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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeeW, Or. Tfcvrsaay, July 9, 1tS9 "Everyone tm Southern Orttw Ilea di i The faall Tribune published Dnily exeeptSaturday by MKDfOKD PRINTING CO. S3 Worth ttr St. Ph. SP a-eiu ROBIST W RUHL. Editor HERB GBEY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr I IKIC W UiZH JB. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. Ctty Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Woman Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Met An Independent Newspaper Entered as lernnd elan matter at Mediortf Oregon under Aot el March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai k In Advance. Copy toenail- and Sunday 1 year (13.00 Daily and Sunday mo.. t.0L Daily and Sunday 3 moe. 09 Sundsv Onl-r One vear S4.29 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. E a trie Point. Jacksonville. Gold H1U, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Kiv - or. Talent and an motor route. Dally and Sunday 1 year $lJD0 umuy ana sunaay i mo. i-ao Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance - Official Paper of City it Medford omciai gaper oi Jaeaaon cery United Press International Fun Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU' OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOUDAV CO, INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C 07 NIWtPAPII USUSHItt ASSOCIATION fiATlOMAt EOITOIIAI Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 -YEARS AGO July 9. 1949 (Saturday) Construction of the Camp White trunk sewer is reported 12 per cent completed. The Medford city council decides to "Undertake s study f rent decontrol in this area. t0 YEARS AGO July t, 1139 (Sunday) Fred Stammen's "Bruno" is named Grand Champion Mutt In Gates and Lydlard's pooch parade. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Imudge Pot" column: "Peoria Bill Gates staged a dog show and parade for juvenile dog owners Saturday. There were IT varieties of dogs and some forgot and barked, as if it was night, and the moon was com ing up right" 0 YEARS AGO July f, 1129 (Tuesday) The interior department re portedly plans to spend a mil lion dollars on improvements at Crater Lake. Fishing in the Rogue river is reported exceedingly, poor. 40 YEARS AGO July 9. 19 It (Wednesday) Tourists report there is still snow on the ground at Crater Lake, and temperatures dip ped below freezing last night. Fishing in the Rogue river Is the worst in history, sports men claim. 0 YEARS AGO JuIt 9, 1909 (Friday) Portland Elks are welcomed here by the Medford herd. A mail schedule change brings loud complaints locally about poor service. VhsPt Yc:r I.Q.? Wine er rra correct -Is rapoTfer; even or efcht is excellent) five er mix Is good. I. On the cattle ranges, an unbranded, motherless calf is called a m k? 2. Who said, after the sign ing of the Declaration of In- dependent: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hans separately"? 3. Both the Rhine and Rhone ' rivers have their sources in which country? 4. In an old song, what was the name of the girl who wore Number Nine shoes? 5. Is Prague in Germany, Austria. Chechoslovakia, or Poland? 6. In what profession is Perry Mason, the fictional de tective, engaged? 7. Which two Presidents of the U.S. bore the first name "Franklin"? 8. Do both the males and females of the moose family bear antlers. 9. When will the next elec tion for choosing Presidential electors occur in the United States? 10 Harry Flood Byrd, Dem ocrat, represents which State In the U.S. Senate? . Answers: 1. Maverick: 2. am in Franklin; 3. Swit zerland; 4. Clementine: 5. Chechoslovakia; 6. Lawyer; 7, rranklin Pierce and F. D. Roosevelt; 8. No; only the .dsn 9. I960; 10. Virginia. hmd MASTER DIES t .mceville, N. J.-ICPD- The headmaster of wrence- ville School xu, ------- died at 62 hera on Tuesday, nr. muui -' "Keep Pace.... A couDle of vears aeo the members of the Governmental ODerations son County Chamber of 1 Mi memo era are quite iammar wim city uu tuuu governmental problems ot to thinking about the huge surplus funds earned over irom year to year by the county. The county (except for the recurrent and now-discontinued habit of levying a tax every third year to protect its tax base) had no need of tax monies, due to its substantial income from 0 & C and Forest Service revenues. But, so thought the members of the commit tee. nroDertv taxes still are high, largely due to the demands of school extent of cities and other smaller taxing units. see THEY came up with this idea: Why doesn't the county apply some of its surplus to increasing its contribution to the school districts? It already, under state law, pays each district $10 for each school-age child. Why not increase this to $20? The countv has no