists of a service station, cafe, and a few shacks) is a ranch below the rimrock where gunfire once de cided rights to a valuable spring. . ... , . A MONG the most impressive sights of the High " Desert are Abert lake and Abert rim. The former is a brackish body of water some 20 miles long and perhaps half as wide. If it were a couple of hundred miles from, say, Los Angeles, it would be surrounded with marinas, bars, mo tels and campsites. It is, in fact, somewhat, remi niscent of the Salton sea. ( But, located as it is "miles from nowhere," there is nothing to indicate any human interest in it at-all not even a boat-launching ramp. Abert rim, parallel to the lake, is said to be the highest geological fault in the United States, a huge escarpment 25 miles long and a couple of thousand feet high. P RIVING through this desolation, hour after , hour, with only an occasional respite in the form of a creek or grove of trees, one wonders if it couldn't be made more useful and more pro ductive. . - , One member of the party declared that what is now sage land once was grass land, and that overgrazing destroyed it. Several experimental stations are now at work trying to find a way to eliminate the brush and bring back the grass, to support double or more the number of livestock which now graze there. Another suggested that if sagebrush and banana' trees could be crossed, "Lake county would have bananas running out its ears.' For the foreseeable future, the High Desert will remain high desert, hot in summer, cold in winter; dry and dusty, or buried in snow; an at traction only to those who like to hunt, or watch the protected antelope, or to the few ranchers and stockmen who find loneliness a way of life. ,.. ... . . ... -A. --:. ' "-E.A. Klamath Falls paper tt i. ti i- j in elevation, marked by the High Desert one can over the floor of what a popular goose hunting Dennis the . ...- fe PUTS STUFF ON IT m - mr- Gommunicacions Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit ail 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. v On Dog Control To the Editor: According to an item in the Mail Tribune concerning Medford's dog problem, it appears that Coun cilman Hansen is unaware that Medford even has a dog problem. In view of the fact that recent issues of the Mail Tribune have publicized the danger from dogs at the Med ford airport, and the numbers hanging around school play grounds, plus the numerous items of dog : bite cases, it would appear that not only is he lacking in knowledge of Medford's affairs, but he does not even bother to read the newspaper, and I would there fore suggest that his resigna tion would be in order in favor of a person sufficiently interested in Medford and its doings to at least keep up with those things which war rant newspaper mention. Councilman Hall's attitude seems to be one of dollars and cents. The safety of children and elderly people, who are usually more afraid of dogs, does not seem to rate , very highly in his considered duty to the city and the people thereof. Council President Dunlevy, along with others is to be con gratulated on having the guts in coming out in favor of an enforced ordinance. Any city which considers itself to be progressive must eventually take measures to prevent public nuisance, even though those measures may not) be popular with a large number of people. Taxation is hardly popular, but no one would deny its necessity. Medford is plagued by dog owners who are indifferent to the nuisance of their dogs to neighbors by persistent bark ing, chasing and snarling at children who ride bicycles through the streets, or elderly people walking, not to men tion their filth on lawns, and pathways, and to imagine that voluntary Sboperation will achieve anything is simply wishful thinking. I can cite theexample of my own case where two personal visits to secure cooperation achieved nothing, and results were fin ally obtained with the assist ance of the city police, who do a jolly good job under difficult circumstances. The old saying, "It's an ill wind that blows no good," can be aptly used in this case. An increase in dog licenses to $20 would either provide welcome revenue to the Med ford treasury, or overload the dog pound with requests to eliminate many "best friends." Whichever way it went the city ' would benefit. George F. Wilson, 418 Lynnwood, . Medford. An Experience To the Editor: Dr. Loren's appearance at Medford high several weeks ago has appar ently stirred up quite an in terest on both sides. His re marks were quite thought provoking. At least I over heard one individual state aft er the session, "There is a fel low someone would like to take to the chopping block." Several years ago a certain young preacher talked a bit on the same controversial is sue and let his remarks be broadcast over a local radio station. Through the deluge of phone calls and letters that followed the station was led to give a leader of the opposi tion free time in this minis ters place on three successive Monday nights to state -his views. The minister was forced off the air. He was called by phone at late hours and branded Communist, etc. Along about the same time a certain minister of the gos pel who wife is cousin of Menace TO MKB T mine was holding public meet ings