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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeWfortI, Or. Monday, June 22, 1959 "Cveryoce tn Southern Oregoa , Read The Mail Tribune" Bublished Daily except Saturday by 1 MJJJFOilD PRINTING CO. ; 83 North fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W KUHL. Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Busineaa MT ERIC W ALLEN JH, Managing Kditor -EARL H VDAMS. City Editor "HARRY CHIPMAM, Teleg Editor 'RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor .OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Myc An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second claaa matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Br Mai t In Advance, Cony 10c. 1 Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. 1-00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only Ona year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle ' Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cava. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily -and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press International Full Leased Wire 3ER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative; WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver b.c V NIWSPAFIK i PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION H ATI OH At EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50. years ago. . x 10 YEARS ACT June 22, 1949 (Wednesday) Pinnacle Orchards and Packing company' plant No. 4 is gutted by fire, and a need for additional fire-fighting equipment is discussed. A hearing on requested rent decontrol for Medford is scheduled for July 8. 20 YEARS AGO June 22. 1939 (Tfiuriday) : Medfordites register for Sunday's motor caravan to Oregon Caves where "Med . ford Day" is to be recognized. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The midnight speed idiot has ceased his nocturnal horn tooting. Instead he hurls a gi ant firecracker into the resi dential rose bushes." 30 YEARS AGO June 22. 1929 (Saturday) Mayor Pipes comes out in favor of the city park as a county courthouse site. Sixth st. property owners plan i meeting to discuss grad ing and paving assessments. 40 YEARS AGO June 22, 1919 (Sunday) William Jennings Bryan is to appear at the Ashland Chautauqua in July. A Salvation Army home service drive is launched here. SO YEARS AGO June 22, 1909 (Tuesday) Free postal delivery in Medford is to start Septem ber f5. , , The Crater Lake road ap propriation is declared un constitutional by an upstate Judge, but local interests plan an appeal. What's Yoor I.Q.? Nine er tea correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five er six is toed 1. Senator Stuart Syming ton, Democrat, represents which state the U.S. Senate? 2. "What 'musical comedy, named for a Southwestern state, had one of the longest runs on Broadway? 3. Is Zurich in Luxem bourg, Switzerland, Austria, or Germany? C- Does the Chief Justice of the United States vote only ln cases of a tie? 5. Which is farther north Seattle, Washington, or Hali fax, Nova Scotia? V 6. Correct the following quotation: 'Far from the mad dening crowd." 7. Who lived with his Merry Men in Sherwood Corest? - 8. What is the official language spoken in Brazil? 9. Who composed the ora torio, "The Messiah?" 10. What islands are fam ous for their fur seals? Answers: Missouri. 2. "Oklahoma." 3. Switzerland. 4. Nc 5. Seattle. 6. ". . . madding crowd." 7. Robin Hoed. 8. Portuguese. 9. Han del. 10. PribUof Islands. TALKING BOOKS' New York -(CPU- This year marks the 25th anniversary of "talking books" for the blind. Some 2,800 different books are now available on long-playing records. - Million Dollar Gate Back' The Patterson-Johansson bout 'for the world's heavyweight boxing title, no matter what happens in the ring next Thursday, already is an out-sized gem with many irregular facets. The notably reti cent champion, Floyd Patterson, has had three public fights (his manager speaks mysteriously about other secret bouts with top heavyweights) since he defeated middle-aged Archie Moore to gain the division crown in the fag end of 1956. One was a win and a fiascosover an amateur; two were unimpressive victories over inept op ponents. - . For that matter, Patterson's opponent, Inge mar Johansson of Sweden, undefeated as a pro fessional, champion of Europe, was excused from the Olympic finals at Helsinki in 1952 for "not trying." Today, however." he is grimly determined. He said recently: "The certainly I want to win believe but I want to not say something that But more fascinating J V 1 " 1 lerson may nave to cast on nis manue oi caution are the economics of the bout. By grace of a kind of electronic revolution, the bout will enjoy a virtually built-in million-dollar gate. . .'