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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Jun 15, 1959 "fceryone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Jjtiblished Dnily except Saturday by v in nrn.in DDlvTTvr1 rr S3 North tlx St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL, Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager GErAUl LATHAM. Business UgT ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Uflhtered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES M a 1 1 In Advance. Coot 10c. Dail and Sunday 1 year 919.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only Ono year $420 Brr Carrier In Advance Medford. . Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and sunusy l mo. iou Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c Ail Terms Cash tn Advance Official Paper of City t Medford Official Papei of Jaesaoil connty United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAtf OF CIRCULATION Advertising Reoresentative uiLipm rim mAV ff TWP ces in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C. CP" NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION MATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 4 )ind 50 years ago. !J YEARS AGO tfuu 15, 1949 (Wednesday) Miss Irene Walker of Ap- niffiyate is named aueen of the eighth annual Rogue Riv er Roundup. Delegates gather at Ashland . for the statewide Methodist conference. 20 YEARS AGO " June 15, 1939 (Thursday) The Jackson county health department states Bear creek is not suitable for swimming. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The wearers of straw hats are in creasing in the ranks of those financially able to stay in the hade." 80 YEARS AGO Jun 15, 1929 (Saturday) A legal battle looms over whether a dance at Gold Hill can remain open to 2 a.m. Portland boosters arrive by airplane. 40 YEARS AGO Jun 15. 1919 (Sunday) An Army DeHaviland air plane passes over Medford en route south. The county court starts work on graveling the road from Table Rock to TraiL 50 YEARS AGO Jun 15. 1909 (Tuesday) A new oil well on the local desert is proposed, as efforts to get rid of water in the present well fail. The Crater Lake road ap propriation dispute goes to court in Salem. , Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ee in is good. 1. In mythology, what Greek youth fell in love with . hfe- own reflection in the water? ; 2. Cold water will freeze . more quickly that hot water; true or false? 3. Name ..the other place hat you associate with: Alsace ana . Correct the following: "H read it like you said." $ The entrance to the har bor of San Francisco is called th what? 9. Who said: "You may fire when you are ready. Grid- ley"? Who wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls"? 9. How many watts In a kilowatt? 3. Which of the planets is farthest from the sun? 10. What General won the Battl of New Orleans in 1819? &rwers: 1. Narcissus. 2. True . Lorraine. 4. "He read it as . . ." 5. Golden Gale. 6. Commodore Dewey. (Manilla Bay.) 7. Ernest Hemingway. 8. 1000 walls. 9. Pluto 10. Au drey Jackson. v local Foresters Set Friday Evening Meet The Siskiyou chapter, So ciety of American Foresters, will hold a meeting at the Jajson hotel Friday, June 19. Sam Taylor of the Elk Lum ber company will show col ored slides and give a talk on "Forest Practices in the Southern Pine Region." ft. social hour will be helot at . 6:45 pan. with dinner scheduled for 7:30 pan. The Gold Balance In 1958 other countries withdrew $2,275 mil lion of their balances here in the form of gold. Through May of this year they had drawn down another $346 million. By the time we have set aside the gold required for our new subscription to the International Monetary Fund our gold stocks may well have fallen below $20 billion for the first time since 1940. . Model, Roland & Stone, a New York Stock Exchange firm, has just made public a study, "The International Position of the U.S. Dollar' which was prepared for it by one of our leading authorities on the subject, Edward M. Bernstein, until recently head of the research department of the International Monetary Fund. Mr. Bernstein shows fall in exports in 1958 ' i ly&y was a reaction irom tne aonormai ana imper manent rise of 1956 and 1957 as a consequence of the Suez crisis. He goes on to show that talk of a loss of our domestic markets and talk of a flight from the dollar are equally wild shots in the dark. ASA matter of fact, while it has remained for the outflow of gold to dramatize that fact, we have been running balance of payments since as far back as 1950, Mr.' Bernstein emphasizes any weakness in our trade position or of the dol lar. Our commercial trade able in every year since we suffered our severest positive balance m commercial accounts of $5. billion, i The answer is to be shows, in two items namely, Umted States pn vate foreign investments, ernment expenditures and transfers abroad. Ihe former has increased from $1,265 million in 1950 to an average of around $3 billion since 1956, or by $1,735 millions, but the latter has expanded from $4,742 million to $8,449 million, or by $3,707 million. . OOWEVER, to Mr. Bernstein the fact that our unfavorable payments balance arises, para doxically, from the strength of our position doesn't mean that there is no problem. "Policies that were bold and essential a dec ade ago," he believes, "must be modified to con form to the needs