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i O MAIL TRIBUNE. Madford, Or. 1 unity r June 9, 1959 MEDFORDtlTRIBUKB "Everyone b Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" . , Published Dnily except Saturday by MJJJFOilD PRINTING CO. 33 North fii St Ph SP 2-8141 ROBERT W BUHL, Editor . HERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM. Businesa Mgr ERIC W ALXN JR. Managing Fxlitor EARL. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM Teleg Editor , RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor . OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor DAlfl ERICKSON. Circulation Mg , An Independent Newspaper . Enterea as second class matter at Medxorri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 O SUBSCRIPTION RATES B Hil 1 -In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Snnday 0 mos. 8DC Dailv anc Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav Onlv One vear S4.20 By Carrier Jn Advance Medford. Ashland, Wfentral Point, Eagle Point, JacKronvlLle. lioia urn. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv cr Talmt and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and SunOay 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leasea 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 V Publishers association EDITORIAL X0 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 9. 1949 (Thursday) The newly - appointed Med ford district Qand C forest board holds its first meeting. More than 100 Methodists are expected in Ashland this week end for a state confer ence 20 YEARS AGO June 9. 1939 (Friday) Rogue River National for est headquarters reportsa large gain in recreational use of local forest areas. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Soft ball is moving right along with golf; and fishing these days as a way for gents in need of exercise to get out of mowing the lawn." ' 60 YEARS AGO ' Cune 9, 1929 (Sunday) Medford buds win -i i r s t prize in the Portland Rose show. . : Shorty Morris ; of Table Rock is believed , to be the only farmer in- that area whose hay was not caught in flje rain. 40 YBARS AGO Cune 9, 1919 (Monday) ' A Boy Scout membership drive is under way here. A group of mining experts arftve here to study local con ditio. , v 50 YBARS AGO Jn , 1909 (Wednesday) U.S. postal authorities give 4fie4Jofi the highest praise in CMjt dwnort on whether this citj Should get free carrier sfervice. Attorney Bob Smith, Grants Pass, solves the case of the missing strawberries in his patch with the apprehension of certain greedy toads. - o Yhafe Yeur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or efcht is excellent; five or six is good. nn 1. By what name is Polaris better known? 2. In American political his tory, who founded the "Bull Moose" party? 3. Is it illegal for a business man to hire an agent in Wash ington to negotiate a Govern ment contract?. 4. "Who was mter of the Bonhomme Richard? 5. The Aztecs cultivated to matoes and used them for food; true or false? 6. What is the State flower of Mississippi? . 7. Is Canada larger, or smaller, in area than Conti nental U. S.? 8. What is Herbert C. Hoov er's middle name? " 9. In what city is the annu al Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution held? 10. Is it possible, for two full moons to occur in the month of February? Answers?" 1. North Star. 2. Theodore Roosevelt. 3. No. 4. John Paul Jones. 5. True. 6. Magnolia. 7. Larger. 8. Clark. 9. Washington. D.C. 10. No. Hiroshima, Japan -UPD- Six persons were reported in ser ious condition today as a re sult of injuries received in a powder magazine explosion which injured 97 persons Mon day night. Authorities were investigating the cause ol the blast. KTIONtl Any Number Can Play We are duly grateful to those alert and public spirited citizens of the American south who have pointed out the dangers inherent in some books and stories. . If they hadn't mentioned it, we'd have gone to our grave thinking that "The Three Little Pigs" is nothing but a charming fable, and that "The Rabbits' Wedding" was only a children's story. Now that we're alerted to the fact that they are, in fact, insidious propaganda for the mon- grelization of the race, we dan keep our eye out sharply for such dangerous items. yHE field of song-writing immediately suggests 1 itself. In this new mood of ours, we find that "The Red Red Robin Goes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along" is a thinly-disguised Communist tract, designed to indoctrinate the younger generation as to the in vincibility of the Marxist dogmas. ' . "Little Red Riding Hood" is equally obvious the innocent Red satellite saved from the big, bad capitalistic wolf in the nick of time by the heroic peoples wood-cutter, who is, of course, the representation of the Soviets. , , MOW; that bur suspicions have been aroused, A by Golly, it becomes evident we have been blind too long, and that in actuality the list of subtle propagandists songs and stories is long indeed. - What about the "White Cliffs of Dover"? Isn't that a pro-segregationist song, masquerading as a wartime . tribute to - Anglo-Saxon Great Britain? . ; . "Red Sails in the Sunset" what is that but a veiled warning from the Chinese Communists? -- A ND in another song we vaguely remember, the " words go, "The leaves of brown came tumb ling down . . ." Aha ! There's a warning for the colored races, all right. Disguised, of course, but still blatant when one once finds the key. At our earliest opportunity we shall report these and a list of others to the FBI. . Now that you know the game, help yourself. Why not start with "Black Beauty," '.'