on the island of Guam. A large group of individuals led by their spiritual leader tried to drive him out. When this failed they sought the arm of the law. A large burly Irish man walked up to my cousin's husband and with surprise in his voice said, "I never saw this happen in America." The spiritual leader of the stone throwing mob was at hand along with the police. My friend spoke out at this point and said, "If you had the power, you'd do it in Ameri ca." "Yes," replied the lead er, "and what's more, we are going, to do it some day." This experience did not happen in Wycliff's or Huss' or Jerome's day, but since World War II. Dr. Loren's remarks were strong. The complacent indi diduals who failed to hear him missed something. However what he stated and much more is. available to any freedom loving American. I do not write these lines in a spirit of malice or hate. I only feel sorry that we Americans are not more awake to' the facts. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400Hwjr.66 Ashland, Ore. Sees Freedom Loss ' To the Editor: I see in the newspapers where bills were drawn up to stop people in stores if they think something is stolen, bills to do away with the jury and go by what the district attorney thinks, bills to interfere with citizens' fire arms, statutes to override the bill of rights. t I take it statutes have al ready been drawn up for state police to stop cars, search, and seize and arrest, before any crime has been openly com mitted and without a warrant, or because they think some thing has been done. The bill of rights calls for a legitimate warrant. Then there are exorbitant fines, when any fool knows screwballs will cause wrecks and accidents will happen, large fines or fines within rea son. And as for juveniles, kids are like little monkeys., If the big monkeys are seen stealing, and corruption and greed runs wild, expect the little mon keys to do what the dignified monkeys do. People that get into the leg islature and override the bill of rights (and I refer to the first ten amendments) even if born here, are not Ameri cans. They must have a pipe line to Moscow. Find out who they are and throw them out, or just be a nice little kow towing serf. G.S.Reilly, , , Asliland, Ore. Ask Equality for D.O.'s . To the Editor: Last year Medford built a beautiful new hospital from donations. Re cently I found that many of us who have donated to this fund and have Osteopaths for doctors, cannot use this hospi tal. These doctors, who also contributed, are not allowed to practice there. What is the reason? Ignorance and preju dice. I find it hard to believe that such reasons still exist. There are even a few medi cal doctors who will not ac cept the fact that a D.O. is equal to him in training. A D.O. takes the same oath as an M.D., it also takes from eight to fifteen years to become an osteopath. The fact that they must pass the stte medical board examinations to practice shows that they are just as qualified as any other medical doctor. " . The dictionary says, "Osteo pathy is a system of healing which emphasizes the struc tural and functional coordina tion of the body, and whose therapy consists in manipula- Sukarno Fails in AfrtempO for Greater Power, But Survives as National Head By PHIL KEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Man-of-the-week: President Sukarno of Indonesia. The place: Hollywood. The quote: (From a spokesman for Sukarno) "If it were a criti c a 1 situation the president would have, stayed home." Observers in Jakarta, Indo nesia's capital, were saying Phil Newiom this week that Sukarno had suffered his greatest political defeat. The army had banned all political activity, and Su karno's bid for near-dictatori al powers had come a cropper in the face of stonewall Mos lem opposition. Jakarta reports said t the army moved to prevent the nation plunging into chaos. So, if the situation were not critical, it could do as one until a better and more critical situation came along. But of all this Sukarno him self gave no sign. Visits Hollywood In the midst of a globe-circling tour, Sukarno was in Hollywood exploring the mys teries of movie-making and having his picture taken with no less a film luminary than Miss Joan Crawford. He show ed no indications of hurrying home. At the core of the difficulty was Sukarno's demand for creation of a five-year cabinet, with himself at the head, which would rule Indonesia "without interference of oppo sition as conceived by the sys tem of liberal democracy." It would be the first step in his concept of "guided democracy" for Indonesia, a socialistic concept eliminating capitalism. It received strong support from Indonesian Communists who would participate in the new government on a basis of equality and who could hope from this stepping stone eventually to take over the government. Moslem opposition , arose not so much from a dislike of the "guided democracy" plan as from Sukarno's refus al to assure them in advance of a prominent place in the new government. Admires Russia Sukarno has declared Western-style democracy unsuit able for Indonesia and ' his present actions indicate he considers his defeat to be tem porary only. During a visit to New York in 1956, Sukarno declared that "neither rubles nor dollars can buy