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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MtffarJ, Or. Monday, June 8, 1959 MEDFORDtWTRIBUHI "Everyone Id Southern Oregoa Read The hall Tribune'" Published EMly except Saturday by MJJJFOilD PRINTING CO. 33 North tli St Ph SP 2-9141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor " KERB GRETr Advertising Manager GEPALD JuATHAM, Business Mgi ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mxr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION, RATES Br Mat i In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daua and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 SumnSJ Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. E a g 1 Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year 918.00 Daily andWBunJay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier ana Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper ot Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU , OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO, INC Of. fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 55fal,STt; Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot Th Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Juna 8, 1949 (Wednesday) Planting of trees on Med ford street rights of way is forbidden by legislation pass ed by the city council. Jackson county landlords ask the Medford city council to request rent decontrol. 20 YEARS AGO June 8, 1939 (Thursday) Mrs. Lora M. Pernoll is namedrApplegate postmaster, succeeding her late husband. From Arthur Perry's "Yt Smudge Pot" column: "Cher ries are ripening faster than the birds can eat them up, as the farmers claim. It be gins to look as if there would be enough for all, and then some." 80 YEARS AGO June 8, 1929 (Saturday) A cannon is to boom to night as Sixth st.'s next light ing system is turned on. . Reports show the U.S. pear " crop to be short this year. . 40 YEARtf AGO June 8. 1919 (Sunday) The arrival of six Army planes thrills Medford, the entire populace turning out for the spectacle. B Aches in Medf ord' city park are given a new coat of paint. 50 YEARS AGO .. : June 8, 1909 (Tuesday) Ladies of th? Greater Med ford club undertake develop ment of a new park on the vacant sauare west of - the present city park pnf which the old water tower now stands. . - Medford High school sen iors refuse to attend com mencement and ask a teach er's resignation. What's Your I.Q 1 S a Nina er ten correct is superior seven or eight it excellent; five et six is good. 1. Who ate "curds and whey"? 2. In what agricultural commodity did colonial Vir ginia pay thfe salaries of pub lic officials and clergymen? 3. With what sport is the Walker Cup associated? 4. Correct the following: "Has either you or your sister eaten?" .V 5. What Is the principal ore from which aluminum is ob tained? o 6. What is- the price per plate which Democrats pay at the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Washington? 7. Which is the Hoosier state? ' 8. Which elected President of the U.S. held that office for the shortest length of time? .... 9. Who invented the pen dulum? . ; ; : . . What organ of the human body consists of a four-chambered, conical flattened, mus cular bag, located in the cav ity of the thorax? Answers: 1. . Little Miss Muffei. 2. Tobacco. 3. Golf. 4. "Have either you. . .' . 5. Bauxite. 8. .$100-per plate. 7 Indiana. 8. William Henry Harrison. 9. G a 1 i 1 e o. 10. Heart , Their Own Worst Enemies Alabama segregationists have forced, the re moval of "The Rabbits' Wedding," a harmless little fantasy written for pre-school youngsters, from open library shelves in Montgomery. The book is, they claim, propaganda for integrationsts. The reason? Because the book shows that the romance is between a white rabbit and horrors a bjack rabbit. p ARTH WILLIAMS, the author and illustrator. of the little book, says he made the rabbits different colors for pictorial reasons. Williams said the book Vas written for chil dren from two to five who will understand it perfectly. It was not written for adults who will not understand it because it is only about a soft, furry love and has no hidden messages of hate," CTUP1D complaints of this nature do more to , hurt the segregationist cause than all the high sounding phrases which can be put together by all the writers and speakers on the subject. (This is as bad as the complaints of the super super - anti - Communists that "Robin Hood" should be removed from library shelves because it was Communistic in that Robin took from the rich and gave to the poor.) These people are their own worst enemies. Bend Bulletin. , Good Reappointment Gov. Mark Hatfield is to be commended for reappointing H. G. Maison to another four-year term as superintendent of state police. In express ing: nis confidence in servant, the governor is ne will not be swayed by the pique of some legis lators who aDnarentlv want a Dolice chief who grants special favors to politicians. In the recent legislative session the superin tendent took the kind of a beating no public of ficial should have to put up with a beating from those who themselves had had their fingers pinched in the machinery of the law; But reap pointing him in the face of opposition, Governor Hatfield shows that he understands that cops, especially boss cops, aren't hired to be every body's friend. Eugene Register-Guard. No Forest Merger At