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MAIL TRIBUNE, McdforJ, Or. Thursday, June IS, 1959 ; "Iveryoue In Southern Oregon .". Reads The Mail Tribune" . Published Daily except Saturday by . MJ.DFOAD PRINTING CO. 33 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-141 ' ROBEHT W RUHL, Editor HERB GRE- Advertfring Manager - GEPALD LATHAM. BusinfM 11 gr IRIC W ALLEN JH, - Managing Editor ARL H ADAMS. City Editor HAHRV CHIPMAW, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women"! Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Xntered as second class matter at flledford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATES ( Mil I In Advance. Copy 10c. - Dail" and Sunday 1 year $19.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8 .00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only Una year M-20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle - Point, Jacksonville. Gold Bill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes. " Dail7 and Sunday 1 year 118.00 - Daily and Sumlay I mo. 1.90 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms casn in Advance Official Paper of City af Medfora Official Paper or, Jacasosi county United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION aTdverBsing Representative: fiTEST -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 A tlllllCUtll -ASSOCIATION WATIOHAl EDITOR! Al 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 18. 1949 (Saturday) Harold E. Goffar is named new principal of Rogue River academy. Lenore Zapell is outstand ing in the Medford Civic the ater's production of "Angel Street." 20 YEARS AGO June 18. 1939 (Sunday) Medford wins first place in a statewide traffic safety con tt. from Arthur Perry's "Ye Jmudge Pot" column: "A ma Jgority of the speeders, assist g& by Providence, managed to ejap out of each other's way gal till the leading corners, the feek." " $ ttARS AGO tle 18. 1929 (Tuesday) The OSC regents express aftrjtisfgetion with the work of sfrof. Reimer at the Talent ex periment station. . D. S. E. Green and Carl A. fwigtrt are elected to the schopl board unopposed. . 41 ilARS AGO Jaa 18, 1919 (Wednesday) A tourist who has been liv- injet tht city auto camp since March is told to move on. gusstll Sherwood leaves for Oaflfnd, Ore., where he has t it with a concrete con fer f I4RS AGO Ifca 181909 (Friday) Hfw fishways are ordered for innent and - Gold Ray ..dim$ i IVUi St OLCXL US VU fcUC AiC W drinking fountain near the Medford National bank build ing being sponsored by ladies of th Greater Medford club. Vhst'c Your I.Q.? Nina ar tan correct is superior, sevan ar eight is excellent; five ar i WW. ' lis is gooe. l. Did Pochantas marry John Smith, John Alden, or John Rolfe? 2. Itdequires approximate ly minutes, 18 minutes, 28 minutes for the sun's rays to reach the earth? 3. What part of the rubber tree furnishes the material from which rubber is made? 4. Who said "Walk softly and carry a big stick." ' 3.QWhat animal do you identify as "Harvey"? 6. Fill in the associated words in the following; Alad din's ; Gresham's Hobson's 7. What flag was known as "the Stars and Bars"? 8. What famous football star was called "the gallop ing ghost"? 9. Do you associate the name Andrew Carnegie with steelmaking, public libraries, or Scotland? 10. Which State is repre sented in the U.S. Senate by Estes Kefauver? Answers: K John Rolfe. 2. 8 minutes. 3. Latex (milk). 4. President T. Roosevelt. 5. r Rabbit. 6. Lamp, law, choice, 7. The flag of the Confederate States of America. 8. Red GrangejQP. All three. 10. Ten nessee. Thanks to its soldiers and sailors, Portugal has a colon ial empire 3 times the area -of the homeland. . - j Will Would Like It If advance signs are any criteria, the 1959 season of the Oregon Shakespearean festival is going to be the best one in its 24-year history. The big new stage house is nearing comple tion, and is recognizable for what it will be open ing night, July 28, despite the litter and debris of construction, sail surrounding it. It is an impressive structure, and a credit to its designer, architect and builders to say nothing of the thousands of people who gave generously so that it might become a reality. THHE grounds have been changed considerably, but with taste and good sense. For instance, the tiers of seats in the rear are on a much sHarper rise than before, making them far better for viewing and acoustical purposes than the former somewhat flat seat bowl. The greensward in the rear is slightly smaller in area than in past years, but still will be ample for the pre-performance entertainments. New, attractive booths, build in the Tudor manner, will add to the rear-area atmosphere. The two big light-poles, which in the past stood amidst the seats and blocked the view of many patrons, are being removed. They will be replaced by light-towers off . to tjie.side. (It is hoped this will be a temporary expedient; it is planned, eventually, to have all the non-stage lighting come from the new control booth in the rear.) "' , TTHE new stage itself towers higher than the old one. And (at least to the untutored eve) it appears to capture the spirit of the Eliza bethan age better than did the former stage. The technical crew members are certain that it will be far more flexible and usable and con venient, thus adding to the excellence of the plays, not