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o MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Friday, June 12, 19S9 MEDFORDeliTBBUXS "Everyone us Southern Oregon Reads The hall Tribune Published Dtily except Saturday by M7.DFOHD PRINTING CO. ; 33 North t'ir St Ph SP 2-6141 ' ROBEHT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GEP.ALD LATHAM. Business Ugt ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Rditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mr - An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Medforrt Oregon tnder Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai ; In Advance. Copy lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday moa. 8 DC Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday uruy jne year J Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. V Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor rouUs. Daily and Sunday 1 year 918.00 Daily and SunOcy 1 mo 1.50 - Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medfori ornciai Papet oi jsensoa conniy United Press International Fufl Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WTCTnm miv rr run o. " fices in Nev. York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta Vancouver B.C. r NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ""ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 12, 1949 (Sunday) The state highway depart ment calls for bids for land scaping at the Big , Y inter change. Kenneth Boshears, Marcia Taylor, Glenda Fields . and Herb Brower are outstanding graduates of Medford ' High school in the 1949 class. 20 YEARS AGO June 12, 1939 (Monday) At least 300 postmasters -from all parts of 'the state re expected , to convene in fcshland this week. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It's gbout time for the annual po lice edict prohibiting fire crackers, thus reminding fjmall boys it . is about time v to start patriotically blowing ; off fingers. 0 YEARS AGO June 12. 1929 (Wednesday) The Jackson county coop erative plans a larger egg tPl-' Central Point reports there not an empty house in 9h city. . ., 40 YEARS AGO June 12. 19 19 (Thursday) The Jackson county court is given a contract by: the state highway board for grad ing the Greensprings road. First work begins for open ing Crater Lake lodge by July 1, if roads can be clear ed of snow in time.- 50 YEARS AGO June 12. 1909 (Saturday) Attorney Porter J. Neff asks Circuit Judge Hanna for a writ of mandamus to com pel the Medford school board to give Clarence W. Gore a diploma even if he did skip - commencement. The Boston . Ideal Opera -company ends its sixth week in Medford, an aesthetic suc cess but a financial flop. , What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ren correct is seven or ekjht is excellent; five m six is good. 1. In what U. S. city is there a district known as the Loop? , 2. . Was Maine We of the original States? 3. .With what State do you associate the millionaire Duke tobacco family? 4. On what continent' are the Andes mountains? - - 5. What novel by Dickens deals with the French. Revo lution? - - 6. In legal usage, what is the feminine form of the word - testator? . 7. Which fourtates touch at one point? , , , 8. Correct the following: "My wife and myself are go ing." j 9. Where is Bedloe's Island? 10. Which State is nick named "Show fa& State?" Answers: 1. Chicago; 2. Mo; 3. North Carolina; ' 4. South America; 5. "A Tale of Two Cities"; 6. Testatrix; 7. Color ado, Arixona, Utah and New Mexico; 8. "My wife and I..' 9. New York Harbor; 10. Mis souri. 4 20 Yeats Ago Just 20 years ago Life magazine brought out an issue largely devoted to "America's future." A friend dropped a copy on our desk the other day, and we have been poring over it in fascina tion. In some ways, change has been far more than expected; in other ways this June of 1959 is remarkably similar (at least in the retrospective view presented by life) to that pre-war June of 1939. . There is little evidence in the magazine of the international tensions which, in 1939, were bidd ing up to history's greatest war. But perhaps this is natural in this sort of special edition. - JOHN Steinbeck's book, "The Grapes of Wrath," is reviewed, one of the few evidences of a country which was just then coming out of the great depression which started eight years earlier. Nylons had just been introduced; television broadcast its firstball game, was still a novel ty, and not yet an intimate adjunct to virtually every American home; a review of the industries and resources of the Pacific Northwest features the great reclamation , projects of Grand Coulee dam, then three-fifths completed. These and oth er articles, some historical, some taking a look ahead, are featured in the issue. " MEAR the front, 33 comic strips are given a quick glance. Many of the old "stand-bys" are still around, although most of them have changed somewhat, either in format or in draw ing style. Others are now vanished. Maggie and Jiggs, Mutt and Jeff, the Katzen jammer Kids, Joe Palooka and (of course) little Orphan Annie were virtually the same 20 years ago as they are today. "Annie" hasn't grown an inch nor a month in two decades. And Dick Tracy is just as sharp-nosed and jutty-jawed now as then. . : : . . Skeezix and Nina today are 20. years older then they were then, in their courting days, but the format of the panel is similar.