need for the money at the moment: the school districts do. And the result would be a lowering of property taxes. It approached the county with this suggestion last year, but it was not adopted. This year it tried acain. and the county court and budget com mittee this time accepted effect for the 1959-60 There was one more committee action on this matter. It came to their attention that some districts planned to use the "windfall" money without reducmg taxes by a comparable amount. The committee called the attention of the dis tricts to the tax-reduction intent of the county, and persuaded them to revise their budgets to provide this tax relief. THIS is only one small example of what the chamber, and one of its committees, does. The same committee has met regularly each week for several years, studied budgets and countv and citv problems, and has become an informed and vocal unit, istened to with respect biow that it represents when they may disagree Chamber officials declare that by the school tax action alone the Governmental Operations committee may well have saved some large tax payers as much as their annual membership dues in the chamber. "THIS is only one. committee. OfTiAM Viir -nrnflroA -frw rt offer nnrl TTinrP adfi- VfWACXO uaiQ-nvinbU M s w www.. quate highways in this area (the new Medford Klamath Falls route to be started this fall is a direct outcrowth of work by the chamber's high way committee). Chamber activity in the form of a $b,uuu survey oi meaicai iacuiues, resources and needs here was what the successful campaign for a new hospital was based on. The chamber's interest in off-street parking, while unsuccessful on a municipal government level, has led to a iree enterprise parK-ana-snop vauuauun pian. Other committees appeared before the appropri ate agencies on behalf of better air schedules and today we have an air link with Klamath Falls, which soon is to be extended east. The chamber instigated and suported legisla tion for the state water study of the Rogue basin's potential a study now completed, and which is serving as the basis for planning for future of the Talent project is Another chamber-sponsored survey is paving the way toward greater .utilization of wood waste ' which now cannot be processed econom ically. This, and other show promise of bringing substantial returns in the relatively near iuture. THESE are a few of the Medford business and professional women were told earlier this RPlf-nrornotinp- "Keep program. The committee in charge did a bang-up, con vineiner iob of citine these and other accomplish ments of the chamber. Arid the group with which we were sitting seemed to be impressed, with what the chamber has done, what it is doing on a day-to-day as well as long range basis, what it hopes to do in the future., and the fact that it needs both a strong and active membership and funds to do a proper job. 1 The job, essentially, is building a community "climate" favorable to business. But this means many things good govern ment, good schools, good ties, an eauitable tax tation, and, perhaps most important of all, the planning and work necessary to achieve these advantages. THE chamber (at long . waking up to the vital necessity of planning and zoning for orderly and prosperous develop ment; for pollution control and abatement, both in air and water, and for all the other amenities which Jackson county has in abundance but is in danger of losing by vance thinking is done. We shall hope that the chamber, revitalized and adequately financed, will be given a chance to tackle the broad program it wants to. But it can't be done by a score or so people If the chamber is to serve the way it should, l will take active participation by many citizens Like the man said, it.' There isn't any George ! E. A. ! committee of the Jack Commerce all of its Zi.1. -ii- J A.m4-rr districts, and to a lesser the plan and put it into 99 fiscal year. the advice of which is by public officials, who informed thinking, even with the conclusions. resources board's $20,000 development. Its support well-known. actions of the chamber, things which some 300 week, m the chambers Pace With Tomorrow" . recreational opportuni structure, good transpor last, it seems to us) is default unless some ad . . -' v ; . "Don't say Let George do Dennis tho Jill i. ? 