only through its own presence, but by improved technical facilities. . By opening night, landscaping will be com pleted, lighting in place, andr barring a few last minute bobbles (which insist on plaguing any theatrical opening, new stage or not), it will open impressively and on time. (Parenthetically, and in a thoroughly practi cal vein, it should be mentioned that for the first time the theater will be equipped with toilet f acilites. This has been a aenciency.j COMPLEMENTING the physical plant, the Festival has assembled for this year what may well be should be pany ever. bpecial grants from the. Oregon Centennial it possible to arrange for the return of a num ber of actors and actresses who have been fa vorites in past years men and women who have accumulated experierfce not only in Ashland but in all parts, of the United States and Europe. . ihese, together with of actors, new to the festival, and with the veteran direction of Angira Bowmer and James Sandoe, and the untested but promising directing of Rich ard Risso, promise good things. . . PIE Festival production is a tremendous un- grasped except by watching the behind-the-scenes work, and the organizational and plan ning work which goes on the year around, as well as the show itself. It involves the trained skills of hundreds of people in dozens of J different fields. Much of it is performed by volunteers, and more by people who do their jobs more for the love of it, and for the experience, than for the small financial re turns they receive. . It was more than interesting, it was to a de gree inspiring, the other night during the "cast ing dinner," to watch the faces of the young L - il il i n cumpany most oi mem m ineir. eany zus as they renewed acquaintances, or made new ones, or animatedly discussed previous festivals, or the forthcoming one. Une could sense excitement, anticipation, veiled worries, and determination as they faced this new summer adventure. . . . OO W the directors can take their young casts 1,1 and, in little more than a month, turn them from an assortment or individualists (many of them quite obviously non-conformists) into an integrated, trained, disciplined and polished act ing company, is beyond the comprehension of the mere bystander. But do it they do. Tensions and problems will mount between now and opening night;. differences of opinion, arguments, disputes will arise and be settled. Lines, will be memorized, actions drilled, tech nical problems solved. And, on opening night, f ollowing the festive dinner in the park, the 19th season will begin with color, pageantry and excitement. William Shakespeare should be around to see it. He'd approve. E.A. - The Answer Is Rather Simple Bud Forrester, editor of the East Oregonian in Pendleton, is trying to figure something out. In a recent column he put it this way : "We read last week that the bid of the Teamsters Union to represent workers in a wood products manu facturing plant has been rejected. And we wondered what possible connection the Teamsters' could have with wood products manufacturing. Can somebody enlighten us?" Well, shucks, that really isn't much of a problem. . - , Teamsters used to drive wagons. And the wagons were all made of wood Bend Bulletin. much-complained-about the best acting com the Ford Foundation and Commission have made the finest young talents Dennis the ,J .lS-r mi An' cioss that ooor! i ttWr WANT THAT Ci' UYBR SfAcLL Matter of Fact a. THE DOWNWARD SLOPE Washington This is a bad moment to try to sum up the impressions of a European trip mainly devot ed to the Ge n e v a confer ence; for the out come at Geneva hangs in the balance as these words are written. It may be mod est and un- los-ob Aisop . exciung, or 11 may be very terrible indeed. This reporter still clings to the hope that something modest will be done, in the way of clearing the road to the summit without any sacri fice of the essential Western position at Berlin. But this is the best result that can reas onably be expected. And pre cisely there, in turn, is the best measure of the decline in the American and Western posi tion in the last six years. . In order to see the extent of the decline, you only have to compare the previous So viet attempt to secure a sum mit meeting with the present one. Last time, it is now pretty clear, the Kremlin high command took the road to the summit after the fall of Beria, after the displacement of Georgi Malenkov, and after the emergence of Khrushchev and Bulganin as the Soviet Union's ruling partnership. .. .... THE real first step on the road, taken by Khrushchev over bitter opposition from Molotov and others, was the "normalization" of relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. That, in itself, was enough to stimulate pres sures or a meeting at the sum mit in Britain and France. But it was by no means enough to overcome the deter mined opposition of John Fos ter Dulles. In his grim way, Dulles stonewalled, the proj ect, resisting all the wishful outcry at home and abroad, until Khrushchev had taken a vital further step. Quite suddenly, after years of fruitless negotiation, Khru shchev granted a state treaty to Austria. After the long de layed liberation of Austria had been promised by the Kremlin, Dulles could no longer resist the drive to the summit. The arguments that the masters of the Kremlin really might be