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," "The Red Badge of Courage," "Bos ton Blackie," and "The, Scarlet Letter," and go on from there? Any number can play. E.A. Make Way for Horses With the Jackson county 4-H wagon trek now under way, with the "On To Oregon" cavalcade moving towardthis state, with the. Pony Express riders galloping along our highways occasionally, and with the increased number of parades and rodeos this Centennial '.summer, ft might be ap propriate to remind drivers that horses have Jhe right of way on Oregon highways. . Not only our own drivers it might even be a good idea both from the viewpoint of safety and of Centennial publicity, for the highway com mission to post signs informing -tourists of ths fact at Oregon's border. buch signs might prevent a tragedy, or at least confusion, as well as pointing but that Oregon is a horsy state this summer, 100 years past the time that horses were the chief means of transporta tion and communication. E.A. Respected Publication The Oregon Historical Quarterly is a serious publication, dedicated to highlighting and report ing facts of historical interest about Oregon. It is also one of the best of the state historical publications. And it is this year celebrating its 60th annversary of publication. To its staff, headed f by Editor Thomas Vaughan, who is also director of the Oregon His torical Society, our congratulations. . THE magazine probably will never become a best-seller, for not everyone cares much about history, and even many that do will find the Quar terly a bit too specialized for their interests and tastes. But it is a "must" for the reader who is serious in his interest in Oregon it is both a forum and dispute. ' It also, on occasions, lias been a jumping off place for works of a more popular and wide spread nature.-For instance, Lewis A. McArthur's justly-noted book, "Oregon Geographic Names," grew out of a series of articles in the Quarterly. . AN article in Sunday's Oregonian told a bit " about the magazine. It concluded this way: "Attorneys consult it for information on land holdings. A number of Indians have proved their rights to substantial amounts of federal funds with data from the Quarterly, Students and club women inddition to authors consult it fre quently for research material. ; - m " 'Somehow says Vaughan, 'everyone uses this magazine. Until they need it, they never heard of it But when they need it, they need it badly.' " E.A. - Why? Can anyone tell us the reason why a person would deliberately want to break off any of Med ford's attractive new. street trees? Such sheer and stupid vandalism is a disgrace to the community just as the fact that the trees were-obtained is a credit. We hope whoever is responsible gets caught, and pays the $50 fine for such destructiveness. E.A. history. More than that, authority on 'matters in ' Dennis the 'APTOID CUW06ITY KILL THE CAT? AND WHICH CAT tarts Aim j Ia; t ijtm. Matter ot Fact THE BANNER-BEARERS Warsaw The dusty roads traveled by political report ers do not often lead to paint ers' studios, to to experi mental thea ters, or to long evenings with serious p h ilosophers. But in this strange city, the life of the mind is an ex- 4os;pb aisop n l l a r ating, even an irristible spectable. Maybe it was self-indulgent, but I have almost all my time here happily exploring the life of the mind in the new Poland. Maybe it is presump tuous in a dust-begrimed po litical reporter; but I should also like to sketch an idea that this experience has sug gested. It is an idea intended to an swer certain nagging ques itons. What is it that sets apart the artists, and intellec tuals of the new Poland from the Western intellectuals and artists to whom they so large ly look for inspiration? Why are these Poles somehow more exhilarated and there fore vastly more exhilarating? Why, in Poland does one not scent the smell of Alexandri an decay that hangs over so much of the artistic and intel lectual life of the West? ' THE problem is difficult, pre cisely because it is a prob lem of human style and at mosphere. Polish philosophy, insofar, as I understand it, has something new to say in a new way. But Polish paint ing, despite its powerful cre ative surge, is not enormously different from modern West ern painting.. In varying de grees, the same holds true for the other arts. It is the artists who are different, in short, rather than the arts they prac tice. To make the .problem still more difficult, there are the wretched conditions in which most Polish artists and intel lectuals live and work. Ma terially, life is much better in Poland today than in the Stalinist past. Yet except for the few with established rep utations, who hold editorial posts of university appoint ments, the men and women whom I met were still living as very few "Americans could bear to live. r AGAIN, the life of the mind in the new Poland is quite astonishingly free con sidering that this is a Com munist country. One is amazed, for instance, to see such a work as "Ubu Roi," by the French Surrealist Alfred Jarry, being played , in a Po lish adaptation by a univer sity theater group to a pack jammed house. The brilliance of the production, largely c ."v Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A BALTIMORE supply house sent a salesman to bag an order from a hot prospect in Denver, telling him he could run up an expense account "within reason." Here's the tab he turned in: . Plane fare: $200. Taxis, etc.: $30. Hotel room and food: $110. ' Man is not made of wood: $50. . ' One of the news weeklies no likee .Elvis Presley. His newest recording they dis missed as a 'loss lieder," and added that he seems to be "living off the fat of teen-agers' heads." Elvis himself is probably too busy counting his money even -to bother retaliating. Authorities have been attempting a clean-up job on one of a big city's toughest neighborhoods, and a hopeful storekeeper there notes, "Our block is now so respectable that if you cut somebody's throat, eyebrows are raised." G1359,byBuUCtf& Eittrfbutad TeaXures &nrtirafs Menace Alsop staged and costumed with string, baling wire, and as sorted underclothing, is still less breathtaking than the thing itself. In the same fashion, one is almost more amazed to see the most coveted university appointments going to the best men in their fields, rath er than to men who are wil ling to parrot the official dog mas. But although one could go on for a long time piling up such illustrations, there is still the censor, sometimes heavy-handed. There is stUl the threat of party interven tion, to impose the official dogmas. , There are still lim its, known to all, which can not be transgressed. rT sum, Polish artists and intellectuals, though aston ishingly, free, are still less free than their Western com rades; and. their material re wards are poorer too. Why then should they be more ex hilarated and exhilarating? Why should they seem, in a curious way, more serious and more successful? The answed lies, I think, in the simple fact that uncon sciously or consciously, all these men and women are moved by a deep sense of his toric missions. That is what they have, which their West ern comrades do not : have. Their sense of mission, is jus tified, moreover. These men and women who live the almost-free life, of the mind in Poland are playing a great role. The young painter finish ing his abstract picture, the youthful philosopher finding his way through the labyrinth of Wittenstein, the poet writ ing as he feels with no didac tic purpose, may or may not be doing work that will be re membered forever. But whether his work is good or bad (and some I saw seemed to me very good indeed), it is always an assertion of the free life of the mind. And in Poland this assertion has a value that is lacking in the West. r" IS this, of course, which makes one feel about these people as one feels about an army with banners. They are human. They are not united except by their hatred of Stal inism. For where wUl you find intellectuals and artists undivided by cliques and jealousies? Some may be geniuses but some are certain ly fakers. For when and in what country has the creative life lacked its share of fakers? Yet all are banner-bearers, all the same. Whether they are resigned or convinced, none of these men and women seriously ex pect a change or regime in Poland. They bear1 their ban ners, they assert the mind's free life, not to change the regime, but to keep the re- jcWPENSsTie ACCOilNTU Adenauer, Couldn t Bring Himself To Quit Post By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor It looks like when the chips were down, the "old man" just couldn't bring himself to do it. West Germany's! C h a n!c e 1 lor Konrad A d e nauer, who ob serve d his 83rd birthday 'gi n Jan. 5, just couiant givie up the power he has wield ed throughout Pun Newsom the entire 10 years of the West German Republic's exist ence. In. April he surprised both the free and Communist world with the announce ment that he had agreed to run for the figurehead post of West German President. It was just as much a sur prise to West Germans, for they, along with the rest of the world, had become used to Ifte idea that he never would retire voluntarily. Some of the bolder voices within More Plywood . Firms Announce Cutback Plans Portland (DPD Two more plywood firms, announced production cutbacks Monday. U. S. Plywood Corporation, which has four Douglas fir plywood plants in Oregon, and Carolina - Pacific' Ply company, with four plants on the West Coast, said they would curtail production. U. S. Plywood operates plants at Eugene, Roseburg, Willamina and Mapleton. A spokesman for the firm said that effective this week the firm would operate on basis of 85 per cent of capacity. G. Pr Plant To Close ; Carolina - Pacific said its plywood plant near Medford, at White City, would cease operations between June 19 and June 29 and that its ply wood plant operated by a sul sidiary, Custom Plywood, at Grants Pass, would be closed from June 26 to July 6. The latter firm also said a plywood plant at Salyer, Calif., would close from June 12 to June .22 and a veneer plant at Happy Camp, Calif.; would be closed while alter ations were under way;. Both . firms said the jbujfc backs were ordered to correct the balance between produc tion sfnd demand. Four other major plywood firms announced cutbacks last week. . i Wagons Head for Barren Country