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MAIL TRIIUNI, MeeYere', Or. Weeleeseay, June 10, 19S9 UK "Everyone to Southern Oregon Bead The KU Tribune'r Published Dlly except Saturday tar MEDTOSD PRDTTCTG CO. 83 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 " ROBEHT W RUHL, Editor sYZKB GREY Advertising Manager GERALS LATHAM. Business VI gr IRIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor JAmTS ADAMS, aty Editor BARRY CHIP MAN, Xeiag Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circolation Mar An Independent Newspaper gntared a second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Malt In Advance; Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday S mot. SOt Daily and Sunday 3 mo. 4 -23 ' Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Bolnt, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Bhoenls. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv . er. Talent and on motor routes. ; Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 - Daily ana aunay i mo. iju Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ' United Press International Fun Leased Wire XziAiiV K"orAUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: Wf.ST.HOUDAY CO INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWS PA Pit rUIUSHEkl ''ASSOCIATION RATIONAL EDITORIAL 5P- Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. ' It YEARS AGO Tun 10, 19441 (Friday) '' Jrank DeSouzt and Frank Slarl are named judges for the JWtional Catfish Derby. Georee Slflaacaa of Elk SCumber is nBJaati chairman f the Medfort ikatrict forest advisory bofrd for O and C forest adminitrttion. 0 YEAR9 AGO Tun 10, 193s1 (arurday) A Klamath Falls' girl is Jhosen Queen Elizabeth for She Mhland Shakespeare fes- Jrom Arthur Perry's "Ye Onudge Pot" column: "There fme talk of Installing park frtg meters to solve the down V" parking problem. ABout th second night, whea (& city was sleep, ene at Sflgm tould be rum Into and finished to smithereens, by an fnejgeeding auto that left tell Qlf?eVige hammer marks." l f HAX9 AGO gae 10. 1929 (Monday) . Cmateur singers of the val ley plan to enter a radio audi tion contest. - " Medford is reported willing to sell a water supply to Jack sonville if this action is legal. 40 YEARS AGO June 10, 1919 (Tuesday) St. Mary's academy seniors prepare for commencement. Court Hall sells his auto agency to an Oklahoma man. 50 YEARS AGO June 10, 1909 (Thursday) A rich gold strike , is re ported in the Galice area. Improvement bonds for pav ing Main st. are sold to a Port land man. What's Your I.Q.7 til--. MiMnM seven or eight is excellent; five ee six is good. 1. What two seas are con nected by the Suez Canal? 2. Is the capital of Alaska Nome, Juneau, or 'Fairbanks? 3. Name the three Presi dents of the United States who were assassinated. 4. Whiskey is an antidote for poisonous snake bite; true or false? 5. In a Mercator' projection map, are the meridians and parallels straight, or curved unes: 6. What was the mark of Zorro? , 7. What are nicknamed "fly ing egg beaters"? ; 8. Is cream heavier, or lighter, than milk? 9. What place in Georgia was the site of a famous Con federate military prison dur ing the war between the states? - 10. Do insects have skele tons? Answers: 1. Mediterranean and Red. 2. Juneau. 3. Abra ham Lincoln. James A. Gar field. William McKinley. 4 False. 5. Straight. 6. Letter Z. 7. Helicopters. 8. Liabier. 9. Andersonville. 10. Yes. ' i New Jersey was the only northern state not to abolish slavery before 1850. It had '236 Negroes in bondage that year. Big Show Opens Oregon's biggest show opens today. The Centennial Exposition and Trade Fair, aiffl in the Portland area bv the annual Rose Festival, open their doors. And it is expected that several million people from outside the state will be attracted here for the festivities. in Portland will be a good one, of which no Ore gonian need be ashamed. And we are glad that this is so. ' 1 BUT it occurs to us that the important part of the Centennial doesn't center in Portland at all; that the most significant contribution that this 100th birthday celebration can make is throughout the state in the form of festivals and activities in which the people of the state as a whole can participate. ' The 4-H wagon trek which left; Jacksonville Monday for Corvallis is a good example. AH the details may not be historically accurate; condi tions undoubtedly are far different from those of a century ago and the event is more of a lark than it is of a serious undertaking. But, perhaps, therein lies its charm and its attraction. HY should history of thins:? Why can't it be made to come alive, through active participation? The answer is that it should, and it can. Even the Centennial beards which had such a vogue a few months ago, and which still can be seen around, are ex amples of personal participation, and identifica tion with Oregon's brthday party. If the Centennial does nothing but get Ore gonians more familiar with their own state, its history and its attractions, it will have accom plished much. But it bids fair to do far more than that. It could, indeed, be the beginning of a renaissance for Oregon the like of which has not been seen before, although there were hints of such growth and progress following Oregon's statehood in 1859, and again after the exposition in 1915. E.A. Not Bread Alone The" word "renaissance" as, used above is defined in the desk.Webster as ". . . Any period . . . characterized by vigorous activity along literary, artistic or other lines." There are signs