- . Those which have changed are Li'l Abner, which has become even more grotesque as the years have passed; Terry, in which the art work is slicker now than then (perhaps a natural de velopment, although in part because the artists if i n ir?ii m ii is auierem; mmon uanui arew lerry in mose days). Blondie and Dagwood are a little differ ent, although not much, in drawing, and Alexan der, now in his teens, then was Baby Dumpling a case of his growing faster than Annie but slow er than the march of the years. IN LIFE'S only glance at world headlines, report- ed from the week before, were these : Italy and Germany sign war pact Danzig crowds voice , hatred of Poles. Fascist paraders manhandle Czechs. Japanese withdraw 50 miles in "victory." Britain again defaults. Joint British French war games predicted. Anti-Rome feeling strong in Greece. German police jail high Czech officials. Russia to step up arms outlay 66 per; cent Plots laid to Nazis in Brazil, Ecuador. Japa nese fliers bomb Chungking. New fights disturb Manchukuo border. Franco has shot 688 Loyal ists since fall of Madrid. Republicans declared "National Debt Week," viewed with alarm the debt, and prophesied national bankruptcy or "the equally suicidal jeopardy of inflation." THIRTY-THREE men from the sunken, sub- marine Squalus were rescued with a diving bell; 26 others died. Tom Pendergast was sen tenced to 15 months in Leavenworth and fined $10,000 on a charge of Aluminum was just own in 1939, Life reported, particularly in the then-infant aircraft industry, which was to grow so overwhelmingly in the wan years ahead. Headlines, gathered months by Buckminster at the future in news of the day. Here are some: Einstein believes he's found solution to gravi tation riddle. New key is found to Atomic energy. Endless duel of atoms declared source of fuel in furnace of sun. New test reveals cancer chemical. X-rays reverse processes of life. Vast electric 'sea' explored by radio. dieted Dy y4u. MaKes plane dive oyo mues an hour. Clipper starts air mail line to Europe. A new highway to the Arctic. COME of these headlines were prophetic; others, inevitably, showed only the clouds in the crystal ball. . And the "Futurama" year also had some cloudy prophecy cloudy, perhaps, because of the oncoming war. ",: For 1960 it foresaw lar irom the truth, in metropolitan areas of to day) ; it foresaw teardrop automobiles with en- ? . . ii . , gines in tne rear; planes with landing speeds lowered to a point "where they will be practicallv foolproof" (although there was no hint of jet engines) ; park-like cities with separated sky scrapers; city streets entirely separated from pe destrian waiKways on tne second - story level; automated (although the word hadn't vet been in vented) farms; a highway with four lanes for oU-mph traffic, two for for 100-mph traffic. ' What does all this prove? Nothing much, ex cept that hindsight is far easier than foresight; that America has moved faster in some ways than predicted, and slower in others, and tha World War n had a tremendous impaction the placid America of 20 years ago. - If you like to speculate, figure out whatthis nation would be like today if the war had been averted. jj;.A. 40 - billion - dollar federal income tax evasion. ; beginning to come into its over the preceding six Fuller, attempted a look 41,000,000 phones pre- at the World's Fair that 14 - lane expressways (not 75-mph traffic, and one :.' : , , Dennis the ' Mr.UAlSOM MUST B6 AWFUL MILLION OaUAKS IP WED MOVE Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington-The man who j was unconquerable in France's sick defeat is becoming just s h o r t of in- sufferable in France's splen did return to strength and vigor under his leadership.' This is about the way re sponsible A men' ran and WwwS ' - British inform ants now view General Charles de Gaule, though they would never in the world put the thing so crudely in public. De" Gaulle strode with haughty-and superb-skill into France's hopelessly chaotic political situation just over a year ago. Now, he has ac complished the nearly incom parable feat of bringing the French back to some of the power and the glqry. His work has been of enormous value to all the West, as well as to France. " Our officials, and those of Britain, are thankfully aware of this. But the trouble is that he is a coldly passionate perfec tionist and an icy idealist. He is now trying to force this country and Britain to accept as a fact what cannot ever really be a fact. He is trying to make us agree that France is a great power comparable to the Unifed States and the United Kingdom. Saying it would not make it so, except perhaps to him. rpHIS IS the meaning of de Gaulle's' new threat to make no further commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization unless the . Uni ted States shares atomic weapons with him. These we cannot share with him under our law. And under no fore seeable conditions would we do so if we could. He wants to join the "Atom ic Club" - the U. S. and Bri tain - not simply to have the weapons in hand. He knows that only those nations with heavy atomic power can be truly decisive any more in international politics. For many months he has been making this demand and that demand, on pain