least for another year the Bureau of Land Management will administer the O&C lands. An executive order to make the change as of July 1st next should have been entered before this time, and it wasn't The Budget Bureau which was studying the question and poised to recom mend the order of transfer has kept its silence, but the objectors to. the change seem to have prevailed, ior the Budget office has stayed its hand. ' ' - ' ' ' The Bend Bulletin thinks it makes no sense to have two agencies administering federal forest lands some of which are intermingled. It comments that most people prefer to have the Forest Service "win" in this duel and asserts: "On the whole, although it has not been perfect, Forest Service direction of timber and range resources has been far superior to that of the Bureau of Land Management." X7E deplore such invidious comparison. As to . . UAfv AAACftXJ.CIrgV'AAXWAJ.W Y C Ci i.M. 1 XXi tion to comment, but have an idea that part of BLM's failure to accelerate range improvement is due m part to the laws under which it mt operate. As far as forest management goes, the prob lems of each agency are somewhat different. Most of the national forest lands are in a big bulk, while the O&C lands arefii checkerboard pattern, intermingled chiefly with private lands. O&C management has been its own problems, chief of which have been re ciprocal rights to use of access roads, sales in smaller operations, sales on a cruise rather than scale basis made more practical because of the scattered ownership and sales, and speeding up reioresiauon 01 lis cuiover lanos. IT IS not necessary to claim one is better than the other we have great respect for each agency. Each has worked out its own solutions for its special problems. Finally there is something to be said in favor of a division so there is not a monopoly, agency in tne torrn of a federal bureau managing the most of the remaining stands of timber. :That is one reason why logging and lumbering interests prefer to keep the division. Oregon Statesman, baiem. Tycoons The New York Stock I ing securities to June brides and is supplying its member firms with sales kits to promote such giving. The aim of course holding base, but the truistically, that it wants to rescue young brides from a mass of pickle f orks." Well, the program doesn't seem likely to create any June tycoons . ' n -v 1 m o m alter an, now many snares 01 a. i. 01 1. can you buy for the price of a picxle fork.' Incidentally, if the trend keeps up, the tradi tional month of marriage will see more brides marching to the altar this year than last June's 184,000. Marriages were more frequent in the first three months of 1959 than last year, and with good times returning, the trend should continue. liKR. this distinguished public also demonstrating that directed toward solving ; in June? Exchange suggests send is to broaden the share Exchange says also, al Dennis the s ii r i i 0 BSBBBJJBSSSBBSBJS'" PSSSTl MAKE THAT GlOCOlATBMlUe INSTEAD OF WITE. 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. New Mouse Trap To the Editor: What do you think of our new mouse trap? We used to chase mices around the kitchen with a broom. Now, we don't have to. Send your mices to Cape Cana veral, let the Army put them in a satellite and shoot them to the moon. Everett Acklin, P.O. Box 233, Ashland Poll Watchers To the Editor: . Let's have some poll watchers at the next school district election. It was evident at the Phoenix-Talent consolidation election that since there was no political party involved, there was no authorization needed to vali date the presence of the poll watcher. So pull your chairs, up to the election board table, folks, let's all be self-styled poU watchers and share, under the protection of the sheriffs office. Pauline Baker 1526 Camp Baker rd. Medford. You Be The Judge To the Editor: We people who have worked for and sup ported the Phoenix-Talent Consolidation, in the sincere belief that it was the best way of perpetuating an in dependent school system in pur areas, concede the recent election to the wishes of the majority of our people. We feel that many people have made us a promise in statements, verbal, signed and by way of T.V., that we can ' stand alone" or "stay as we are." Such statements in clude all of the district from Barnett rd. to Wagner Creek. Can we hope that all of these people will continue to exert every effort to attain this end? There are several matters that need consideration. You be- the judge as to whether these things are coincidence, or a deliberate plan to deceive the voters of,- the Phoenix school district. 1. Many people who earlier favored a Medford consolida tion, voiced the opinion that we could stay alone. Yes, this is legally possible, but in formed sources emphasize that it would be very im probable for more than 2 or 3 years. During that time our boundaries could be petition ed into other districts and a great deal of our more'valu- able property transferred, then financial difficulties would force us to join with Medford. ' 2. Before and during the election, some who were in sisting that "we could "stay alone" were circulating a peti tion to the reorganization com' mittee to take part of the Phoenix district into Medford This petition was presented to the committee just one week after the consolidation vote. 3. Was it a coincidence that on the evening before elec tion day, a man by the name of 'Mr. James' was seen on T.V. urging us to "Think it over, and stay alone"? Many voters did not realize that this was not our Superinten dent James. Also did Mr, Prentice and Mrs. 