'Ugy; I GOT AH m I INSTEAD CAN &WE,WHy 00NT VA WBCfc Matter of Fact i ap Washington-Senate Major-' ity Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson means to keep his law-makers at work at least until Sept. 14 - an adjourn ment date without prec edent in all the sweaty, toilsome an nals of the Congress Senator Johnson's rea- 4V.;a rr-i 4oipb Alsop SUI1 1UI extraordinary plan are highly practical, as his reasons cus tomarily are. The 1960 Demo cratic convention is sched uled for July 11 in Los An geles. This means that next . ... i A year s session win nave io end no later than July 3, if the Senate's numerous Demo cratic Presidential aspirants are not to be sadly inconven ienced. : Thus the next session will hardly be able-to do more than pass the annual appro priations buls. Meanwmie, Senator Johnson ana ms sen ior partner, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, are grimly determined to extract whole series oi vioicnujr controversial measures from the 86th Congress. Come heU or high water, they mean to pass . a labor reform bill, a civil rights biU, a school con struction bill, and a minimum wage bill. 9 - ALL these passion-chargea measures, if passed as planned, wiU no doubt be ex tremely moderate bills by the standards of the Democratic left wing. But passing even the most moderate civil rights and school construction biU, for instance, will be a Hercu lean feat. The job must be done, if it is to be done at aU. during the present ses sion. This is why Johnson and Rayburn have agreed to continue the session for a pe riod without any previous peace-time parallel. These facts have consider able bearing on the row that is now going on inside the Democratic party. Over the week end. the Chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee. Paul Butler, attacked the party leadership in Con gress for failing to come along with the party program and for following "a conserv ative and moderate program" of their own. Northern Dem ocrats like Senators Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and William Proxmire of Wiscon sin have repeatedly said the same sort of thing. But ask Senator Proxmire, for exam ple, how he will judge the record of the session if aU the shapely controversial bills above-listed are,actua riy passed, even in compromise form. "It will be wonderful if we can do as much as that,' is his immediate response. In other words, the first point to remember is the rather simple point that this session's record is far from complete. If Lyndon Johnson has anything to do with the outcome, it will not be "won't do" record when fin ally written. - . SOME Northern .Democrats wiU stiU be dissatisfied with the record, but mainly because they share the opin ion of the late Senator Robert A. Taft, who once remarked that "the business of an op position is to oppose." Like Taft when President Truman was in office, they would like to attack the President at every' turn, whether or no there was any prospect of positive result. Speaker Ray burn, Senator Johnson and their comrades in the Demo cratic leadership are con vinced that this kind of fruit less contention for conten tion's sake is downright bad poltics. In the matter of the budget, for instance, Johnson is by no means wedded to the Pres I 1 I Monaco OF SEEIN' HOW cicgeM 7HE BALI f& GLA&V ident's view that the Ameri can economy will faint and faU if government invest ment is substantially increas ed. But he rightly holds that the Congress cannot make a comprehensive new attack on the gigantic problem of gov ernment investment. Con gress can pass swollen ap propriations bills, of course But only the President can take the initiative to revise the tax structure. Only the President can do all the other complex and difficult things, which certainly must be done before government invest ment can be increased with safety. e e e . . THEREFORE Johnson and Rayburn have decided that spending is to be held down at this session. Some North ern Democrats are displeased with this decision, but there is no sign that' the country is displeased. On the contrary, the most recent poll by the inquiring Dr. Gallup showed that more Americans than ever before-well over 60 per cent-are now planning to vote for Democratic Senators and Representatives in the next election. As far as Congress is con cerned, the political wisdom of the Johnson approach was amply proven in 1958. Be fore that election, there was grumbling about Johnson's leadership very like the pres ent grumbling, although it was then rather more muted in tne outcome, running on the Johnson-Rayburn record, the Democratic party scored shattering triumph at the polls. Dr. Gallup's . latest figure is only an extension and confirmation of the testimony of 1958. It must be added that if the Republicans could find such comfort anywhere, their complacency and self-satisfaction would be pretty nearly Insupportable. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Suppose we call this space today a Lost Persons Column. Over the holiday week end, a lot of persons got lost. For tunately, they all got found. At least, those who got into the news got found. That makes it a story with a happy ending. We need more of that kind of stories. . THERE'S the boy who got lost in the ruseed moun tain country surrounding Pinedale, Wyoming. He wan dered away from his father and his older brother, who were fishing. When he didn't return, a search party was organized. More that 50 men, half of them mounted, hunted him for two days. Airplanes joined the search, but saw nothing from- the air. They found him this morn ing, safe and sound at a ranch - which he had reached under his own power. He got a bit hungry, he' said, but he ate berries. LET'S turn now to the 13 Girl Scouts from Salida, Colorado, who left camp on a hike in the mountains and failed to arrive that night at a spot where food bad been cached. Search parties combed the area for them all the next day. They were found by a forest ranger, sitting pretty oh the banks of a sparkling creek. They said they were in no danger at any time. They didn't know where they were, but they knew what they were about. XTEXT on the list is the party of 16 persons who under Communications " Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addresa 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 War An Absurbity? To the Editor: America's refusal to lift from hell Tibet, which has in the ast been a violation of every drop of shed American blood and every sacred thing this coun try ever stood for, is now far more crucial. For the Reds, as revealed by the Dalai Lama, are now attempting the first genocide of aa entire race (7 million) ever attempt ed by man. Yet is also true, as proven at Quemoy, that the best Rus sian air power cannot even go up against our practically obsolete air weapons without being quickly, easily and ef ficiently annihilated. (This stopped the Quemoy invasion.) This means Tibet, ringed by the world's largest mountains, is a prison for' the Chinese troops who can easily be cut off from help coming over the high mountain passes. He who controls the air controls Tibet. The trapped troops would be forced to capitulate to Chi nese Nationalist and Tibetanl troops. Russia's .air and mis sile power is a gigantic hoax as is shown in True magazine, Berlin is the revolutionary A-bomb of the Red empire Khrushchev, hoping we'll ap pease, is bluffing. Our air pow ers makes World War III a ridiculous absurdity. We must act now. Every second is precious. We must save the lives of 7 million people. It we don't, God wUl surely let us face the firing squad. The Tibetans have taken to the best guerrilla country in the world and are fiehtine for their lives. Ten thousand dead so far. America's moment to be true or false has come. Don't count on our leaders. They are living dead men. There must come a rumbling from the 1 good people of America so strong as to shake to smith- erines the very foundation of inhumanity both here and in Tibet. I'U write every paper and leader in the country. God save our souls and the people of Tibet. R. Zietlow 901 S. W. King Ave Portland, Ore. , Duplicate Names To the Editor: It has been quite a surprise to note that in the city of Medford there should be duplications In the names of streets. We do have a Planning Committee, do we not? It would seem that a care ful supervision of new addi tions would be in order and a real study of changes made so there would be no dupli cations and where there are already streets of the same name, that the last one named should be changed. There has been a Haven Street in Medford for many years. Surely there are enough names that there should not now have to be another Haven Street in an other part of the city, which just leads to confusion. Lefs hear from others on this subject. , (Name on file) Medford JENKINS took to run some of the rough est rapids of the Colorado river in three rubber rafts, They were advised against it, but turned down the advice. One raft overturned short ly after the start, and its oc cupants swam to shore-sal vaging their raft, incidentally, along with its food and camp ing equipment. They decided they'd had enough and made camp on a sandbank. The other two rafts made through the rapids and reached a little town. An air search was organ ized, and the members of the expidition who had capsized but made it to shore were spotted on their sandbank by a helicopter pilot and were rescued in the course of tune I1THY did they embark on a hazardous enterprise like running the rugged rapids of the Colorado in rubber rafts? Well Why did the bear go over the mountain? Why did Co lumbus sail westward into the unknown' and at that time terror-filled Atlantic? The answer is simple. They wanted to see if they could get away with it. . Soon er or later, men will go soar ing off into the unknown reaches of outer space. Why To see if they can get away with it. T of the searchers? task involving a terrible waste of time? I doubt it. When lost - person searches have HAPPY ENDING, as these did, I think the searchers all