seeking some sort of general accommodation then became too . strong, converting even President Eisenhower. AS it turned out, Dulles's fears were well justified. The main consequence of that first phoney rally on the heights in the spring of 1955 was the sudden Soviet intru sion into the troubled affairs of the Middle East. The fact will be worth remembering, if we have another summit. But above all, at this moment, it is worth remembering that Khrushchev felt that it was Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A SPECTACULARLY gowned actress sidled up to Groucho Marx and confided that he was a man after her own heart. Groucho assured her with one of his familiar leers, "And that's not alL Baby!" The actress then intro duced her escort. "He's a member of the House of Representatives, a congress man," she explained proud ly. ' "Wonderful," Groucho assured the escort. "How long have you been incon gruous?" As Howard Diets once said, "An evening with Groucho is like a month of television."; - A teen-aga baby-titter was discharging her duties reason ably well when her boy friend, arrived to offer his inspired com panionship. "Don't you try to kiss me in front of this little brat," warned the baby sitter in a conspiratorial whisper. "He's pretty B-R-I-T-E." . O IMS, by Beaaett Cert Butributsd br Kins Tettuns Sydieatt. Menace INfty FOCYA'. necessary and worthwhile to pay a solid price to get to the summit in 1955. The price was Austria. . The contrast between 1955 and 1959 could hardly be more sharp. This time no price whatever has been paid to clear the summit road. In stead, Khrushchev has bran dished his H-bombs and bal listic missiles.' He has de nounced the status quo at Ber lin, guaranteed by the Soviets only ten years ago, as "intol erable" and a "danger to peace." He has threatened to take action to which the West can only respond by open sur render or direct use of mili tary force. Such were the tactics that produced the Geneva confer ence, if we are honest with ourselves. The President may say that he is not going to the summit "under threat of force": but he only means that he is not going to negoti ate under the shadow of a naked Soviet ultimatum, with a time limit attached. If he goes to the summit in the end, he win make the journey, in the last analysis, because Khrushchev's threats of imfce created a new climate in which this journey was un avoidable. ' rpHERE is the simplest, plain- est proof that this country and the Western alliance have been on a downward slope for the last six years, and especi ally since 1955. The main rea son for the decline of Western position is obvious enough. The President has persistent ly refused to make the neces sary efforts to. maintain the world balance of military power. So the power balance has tilted sharply in the Krem lin's favor. But this reporter has re turned from Europe with a strong conviction that there is still another, even more ba sic reason for the decline of the Western position. At Gene va, particularly, it was like listening to. a much-worn old gramophone record. New themes, new departures, new ideas, were conspicuous by their absence. They are now desperately needed. They must come from this country, be cause no other Western ally has the power or resources to sustain a major new depart ure or carry out a major new idea. In politics and economics, strategy and foreign relations, the United States government has not produced a single ma jor new idea since the end of the first Truman administra tion in 1948. Meanwhile the old methods, the old ideas have increasingly lost their former value. If the next American administration does not achieve a great jet of new ideas, the downward slope will continue indefinitely, perhaps into the abyss, (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Stop Me India's Red Leader Has Never Leaders Considered Friends of By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The leader of India's Com munists has one great embar rassment. He has never met such party dignitaries as Nikita Khrushchev. Mao Tse Tung or Chou En-lai, whom Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru counts among his friends. "Of course," he says, "I have seen them." He was especially irk rmi roewsom ed by an article in the of ficial Soviet magazine New Times which said that India now is "taking the path of socialism by peaceful methods -that path has been advocated for many years by Jawaharlal Nehru." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What about Geneva? Well, it's a good deal like an old-fashioned Wild West poker game where each play er kept a .45 within easy reach on the table. Only, in the case of the Ge neva session, it's a nuclear bomb instead of a .45. SPEAKING of meetings In Oarv. Indiana a mace meeting . of citizens, angered by revelations of vice and cor ruption in their city, gave of ficials two weeks to clean up the town or else. The meet ing was called by the Gary crime commission and the Gary Women's Citizens Com mittee. The ultimatum to clean up came after Cornelius Ver- plank, crime commission chairman, charged that the "entire situation in Lake county (in which Gary is lo cated) is rotten and an abso lute mess." The dispatches report that the 600 persons present at the meeting shouted approval of the action. F IS interesting. It is per haps significant. But