'Nye make definite statements that 'we could "stay alone" or were those statements merely at tributed to them? To some these might seem like acts of better citizens, but others are wondering, is it possible that this is politi cal deceit? You be the judge. Mrs. Oscar Gysin Route 3, Box 198, Medford, Ore. Mrs. J. Lester Harris Route 3, Box 192B, MediordVOre. Menace Misg Webster Praised To the Editor: The news of Miss Webster's leaving occas ions me to consider some of the achievements of her ad ministration as librarian of the Jackson County Library. One of her outstanding ef forts was in the area of weed ing, discarding and generally revamping a collection that had r become outdated and cluttered. This task alone was herculean. With her knowl edge and experience she de veloped an attractive, useful collection of ijooks on a mo dest budget. SeveraT innovations such as the charging machines, the McNaughton rental plan and the increased use of profes sional binding of worthy ma terial, have appreciably add ed to the efficiency of the library. The hiring and use of part- time and full-time profession al librarians and the analysis of clerical jobs has also in creased the library's effec tiveness. The introduction of standard library purchasing methods in buying supplies, equipment and books is an other example of her organi zational ability. The results, of Miss Web ster's foresight and profes sional excellence are a more coordinated, better balanced, efficient and useful library Miss, Webster is an excel lent librarian and has done the people of Jackson county a real service. We wish her the best of luck for the fu ture. Mrs. Harry Fuller, 909 Stevens st., Medford. From Cancer Unit To the Editor: On behalf of the American Cancer Society, wish to thank you for the space and time allotted to the American Cancer Society dur ing the recent crusade. You gave us an opportunity to reach thousands of people, making the campaign a suc cess educationally as well as financially. Your cooperation is deeply appreciated. Robert H. Buck, M. v. President Jackson County Unit American Cancer So ciety. Vandal Mars Masterpieces San Francisco (DPD Eight paintings with an estimated total value of more than 25n noO were marred by a vandal at the M. H. de Young museum Friday. Police speculated tne van rial was mentally deranged Only the faces of the subjects in tha naintinss were marxea. Ian McAlpine, secretary of the museum's board of trus tees, said no price could be placed on the paintings. How ever, an art expert estimated the eight were valued at more than $250,000. Included among the dam aged paintings was one of the best known works of the Flemish master. Peter Paul Rubens. It depicted a religious scene of Christ and Mary Magdelene. A long scar was rlrawn across the face of Christ. McAlpine said the vandal apparently used a blunt in strument, possibly a key, to deface the paintings, ne saia the canvases were not slashed and all could be restored. Londan (DPD American en tertainer Liberace today sued the mass - circulation Daily Mirror and columnist Bill Connor for calling him, among other things, "the biggest sen timental vomit of all time." Foreign Assignment French Parliament's By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's as signment book: Shot in the economic armi The Chilean government is putting the finishing touches on a plan which it hopes will help to revitalize Chile's stag nant economy. The plan, here- tofore unpublished, involves construction of 45,000 n e w homes each year. Banks will I Washington Report By WILLIAM SOLEMN ROLE Washington - The Senate, in its great debate on whether to confirm President Eisen hower's nomi nee tion of Lewis L. Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce, is sitting in the most solemn of all its roles as a high tri bunal of this republic. It is putting a man's public career on trial. It is a career reaching across more than 40 years of service in nearly every national Ad ministration beginning with that of Woodrow Wilson. When the vote is cast, it will determine whether this career is now to end in re pudiation and in wreckage. This is no light task. The verdict, if unfavorable, will not take away Lewis Strauss' life or liberty. But it will be cloud the reputation of an American citizen in his 65th year. The blocs that are forming are mainly partisan blocs, with the Democrats general ly against confirmation and In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This is about AIR news. It has nothing to do with rocket ships. Or missiles. Or getting to the moon. It was made by a 56-year-old grand father who climbed into a single - engine glorified pud dle-jumper in Casablanca, in northern A f r i c a, and 58V4 hours and 6850 miles later set it down in Los Angejes. He climbed out of the cock pit and phdned his family in San Francisco, much as you and I would phone back after arrival by automobile at a destination 100 miles or so away from home. rphe only unusual thing X about his trip is that he broke a world record. He h a d his problems, of course - just as you or I might have had a puncture. His greatest problem, he said, arose out of the fact that the Arabs in Casablanca flavored his tea with