of a world that is now radically different. The United States . . . cannot continue to provide aid to countries merely to enable them to acquire reserves of gold and United States dol lars. With an international-payments policy that recognizes the realities of the economic world today there need be no fear of the capacty of the United States to maintain its economic leadership among the great trading nations." New York Times. , Life Sentence for Hunt The outlopk must seem very grim for Richard Allen Hunt. ' At age 26 he is confined in the state peniten tiary with a life sentence. Hunt is the chap who shot and gravely wounded the police chief of Brownsville and then escaped the net of police and deputized civilians thrown out to apprehend him. His time of freedom was short, however, for he was arrested on a Wyoming stock ranch and brought back to Albany where he plead guilty to the crime of assault with intent to kill. Judge Victor Oliver imposed the life sentence. IT IS true that Hunt had a previous record of criminality, and was known to be subject to fits of rage; His success in eluding early capture and his being listed as one oi tne nations lop Ten wanted by the FBI gave his case wide publi city. He's a bad man, no doubt, but still the life sentence seems pretty heavy. For at age 26 one ought to have some hope left, and a life-termer's hope is slim. , There is some hope, however, for after eight years he will be eligible -w M parole, judge- u liver evidently reasoned tnat Hunt's previous career showed a set toward crim inality, and that he should not be released unless he showed positive signs of reformation. MOW it is up to Hunt himself. He will have to rebuild his character and demonstrate in the coming years his rehabilitation. If he does this, the parole board will deal with him intelligently, tempering justice with mercy. And Hunt has some good qualities, by the testimony of his former employers. The life sen tence is not final. By his-own performance he may shorten his term. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Louisiana Urges Cancer Research Washington - (DPD - The Louisiana state legislature, in a concurrent resolution pre sented ; to Congress by Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La.), urged congressional support of a drive . to mcrease cancer re search appropriations pro posed by Sen. Richard Neu berger (D-Ore.). , The resolution said the "leg islature and the people of the state of Louisiana are in ac cord with the efforts of Sen. Neuberger to increase the amount of federal funds for cancer research," according to a report by Neuberger. . The resolution urged Con gress to "support the efforts of Sen. Neuberger to increase funds for cancer research." that the much discussed and the first quarter of if 1 1 t an over-all deficit m our that this doesn't reflect balance has been favor 1950, and in 1958, when gold drain, we had a found, Mr. Bernstein and United States Gov for consideration fori 1 11 1 il . Castro Sharpening Readiness of Army Havana - (DPD- Premier Fi del Castro's government is tighening security and sharp ening the combat readiness of the army to 'meet the possi bility of an armed attack or uprising. Authorities said the week end arrest of 12 men who served in the army under ousted Dictator Fulgencio Ba tista confirmed the existence of an organized, armed cam paign aimed at overthrowing f the Castro government. It brought to 71 the total number of persons arrested in the past week on charges of plotting against the govern ment. A quantity of arms, am munition and explosives also was seized. Dennis the : Washington Report By WILLIAM MODERATION SEEN Washington-The Eisenhow er Administration and the controlling minds in both parties in Con gres.s have taken separate but related de cisions of pro found import ance on civil rights. .They expect and in tend to go into William S. ""' " White p a i g n year with only moderate additions to the present civil rights laws. Specifically, the now-settled purpose both in the Adminis tration and among the con trolling bipartisan power groups in Congress is this: not to seek now and maybe not even later - further Fed eral legal weapons to force school integration directly on the government's own initia tive. The belief is that the pro gressive retreat from "massive resistance" in Virginia, the intellectual and traditional leader of he Old South, will make any harsh legislation both unnecessary and unwise. HOWEVER, the reopen ing of the schools in Sep tember produces grave dis orders anywhere in the South all bets will be off. In such an event the year 1960, full of Presidential politicking as it will be, will produce irresist ible demands for "hard" ac tion. These demands will rise notably in Congress but also in the civil rights planks of the two party conventions. (To be sure, such demands will no doubt come anyhow -from the extremist liberals in both parties. But these ex tremists wiU be about as ef fective isolated next year as now if the South happily is able in the meantime to avoid tragedies such as that of Little Rock two years ago.) President Eisenhower rou tinely supports the compara tively middle-road broaden ing of the civil rights act that has been asked of Congress by his Attorney General, Wil liam P. Rogers. This the Presi dent does, however, without passionate advocacy; actually he remains convmced under neath that persuasion and not law is