this question occurs: How did Gary get that way? IT'S A fair guess that it got that way because the good citizens of Gary and Lake county NEGLECTED THEIR DUTY and failed to vote FOR good officials and AGAINST bad officials. That's the kernel of the nut. E MUST never forget that if we are to have good government (including eco nomical government) in this country where the people CAN run their governmental affairs if they are willing to, the people must ACCEPT. THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES A river can't rise above its source. In .the United State of America, the people are the SOURCE of government. T ET'S go back to the Good J Book (Matthew 5-13): "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?" Paraphrasing these words- If the people have lost their willingness to see to it that government in our country is sood. HOW SHALL WE HAVE GOOD GOVERN MENT? Prime Minister Of Ireland Quils Dublin-(DPD-Eamon de Va lera resiened as, Ireland's prime minister Wednesday night without waiting to find out whether his countrymen had elected him president. The 77-year-old de Valera will find out this evening whether the voters picked him or Gen. Sean McEoin, with whom he battled the English for Irish independ ence. .. After the balloting closed Wednesday, de Valera, who has dominated Irish pontics for four decades, submitted his formal resignation as the prime minister to outgoing president Sean T. 0'is.euy. Other members of the cabi net were expected to follow his lead although tney an wil continue in office until a new cabinet is formed. PETTY LARCENY Houston, Tex. - (UPD - David Alexander, 6, complained that two young rowdies robbed him in broad daylight while he was on his way home from school-and then added insult to' injury. "What makes me so mad," said David, was that "when they turned me loose, they went right across the street to a candy store and spent my whole six cents right there." To Ajoy Ghosh it seemed a final slur. As leader of Indian Com munism, Ghosh has had to undergo more than one em barrassment. He made no at tempt to defend Soviet bru tality in crushing the Hun garian revolt. Instead, he de plored it in terms stronger than Nehru's. Party Under Fire Especially embarrassing and almost reducing him to silence was Red China's 'crushing of the revolt in Tibet. Now his party is under ser ious fire in Kerala, the south ern state where it has had ,its greatest success in India. Socialist and Congress Party leaders have seized upon Communist attempts to gain control of private schools to launch a - passive resistance campaign whose ultimate goal is to force the communist gov ernment's resignation. It has Nehru's sympathy if not ap proval. Communist Party figures for India never have been published but are believed to run anywhere from 60,000 to Wright's Plan to Pay Finished by 'Good Question By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington- (DPD -Federico Bigi, secretary of state of San Marino, said his 15,000 coun trymen are in debt about two million dollars. So naturally we have been helping them out. We are building a new aqueduct for this smallest and 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 nnt exceed 400 words Who's Kwazy? To the Editor: Some monkeys is kwazy, some peo ple is kwazy, but there is more kwazy peoples than kwazy monkeys. When the Army put me on the S.S. Mauritania, I got in the Captain's stateroom on a phony slip of paper. I wasn't in it long. You can say that again. Before we got away from the docks, I ain't in it I .went down 26 flights of stairs in 2 minutes and 19 seconds. You couldn't beat that on roller skates. When I reached the coal bins, an Eng lishman handed me a new slip of paper, it read: "Lifeboat No. 13, (SECOND TRIP)". Them Englishmen thought I was so far from lifeboat No. 13, they'd have time to make a round trip to Ireland before I could get on deck. I had to get on deck for the first trip or go to the bottom of the ocean in an iron bean kettle. I found out life boats don't have second trips. I practiced runnin' upstairs all the way from Hoboken to Liverpool. I got to be world's champion at runnin' upstairs. I got so fast I could run upstairs fast er than I could fall downstairs on roller skates. We was lucky monkeys, the Mauritania wasn't torpedoed. Them 2 monkeys which went up in that satellite was lucky too. They was kwazy for get tin' into a satellite in the first place, and they was lucky the Army didn't dump them in the English Channel. How lucky can monkeys get? One of them monkeys quit being kwazy, he died. He is still lucky, we are going to find out what he died from, so the other monkeys won't die from the same thing. Everett Acklin Box 233 Ashland On High Desert To the' Editor: Your de scription of the "High Desert" was accurate but not very glowing. One must spend some time over there to get the "feel ing." There are many factors that enter into the "feel," such as the absence of smoke and haze, clear, clean air, plus crisp nights, the nearness and brilliance of the stars, the magnificent sunsets, the sheet lightning during a thunder storm, the lack of hustle and bustle, no traffic, the pun gent odor of the sage brush, the howl of the coyote, the chatter of the magpies, and on and on. Last but not least the wak ing in the morning from a night of the most refreshing sleep one ever had. Oh yes, and if one knows where to find them there are some streams in some of the mountains" in the area, excel lent camping outside of hunt ing season. Carol Maple, 1416 Ross Lane, Medford. 