enjoy the break in the monot- Sukarno's As To His By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The question arises, in a na tion unstable.both politically and economically, just now stable is the g o v e rtnmen of Indonesia's President Su- 1 karno. Sukarno, a successful revolutionary but so far a failure as an administrator, this week was awiom forced into liked. decision he dis- 14 iwl Today & Tomorrow By Walter DILEMMA OF THE DEMOCRATS Few foresaw how great would be President Eisenhow er's success in dealing with this Demo cratic Conr gress. Al though the session is not over the rec o r d already s h o.w s that while he can not induce the PnnPTPSS to do . aU that he likes to do. for example to uyyiuauus hnv it confirm Admiral Strauss, he has made himself master of the situation on any issue which involves the spending of money. He is able to defeat all the Democratic measures dealing with de fense, with foreign aid, witn social welfare, and with pub lic improvement. . The Democrats have large maiorities in both Houses Why, then, does the President have the upper nana.' ssox, as Mr. Paul Butler has said, be- r3n the Democrats m tne Senate lack two votes of hav ing a two-third majority cap nhle of overriding a veto. For the fact of the, matter is that on measures requiring money, the Democrats are split, with an important minority sup porting the President. w THE REASON, I believe, whv the Democrats are un. able to reap the results of the 1958 victory is that the con dition of the country nas rhanpprl since the election ramnaiens of 1958. These cam- naipns were fought at the end of the recession of 1957- 1958 when there were sun large unemployment and re duced business expenditure for nlant and eauipment. It i. true that economists had already detected signs of an -uDturn in private employ ment as early as April and May before the election, ay September, there were signs that the recession in capital exnenditure had ended. But for the, mass of the voters and for the politicians who were running for Congress, the re eesion was still a reality. No one can say, I thinK, that the Democrats won their majority solely because of the recession, though undoubtedly it helped them. For even to day, when the recovery has become a boom, tne demo cratic party in the Congres sional contest continues to gain popularity as against the Republican party. What we can say is tnat when the Democratic canai dates made their promises to the voters, the country be lieved that it was fighting the recession. The promises in volved increased Federal ex penditures for slum clearance, education, health, airports, power development ana tne like. All of these measures were attractive and msmy of them necessary in themselves. But they were also useiui in creating jobs in stimulating business. IN A RECESSION the gen erally accepted remedy is public expenditure financed by borrowed money which shows up as a budgetary de ficit. There are, I realize, many who reject this theory. But the President and his Ad ministration do not reject it. In 1957, when the recession was showing itself, the Presi dent too was a ""spender," and, though it was not avowed ex- ony. " As to the loss of time, the MACHINE has fortunately taken care of that by getting work done faster and thus providing more LEISURE time. F conclusion: Should things like going out in the country where you might get ldst, thus causing great inconveniences to your fellow men, be PROHIBITED BY LAW? I hope not. If people generally reach the point where they SHUN ALL DANGER, when they refuse to tackle seemingly foolish things just to see if they can get away with it, this will be a different world. I'm afraid it will be a less pleasant world to live in. Coup Raises Doubt Political Stability He returned from a 8Vs week round-the-world good will tour to find his Parlia ment in revolt against his "guided democracy" plan, and national inflation in such a state that first families quiet ly were selling jewels, furnl-1 ture, clothing for something to eat. Sukarno promised quick, decisive action. His action was to dissolve Parliament and, by decree, to abolish the nation's provi sional constitution. . He thereby assumed to him self virtual dictatorial powers. For Sukarno, it was an un- Lippmann cept by certain of his own experts, his Administration was by no means opposed to deficit as one remeay zor recession. What was true in Novem ber, 1958, when the elections were fought, . was no longer true when the victorious Dem ocrats came to Washington in 1959. The recession was over. And according to the accept ed theory, deficits are desir able in a slump and they are evil during a boom. This meant that the progressive programs of the Democrats could no longer, as was taken for granted in the election campaign, be financed