that the Centennial is, in deed, sparkling this type of thing. The number of art shows, for instance, is far larger, with a broader scope, this year, than in any year we can remember. The lively debate over the Portland airport mural, and the murals at the show in Portland, are onlv svmntoms of an awakeniner interest in cultural affairs the affairs which stimulate men's thinking and creativity along lines other than the strictly mundane. IS IT a good thing to have a growing interest in music, in painting, in sculpture, in poetry and fiction, in architecture? Indeed it is. For it is in historically have shown development during the most vigorous, stimulating and challenging times in history. Experimental and "advanced" art (in the broad sense) may draw snickers and boos from those who cannot accept new ana cnanenging ana difficult-to-understand forms. But they are a sign of creative and stimulating attitudes, and of the courage to put them into effect. , - HANKS to an expanding economy, and other advantages which over the years, the average citizen is now in a position, as never before, to devote some time . .1 ll ... 1 11 L to matters oi tne mma A wise man once put not live bv bread alone." It is gratifying to see e m more ana more, into tice. E.A. Drawback One of the drawbacks to being a relatively "undeveloped" state like some of its best young who have completed looking for suitable and go elsewhere to find what they are looking, for. The institutions of higher learning in the state both state-supported and private can stack up with the best of their kind anywhere. And their graduates in people of real ability. So, when they graduate, they, expect, to take jobs commensurate .with their abilities. In too mntin tllAOA lnttf miAvi'f MfrniltfinlAm HMvnn "THIS is particularly true in scientific and some engineering fields, opportunities are either corporations with - extensive research and pro duction organizations. , A mathematician, for So does a nuclear physicist, or biologist, or chem ist. True, there are a few jobs open to them in non-academic fields in Oregon, but by and large the eager graduate must go elsewhere to find the land of job he wants. There are some, of tailor their education ment is available m uregon, ana they ao tms principally because they find Oregon has ad vantages for living which more highly developed (and crowded), areas been told that the Centennial show be a stuffy, bookish sort these fields which men Americans have earned ana nean. it this way: "Man can this precept being put, m i 1 enective, everyaay prac l - Oregon is the fact that mmds men and women their education and -are challenging jobs must many cases are young " where about the only iob in teaching, or with large instance, finds this true. course, who deliberately to fields where employ- can t match, h. A. Dennis the m-jk MMM-aaMi mm Well.mw sao last night that vou m tm WISHED XXJ WERE 0 OF AILTHOSB BILLS.'' Today & Tomorrow By Walter DR. ADENAUER'S DIFFICULTIES Although in the past 60 days Dr. Adenauer has reversed himself about the Presidency and the Chan cellorship, his convic t i o n s and his pur pose have been quite consi stent. Above .all other things, above, for ex ample, the re unification of Walter Lippmann the two Germanys, he is de termined to assure the con tinuity of a close collabora tion between West Germany and France. This" -is the core of his European policy. Its instru mentalities are the Common Market, the coal and steel and atomic communities, and in a considerable degree NATO it self. The binding force for the time being is .personal affinity between Dr. Ade nauer and Gen. de Gaulle. The problem which he has been wresuing with this spying is how he himself can most effectively defend and promote this Franco-German policy. . ON APRIL 7, he had let him self be persuaded by his nartv leaders to cive ud be ing Chancellor and to run for President. He believed then that this was the, best way to insure his Dolicv beyond the hazards of the elections of 1981. For at least two years to come, he would be Presi dent and the Chancellor would be his appointee and his subordinate. The Chancel lor would be Herr Etzel, who is an experienced and deeply convinced believer in the Ad enauer policy. During these two vears. Dr. Adenauer would enhance the power of the German President, pre sumably as Gen. de Gaulle has enhanced the power of the French President. Then, if the elections of 1961 went against the Adenauer party, he would still be President with much power and great influepce to check any radi cal revision of his policy. These calculations have mis carried because the bulk of the party leaders refused to accept Herr Etzel as Chancel lor. The nartv insisted that the Chancellor be Dr. Erhard, whom they "consider their very best vote-getter. This destroyed the assumptions on which Dr. Adenauer had made his decision to give up the Chancellorship and to run for President. : - 17IOR TWO big reasons Dr. Adenauer couian t accept Dr. Erhard. one is that Dr. Er hard is not an enthusiast for the idea of a Little Europe of six nations revolving around col laboration between Paris and Bonn. He is in fact a German version of a 19th Century commercialist liberal who ex pects an ever-increasing pros perity to come out of ever wider and freer markets. He believes in wider markets not only in the Little Europe, not only in the bigger Europe which includes Great Britain and the Scandinavian coun tries, but also in all of Europe which would mean more trade with Eastern Europe, with Russia, and