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MA It TRIBUNE, MatfforJ, Or. Wetfncselay, July S, 195 "Every oo to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dtlly except Saturday by MJJ5FOBD PRINTING CO 83 North ill St. Ph. SP 8-6141 " ROBLRT W BUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JB, Managing Rditor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIP-MAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at Medforri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai i In Advance. Copy 10c. Datl and Sunday 1 year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday 4 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. - Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER 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. NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION P ATI Q MAI E0ITOIIAI Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 arid 50 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO July 8, 1949 (Friday) The issue of rent decontrol comes before the Medford city council tonight with propo nents and opponents ready with testimony. George W. Kellington, Med ford attorney, is appointed to the Medford area rent advis ory board. 20 YEARS AGO July 8. 1939 (Saturday) The Medford city council votes to ask the PWA for funds to help reconstruction of paved streets. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Wood piles have started to shrink mysteriously, in the rural areas. This Is viewed as a good sign of winter, and that some body without an ax has been round." 80 YEARS AGO July 8. 1929 (Monday) Night air mail beacons are to be installed soon at Med ford airport. Incendiary forest fires are started in the Coker butte area. 40 YEARS AGO July 8, 1919 (Tuesday) A large crowd gathers at Gore field to see an airplane that fails to appear. Medford churches plan to hold the first summer union service In the city park next Sunday. 50 YEARS AGO July 8. 1909 (Thursday) Rogue valley orchardists plan massive retaliation against insect crop spoilers. Repairs begin for the Gold Ray dam fishway. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of sis is igood. 1. "White Plague," is anoth er name for eczema, leprosy, pneumonia or tuberculosis? 2. Where ,was Napoleon Bonaparte born? 3. Who said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable?" 4. How many ciphers must be added to the figure one to make a quintillion? 5. Which of these metals is heaviest-iron, gold, lead, cop per? 6. Was the original con struction of the Panama Canal begun by the French, Dutch, English, or Americans? 7. Alligators lay eggs; true or false? 8. Which U. S. President was nicknamed "Little Ma gician"? 9. Which of these tools would be most suggestive of Abraham Lincoln scythe, hammer, ax, monkey wrench? 10. What name is given to a remedy for counteracting a poison and stopping its action? Answers: 1. Tuberculosis. 2. Island of Corsica. 3 .Dan iel Webster. 4. Eighteen. 5. Gold. 6. French. 7. True. 8 Martin Van Buxen. 9. Ax. 10. Antidote. IRRELEVANT Rutland, Vt. - (CPU - Super ior Judge Natt DivoU ruled that the attitude of a bull whose owners were being sued for $100,000 because he gored a doctor was irrelevant to the cast. Dr. Merkel Leaving A public health officer is, in many ways, in a unique position. He is the one member of the medical pro fession who, because of but must, speak out on matters of health, for quotation, without the private physician's qualms about what the ethics committee may say. His concern is not with the individual patient; it is with the health of the entire community. And it is not limited to a single field, but covers all threats to health, both A MONG the nation's in this field is Dr. many years has served public health officer. He has, on more than one occasion, turned down attractive offers elsewhere to remain in the service community. . Now, however, he greater responsibility, tion i California. And Jackson county will be the loser, no matter what the ability of his suc cessor. Quietly, modestly, efficiently, courteously. Dr. Merkel has guided the for more than two decades. This county, which had an outstanding public health program when he to over, still has one of the best small-county health services in the nation. MEMBERS of the medical profession probably has also worked effectively, with other public office holders, with the press, and with the public at large. He has worked untiringly at a job which has its share of frustrations and defeats. And he will leave southern Oregon a better place than ne iound it. It is our hope that satisfaction and inner rewards in his new work, and we congratulate the obtaining an outstanding physician, public offi cer, and gentleman. E.A. They 're It probably won't do a .weight off our chest, loudly, that we think people who toss their trash alongside a road, or on camp area, are a bunch 1 hey increase taxes several million dollars a up after them) ; they create hazards for others (paper trash is a fire hazard; discarded garbage is a health hazard; bottles and cans are a threat to feet, bare hands, and auto tires) ; and they destroy much enjoyment for others. No one likes to be confronted with the messes left by others. IT IS our impression that Oregonians are, very gradually, losing some of their litterbug tend encies. On a recent trip we noticed that the way sides and road shoulders seemed neater and cleaner than in the past. The highway department must be thanked for at least part of this, both because it provides litter cans at frequent