.... TO BEGIN with, New York real estate interests, tired of seeing free-spending heavyweight fight crowds lured to such out-of-the-way stations to their eyes as Seattle ' and Indianapolis, guaranteed a $600,000 box office. Then promoter Bill Rosensohn sold ancillary rights to televi sion, motion pictures, and radio to TelePromp Ter Corporation, of which he is a former vice president, for. $300,000. . . ; - TelePrompTer turned around and sold the radio rights for $100,000. Network time charges (ABC) and other costs come out of this. Percent ages of radio and movie revenues go back, to the promoter. The sponsors of the radio broadcast, incidentally, are the producer and distributor of a motion-picture, "The Horse Soldiers," which will be plugged between rounds. It is perhaps sig nificant that a bid of $450,000 for the ancillary rights from a TelePrompTer competitor either wasn't received in time, or was ignored, depend ing on whose story you believe. HTHE fight won't be seen on home television screens, but only in theatres and auditoriums outside the New York area by means of closed circuit TV transmission. TelePrompTer expects to line up about 200 locations with seats for 525,000 The second bout between Sugar Rav Robinson and Carmen Basilio, in March, 1958, was seen on closed-circuit TV in 174 theatres and arenas by about 400,000 fight fans. The take from TV alone was $1,400,000, of which' $339,000 went to the fight promoters. Even when Patterson fought the unheralded Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas, the total gate was over $1 million, with $763,437 coming num ciosea-circuit television. What about Patterson and Johansson?, Well, the champion is guaranteed $300,000, the chal lenger $100,000. Other imponderables could build up Patterson's take; for example, if the fight is close, or if Johansson should win, the motion pictures will go big in Europe. A final economic note. If you belong to the Diners' Club you can have your tickets reserved by mail and, of course, charged to your account Tex Rickard who was he? E.R.R. Whaling Conference Amid mutterings of revolt from its most active members, the International Whaling Commission is meeting in London this week to carry, out its annual task of setting a limit on the catch in the Antarctic. Norway, Japan and The Netherlands have already said they will withdraw from the 1930 whaling pact unless the other parties agree to substitute a system of national quotas for the present overall ceiling. 1 Nearly all whaling in the Antarctic is done bv fleets of catchers serving huge, efficient, phenomenally expensive factory ships. Norway, Japan and The Netherlands among them operate 15 of the 19 factory ships active in the Antarctic last season. The British operate three, the Rus sians one. - ' THE other 12 parties to the pact Australia, 1 Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, - Sweden, South Africa, the U. S. don't work the Antarctic at all. In fact, Mexico and Panama don't even have a whaling industry.; And there's the rub. The U. S., for example, is represented on the commission by Dr. Remington Kellogg of the Smithsonian Institution. His interest is scientific rather than commercial. -The U. S. and most of thejther relatively inactive nations are concerned grimarily with conservation of the fast-dwindling lue whale population. Under the existing set-up, the annual catch is limited to 15,000 blue whale units. A unit con sists of one blue or two finbacks or 2.5 hump backs or sixr Sei whales. In the rush to get as large a share"as possible of the overall limit, the catchers often are forced to give up on the prized but elusive blue. With a fixed quota to kill, they could afford to give chase. E.R.R. DOCTOR, HEAL THYSELF! Olympia, Wash.-4UPD-P.hysi-cal examinations given doc tors attending the last three annual meetings of the Ameri can Medical Associati on showed that nearly one-fifth of them are suffering from heart ailments or are at least only tjiing I want is more than somebody can do a good fight, sq they it wasn t. " than the fact that Pat- a1 J.1 J borderline cases. In making this report, Dr. - Charles E. MacArthur also pointed out that physicians have a higher mortality rate from heart dis ease than does the general population. Family physicians have a higher rate than specialists. Dennis the n nJf ii .V .)! I.I 'Suppose you letM WQRBYAdoisrMYuxsR? fesioes, YOU'ZB JUST TWINS TO GET RIDOF WURMllKl Communications Response to Article , To the Editor: This letter is a response to the article by Frank Jenkins .in The Days News, June 16, in which he states .that Matthew 25 is a firm endorsement of the pro fit principal and conservation. I have no argument what soever with the profit princi pal on which free enterprise is based. The evil lies in exces sive profit accumulated at the expense of the right and privi leges of your fellow man. I heartily agree conserva tion is good and ought to be practiced. But the parable ot the wise and foolish virgins was written as are all scrip tures to make us wise unto salvation by counseling us to hnv our oil from Christ Jesus. Now the oil here referred to that keeps the lights or lamps of a Christian burning is thirst in their hearts. This parable cautions us to be ready for tne second coming of our Lord Jesus to take His people with Him to glory of Heaven. This narable as well as the parable of the talent admon ishes us to use those (talents) i.e. abilities which God has oilAn no nnt fnr ourselves but for others and for Christ. Ves, God gives talents of silver and sola -to his neonle and all peo ple, these also to be used for his glory, for instance our mouths. With them we bless God and curse our fellow men: this ought not to be so. Reading further in Matthew 25. we see that it is the feed ing the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, comfort to Jhe sick and suffering and in pri son, and welcome to tne stranger. Are strangers welcome in our community if they have no talents to make our coffers swell and if their skins are black? No. mv friend. Matthew 25 means far more than profit and