mint. As a re sult, it turned rancid on nun and he got terribly thirsty - and a little sickish because he tried to quench his thirst with the rancid tea. Does that forecast a time when you and I will climb into our" nuddle-jumpers and take off for the other side of the world for a week ena outing? I'm afraid not. There are TOO MANY of us. If we all took off at once, we'd clog the airways - as we clog the highways. H one has a fender-bashing incident up in the air, one has so far to fall. The air COULD get just as congested as the highways, From Washington: -A four-nation committee representing the Organization of American States (OAS in alphabetese) began an investi gation to determine whether the armed conflict in Nicar agua threatens the peace of the Western Hemisphere. Hmmmmmm. What VISIONS that opens up. Wouldn't it be wonderful if whenever trouble brews ANY WHERE IN THE WORLD a committee composed of in telligent and enlightened peo ple representing intelligent and enlightened nations could get together and SETTLE the trouble in an enlightened and intelligent manner? That COULD happen, too, if, there were enough intelli gent and enlightened people in the world - and if NO NA TION EVER ITCHED FOR TOO MUCH POWER. The itch for power lies at the root of most of our trou bles. Hollywood -flJPD- Comedian Jerry Lewis has signed a seven-year contract with Para mount Pictures for a "mini mum sum in excess of $10 million," it was announced to day. ,-. .... . ; Hi y William S. Whita be asked to provide loans for the project. Chile's construc tion industry has been semi paralyzed for the last four years. On Chile's political front, observers see the possibility of a split between Socialists and Communists now joined in a "popular front." The Social ists oppose the Moscow-organ- ized peace conferences and voted to prohibit members in Congress from attending any S. WHITE the Republicans very general ly for it. But the real division is between those who deeply value tradition and those who can take tradition or leave it alone. THE TRADITION itself is absolutely clear: His torically, the Senate will not refuse to ratify a Cabinet ap pointment without overpower ing reason. Heretofore, the appointee has not been turn ed back unless shown to be unfit beyond all reasonable doubt. Only seven times in a century and three-quarters, in deed, has the Senate said "No" to a presidential choice for such an office. So. the scene here on the Senate floor is very-grave- though the drama is for the most part dry and under played. The Old Guard Re publicans - Strauss himself is one, and this is at the heart of his trouble now - are mov ing with stolidly hidden pas sion to his defense. Beyond their leader in this matter, the bear-like Senator Andrew Schoeppel of Kansas, they are making ready to go with Strauss "clear across the bridge," meaning to the end, The modern-liberal Repub licans do not greatly like Strauss or his ideas. They are standing with him mainly in defense of the President's right to have a Cabinet of his own choosing. a rnHE Democrats are more A nearly divided on the in side than they appear on the outside. It is they, generally. who like Strauss least of all. For to them, of all men, his policies and ideas are the most unpleasing. But many of them know, too, that to dis like a man s viewpoint is no justification for convicting that man in a lofty court such as this. Strauss' public personality has been endlessly described- a right-wing Republican, very rich big-business type and so on. But what of Strauss simply as a human person? Here he is, warts and all. as seen by one correspondent who has rarely agreed witn him but believes justice ought to be done in any trial: This is a spare, fit, tanned man of quick, nervous move ments - sometime! harshly impatient movements. His gray, semi-bald head darts about angrily when he is an noyed. And this is not infre quently; he is not a patient roan, and in this long contest he has not hidden his disdain for some of his Senate prose cutors. HE IS an able and even bril liant man, and so he has plenty of confidence in Lewis L. Strauss. It comes hard to him to put on a humble face or to return the soft answer. He does not seek sympathy; all during this business his large, restless brown eyes have had no surrender in them. Still, he is also a man of sentiment, and even of sen timentality. For he is not fighting here only for Strauss; he is also fighting for his ulti mate hero, Herbert Hoover, who himself held the Com merce post long ago and looks upon "Lewis" as his natural successor. To Strauss, Mr. Hoover is still "my chief." Strauss, in a word, is a hard man to defend because he so personifies an era that is even harder to defend -the lost, profundly unpopular era of Herbert Hoover. He is one of the last, and surely one of the most faithful, of the Hoover Republicans. All the same, Strauss' trial is not the only one going on in this small, almost intimate chamber of vast power. The Senate, too, is on trial. Is it big enough to be fair, even to the wrong-headed, even .to a past that not many, surely, would want to see return? . (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate,' Inc.) Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel 111-st-hm because ot loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. en Unproved alka line (non-aeld) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer sn they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get FASTEETH today at any drug counte. Book: Chilean Plan;' Resentment; Tunnel of them. Infuriated Commun ists now threaten to sabotage Socialist hopes for creation of Latin American common market. Broken to harness: The French Parliament is chafing under the rules of the 5th Republic's new constitu tion and for more than a month has been waging a bit ter behind-the-scenes battle to win greater powers. De Gaulle - appointed Premier Michael Lebre ruled flatly against assembly demands for permission to vote on govern ment policies, arguing that such votes merely would re establish past "harassments" of the cabinet by political groups. Resulting bitterness may be long in fading away. Many groups complain the new regime wants the as sembly to be a figurehead body only. Transmission belt: The 100-year-old dream of tunnel under the English Channel linking Britain and France is the closest to reality it ever has been. With money from the old Suez Canal Com pany now being pumped into the project, there are fore casts the tunnel may be ready in another six years. Presi dent Charles de Gaulle of France has taken an active interest in the idea and to have British leaders. From an Acheson's Published Fiction Gets Mixed Press By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (DPD Dean G. Acheson, the well-known law yer, rhetorician, and former secretary of state, is in print with his first piece of fiction. What every body wants to know, he com plains, is who wrote it for him. Frank Eleazer Weil, n e wrote it himself, while rest ing of an evening from his labors before the Supreme Court and other lofty tribun als. It runs about 1,650 words and you can read it under the title, "The Great Fish of Como," in the current Harp ers magazine. For those In a hurry, there was this fisherman, and he hooked a big one, but lost it. And I gather that anybody who tries to make more than that out of this piece is wast ing his time. Critics Differ "It's just a light little story, based on an incident which I happened to witness," Ache son said. "There is no deep hidden meaning." Mary McGrory, who pond ers such literary efforts for the Washington Star, in Sun day's paper announced it a charming story, and express ed a desire- to see more of the same. Tom Donnelly, lit erary critic, for the Washing ton Daily News, advised that Acheson said more indeed are in prospect, commented, "I think I can wait." This is not the first time Acheson's public endeavors have prompted certain dif ferences of opinion. He was Harry Truman's secretary of state from 1949 on, and criti cism leveled at the late John Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) get I,, I, i nJitajr l jiWIIMMSSSl . t. Frank Mk engineering standpoint, the tunnel is practical. Those most actively opposed are Britons who fear the tunnel would end Britain's tradition al and historic aloofness from the continent. So far, all talk: Asian observers expect ne open military attempt by Communist China to aid the hard-pressed Communist Pat het Lao forces in the tiny Southeast Asia nation of Laos. The Peiping regime is still wincing from adverse reac tion over most of Asia to its suppression of the Tibetan revolt. Red China will, how ever, continue its propaganda campaign, accusing the Uni ted States of setting up a "base of aggression" in. Laos. Simon pure: 1 - A battle royal already has started between two groups over source of funds to fi nance the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo. One group, wants to accept donations from professional Japanese sports, the other group is op posed to it. It was pointed out that Japan's large delega tion to the Melbourne games in 1956 was financed partly by $225,000 received from professional cycling, sumo and horse racing associations. After the smoke clears, the same arrangement is expect ed again. First Foster Dulles prior to his fa tal Illness was mild compared to some of the comments made about Acheson in hi day. Enjoys Revival of Esteem He currently is enjoying, however, along with Truman, John L. Lewis and possibly others, a great revival of pub lic esteem. People lately have been so nice to Acheson, in fact, I suspect he's beginning to worry. But his health so far seems to be good. , Still, he's 66, and claims he's no longer up to the kind of fishing - for trout - that he used to like. That's prob ably why he has turned to story telling in print, in this case about the wait-and-see kind of fishing he never did care for. - "I've always done a little of this sort of writing, for relaxation," Acheson said. "Mostly it was just for the amusement of my family and friends." Friend Of Editor This one, though, he show ed to his friend John Fischer, editor of Harper's, and I sup pose if you have in mind sell ing pieces to Harper's there are very few handier people to know. Anyway, to get back to the story, Acheson's angler is found standing on a jetty at the edge of an Italian lake noted more its gmshine and somnolence than for its catches. 1 He latches onto what could fee an old auto tire but proves to be a fish of 'some several pounds. Nat urally, landing a fish Is some thing he isn't prepared for. He, finally attempts this feat with an upended umbrella. This fails to work, leaving both Acheson and me, I thought, without very much of a kicker.. 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