the answer to racial discrimination. MR. ROGERS, for his part, has convinced a good many skeptical observers that he reaUy wants a solution of this dilemma more than he wants a strictly campaign is sue for the GOP. All the same, though, he is willing to wait a while, he is at heart a much Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE MONTREALER reports a ticklish moment in the busy life of one of the city's leading lights. He had taken his son to lunch at a newly-opened oyster bar, and after they had exited, asked the boy, "Well, ' how did you like your first taste of oysters on the-half-shell?" The boy admitted they had looked so uninvit ing to him he hadn't eaten any. "But your plate was empty when the waiter took it away," the father pointed out "I didn't want to hurt your feelings," explained the boy, "so I slipped them into my pocket when you weren't looking. Pm trying to find a place now to get rid of them." Then a look of horror came over his face. "I must have put them in' the tome!" Silently, father and son quickened their pace and slipped around a corner. . You must have heard about the cowardly counterfeiter. He still has the first dollar he ever made. ; 1359, by Bennett Crf. Piatnbutad by Xto Tmtma gyadicatfc Menace Owy if i eneAmev S. WHITE stronger believer in legal so lutions than is ms chief, the President. This circumstance may have great significance at next year's GOP national conven tion. Rogers is Vice President Nixon's closest friend within the Administration. It may be put down now as certain that he will have an unsurpassed role in the forces that wiU seek the Presidential nomina tion for Mr. Nixon. This role is very likely to find Rogers speaking for the Vice President in the GOP Platform Committee, among other places. The Attorney General's present view - and it should be emphasized that he lays no claim to speaking now for Nixon and has not nominated himself to do so at the convention - is this: THE Republican plank, as suming a largely un troubled coming school year, need not and should not pro pose Federal force actions to speed integration. If, however, there is major school trouble, that plank will beyond doubt insist upon such force actions. The corresponding Democratic plank will surely do no less In short, we are entering a summer period of twilight and pause on a severe national problem. If reasonable and moderate men can use this breathing space in fruitful and effective planning to control the immoderates on both sides, it is even conceivable that the .1960 Presidential campaign can be fought out without hopelessly inflaming tne issue. The alternative is all too clear an era of destructive national bitterness and divis ion in a time of rarely matched world peril. (Copyright, 1959, by United - Feature Syndicate, Inc.) French Unions End Threat of Strike Paris -flJPD- French labor unions avoided a showdown clash with President Charles de Gaulle's government on his wage-freezing austerity pro gram today by calling off a threatened general strike set for Tuesday. The unions agreed to with draw the strike order follow ing a last-minute conference with Public Works Minister Robert Buron. Acting on behalf of the government, which owns the rail network, Buron proposed to open a new round of wage talks with the union. All major unions, Catholic, Socialist and Communist, agreed to the truce offer and issued a stay on the job order. Stop Me "They aren't here," he groaned. pocket of the man sitting next Foreign Assignment: Icelandic 'War'; Fighting in Indonesia By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's assignment book: Power play: Gen. Charles de Gaulle has gone beyond his original de- mands that France, the United States and Britain have final say in aU NATO military deci sions. Should he be success ful in his la- Phil Newsom test demands, he alone would have the final say. De Gaulle already has announced the French Medi terranean fleet would not be answerable to NATO com mand in wartime. Now, he re fuses to permit stockpiling of U.S. atomic warheads in Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addreu 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 View of Russia To the Editor: This Foreign Ministers' meeting in Geneva is a wonderful vacation for a lot of people. Why any one should expect more of this wrangle is difficult to under stand. Russia acquired peace able possession of East Ger many, and possession is nine points in law. The fact that the American army withdrew a distance of 11 miles in order to allow the Russians to oc cupy this territory is evidence we intended for them to do so. We do not seem to be con cerned about Poland, Hun gary, Rumania, or Bulgaria; neither are we concerned about North Korea. The Rus sians are not going to under stand our concern about East Germany (so' called) which they have definitely incorpor ated into the Soviet Union. They designate it as East Ger many only for the reason for dissension. Some people are beginning to wonder if this country didn't venture a bit too far when it undertook to settle the affairs of the world. We have long been the richest nation on earth. Back in the thirties our livestock got out of hand; we sent firing squads through the country to slaughter cattle and pigs. About that time we discovered we had more money than was good for us, so its value was reduced to one half. Our farm ers were in a bad way too, so we hired them