conservation. For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul. When He shall come with trumpet sound may we in Him then be found clothed in His righteousness to alone fault ness stand before the throne; on Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking, Lord, Stanley L. Snook 3286 Snowy Butte rd. Medford. Definite Relationship . To the Editor: The editorial ''The Answer Is Rather Sim ple" in 'the June 18 issue of the Mail Tribune and the news item "Dog Catchers Strike for Increase in Wages" in the same issue, seems to me to have a very definite relationship. I quote from the editorial "We read last week that the bid of the Teamsters Union to represent workers in a wood products manufacturing plant has been rejected. And L Try and By BENNETT CERF- ALL STREET IDYLL by John Straley: There was a young woman And what do you think? She lived like a queen And had plenty to drink. Little cared she how her Bills they would mount She was Business Expense On her firm's tax account. From a commencement ad dress by a wise old English, professor: "If you need com fort and assurance as you. grow older, you can count on. your wife for half of it, and on your dog for three-fourths of it, hut only your favorite books can give you all of it." Jim Backus, avid student of messages in Chinese cookies, came across a brand new model in a chop suey parlor recently. Thit one read, "Kindly disregard former cookie." C 1958, bjr BeaatUCtrt Distributed by. Mag Taajujej gyntottfr Menace - we wondered what possible connection the Teamsters could have with wood prod ucts manufacturing. Can some body enlighten us?" Bud Forrester, editor of the East Oregonian in Pendleton is confused. I quote from the news item, The workers (of the Tacoma- Pierce County Humane So ciety) recently affiliated with the Teamsters Union, want a $30 monthly wage boost." I never knew before that the Teamsters Union was in terested in catching dogs. Now I wonder whose idea it was to become "unaffiliated"? Did the dog "catchers get confused about what to catch? Did the Teamsters Union get hold of something that would bite? Mr. Editor, this might be called "meat" for a news hound. B. A. Fuller, 619 W. Second St., v Medford TOO STARTLED To the Editor: In answer to Mr. F. J. Clifford's inquiry of June 19 Tribune concerning whether I killed the big bull- snake,. I will say I was just too startled as the big reptile was in making (his or her) getaway. I probably watched the meandering and skillful speedy pace of this giant ser pent looking for shelter for as much as 20 to 30 minutes before it found a .varmint hole big enough to crawl into, . As I mentioned in previous communication, after telling a friend then shortly after wards of my thrilling exper ience, he told me that a big snake answering the same de scription had been seen in the Birdseye ranch pasture about one mile east some years be fore 1917. No, I had no anxi ety to capture or kill the vi per. As I was no authority on reptiles of any specie, it could very well have been a boa constrictor, not a gargan tuan king. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st, Medford. Delegates Named To Girls Nation Salem - (DPD - Joan Yasui, Hood River, governor of the 1959 session of Girls State that concluded 'here Satur day, and Judith Baker, North Plains, were named Oregon delegates to the Girls Na tional conference in Washing ton, D.C., next month. During Girls State week here, Miss Baker was elected a" county judge. Named alternates to" the national conference . were Karen Nelson, Grants Pass and Sharon McClelland, Port land. Stop Mo St Louis Firm Gives Longevity Prospects By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington (DPD Most ev erybody knows flying is safe, except maybe off the coast of ? K o r e a. And 1 now they are trying to workout something so we aiso can count on sur v i v i n g the drive to the airport. Records o f Frahk Ele.z.r me iauonai Safety Council shows it's true what airline pilots have been saying for years. The riskiest part about flying is the driv ing, from home to plane and vice versa. With this in mind, a St. Louis insurance firm current ly is dispensing to air travel ers here numerous hot tips for improving their longevity prospects' on the road. The firm has parked its "Safe-T-Coach" at Washington National Airport, primarily for the benefit of the 300 driv ers of a local firm which it insures and which operates cabs and limousines out of the airport, but incidentally for anybody passing through with 10 minutes to invest in saving a fender or maybe a life. Depends on You On boarding the bus you meet first "the best safety de vice" yet invented. This, in a mirror, turns out to be you. This flattery no doubt is cal culated to soften you up for what is to come, the burden of which is that the most lethal weapon on the highway today also can be you. . It depends on how you drive. Sealed beam headlights are shined in your eyes, after wnicn u taxes tnree seconas to recover vision enougn to see a stop sign. Next time, watcn tne eage oi xne roaa instead of the oncoming lights. In the Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS The shooting incident in the Sea of Japan the other day- in which a communist fighter plane fired deliberately and destructively at an American Navy patrol plane -brings Russia back sharply into focus in our thinking. , What is Russia up to? IF WE knew that, we'd be in a lot better position to ap praise the possibilities of war