Casper, Wyo. - (UPD - The seven Oregon Centennial wagons camped in sagebrush country under a Wyoming prairie moon Monday night and today pulled up stakes and headed due west farther into barren Central Wyoming. The caravan hopes to reach the remote Stan Sanford ranch late today, about 50 miles west of here. The cover ed wagons left Casper Mon day laden with supplies for the desert trip. Wagonmaster Tex Serpa re ported sorrow in the camp when it was learned that the cavalcade's mascot, a one-month-old raccoon given to the 59ers at Guernsey, Wyo., was missing and the wagons had to push on without the animal. The baby raccoon disap peared while the wagons were camped at Fort Casper. It had been put in the special care of Val Johnson, Portland, and Roy Brabham, Eugene who fed it a canned milk -syrup formula with a baby bottle but had been adopted by the entire train. Cruiser Helena Sails for Portland San Diego -(DPD- The cruiser Helena sailed from North Is land here Monday bound for Portland to participate in the Oregon Centennial and Port land Rose Festival. Vice Admiral R. E. Libby, commander of the First Fleet aboard the Helena, win be the grand marshal of the rose parade. Also aboard the He lena are 14 sailors from five Oregon cities who will help celebrate the Centennial. The cruiser is one of 14 ships in the force. They were expected to conduct fleet maneuvers along the way. ( gime what it is today. And in this sense, even the most hermetic Polish artist or in tellectual is . not "alienated from the masses." Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. When Chips Are Down, Just his own party had urged that he step aside so that a suc cessor could be groomed, and the danger eliminated that West Germany might be left rudderless in the event of his sudden death. Seemed To Agree At times he has seemed to agree with the idea. Once, it appeared he was preparing his foreign minister, Heinrich von Brentano for the job. When he announced his de cision to run for the presi dency in April, the bets were on Vice-Chancellor Ludwig Erhard to succeed him. Erhard is popular within the Christian Democratic Par ty and as economic minister is credited with being the mastermind behind West Ger many's t "miracle" economic recovery. Adenauer, meanwhile, re tired to a vacation retreat in northern Italy. But even there the teletypes were clattering away and the telephones were ringing as Adenauer directed from long distance West Ger many's preparations for the Ambassadors' lEntarteinmciig Allowances Said Insufficient By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (UPD - A Senate appropriations- subcommittee was pondering our diplomatic bud get, and what the Sen ators seemed to be saying was that Un cle Sam hasn't been spring ing for his share of the drinks. Naturally, I Frank Eleaxer StUCK around to hear more. That's what they were saying all right And they said one result is that in many places like Paris, London and Rome eith er, our ambassador, or his wife, has got to be rich. In the Day's News By FRANK A n interesting proposal was offered the other day by Sen. Richard Neuberger of Oregon, who urged the con gress to enact a broader pro gram of cancer research as a fitting memorial to John Foster Dulles, America's great secretary of state who was struck down by cancer at the very moment when his exceptional talents were most needed by his country. Senator Neuberger - who himself has just emerged from a bout with the dreaded killer was testifying at a senate appropriations subcom mittee hearing on a money bill for the federal depart ment of health, education and welfare. He told his collea gues that an expansion of can cer research funds from 75 million to 109 million dollars could be aimed at vanquish ing the disease that took Dul les' life. . He .added: , "Can we dare to pinch pen nies in the face of a challenge like .that?" He was joined in his pro posal by Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama, chairman of the subcommittee, who pointed out " that cancer has robbed the United States senate of some of its greatest leaders," including Senator Taft of Ohio. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and many other dis tinguished and patriotic lead ers. Here's a thought: Maybe we can accomp lish what Senator Neuberger suggests by PINCHING SOME PENNIES - pennies that are being wasted. For example: There is the palatial new senate office building on Cap itol Hill. It was originally supposed to cost about 20 mil lion dollars. Its final cost will be closer to 30 million dol lars. Why? Well, from all we can read in the papers, the job seems to have been VERY fuzzily planned. The floors, it is said, were of a special rubber til ing. After the building was occupied, it was discovered that they were very noisy. The click of the secretaries' heels and the rattle of the electric typewriters made such a clatter that the sen ators couldn't think. So- It was proposed to lay car pets over the tile. But . . . that would cost $150,000 ex tra. And . . . the carpets would have been so THICK that it would have been nec essary to cut off two inches from the bottom of the cost ly oak doors so they would open. That would cost more money. foreign ministers conference at Geneva. ' The "old man" wa$ far from retired. Made Choice laowt Then it became known that his own choice as the man to take over his job was Fi nance Minister Franz Etzel, a virtual unknown in Germany. It also became apparent that Adenauer's conception of the presidency was far dif ferent from the job as it was administered under incum bent Theodor Heuss-." He in tended to hold on to the reins. There is a bitterly humor ous saying in Germany. It is that the only two people who really do not want Germany reunified are Adenauer and Communist East Germany's President Wilhelm Pieck. The reasoning is that tinder reunification both would lose their jobs. The Christian Democrats predominantly are Roman Catholic. . 