by bud getary deficit. If the new measures were to be adopted, they would have to be paid for by an increase in taxes. m m m THIS, it seems to me, is the reason whv the President has prevailed when tne ex penditure of ' money is in volved and why the Demo crats feel so frustrated about the results of their great vic tory in 1958. Their progressive program may be as desirable as ever. But it now depends not on painless borrowed money, as in the recession, but on pain ful taxation. Only a handful of Democrats have ever pro posed, much less fought for, new taxes to finance their progressive measures. The great majority of the Demo crats as well as all the .Re publicans regard it as indis putable dogma that the tax rates set in 1954 are untoucn- able. Now if you will not raise taxes, if you know you must avoid a deficit during a boom lest it inflate prices, then the extra expenditures for de fense and for welfare and for public services must be given up. e . e e AMONG7 the Democrats there are two arguments going on about this dilemma One, which is interesting, is as yet a sideshow. It turns on the theory of Dr. Keyersiing, which I do not myself wholly understand, that instead of restrictions to prevent in flation what we need is bold expansion of public and pri vate investments. This may become a practical political issue in the future. For the present it is an argument among theoretical economists. The central argument, how ever, is among the practical politicians. The very great majority of them are, in eco nomics, quite orthodox. They accept the dogma that taxes cannot be raised, that deficits must be avoided, and that, therefore, the President's vetoes will prevail. The argu- ' Ae-M (re rtAMC MC40AM - HAICHO DAY OR NGHT rP3eWl pleasant decision on two counts. A Compromiser by Nature First, ho is by nature a compromiser and the easier course would have been once more to seek a compromise among Indonesia's warring political parties and by other compromises to look for a way out of the labyrinth of other difficulties ranging from inflation to revolt. Second, It appeared the dor -dsion, was not Sukarno's own, -but the Army's. . ' For the first time in the his tory of independent Indo nesia, Sukarno himself was on the spot, without the shield of a premier who might be blamed for national ills. His first aim was to abolish opposition from political parties. The government ho planned .would consist of a cabinet not based on parties, a national planning council and an advisory council com posed of experts appointed by Sukarno, and, finally, a peo ples congress wherein presi dential appointees also would hold the balance of power. From top to bottom, it is to be a Sukarno government. The question of the stability of Sugarno's own tenure arises in the Indonesian army, and particularly in the attitude of its chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution. Nasution is a 39-year-old officer who is an intolerant of communism as Sukarno is tolerant. Nasution telegraphed Su-"1 karno's punch days in ad vance by revealing the nature of Sukarno's coming decree. He also is belived to be the man who forced it upon Su karno. . The present situation could be called a military coup with, the army the real power. But it is Sukarno who has the popularity and the guessing" now is that his post presently is in no danger. ment here is between Senator Johnson and the Democrats specially concerned with elec tions in Northern states where the two parties are evenly balanced. Senator Johnson's critics want him to pass the; progressive measures and let the President veto them, thus building up a demonstration to the voters of what the Democrats would like to do if only the Republicans would let them. - ; e .i e :.- . t . ,L this work? If it does, can be only because the voters have been allowed; to forget that in good times the spending measures have to be paid for by visible taxes. In bad times, these measures are paid for invisibly out of un employed labor and unused plant. In good times, without a tax bill attached to them, these progressive measures are hot sincere, and the voters will have plenty of people to tell them not to be deceived. My own view is that in the era we have now entered this country will have tq spend more on public services and public facilities, and -that these will have to be financed at the expense of private con sumption. We are a rich coun try privately but,, compara tively, we are a poor country in our public life. But this is a new concep tion, and it will take bid lead-? ers, much public explanation and argument, and fresh blood from the new; generations to make it prevail in practical politics, (e) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. the CirlkauM & SNOOSIASS, FUNHAl DStfCTOtJ jggffi PHONE SP 2030,