of do ing further harm to NATO if he were nof satisfied. One irony is that while no nation in the West could afford the destruction of NATO, the common shield of all, France least of all could survive such a destruction. Another irony is that this great collective security or ganization to which de Gaulle again threatens to make no more "contributions" would long ago have withered had it depended on the French. France long since has com mitted her real military strength v to North Africa. There she is desperately, and understandably, trying to hang onto historic off-shore positions centering in Algeria. . THE MILITARY headquar ters of NATO is just out side' Paris. But if troop con tributions to NATO were the, determining factor in choos ing a HQ, the thing might 8s well be in Omaha. (This 11 known fact makes it no easier for the NATO supreme com mander. General Lauris Nor stadt of the United States, in his endless dealings with the French. Indeed, if "Laurie" were not so calm a Scandina vian type, there would "have been a loud explosion much FIVE BOYS DROWNED Santarem, Portugal - (CPD -Authorities said today that five teen-age -boys were drowned in the Tagus river during a beach party Thurs day despite frantic efforts of would-be rescuers to save them. fpfs-''' 111 Menace RICH I HEMDtifi)6MA S. WHITE before this in the Paris sub urbs.) All the same, and for a third irony, France is vital to NATO as its geographic center. It is in France that we have raised up the heart of NATO's "infrastructure" the air strips, supply depots, pipeline terminals and all the vast complex of defense so essential to the alliance. And. for a fourth and final irony, de G a u 1 1 e, notwith standing France's inherent lack of great strength, is him self too strong and too indis pensable to be subdued or placated by the ordinary di plomacy. What he wants, like Nikita Khrushchev of Russia though for different reasons, is a face-to-face meeting with President Eisenhower. rpHIS, TOO, would be a - "summit conference," Jor de Gaulle sincerely believes that anywhere he may place his foot is automatically a summit - as it used to be said that wherever MacPonald sat was always' the head of the table. Will there be such a Franco American "summit?" The Eisenhower Administration certainly shows no eagerness for it. . But pressures for it are rising, here as In France, The old - fashioned diplo macy is becoming a kind of elegant messenger service. Everybody now demands to see "the boss," like a brash salesman automatically de termined to go far over the head of the mere purchasing agent. ' - (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Eleazer Conf used By Interest Rate Juggling Discussion By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (DPD Now it comes out that what the gov ernment wants is lower in terest rates. That's why it is proposing to raise 'em. And any body who can't under stand this just hasn't stayed away from the hear- 1 X Frank Eleazer . "HJS ai wmui it is aU being explained. According to the testimony so far, a lot of us have the wrong idea about interest rates anyway. In the first place, they aren't really high at alL And in the second place, if they were, this would only prove how well off we are. You see, it's only when we have plenty of money that we aU rush out to the bank for a loan. And, of course, it's not the lenders, but all of us bor rowers competing with our selves who keep interest rates up. Martin Clarifies William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, spent all morning clarifying these mat ters of high fiscal policy for members of the House Ways & Means committee. They thanked him, and Rep Thomas B. Curtis (R-Mo.) said gratefully these were just the things they needed to know, so they can" explain them all to the House a little bit later. This will come, presumably, when the committee approves, at least in part, President Ei senhower's request for a law to let us taxpayers pay our selves higher interest rates on the billions of dollars we al ways are borrowing from our selves to keep solvent. If Congress doesn't OK the request, Martin said, the sav German Finance Minister Out His Capability of Becoming Chancellor By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Man of the week: West Ger man Economics Minister Lud wig Erhard. The place: Bonn, Germany. The ouote: "I will in no cir- cumstances tolerate the continued ex istence of the historical lie that I am less qualified than the chancellor to guide" the German peo ple. The rosy ptui Newsom c n e e k s. tne tilted cigar and the jowls that wrap from ear to ear are the sign of Ludwig Erhard's per petual good nature and opti mism. But the good nature under went considerable strain this week as Erhard hurried home to Bonn from the United States to salvage what he In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Our new atomic submarine. the George Washington, has justbeen launched at Groton, Connecticut. It wUl launch MISSILES - either from the surface or from under water. Ike wires this congratulatory message: v "It is my prayerful hope that this ship will always be ready, but NEVER USED." THAT is to say: May it be the GUN BE HIND THE DOOR that scares off evil marauders. CJPEAKTNG of missiles: ' There are missiles of war and there are missiles of peace. The missile got