to grow wheat. A dam is being built to divert the Colorado river so the can yon can be used for a wheat pit. We have been doing a lot of things in a Wg way in re cent years, but another, war or two and Russia will not ask to meet with us in Swit zerland; they wiU be asking us to send delegates to meet with them in Washington, D.C. While tney are moving on India, they will continue to wrangle with us over (East) Germany. Joseph J. Hall, Shady Cove, Ore. Bear Creek Work Needed To the Editor: I feel the time has come for action by tne wry or Medford for re habilitating the Bear Creek area upstream and down stream from East Main st. In its present condition the view of Medford's splendid park in that section is obstructed from all points west of the stream. This is a loss to the city that should not be. More urgent possibly, is the unsanitary state of affairs that exist. It is a well known breeding place for all kinds of pests, winged and crawling, and the odor emitted from the often stagnant water is not of the character this other wise fair and healthful com munity manifests. The re moval of the mass of under growth that covers this area would tend to increase the safety of all citizens, most especially of the younger members of the city. Contrary to recurring rumor of a vast public high way system that is presum ably planned for this basin, there is not, I am reliably in formed, even the remotest chance for Medford realizing this development. It is alto gether time and past time the people of Medford and the of ficials responsible take action for themselves to turn this wilderness area into a real asset for the city of Medford. This problem is not new to me, nor the growth of Med ford a novel experience for me. I have been in touch with this for over 50 years. It will be your good fortune, citizens of Medford, if this action Js taken for you. Fee Clifford Esteb, 153 North Oakdale ave., Medford. 'A " n it ' fi France unless lie controls their use and unless he re ceives a share in atomic se crets. Advance military plan ning is based on the absolute certainty of cooperation of all NATO members. Therefore, what De Gaulle is saying is that unless he is captain of the team he won't play. It is one of the thorniest problems NATO has had to face. Troubled waters: Diplomats believe Britain would like to find a way out of its present strained rela tions with Iceland. Britain has refused to recognize Iceland's 12-mile limit and has sent na val vessels to protect British fishing boats operating in the area. Icelandic Communists are making hay out of the fish war and are urging that Iceland withdraw from NATO and kick out the Amer ican air base., Iceland's Scan dinavian NATO partners Norway and Denmark -also are concerned and hope that now is the time for mediation, possibly by the United States, Feelers already are being put out. Unhappy Merchants: The late Pope Pius XB. spent most of the summer at Castel Gondolfo which also brought tourists and the Ro man Catholic faithful there What with the sale of food, lodgmg and relics, the rest dents made a good living dur ing the summer. Now it ap pears that, Pope John XXII plans to spend only long week ends there and possibly the month of August. The villag- In the Day's News By FtANK JENKINS Politics: Governor Nelson Rockefel ler of New York is visiting friends and old acquaintances in Washington. A Washington reporter with a gift for vivid words puts it this way: "Rockefeller says he isn't running for the Presidency, but he's pumping high octane charm at Republicans during his visit here. WATCH him. j He has charm-an inde scribable charm that draws people to him. But he also has. a lot of ability, consider able knowledge of the reali ties of life and a reasonable amount of common sense.; He can't be laughed off as a rich man s son. VICE PRESIDENT Nix on who is presently assumed to have the inside track for the GOP presidential nomina tion next year, is also young and also has personal charm Plenty of it. He handles him self well in the pinches-and there have been plenty of pinches. He has plenty of ability. TELSON ROCKEFELLER was born with the tradi tional silver spoon in his mouth. Richard Nixon was born poor and has had to make his own way. There was a time in our his tory when the son of a rich man and the grandson of a ty coon wouldn't have had a chance in a race for the Presi dency. Our country is changing. No longer is it necessary, in order to be President, to have been born in a log cabin. ' rpODAY'S inflation sermon: Tax Foundation, Inc., a non-partisan tax research or ganization, says in its current bulletin: "The average U.S. produc tion worker's gross weekly earnings increased from just under $54 in 1948 to about $83 in 1958 . . . but a somber companion set of statistics shows how in this period of inflation, like the coin-clippers of old, has steadily taken its toll of these paycheck in creases." UtOR example: From the end of the war, wages rose constantly, in 1951, the average production worker's pay had risen from $57.85 in 1950 to $62.13 in 1951-a gain of $4.28 a week in dollar wages. But- In that year inflation (in the form of steadily increas ing PRICES) had taken from the BUYING POWER of the worker's paycheck a total of $4.59-leaving him with a NET LOSS of 31 cents per week in the buying power of his wages. ' By 1958, the average pro duction worker's paycheck FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth hr Buffered real embarrassment because their plate dropped, supped or wob bled at just the wrong time. Do not Uve In fear of this happening to tou. Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH, the aiaanne ( non-acia ) powaer, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmlv. so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks plate odor' (den ture breath) . Get FAS TEETH at an Crag counter. De Gaulle ers fear it may cut their in comes in half. Shooting War: It has been kept quiet in Jakarta but army .troops and civilian police engaged in a small shooting war at Jakar ta's Tandjung Priok harbor in late March when the Rus sian ambassador to Indonesia complained that police were pillaging rice brought in by a Russian vessel. Troops sent by the army were denied en trance to the port area by po lice ana a tierce gun battle followed. The toll: five dead, tnree wounded. Incidentally, there are new rumors that the central gov Various 'Lobbies7 Exert Influence Through Mailings By FRANK ELEAZER Washington- (DPff -President Eisenhower is worried about the munitions lobby. He says there is a pos sibility it may be influencing i , sumeuuuy So far though Ike hasn't said a word about the oyster lob by, and I know for a fact it influenced Frank Eleazer number of girls in the House and Senate office buildings the other day to scream when they opened the mail. What popped, out of each letter from the Long Island bnelltish Farmers Assn. was a couple of starfish. When order was restored, and the starfish were retriev ed from far corners, behind bookcases, etc;, everybody was relieved to find they were dead, mere was further re lief when it was ascertained they hadn't been dead but so long, .or possibly that they had been pickled. Starfish Relish Oysters some congressional secre taries, and maybe some mem bers of Congress, later got around to reading the letter that came with the starfish. It said starfish, like people, Seattle Man Loses Legs Under Train Salem -(DPD- Modris Rutkis, 35, Seattle, whose legs were amputated by a moving train here Saturday when he fell beneath it, today was reported in "satisfactory" condition at Salem Memorial hospital. The man was discovered by an engineer, J. E. Davis, Sa lem police said. Washington Bankers Elect Yakima Man Seattle (DPD Joseph H. Dietzen, vice-president of the Yakima Valley branch of the National Bank of Washington, Yakima, Saturday was elected president of the Washington Bankers' Association at the close of the 63rd annual ses sion here. had risen to $83.15, a gain of $2.17 a week over 1957. But, during this period of a year, the BUYING POWER of his paycheck DROPPED by $2.23 leaving him six cents a week worse off than he had been the year before in spite of his up in pay. That's inflation for you. 11 Keasona (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, a Problem; ernment is readying another attempt to terminate the long smouldering Sumatra-Celebes revolt. Singapore, Tokyo and Cairo have been suggested as possible sites for talks be tween government and rebel spokesmen. Official reactfbn to the rumors is negative. " Koreans vs. Koreans: , The Republic of Korea navy has issued new warnings that Red gunboats may renew shelling of South Korean fish ing fleets in the Yellow sea near the western end of the Korean truce line. Several times in recent years, the Reds have abducted ROK fish ermen in these .waters. think oysters taste great. It said they hold to this view so firmly m fact that that they ate $50 million worth of 'em last year on the . bottom of Long Island Sound. What the oyster men want, of course, is for Uncle Sam to spend such sums as may be necessary to wipe out the starfish. It remains to be seen what comes o'f that. Earlier" this year each of our lawmakers got a Douglas fir tree in the mail. This do-it-yourself reforestation kit came from .an Oregon firm, through Rep. Charles O. Por ter (D-Ore.), and each mem ber was left to judge for him self what" ax this outfit was trying to grind. If Watered, It'll Grow What Porter said was that the tree, if watered and tend ed for the next 100 years, was guaranteed to grow into a giant. Most members accepted the gift at face value, though one demanded assurance the fir wasn't now, and would never become, a mink. Many of the trees were planted and ap parently Porter was right; some are already two inches high. In another influence at tempt overlooked so far by the President, every con gressman awhile back re ceived in the mail three nice tuna fish cans, courtesy of Rep. Bob Wilson (R-Calif.). The only thing was, they were empty. k , Wilson got some phone calls about that, mighty quick, and would have got a lot more except that some of the re cipients read the letter that came with the cans. Wilson said in the letter that if for eign competition didn't let up his district's tuna packers would have to quit packing. To mollify everybody, lest they start eating creamed chicken instead, Wilson later- sent each member another package just like the first one. Most of the recipients detected the difference in weight and refrained from throwing the shipment back at the mail man, rnese cans were run. Maybe they got there too late, though. Anyway, Wil son's bill to curb tuna imports never got out of committee. Garde.1 Sawdust McGinfy Fuel Go. Ph. SP 3-6297 T 1 ble r unerals Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