intervals, and because it als cleans up the roadsides periodically. In any event, the tendency is a good one. But it does serve to point out the remaining litterbugs for the slobs they are. E.A. 50,000 Pleasure Seekers Rogue River National forest personnel esti mated that somewhere around 50,p00 people swarmed into the forests of this area over the July 4 week end, to take advantage of its recrea tional facilities. X Fifty thousand people is a lot of people. It is the population of two Medfords, or six Ash lands. It is five-sevenths of the entire population of Jackson county. Even if some of them were counted twice, it still is a tremendous number of people to descend on the lakes, streams and camps of the region in a two-day period. It is as many as attended the Centennial exposition in Portland during the same two days. MOW isn't this just about the best argument A anyone can give in support of more emphasis on recreational preparations in this, or any other, forest? - ' Doesn't it mean that Americans, who after all own the forests, are using them in increasing thousands? . Doesn't it also mean that, to conserve other forest values, such as watershed management, timber harvesting, fish and. wildlife, and so on, provisions must be made to accommodate these outdoor pleasure-seekers so that in their enthu siasm and their thousands, they won't damage the forests irreparably? " We think it means just those things. TTHE forest service is acutely aware of these things, and is doing everything it can to do the job that must be done. But it must work within the framework of laws and budgets pro vided by congress.- A realistic program has been prepared, and is receiving a favorable reaction in Washington. There is a question, however, as to whether con gressmen, generally, and the administration itself, feel a sufficient sense of urgency about it We think maybe they should be invited to Lake of the Woods' som6 July 4 week end and then see if their sense of urgency isn't given a shot in the arm. E.A. - his job, not only can, physical and mental. outstanding practitioners A. Erin Merkel, who for Jackson county as its of the people of this has accepted a post of challenge and remunera .. . : county health department he will continue to find people of San Diego for Slobs any good, except to get but we'd like to say, the ground in a public' of disgusting slobs. (it costs public agencies year, nationally, to clean Dennis the PlQSOHS, GOTTA VKH fOO, KNOW.' Matter of Fact WITH PINBOARD PROGRAMMING TOO! Fisher Island, N.Y. - "It ac cepts signals from thermo couples, flow, pressure and other trans- vi ducers. It measures these signals, digitizes them and prints their values. A th er mo- couple refer ence oven can also be sup- -Ins-oh AIsoo puea, 10 per mit IT to accomodate three types of inputs, which are automatically linearized over their entire range to within 0.1 per'cent of accuracy." The foregoing specimen of prose is NOT a visiting Mar tian's first murderous attack on the English language. These secret sentences do NOT come, either, from any deep and abstruse work of science. These sentences were pen ned on Madison Avenue, in fact, by a hard-selling man in a gray flannel suit. Their pub lication was paid for with a great corporation's carefully budgeted advertising dollars. The IT of their mad drama is .something called a logger- scanner. IT also has pinboard programming. IT can log all variables automatically. And IT can scan off-normal alarm points between logging cycles. ALL these remarkable facts are here recorded because it really ought to be news when even advertisements be come hermetic and incom prehensible. To be sure, the intended audience of this par ticular advertisement is rath er special. In an increasingly vain effort to keep abreast of our complicated times, this reporter reads "The Scientific American." Catching up on the most recent issues during the holiday week end, the reporter found the gem of prose quoted above, which was aimed at scientists and technicians with an itch to have their variables auto matically logged. Maybe it is a bit rediculous moreover, to be surprised be cause even the advertising men have begun to speak a secret language. If you have read "The Scientific Amen- 1 1 i x. can ' reguiany m xnese iasi years, there are two things you le,arn. On the one hand, there is no end to the beauty and surprise of the strange world of modern science. But on the other hand, as the years go by, more and more provinces of this strange world are passing beyond the ken of ordinary men. The beauty and surprise are the sufficient rewards of the unchained explorer of. this strange world. The riddle of an ancient lump of bronze, sea-corroded by more than 20 centuries in the Aegean, is'read at last. And from this lump of bronze it is discov ered that the old Greeks could also make computers. OR orphaned monkeys are offered the odd choice between a bleak, wire - made imitation mother with breasts that give real milk, or a milk less but soft and warm imi tation mother made of heated towelling. And so it is dis covered that the psychologists Rex Putnam Goes Home From Hospital Salem-(CPD-Dr. Rex Putnam, Oregon state superintendent of public instruction hospital ized here after a heart attack last month, returned home Tuesday and doctors reported his condition as "good." A physician said, however, that Putnam would not be able to have visitors for some time. . s Of the ten Canadian prov inces, British Columbia has the largest accessible stands of I - coniferous trees. . Menace