a scrap of our freedom." But as a successful revolu tionary in his own right, Su karno has expressed open ad miration for the accomplish ments of Soviet Russia and has paid tribute to Soviet leaders for helping to shape his ideas for a "working cabi net" which would "guide the people and channel ' their ideas to achieve their needs and desires." Sukarno, 58 years old on June 7, spent 12 of those years tion of the parts affected or involved." There are some medical doctors who acknowledge osteopaths and work with them. They many send a pa tient to an osteopath for treatment. Many osteopaths will speci alize in a certain field, such as heart, surgery, obstetrics, and other fields that are needed. This means added years to kheir already eight years of training. My family has been treated by both M.D.s and D.O.s. We are firm patients of a D.O. The four older girls were de livered by a country medical doctor, the last one by a D.O. Never had we experienced such conscientious care. It has been my privilege to watch the different osteopathic doc tors at work and they have al ways been considerate and thoughtful. You need never worry that they won't try to help you anytime of the day or night. I might also add that although money Is important to them, they do- not make an issue of it. If you are in need they first make you well. We have never encountered large fees! You will find most osteo paths very reasonable. I sincerely hope that my let ter has enlightened some of its readers, and will take with me the stand that the Osteopaths- should be allowed to practice in all hospitals, as well as our community hospi tall. We are no longer in the dark ages that did not recog nize new methods of treat ment. They are trying to build a new Osteopathic hospital, but like most things in life, it takes time, money, and pa tience. . If you doubt -this letter please talk to a D.O. and find the facts out, I'm aura you'll find what I've found. Joan Catherine Sheppard 2660 Crater Lake ave. Mediord, either in jail or exile. He is the son of a Javanese father and a Balinese mother. The father saw to it he got an education, culminating in a doctorate in engineering. Collaborated With Japanese But even before he obtained his degree, he already was an experienced and. eloquent rev olutionary against the Dutch who had held the East Indies for 100 years. Embattled Committee Trial by By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -(DPD Some sen ators, as you may have read, just can't see Lewis L. Strauss, President E i senhower's em b a 1 1 1 ed nominee for secretary . of commerce. For the mo ment anyway. Sen. Spessard L. Holland (D Fla.) had to be c o u n ted V Frank Eleazer among them. Holland, presiding at an ap propriations ! s u bcommittee hearing Thursday on House cuts in the Commerce Depart ment budget, surveyed the long witness table at which eight top commerce officials awaited his pleasure. - More Parliamentary Type Responsibility Seen Need in U.S. By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -(DPI) President Eisenhower backed away fast from his own suggestion that, maybe, our machinery for national gov- m e n t is so creaky as to require big emergency re pairs. He shouldn't have run so fast, E i s e n hower Lvla C. Wilson Was Ul gOOO. a company but didn't know it. What the President said at this week's news conference was in response toa question about how government shaU function if the voters persist in giving to one party the White House and to another the Congress. He answered like this: "I detect .' . . support for some change, even, . . . basic constitutional change, so that we could incorporate into our system some of the features of the parliamentary system." Some minutes later he re vealed that he and John Foster Dulles often had" dis cussed the problem - finally deciding it would be better "to stick with what we have, but try to make it work a little better." No Party Responsibility . The facts are, of course, that the functioning of gov ernment and the prosecution of government policies are dangerously hampered by lack of real party responsi bility in either the Demo cratic . or the ' Republican parties. This- lack of responsibility is due largely to the fact that there is neither party disci pline nor means of enforcing it. The truth is, neither the Democratic nor the Republi can party is really a political entity. You might say there is no such thing as a Republi can or a Democratic party at the national level. In Con gress, for years past, there have been members of the same political party who rare ly if ever voted together .on any major piece of legisla tion. Such a situation is danger ous to a party in power and dangerous for the nation over which' that, party attempts to. exercise power. Perhaps no proper discipline ever will come or be desirable in the Chaplain Assigned To Sfcrfe Institutions Salem -TOPfl- P. J. Squier, superintendent of the new state correctional institution, said today that the Mount Angel abbey had assigned The Rev. Edward Spear to be Catholic chaplain at the insti tution. The Rev. Spear also will attend , to ' religious ,needs of the Oregon State Tuberculo sis hospital, Fairview home and Hillcrest School for Girls. Youngster Drowns In Klamath Canal Klamath Falls -DPD- Tom my Tucker, 6, drowned in the Klamath Irrigation District canal late Wednesday. The body was recovered, , He coUaBtorataa with the Japanese during WoAd War II but at the same time kept in touch with the Indonesian underground. In f949 he took over as head of an independ ent Indonesian government with way over 80 million peo ple on 3.C00 islands. As a revolutionary he was phenomenal. As an adminis trator he has not been so ef fective. Indonesia's economy Strauss Faces New Since Secretary Strauss wasn't here, Holland began, somebody else had better proceed. o ' Strauss, who no doubt thought he already had ex perienced every misfortune likely at the hands of a Sen ate committee, rose in mani fest anguish at this latest af fliction, and corrected the oversight. ' Arrires Late Possibly Holland's trouble was that Strauss arrived late, and took his seat amidst his assistants while the chairman was reading a few opening remarks. If Holland didn't see Strauss at once, every body else did. - TV lights bore down on his forehead and bounced off his rimmed glasses. Movie cam eras rattled and clicked re- United States. But a'means of obtaining a better coordination between the executive and legislative branches and of exerting greater pressure for agree ment on overall policy has been suggested from time to time. It would require amend ment of the Constitution, but it probably would be worth it. It would give cabinet mem bers seats and speaking rights in Congress. Proposed by Wilson The idea is not new. Wood row Wilson suggested it many years ago. - "What is the change pro posed?" he wrote. "Simply to give to the heads of the ex ecutive departments seats, in Congress, .with the privilege of initiative in legislation and some part of the unbounded privileges now commanded by the standing ' committees. It almost surely would lead to a smoother functioning of gov ernment." ' Newton D. Baker had the same idea. He wrote: ; ' y "It is far more loyal to the memory of te founders of our government to' try to be wise in our day as they were wise in theirs than it is blindly to try to perpetuate the , mere . machinery they found adequate for their needs into a time when that mach inery is plainly inadequate." Wilson and Baker possess ed two of the great modern political minds. Dulles was in their league as a student of government. The President would 'rave been in good com pany if he just had stayed put in his news conference. WEST MAIN AT Conger-Morris FUNERAL DIRECTORS "YOUR TV WEATHERMAN" KBES-TV MONDAY THRU FRIDAY 6:1$ P.M. ASHLAND MORTUARY ' Member National Selected is in bad shape. The fanatics Darul Islam sect raids with' impunity on the island of Java, and the smouldering civil war continues on other Indonesian islands. But Sukarno remains the undisputed personal leader and hero of Indonesia. Even the anti - Communist . army, which is the real force in In donesia, hesitates to challenge . him. Senators cording his presence. Still pictures were being shot from all angles. Reporters jostled ' each other, elbow to elbow. ax tne press table. Strauss, unbowed veteran of 16 recent bouts with the Senate's Commerce Commit-1 tee, . smiled, pulled out hia statement, and read, while a ' movie man stretched a yeK -low tape from his lens to the top of Strauss' head, affirm ing the focus. Another cameraman ranged up and down the arched com mittee table, recording the welcoming smile of Sen. Mar garet Chase Smith (R-Maine) and the absence of same in the faces of Sens. ' Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.), Mike Monroney (D-Okla.), and Gale . McGee (D-Wyo.). Attack Fails To Develop This trio of Strauss' ad versaries, fresh from the Commerce Committee battle- ground, were here as mem bers also of the appropria tions subcommittee, and worfl had been passed that one of them',' anyway, had. come equipped with a new plan of attack. u ' If so, it didn't develop at once. Holland asked Strauss, as he read, if he preferred questions now, or when he had finished his statement. Strauss said politely he would bow to the chairman's wish in this matter but that he pre ferred the latter arrangement. The fact Was, he said with a smile, his assistants would probably have to answer the r questions. He himself, he re ported, " had been too busy lately to keep up with his homework. ' . Sens. Magnuson, Monroney, and McGee didn't see this as notably f unny.; Except for several reporters, in fact, no body laughed. r Deplores Budget Cuts ZZ Strauss completed his state ment, deploring the House budget cuts. Mrs. Smith asked' about Commerce Department ; morale. An asisstant secretary said it was bad. Too many rolks faced with losing their jobs, he reported, straight' faced. ' ' Monroney had a question'' on roads. Ah undersecretary; promised an answer next week. Magnuson asked who picked the model home f or the U.S. exhibit in Moscow.' An assistant secretary said! he'd get the answer. "Sen. McGee, any ques- tions?" asked Holland. "No questions, Mr. Chair- man," said McGee. A sigh "went up from the: press table. The reporters: began to get up and leave. The cameramen started pack ing their gear. Strauss asked, "May I be excused?" Holland said ves. and thanks verv. jmuch. SIXTH C Streets Ashland Morticians by Invitation Joe Hosick O JMi 4