its first peace use the other day when the postoffice department used it to carry an experimental load of mail hundreds of miles in a matter of minutes. . The mail missile forecasts the time when a letter mailed on the West Coast this morn ing can be delivered to an addressee on the East Coast THIS AFTERNOON. That's a long jump from the pony ex press. , - . . THE world moves. Often in the right di rection. : Rapid communication is in dispensable in the modern world. ? SPEAKING of. communica tions , It took weeks and weeks for the word that Oregon had been admitted to the. Union to reach the newly' made state a century ago. But even that was rapid delivery when compared with another histor ic message. Back in, 1846 Captain John C. Fremont was twiddling his ers amongst us are liable to start lending their money to somebody who can pay more than the 4V4 per cent interest which is all the law now lets us pay ourselves when we lend to the government. That will leave Uncle Sam in a terrible bind, and people will start distrusting the dol lar. So then, we'll all put our money in stocks, and, interest rates will go up. "I'm trying to get interest rates to go down," he ex plained. When it comes time to re lay this to the House, some body besides Rep. Hale Boggs D-La.) wUl have to do it, I guess. He couldn't see it. Martin Explains Boggs also couldn't under stand right away why, at a time when everything is go ing just great, outstanding government bonds are being traded at far less than face value. "In times of great prosper ity," Martin explained, "in terest rates rise. Rising inter est rates are not a sign of weakness but a sign of grow ing confidence.". Apparently this didn't sat isfy Boggs either. Anyway, he said maybe rising interest rates, and the government's troubles - therefrom, result from the government's own hard money policy. Not at all, Martin observed. If anything, he said, there has been too much money around, not too little. And here he got into some thing even I could understand. He said it's not just the amount of money in circula tion that you have to look at, but also the speed at which the stuff is turned over Late ly, he pointed out, it has been turning over at a great rate. I'U say. Mine currently turns over so (fast it rarely lasts out the week. y Or4 could of his ambitions to be come chancellor of West Ger many and to learn the reasons for incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's last-minute refusal to step down. Boosts Economy Attributed to Adenauer were these charges against Erhard: That he opposed: West Euro pean unity. That he could not maintain the continuity of West Ger man policy. At 62, Erhard is more than 20 years Adenauer's junior. The differences between the two are those of day and night, but each in his own way has been the indispensa ble man to a resurgent West Germany. Adenauer, the autocrat, was teaching the Germans democ racy, Erhard, the dry-goods merchant's son, was teaching them the way to prosperity. A World War I wouird at Ypres prevented Erhard from following in his father's steps as a merchant, and instead Rockefeller's Presidential Chances Await '60 AppraisaJ By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD Along about January, 1960, will be soon enough to determine whether New York's Gov. Nelson A. Rock efeller has a solid chance to win the Republi can presiden tial nomina tion. Practical p o 1 i t i cians will wait un til January to Lyie c. wuson make their own estimate of Rockefeller's political potential. They will be waiting for the governor's second annual message to the New York Legislature. It will be recaUed that in his first message, last January, Rocke feller rocked New York stafe and shook up the Republican party with a demand for a big tax boost, and got about what he wanted. Rockefeller's January, 1960, message might have better news for the taxpayers. The governor, will be in business as a likely Republican presi dential nominee if that 1960 message reports a surplus in tne state treasury and re quests a tax reduction. A 1960 surplus and a tax cut would compel the Repub lican party to take a long and lively look' at Gov. Rocke feller. Vice President Richard M. Nixon's prospects would be clouded and Rockefeller's would be correspondingly thumbs down in the lower Sacramento valley. It is pre sumed that he had been sent there on a mission. The mis sion is presumed to have been to TAKE OVER CALIFOR NIA if and when the psycho logical moment arrived. He fiddled around, waiting for the message. He wandered from Sutter's Fort to Sonoma. He wandered on to Monterey. From there, he headed over into the Salinas valley. He was killing time. Eventually, he headed north to the Klam ath country Still killing time. Waiting for the message. MEANWHILE Marine Lieu tenant Gillespie had been dispatched from Washington with word for Captain Fre mont's private ear. He went first by U.S. naval vessel to Vera Cruz, Mexico. From Vera Cruz, he went overland to Mexico City. From Mexico City, he traveled over land to Mazatlan. .From Maz atlan he sailed to Hawaii then known as the Sandwich Islands. From there he came back by ship to San Francisco. In San Francisco, he learn ed that' Captain Fremont was in the Klamath country. So he headed north. He found Fre mont waiting on upper Klam ath Lake and