beyond. Although Dr. Erhard has conformed and has been loyal, he is not a true believer in the Adenauer European pol icy. At the same time he is not a yes-man, and he is in fact a strong man in his own right. With him as Chancellor, Dr. Adenauer would be un able to enhance greatly the powers of the President. So he has felt compelled to re verse the decision of April 7, and to declare his intention of remaining, if he can, Chan- ? ) Menace Lippmann cellor at least until after the elections of 1961. THIS IS not, to be sure, the nfflPinl iwnlQnaf irn Urrt 4f is the only one that makes sense and fits all the known facts. Moreover, it is the view generally held by those who have a close knowledge of the problems of the Common Market and of Franco-German collaboration. In his television speech Dr. Adenauer explained' the re versal of his decision by say ing that since April 7 the international situation has de teriorated, and that therefore he must stay at his post. This is certainly true of his own European policy in that his calculations about the future have foundered on the rocks of German internal politics. The kind of collaboration which now exists between Gen. de Gaulle and Dr. Ad enauer is not assured for a long future, in that in neither Germany or France is there successor in sight who can Be counted upon to carry on. A PART FROM this, can it "be said that the interna tional situation has deterior ated? Has anything happened since April 7 which was not clearly foreseen then? . It was evident then that there could not be an agree ment to reunite the two Ger manys, that the Soviet. Union would not permit, and that not m Bonn, Paris, or Lon don, was there any serious and ardent wish to bring about reunification. On April 7 it was evident also that nothing could be done to re unite the two Berlins. It was evident, too, that if the future of West Berlin as a member of tne Western community was to be assured, it would not be sufficient to stand pat on things as they are. For the position of West Berlin is very vulnerable to all manner of pressure and harassment and to uncertain ty and anxiety. Against these pressures there is in fact no military defense. Therefore, the future of West Berlin must be assured, if we are to honor our commitments, by the statesmen. rpHEY MUST build upon the old foundation wnich is that West Berlin belongs to the Western community and that the Western powers have a right to be present there with troops. Upon this old foundation they must build a new structure, of which the essential elements are that it has the explicit approval of the Big Four and of the two Germanys and of the inter national society. This may take some time to achieve.. But as long as it is a practical possibility, it cannot be said that the inter national situation in Europe has deteriorated badly, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications ' Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters With an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words That's What He's Doin To the Editor: Yesterday, a friend asked me, "'What I'm doin' in Medford?" I'm payin' taxes to keep monkeys in the stratosphere. Everett Acklin, Box 233, Ashland. De Gaulle, Difficult and Proud, Still Is Thorn in Side of America, Britain By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Sir Winston Churchill, then prime minister of Britain, once said that of all the cross es had to bear. one of the heaviest was yW the Cross ' of w - H that he meant 'rV! Gen. Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle, the man who insisted that Phil Nawsom France be rec ognized as a world power even in the midst of mortify ing defeat early in World War u, has not changed. He demonstrated it aeain this week when it was dis closed In Paris that 200 VS. F-100 "Super Sabre" fighter bombers based in France un der NATO mav be moved to other West European bases be cause of U.S. and British fail ure to agree to de Gaulle's de mands for a share in atomic secrets. - Until she receives such a In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In California. Gove rnor Brown loses his battle to levy two per cent severance tax on oil and natural gas, taken from the ground, with an :qual levy on IMPORTS. The reason for the aqual lew on imports is obvious. Otherwise over-the-borders gas and oil products would have been giv en a market advantage in Cal ifornia, , which is now an oil and gas importing area. It is obvious that with the import tax added the lew would have amounted mere ly to a selective sales tax on gas and oil. Its result would have been to make eas and oil products more costly in California than elsewhere. flNE could lecture on that "point at considerable length. Gas and oil are basic raw materials. Through the processes of chemistry, they are sources of a wide range of commercial products. They are basic sources of power. To the extent that a tax on pow er increases operating costs of industry, such a tax would tend to limit industrial ex pansion in the state levying it. That, in turn, would tend to limit employment. The same is true of a tax levied oh basic raw materials. So- i It could be argued- i The result of the proposed severance tax on gas and oil would have been to lower the profits of industrial concerns in California, thus handicap ping their expansion and caus ing them either to cut down their production or to go to more costly automatic proc esses in an effort to meet the price. . That would tend to RE DUCE JOBS and job oppor tunity in California and