100,000. But with this small core they were able to capture 27 seats in the parliamentary elections of. 1957 and to be come the largest and most vocal opposition group. ' . Nor have the aims of In dian communism ever been very clearly defined beyond the general terms of land for the landless, nationalization of large industries, confisca tion of foreign business inter ests and severance of ties with the British Commonwealth. Inroads in Labor In recent years it has modi fied its policy of violence and sabotage which prior to 1950 bordered on open revolt But while small in numbers, the Communists have been a consistent thorn in the flesh of Nehru's Congress Party and their recent gains have forced Congress Party leaders to assess their own weaknesses. Some of the Red gains have come through disillusionment. For millions of India's impov erished, national freedom was not what they expected. They still had to pay taxes and oldest republic in the world, and I guess the $850,000 this costs won't add very much to our own national debt, which at latest count stood at $285,- 863,636,373.05. Happily, Mr. Bigi is here not to ask for additional help but to say thanks for what he's already got. On the other hand, he hasn't specifically of fered us any help either. But he'll be around for a couple of weeks yet and may be if it is put to him right he will suggest something. Meantime Congress is tack ling our budget problem on its own. What it is doing is amending the law to let us go deeper in debt. Sees No Alternative Have to do it, said Rep. Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.), chair man of the House Ways and Means committee. Mills told the House Rules committee there's no alternative, except maybe to quit spending more than we take in. Nobody, ap parently, saw any immediate prospect of that. Rules members agreed with Mills that this was bad. So did Rep. Jim Wright (D-Tex.), who proposed furthermore that something be done about it. Wright has in a bill to mate annual payments on the debt What he wanted was permis sion of the rules committee to offer his bill on the House floor as an amendment to one from ways and means, raising the legal limit on how far we can go into the red. . Under Wright's plan, at least 1 per cent of the debt would be paid off each year, And he proved conclusively una ougnt to be done. Others Back Plan SpecificaUy, Wright said if we just keep on payine the interest, like we've been do ing, for the next 100 vears. this wiU cost 485 billion dol lars more than would be need ed, for interest and principal, to pay off the debt in that period. Furthermore, at the end of that time we'U still owe the whole sum. Wright said 20 other House members are backing his plan, and that people everywhere, especially newspaper editors, have praised it. 1 -5 & ERFECTION To achieve it jn your service... is our aim AeoMframlheCowlhouM HtHK MORGAN . HAXOID SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT Met Party Nehru rent, they stiU had to pay railroad fares and prices con tinued their upward spiral. Communism's greatest strength in India lies in the south where failure of the monsoons for five straight years brought mass starva tion, in the big industrial cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Cawnpore, and in West Bengal in the northeast. They made heavy inroads into the unions, especially railroad. But despite all this, when measured against India's total population of roughly 400 million people, Communism's gains have been relatively small in the 25 years It has been organized in India. - But Nehru and his leaders know the ingredients are there. The government is striving desperately to increase both its industrial and its agricul tural output to feed one of the world's fastest growing populations. Should the government fail, then Communism is there ready to step in. on Debt Rules Chairman Howard W. Smtfh (D-Va.) said count him with Wright, in principle any way. Rep. William M. Colmer (D-Miss.), said he liked the idea. Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R-Ohio) was for it too, if it would work. As usual though, there were questions. Raises Good Question Rep. Leo E. AUen (R-Ill.) figured the first year's pay ment on debt, under Wright's bill, would be about 3 billion dollars. Now suppose we were already in the red 4?r the year, AUen said. Then where would Wright get the money? ; "That," said Wright, "is a very good question." Smith thought it was too. He asked the . same thing. Wright said he assumed if this was put up to Congress at the start of the year, in the President's budget, Con gress would figure it out. He said maybe we just wouldn't spend so much money. Colmer said more likely Congress would get the debt payment the same way it gets money now when the govern ment runs in the hole. "That's by borrowing," said Colmer as if everybody, by now, didn't know. And that finished the Wright plan, at least for the moment. The rules committee, a few minutes later, said it couldn't, at this time, be brought to the floor. Anyone seen Mr. Bigi?" Remember Dad or brs diy . . . Sfinday, Jhii 21 with FATHER'S DAY CARDS ' MAIN MedforJ PHONE SP 2-8030 I r