Joseph Alsop have been wrong all along: an infant's love of mother does not deprive from the ma terial need for nourishment, but from some deeper need,. to be cuddled and softly re assured. Or rockets bear telescopes and spectroscopes aloft, to acquire new data on the in ner make-up of the sun that warms pur earth. Or other telescopes, soaring in balloons bring back the somehow cozy news that the sun's gaseous inferno boils with the surface pattern of paraffin headed in a shallow dish. Or someone mingles disassociated cells from mouse embryos and chick embryos. And thus it is learned that despite the most unexpected mixture, cells meant to build kidneys and cells meant to make carti lage will obstinately go on doing their kidney - forming and cartilage forming duties. Even to the layman, there is something wonderfully stir ring in this unending, pains taking, fantastic exploration of all the many universes we simultaneously inhabit, from the infinitely great universe of the cosmos to the infinitely tiny universe of the life pro cess itself. But to the layman, there is also something genu inely upsetting in the tend ency ludicrously illustrated by the advertisement of the logger - scanner whatever that may be. Fis a tendency which has also caused grave concern among a few wise men of science, like Sir C. P. Snow and Dr. J. Robert Oppenhei mer. It is the tendency of our once united culture to break up into two quite separate cultures. First, there is the culture of ordinary men, who may learn to read archaic Latin or ancient Chinese, but can hardly hope to read the scien tists writing in their own language. And then, increas ingly set apart, there is also the culture of the scientists, who write and think and work for one another, and even have their own advertising copywriters nowadays, with a; special hard sell couched in the scientists' jargon. The separation of the cul ture Would not be so disquiet ing, if each did not blindly use the other. Left to them selves, the scientists would only use their rockets to ex plore the cosmos. Left to them selves, the ordinary men conld not make intercontin ental ballistic missiles, or any of the other instruments , we now possess to change the balance of nature itself. But rather than think any longer about the blind inter action of the two cultures, it is probably better to go swim ming. Copyright. 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- ASIDfc r'ROM STRONG entertainment values, Bill Ballan tine's Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas provides some invalu able hints to people who may have cause to enter deep woods or jungles or who crave to join a circus. Remember, warns Ballan tine, that one should beware of all four sides of a camel; that one should never pat an elephant on its trunk; that those cute sea lions have a devastating bite; and that, aside from even better reasons for not putting one's head in a lion's mouth, the king of beasts has the worst case of, halitosis in the en tire jungle. "It is not safe," continues Ballantine, "to back up and run from an attacking tiger. Better just stand pat and speak sharply enough." We'll try to re member that, Mr. B.! "My wife," boasted a Wall Street broker, "is endowed with a very athletic figure. She's shaped like a medicine ball:" D 1959. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Formosa Strait Flare Diversionary Tactics, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The hot war that breaks out from time to time over the Formosa Strait seems to . be sort of a push button affair, dependent during certain seasons of the year on whims of the weath er and at oth ers fcn the whims of the Communists. pan Newsom The weather is fairly constant, and it is now accepted that from the fall of the year until early spring, the choppy waters of the strait will provide a nat ural barrier to any attempt by Red China to mount a direct attack against President Chi ang Kai Shek's bastion on Formosa. The Red Chinese are less constant. For example, no one ever has satisfactorily ex plained the Red decision to bombard only on every other day the Nationalist-held off shore islands of Quemoy. There have been occasional suspicions that the Reds, in cooperation with their Soviet allies, use their push-button tactics in the Formosa Strait area as an artificial, crisis-creating instrument to divert Western eyes from a budding crisis elsewhere in the world, or to shield a sudden switch in world Communism's global plans. Planes Clash So, this week Soviet-built MIG jet fighters sallied out from the Red Chinese main land, and clashed over the Matsu islands with National ist pilots flying American built Sabrejets. . The Nationalist report said it was a one-sided 5-0 victory for the Sabres. The Matsus also lie just off the Red Chinese mainland, about 120 miles north of the Quemoys Together they are in a posi tion effectively to block the Red ports of Foochow and Amoy. i Until the Reds obtained longer range artillery across from the Matsus, the Que moys were the favorite tar gets of Red gunners who last August dumped more than 40,000 shells on the latter in one record day. Activity Picks Up In recent days there has been a noticeable pickup of Red activity against both the Quemoys and the. Matsus which in addition to being able to harass Red shipping, also are the outermost defense posts for Formosa. It is perhaps coincidence that the recent attacks have a parallel in the Red offensive mounted against the offshore islands last year. Then, as now, Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev was pressing for a summit confer ence. There was speculation then that Khrushchev had per suaded the Red Chinese to step up their attacks as a means of impressing upon Western leaders the imminent need of a summit conference on world problems ranging from the future of Formosa to the future of Berlin. Pressure Suspected Shortly after that Khrush chevs desire for a summit meeting chilled, and the spec ulation then was that he did so under pressure of the Chi nese Reds who were irked be caus they had not been in cluded in the summit invita tion. Before the Big Four foreign ministers met in Geneva this year, there were predictions that the Reds would stage a diversionary maneuver some where. The Formosa area was one of the sites mentioned. Present Red intentions still are vague. Last year's diver Stop Me v 5r sionary attacks against the Na - tiwnalists island outposts re- cisive action by the U. S. Sev- Fleet would not act just as de sulted in Oriental loss of face enth Fleet. The Reds have no cisively again. Congressmen Eye Auto Safety Measures By FRANK ELEAZER Washington (DPD They've got a crash pad now so ab sorbent it will stop an egg traveling 55 miles an hour without crack ing it. And the' question was, why won't this pad do the same thing for our skulls? It will, said Frank Eleszer -Dr. Jiorace 1L. Campbell, who works on mat ters like this for the Ameri can Medical Association. He Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain eircurnstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit-all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the C3e. Protests Liquor Plan To the Editor: A. few days ago we drove down to the new recreational area at the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. One does not have to go to Swit zerland to find Alpine scenes. They are at our doorstep. The new 14 mile mountain road takes you to the ski tow and ultra modern cafeteria and shelter. The Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl corporation has provided a fine place for the lovers of the great out-of-doors. They tell us that close to 5,000 people have been up there in one day. However, a notice posted on the north door . arrested our attention. The corpora tion has applied for a liquor license and it states that any one -wishing to protest this action can do so by filing his protest with the State Board of Liquor Control at Sacra mento. A deadline has been set but there is still time. The notice did not say that Ore gonians could not protest. If they are gracious enough to let us spend our money per haps they will lend an ear to our protest. At any rate a flood of let ters to both the liquor com mission and the Ski Bowl corporation would not hurt? I'm not trying to belittle any legitimate business. If in any way we can avert the loss of life or limb, we should do it. If individuals insist on defiling their soul temples with intoxicating beverages that is their own problem Why in the name of decency do they have to create a haz ard to the rest of us? There is a brand new undertaking parlor down at the foot of the mountain on the same roaa. I'm not trying to starve him out. I believe he gets a rea sonable amount of business already. If it "is the water," as one beverage bottler states, then there is plenty of it, freely available from Shasta's gur gling mountain streams and springs. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. The Old "Oregon" To the Editor: "Oh say can you see?" For the sun is just up. on this Fourth - of - July morning, with water from the well wetting the thirsty gar dens as we try for an answer to Ross Flanigan's indignant letter, why we fail to chal lenge Russia and the world to a nuclear disarmament race? His letter and this answer would have been unneeded had he remembered that past experiences make our best guide-post for the future. For memory takes us back to the west bank of the Willamette river in downtown Portland where was berthed the old "piggy bank" battleship Ore gon. My 5-year-old grandson had been told how the pen nies, nickles and dimes of America's children had helped to build the grand old battle wagon, how her mighty en gine drove her on the long run down around the Horn and up to help finish off the Spanish battle-fleet and break that nation's hold on the westr em hemisphere. So, the boy's face lit up with, great joy and pride as we trod the steel deck to gaze at the big turret-gun's sky ward challenge to the world. Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel Ul-st-ease because of loose, wobbly false teeth. PASTEETH. an Unproved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get FAS TEETH today at any drug couatea. - Ups Viewed as Red To Mask 1 for the Reds because of de - Not Now Being Used said the only problem is to get the auto industry to install the stuff on the instrument panels of all new cars. Dr. Campbell said the num ber one health problem today -counting both deaths and disabilities-is not cancer or heart disease or polio. It is automo bile accidents. He was among a number of witnesses before a House sub committee which is seeking advice on a cure. Rep. Abraham Multer (D N.Y.) said he's heard of cases where a wheel fell off a new car, or the steering gear pulled out by the roots. His prescrip- But what a shock it was to us inside the heavy armored tur rets and down the steel ladder to the engine-room to see where the torch had sliced out big chunks of engine, turret, guns and other parts. It was a sickening shock to me even though