to build up other states not sub ject to such added costs. Thus California development would be handicapped. rpHAT, however, is not the -- purpose of this piece, which seeks merely to point out FACTS. One of the facts of life is that NOBODY can permanently dodge taxes. No body can permanently shove his share of the tax burden off onto somebody else be cause taxes are a part of the cost of doing business and so have to be added to prices. Since we all have to BUY THINGS, we all in the long run pay our share, according to our means, of the tax bur den. rpHE'hard truth is that the -- only way in which taxes can be reduced is to reduce the COST OF GOVERNMENT -in other words, to spend less for government. What we need to do, above all else, is to reduce the WASTE in gov ernment spending. Government is inherently wasteful. Let's put it this way: You and I would be waste ful also if when we ran out of money all we had to do was to reach into the people's poc kets and take out what we needed. AND- -t- We shouldn't be too rough on our representatives in the state legislatures and the congress. They think that in spending recklessly they are doing just what we want them to do. They have reason to think that-the reason be ing that for decades the spend ers have tended to be elected and the economizers have tended to be defeated in elec tions. As long as that goes on, gov ernment spending will tend to be reckless. West Germany's first school for trained meteorologists op ened at Neustadt this year. share, France has refused to permit stockpiling of U.S. nu clear weapons on French soil. Without the weapons, there is little use in basing there the planes which would have to carry such weapons against a potential enemy. U. S. Fears Leak U. S. refusal to share such secrets grew out of her allies' demonstrated inability to keep them from filtering to the So viets. France, with the second largest Communist party in Europe outside the Soviet Union, was counted among the greatest risks. But such practicalities never have counted with De Gaulle. To him, France even in the midst of World War n defeat merely was passing through a phase which could not . dim the lustre of her world great ness. He once said: "There is a twenty-century-old pact be tween the greatness of France and the liberty of the world." De Gaulle long since has Tips To Beat High Travelling Costs Given by Helpful Book By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -(UPD- One way to beat the high cost of travel this summer is let your wife handle the tipping. An other is to stay home. A new book on the sub ject, written by a fellow who ought to know, recom mends for and Frank Eleaxer against tnese solutions, respectively. The author is Michael Frome, for many years travel editor of the American Auto mobile association. Frome says if you're smart you still can get out on the road, have fun, and come home with all your gold fillings. - His book is called "Better Vacations for Your Money, Frome says if all you have in mind is saving your dough, you. better forget the whole thing. He does have lots of ideas though for easing the pain. Tipping Not Required "You don't hav,e to tip any body, anywhere, ' anything," counsels traveler Frome. "You do so only because you want to, in appreciation for service well-rendered." Front-Runner Said Kennedy; Humphrey Liberals' Choice By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPD The most natural thing in politics is for all hands to gang up on the fleet fellow who is run ning ahead of the pack for a presiden t i a 1 nomination. The fellow who seems to be well ahead of the Demo cratic pack Lyie c. Wilson now is Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Bits and splinters of news come along from time to time which suggest that some of the Democratic left wing is maneuvering to 'blackjack Kennedy. There is, for example, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's sustained effort to proclaim Kennedy unfit for presidential respon sibilities. There is the ques tioning but interesting splint er of news from Detroit that in Walter P. Reuther's big United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) there is devel oping a warmth for the presi dential candidacy of Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). Hints From Detorit It may not be wholly by chance that Humphrey seems also to be Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite-of-the-moment for the Democratic presidential nomi nation. And, perhaps, it is not by mere coincidence either that there are hints from De troit that Kennedy finds some favor there for next years' presidential nomination. Mrs. Roosevelt has indicat ed her willingness to see Ken nedy nominated for vice pres ident although she firmly op poses him for the top spot. On Humphrey, some time ago she agreed he was coming close to the spark of greatness which she deems an essential presidential qualification. Some elements of a stop Kennedy movement seem to be imbedded in this leftist friendliness toward Humph rey's presidential hopes and acceptance of the idea that Kennedy would grace the Democratic ticket in second passed from those days when the late Josef Stalin described him as a man "not compli cated." Or when an exasperated President Roosevelt described him as an upstart playing Joan of Arc,-and Churchill is said to have replied: "Yes, but my bloody bishops won'.t let me burn him." De Gaulle for France First, last and always De Gaulle is for France. He will lift the French by their boot straps whether they