and peace in the relatively im mediate future. .. : But we don't know. And Russia isn't, going to tell us. Nor is she going to give us any inkling of her intentions if she can help it. J Let's turn to other aspects of the Russian .situation. For example: ; What do the common, ordi nary Russians think of us as PEOPLE? How do they re gard us? As ENEMIES, to be hated? MOST thoughtful visitors to Russia bring' back the same story. It is an INTER ESTING story. Possibly a sig nificant story. Roughly, it is this: The Russians, meaning the commo, everyday run of Russians, DON'T hate us. They are intensely interested in us. They want to know how we live. What we have in our houses. What we do for a liv ing. What kind of houses we live in. What we do for re laxation. And so on. InN other words, they are interested in us in just about the same way we are inter ested in them. ARE they friendly? Or - suspicious and friendly? un- Nearly all thoughtful trav elers who get an opportunity to talk to Russians in their homes, on their home- town streets, at their jobs-ANY- HERE away from communist officials or Russians of any type who might carry tales to communist officials, report that the Russian people are FRIENDLY. ' That is to say: Among the Russian people, there is no hatred of Americans AS AMERICANS. On the other hand, there is interest and friendly curiosity. That story is brought back by so many American travelers that we have to accept it as reason ably true. -). THAT brings up a fact that is very interesting indeed. In World War I, as veter ans of that conflict will un doubtedly confirm, there was little hatred among common, ordinary Germans of common, ordinary Americans. They fought us because we were THE ENEMY. Nor- & ' ' Among us Was there any particular hatred of Germans as Ger mans. We took our hating out on the Kaiser. Much the same situation existed in World Willi This cuts your recovery time in half. At 50 miles per hour, that could save you to travel again with the airlines. In another test of your pros pects as a repeat customer at the air ticket counter you put your foot on the gas and your hand on the wheel. You run up the speedometer and watch for the light to turn red. When it does, you react in 67-100ths of a second. The dial shows your car traveled 47 feet while you got set to put on the brakes. Reaction Is Slower That was without the dis tractions. Next time the in-J Opinion for Meeting Ike, de Gaulle Grows By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's noteboko. Protocol: There is mounting public oninion in France favoring a "1 i 1 1 1 e sum mit" meeting between Pres i d e n t Eisen hower and Gen. Charles d e Gaulle. Such a meet ing might find a solution to France's de- Fhil Newsom m a n d s f or a greater share in NATO policy-making and atomic se- Washington Report By WILLIAM COSTLY VICTORY i Washington-The Democrats have won a costiy victory in an unnecessary war m tne Senate's rejec tion of Lewis L. Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce. They have re fused Mr. Ei senhower the p r i v ilege of ay President tn have a man Williams.- , r . . white of his own choice in the Cabinet so long as that man is not morally or mentally, unfit. And they have made this great demonstration over what usually is politi cally the least significant post in all the Cabinet, that of commerce. A Strauss confirmed would have created for them a far more useful issue for 1960 than a Strauss repudiated -and repudiated, moreover, on grounds so thin as to have no example in our history. . FOR the very qualities the Democrats attributed to the nominee would have been endless bad news for the Re publicans had the Democrats allowed him to be confirmed in office. They found him "ar rogant" toward Congress. They found him "deceitful" (though to an onlooker his "deceit" seemed to lie most of all in his refusal to cooperate with his Senate prosecutors). They disliked him as an Old Guard Republican, a Her bert Hoover Republican, an anti-public power man, as in deed he was and is. Every shortcoming they attributed to him would inevitably have weakened the Administration politically had he remained in it. For ' his basic political philosophy has been a handi cap at the national polls for at least 20 years. In plain words, the Demo crats have rescued Mr. Eisen 'hower from the consequences of what was, politically, a poor appointment in the first place. For the first personal defeat of President Eisenhow er they have attempted in his six years in office they have have chosen the worst possi ble vehicle. FOR whatever else it may lie, the true vulnerability of 'the Administration surely cannot be said to lie in the less-than-burning question as to who is to run the Depart War II. The Germans fought us as ENEMIES. We fought them in the same way. We took our hating out on Hitler. IN CONCLUSION: How TERRIBLY impor tant is leadership! If.- throughout the world, in every country, there was the RIGHT KIND OF LEADER SHIP, there would be little danger of war. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be mbanusad by loos false i teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling : wbeiK you eat, tali or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on youi plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates mora firmly. No gummy, ftooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Tips for Improving From Home to Field structor sounds bells, horns, and sirens and flashes' lights in various colors and places. This time when he red light comes on, at an unexpected location, your reaction is slow er. You travel further before hitting the brake. k "If you had been, tailgating then, and following any clos er than 56 feet, you would have hit him," comments Douglas Whe.tzel, safety direc tor for the transport. firm. . Tailgating is a hacSers' and truckers' term. In English, it means snuffling the exhaust niDe of the par in front an offense against which Whetzel crets. But the General is be ing stiff-necked about that, too. He feels that Eisenhower should go to Paris. American sources point out that Eisen hower was the one who issued the invitation first and that De Gaulle should go to Wash ington. Moreover, they say, DeGaulle is only chief of state and not head of the govern ment as well, and is there fore well able to take time out for an official visit. The mounting public clamor may change his mind, but whether the meeting is in Paris or Washington, the General will not change his demand that France be given her "rightful place in the world." S. WHITE ment of Commerce. Mr, Strauss is incomparably more important politically as a sym bol of harsh Senate veto than be ever would have been as a recipient of Senate ap proval. . In fact, in looking back the whole affair really was a se ries of blunders-by the Presi dent, by Strauss himself in his human but unwisely bel ligerent conduct before the Senate, and by the Demo crats. The Republicans would have been the losers had the Democrats allowed him to be confirmed. But the Demo crats are the net losers now. Why, then, did it all hap pen? It happened most of all because of the long frustra tions of many Democrats, mostly liberal Democrats. For years they have been clamor ing that the party must "fight Eisenhower." Now, at last, they have prevailed on calm er colleagues to "fight." Their motive was understandable, 'for politics cannot and should not be simply an unending, polite minuet. But the trouble 'was that the Democrats oversimplified. To "fieht" is one thing. But to fight at the wrong time in the wrong place and for the wrong reason is quite another thing. THEY got the whole ques tion confused. The point never was whether Strauss would be a "good" Secretary of Commerce. The point never was whether he had the truly "sound" political ideas of the present. There were only two simple and related issues: Did the President have a right to Strauss if he wanted him? And was there against Strauss' fitness to serve (not his ideas Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) ' ' hi v. "ffM if? Frank - m'" Perl' FRIENDLY, says he issues regular warn ings, apparently with consid erable effect. He says his transport firm, over a 14-year period, has an unblemished record for safety. In other tests aboard the "Safe-T-Coach" your vision, hearing, depth perception, re action time and general judg ment all are subjected to ques tion. What constitutes a passing grade in the course nobody said. But if you conclude to park your car next time and take a cab or limousine to the airport, I wouldn't be sur prised if you got an A-plus. Between in France To Be or Not To Be: In the next few months there undoubtedly is going to, be a wide-open fight in the ranks of the Labor party on the issue of whether Britain should remain a nuclear pow er. Hugh Gaitskell and Aneu rin Bevan, party leaders, think it should, and do not want their hands tied by any pre-elettion commitment which might come back to haunt them should -.they suc ceed in throwing the Conser vatives out of office. But the pacifist rank and file of the Labor movement, supported by some big -trade unions, are urging labor to say flatly that Britain will renounce -the bomb if the Socialists come to power. The issue could 6plit the British Labor party. Neutral Preparedness: Traditionally neutral Swit zerland will send military delegations to the United States and Britain later this year for a close look at their air defense system and air defense missiles. Switzerland plans to bolster its defenses with anti-aircraft rockets. . Operation Bootstrap: . Puerto Rico's sweeping eco nomic plan-"Operation Boot-strap"-is having its effect on the other side of the world, in Japan. Smart Japanese busi nessmen have found they can . set up assembly plants in Puerto Rico, import compc- nent parts, assemble them and ship the finished product duty free to the U.S. Tariffs in Puerto Rico at a fraction of those in the United States and. Puerto Rico offen big tax concessions. or his personality) a case so overpowering as to justify turning him down? The answer to the first ques tion was plainly yes. The an swer to. the second question was plainly no. And when the passions have died, some of the men who voted against Strauss will regret it, for sim ple human reasons if not also for political reasons. For, politics aside, the Sen ate simply did not live up to its best traditions; the Senate simply was not fair. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) NOT A DOGS DIET Denver -flJPD- The American Humane Association warns that poultry bones should not be given to dogs because they splinter so easily. Other foods which the association says should be eliminated from any dog's diet include: fruit, nuts, potatoes, gravy, niacaro- ni, spagneiu, caite, coosies, pastry, candy, tomatoes, corn and highly seasoned food. 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