reading about the U.S.A. challenge to the world for universal disarmament. But my grandson's tragic cry was harder to bear, "Grand pa, for what did they do it?" It seemed best to- defend the powers that be in their naive belief that other na tions would follow suit. And my lack of courage to tell him how Germany, Russia, Japan and others kept their battle ships intact and secretly built more, bigger, better and more powerful. What could be said to his endless searching ques tions, for I was too sick at heart, sick deep down in my stomach over the sorry, tragic blunder, sorry I ever took my grandson aboard. Stranger still was his demand to be taken back as if to be sure of what he had seen. I was se cretly glad when they towed the ruined battleship to the scrap heap, her hulk across the Pacific to rust and rot on a' south sea beach. But still from the rusting deck, mute token of pennies and nickles of children's piggy bank, the tragic cry still rings in my old ears, "Grandpa for why did they do it?" F. J. Clifford, Route 2, box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Red Statutes To the Editor: I suggest the people, that is, the Ameri cans, read the first 10 amend ments of the U.S. Constitution, and enforce them by arms, if need be, as the Constitution states is to be done when any state usurps the rights and the powers of the people, their lib erty, their freedom from search and seizure.- Do you know Communist statutes are drawn up for so- called health officers, known as Gestapo in Europe, to run through your homes? Do you know taxation laws are drawn up to destroy all property owners, large and small? Do you know assessors or fire men have no right to enter anyones home unless you say so? Do you know the police are overriding the Bill of Rights by using Communist state statutes to interfere wjth your liberty, your rights, your freedom? And, last of all, are the last of the Americans so yellow that they won't wake up out of their day-dreams and destroy the Gestapo tactics of their public servants that are fattening on your blood? In five years you will have no more home than a rabbit if you dont clean up the reds in this state. American news you can't get it -is censored THE MEMORIAL SERVICE c M. Litwiller Will long be remembered as one of dignity, reverence and beauty, when conducted by us in Mountain View Chapel. To merit your confidence is our sincere desire. LITWILLER Funeral . Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Activities 1 reason to believe the Seventh tion was a law under which, as I got it, new cars couldn't be driven until road tested 100 miles. The subcommittee seemed to think Multer's law might be hard to apply. Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D- Fla.) said put governors on our cars, so they can't go fast er, say, than 80 miles an hour. The subcommittee said some of its members nearly not wrecked once in a test car equipped with a governor. when they needed some pow er and couldn't find it. Rep. Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala.), the . subcommittee chairman, proposed to let the Bureau of Standards set up. federal safety requirements for cars, covering such things as seat belts and padded in strument panels. And that's the direction inwhich the sub committee seemed to be driv ing. I regret to say that there is a certain air of indifference, a so-what attitude on the part of many who should be con cerned," Roberts said. Dr. Campbell, who is vice chairman of the AMA's com mittee on deaths and injuries from auto accidents, said the AMA for years has been badgering the auto makers to build more safety into their cars. He said the recessed steering wheels and safety steering door latches of 1956 helped a lot, but that not much has been happening since. Dr. Campbell, who comes from Denver, said AMA . re search shows that seat belts and safety padding in cars would prevent many of the 38,000 deaths and 5,000,000 injuries suffered each year. He held up a small pad of something called ensolite. He said he laid some of this on the floor of the Colorado State Capitol and had a state patrol man drop an egg from the dome. The egg did not splat ter, or even break. It bounced. "We think there. might be an analogy between the egg and the human head," he testis fied. "We think a human head traveling as the egg. (at 55 miles an hour) might with im punity strike an auto surface covered with this." " He said padded instrument panels and sun visors ought to be standard equipment on cars, since head damage is in volved in 70 per cent of the more serious crashes. And he brought in here an other telling parallel with the egg. Once you break it, he said, a head is mighty hard to re pair. by reds in the editorial offices of newspapers. Red propa ganda, you can get carloads of it. Take the speed laws. Any speed over 35 miles per hour is a short cut to the bone- yard, but death is big busi ness. Anything over that should be in a plane, but there's big money in the death racket. Study the first 10 amend ments and enforce them or be destroyed by traitors. G. S. Reilly, 338 North Laurel st, Ashland. Ore. It is estimated that one of every 259 working persons in the U.S. is employed in some phase of the various printing and publishing industries. Have a happy vacation! get money at "MONE YLA ND " V Pacific Q3 Industrial l,J prompt, courteous personal loam end mew or used ear financing 16 S. Central SP 3-5308 Bob Griffith, Manager Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us than to need us and not know us."