like it or not, politically or economical ly.' He will force the world to recognize France whether the world likes it or not. So, ; as in World War II when he played the part of thorn in the flesh to Roosevelt and Churchill, Tuesday he seeks to leap-frog years of French political anarchy and ineptitude and to force by whatever means French entry into the so-far exclusive club of nations owning the atomic bomb. The extent of his single mindedness is revealed bv the He must have known you won't believe this. That's why he says let your wife do it. Women are especially sen sible in matters relating to tipping, fair but not foolish," he says. It must be true, too, because I've heard many a cab driver say the same thing, sort of. Frome, being an old man, naturally starts out with the presumption you will be go ing by car. He says it will help to get it fixed first, be cause the local mechanics are cheap compared with those you will find in somebody else's home town. Once under way, figure $30 per thousand miles for the gas and oil. From there on, you can write your own bud get. It appears there are three courses to follow, ranging from expensive to uncomfort able. Camping Easier Taking them in reverse or der, there is camping. Frome says 22 million people did it last year. Camping he says, is not what it was in the good old days, and thank goodness for that, anyway. ., , . The difference is in the fine new camp sites, with conven iences ' like showers, some times with hot water, going up in state and national parks all over, the country; also in place. If the movement is vital and soundly based, it will be coming out in the open soon, probably in ex pressions of political opinion from such elements as Ameri cans for Democratic Action (ADA). Humphrey is ADA national vice chairman. His political aspirations were given a boost this year when ADA picked the senator as keynote speak er at its 12th annual con vention. Kennedy describes himself as a liberal Democrat. Humphrey seems to stand con siderably to the left of that. He won his high place with the left wing of the Demo cratic party in 1948. Strong Civil Rights Stand The Democratic national convention in that year was reluctantly moving toward ac ceptance of Harry S. Truman as its presidential candidate. The party platform writers offered a civil rights plank designed to ease the political tension then developing be tween Northern and Southern Democrats. Humphrey barged his way to the rostrum at that point. Humphrey's speech was a sizzler. It drove the conven tion to adopt a bitterly con- r7s i A Home Atmosphere C M. Litwiller Beautiful weddings surrounded by palms and flowers, grow ing plants and rock waterfall. For that long to be remem bered occasion . . . arrange now to have your wedding at Litwiller's Mountain View Chapel! . LITWILLER , Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal .Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND "It is better to know us and not need us. ' We Never Close than to need us and not know us." fact that now, in the midst of world- shaping negotiations with the Russians sjjt the Geneva Foreign Ministers' Conference, he chooses to let it be known that he is deeply at odds with his allies, on a vital question of Western de fense. Fleet Withdrawn The same determination that France shall be a world power shaping her own des tiny accounted for the an nouncement last March that De Gaulle was withdrawing the obligation of the French Mediterranean Fleet to serve under NATO command in wartime. And the same conditions ap ply to French refusal to enter into new commitments to NATO. There can be no denying De Gaulle's personal great ness. Therelso seems the dis tinct possibility that the an noyances felt by Roosevelt and Churchill also are to be felt by President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. the $150 to $500 worth of fancy camping gear he says you will want. After, recovering from this initial investment, four camp ers can hope to get by on $100 a week. But don't try it just to have money. If you like to rough it on a foam rubber bed, Frome says maybe the motel route is for you: if so, figure S10 to $12 a night for the room; at least S5 daily per person for food. Cottage Rent .For a week in a cottage somewhere at the beach or the mountains, $90 is average rent. . For those who just want to sit down, Frome has a kind word fojr the resort hotel, from which he says all the guests come away feeling like millionaires. This is possibly because they are millionaires. Anyway, he suggests $325 per week "and up"- as a likely price for a family of four. Credit cards help. Take all you've got. But ready cash hasn't gone out of style. Fig ure a budget long before leav ing, Frome advises, then add 10 to 15 per cent. I guess the author reaches his literary peak in this 160 page book on page 97. In a sentence that can't be improv ed, he says: "Be prepared to pay." v f MISSING 16 years, B-24 Lib erator bomber is found in Libyan Desert Lt William Hatton was pilot tested civil rights plank which, in turn, led to a States Rights bolt. J. Strom Thur mond of South Carolina was the States Rights presidential candidate. He got a fistful of presidential electors but not enough to lick Truman. The Democratic left wing a c k n o w ledges a debt to Humphrey. The pay-off could be in 1960. The pay-off can not take place, however, un less the Democratic left- can stop Kennedy, a vigorous young man with a lot of what the horse players call early foot. Mrs. Litwiller sillMHL4ailltt::aiLMJi 5-