'N While the political parties are not necessarily divided along religious lines, the ma It developed that a lot of misinformed people, like the House members and newspa per reporters, have got the whole thing backwards. They have .been picturing states men over the world-including our own-as forever -setting each other up to martinis, and sticking the folks back home for the tab. That's why the House is al ways so tight with the money when the State department comes up each spring for its "representation" alio wance. House members call this whis key (money, and they wonder aloud whether considerable of it isn't used to soothe the nerves of our own diplomats. . In the first place, said sub committee chairman Lyndon JENKINS The new senate office building called for a new sub way from the capitol build ing to the . new office build ing, with cars to carry the senators so they wouldn't have to walk. So that was tackled. When it was about finished, it was discovered that it came into the capitol building at the wrong place. So the whole end of it had to be done over at a cost of some four million dollars. And so on. Here's what I'm getting at: Things like these mean WASTED pennies. In compar ison with all the. FABULOUS waste that goes on in our federal government, they are no more than pennies al though to us taxpayers out here in the brush they look like real money. Senator Byrd's been telling us for years that our whole federal government is shot through with waste like this waste that could be avoided by the simple practice by our federal government of the kind of practice in our OWN private affairs. I'm all for Senator Neuber ppr's nrrmnsal I think it would be WON DERFUL. . . . But I thing it ought to be paid for by PINCHINGvPEN NIES - the pennies that are wasted. In the fantastic, sprawling structure that we call our federal government there are plenty of wasted pennies to be pinched. Counsel VJl9h Mr. Insuraneo-sPttd Brennan Fred Brennw Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOllY ST. jority of West Germany So cialists are Protestant Protestants also are in the majority fci East Germany. A union of east and west Ger man Socialists almost certain ly would remove Adenauer's party from power. Economic Drag For the record, Adenauer demands reunification now. How ardently he .wanjs it right now is another question. In the event of reunification, the poor eastern zone cpjild only be an economic drag on the prosperous west. Burther, it would reopen the question of the eastern province be yond the Oder-Neisfa now held by Poland. Privately, many West Ger mans do not want either cir cumstance right now. But regardless of the inner workings of German politics, of two things there can be no doubt. One is Adenauer's deep hatred for Communism. The other is the undeniable fact that West "Germany is created in Adenauer's own . image and he is ifc symbol. B. Johnson (D-Tex.), the money doesn't all go to buy drinks. In fact, he said most of it goes for food, entertain ment, and soft drinks; His own experience at U.S. diplomatic affairs, Johnson said, is that you may get a lit tle weenie sausage down at the end of the table, provided you get there early enough. And he said chances are the ambassador himself paid' for that. "That is true," said the State department man. "Whis key is a minor item in the rep resentation allowance." Johnson asked how much our ambassador to Great Britain can draw from us tax payers toward the cost of his diolomatic soirees, and how this compares with the allow ance which the British give their ambassador here. . British 'Prestige' Money The witness couldn't say for sure about the British am bassador, except that he gets $100,000 a year for entertain ment and other matters of "prestige," like pretty clothes for his wife. He said our man in London gets $5,000 a year, not enough to cover the an nual 4th of July party. "In a year," the witness said, "he spends at least five times what we allow him." "In other words," said Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) "you exclude from our top embassy posts any man who doesn't have money of his own, or who hasn's married a rich wife." The agency asked Congress for $850,000 for its entertain ment costs next year all over the world. The House cut this to $825,000. And the fact is, the witness said, what our diplomats urgently needed was more than $1,000,000. DIVIDEND NOTICE The Board of Director hat declared a dividend of 6 per share from net invest, mrnt income, payable Jane 30 to shareholder of ret ard June 12, 1959. Howard M. Simmons SEkRCTAWT Jus 9, 1939 901 Exchange Bldf Semttb ' JUNg ttlDES canto wwaftf Wure their future Uptmtf butQhey CAN MlUtt JHEIR WEDDING cam. Cb$ with us regarding comyltft insurance cover age. O Bill Fish