delivered his verbal message. He had been given a written message, but somewhere along the line he became fearful that the mes sage might be taken off his person, and read by someone who shouldn't read it. So he committed it to memory, and ate the paper. CAPTAIN FREMONT re ceived the message by word of mouth from Gilles pie. Immediately he and Gil lespie and Kit Carson and the rest of his party took horse and rode hell for leather for the vicinity of Sonoma, where they joined the remainder of Fremont's force, along with others, and raised the Bear Flag and proclaimed the Bear Republic, which became the American state of California, It took a lot of waiting, thanks to slow communications. I 1 z? led him to a doctor's degree in economics from Frankfurt university. v In 1947, partly because he had no Hitler ties, he became economics chief for the U.S. and British occupation zones of Germany. Right About Prices - Erhard leaped to promi nence in 1948, when, without consulting the Allies, he -went to the radio and announced the end of rationing controls. The next day he was sum moned to the office of Ameri can military commander Lu cius Clay, who warned him: "AU of my advisers are against this." ' Unperturbed, Erhard re plied: "All my advisers are against it, too." For a while it looked as if the resulting price spiral would cost Erhard both his job and reputation. But, true to his predictions, prices fell and production rose. . ' Erhard is not. a backroom politician but rather one who believes in going to the peo- brightened by such a com-1 bination. Some of the governor's po litical disabilities would begin to ; fade, under uch circum stances. Many organization Republicans would consider it a disability that Rockefeller does not always wear the party label proudly. For ex ample, the fact that he was the Republican candidate for governor last year was de emphasized in his . campaign for governor. . - Campaigner Rocke feller seemed unwilling to associate himself with the Eisenhower administration: all but bolted the city in an effort to avoid a meeting with Nixon during the campaign. Some Republi cans question how deeply Rockefeller's political roots go into Republican soil. Some of these dte the opinion of Averell Harriman, the Demo cratic governor whom Rocke feller defeated last November. Harriman Remarks In' a newspaper interview, Harriman said: "Mr. Rocke feller, in my judgment, ran as a liberal Democrat." In a less publicized remark, Harriman on' Dec. 23, 1958, expressed the opinion that the Republicans would not nomi nate Rockefeller in 1960 be cause he is too far to the left -"even more so than I. "Fur ther left than Harriman is quite a distance. Political observers noted during the New York guber natorial campaign between ENGLISH DOCTOR DIES Roxham, England - (DPD Dr. Granley Dick Read, 69, and exponent of natural child birth, died here Thursday. His system of childbirth training involved , giving expectant mothers short lectures and muscle control exercies. FOR . . RANCHERS and STGCGEUO During this Centennial year, these items will become scarce and prices will be raised on many. BUY NOW while prices are low 1 wii--rvftr to Prove pie. He deals in broad hori zons and dislikes the Euro pean common market plan only because he believes ; it limits the horizon and may result in other restrictions la ter. For him, the whole world is a free trade area. Remain at Odds Erhard is a man who be lieves in negotiation and per suasion. He would like to see an atmosphere of freer move ment between Eas: and West, but he says: "There is no middle ground between freedom and slavery, cur system and their system. These things cannot be mixed." . ' He would give the Comtnu ri;is no chance for any con trol over West German life. There seems no real diverg ence of views between Ade nauer and Erhard. But meanwhlie, despite pub lic apologies, the two men most responsible for present day Germany remain at odds. The results could reach be yond West German bordfs. Democrat Rockefeller wfef: "Basically, there are no mtn- ingful issues in the campaJSn so far as New YorJ vote are concerned. Party Regularity There is no question jbout Nixon's party regularity. There seems to be some ques tion about Rockefeller's. That, of course, need not be a dis ability in the Republican Party. Republican national conventions from time to time have rejected the claims of party regularity anil respon sibility for a bright, new face. There was Wendell L. Willkie back there in 1940. And, in 1952, Republicans chose Dwight D. Eisenhower bver Robert A. Taf t. In New York's Rocky, th Republicans may have got themselves another Ike or. even, a v personality cult dreamboat in the image of FDR. ; -. . ' : Communications Letters to tha Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a Sen name or initial for public on is pe-missible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation' Letters submitted for publica tion must nnt exceed 400 words New Water Rates To the Editor: Would jrou please put the following' in the Communications column: The new rate for the Talent water users, effective as of this month, is as folows: The minimum of 5,000 gal lons, $2; 6,000 through 9,000 galons, 25 cents per thousand; 10,000 tnd abova t$l per thousand. 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