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MAIL TRIBUNE, Madiera1, Or. Monday, July 13, 1959 MEDFOBDtfevTBIBUNS "Everyone in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Diiiy except Saturday toy MJJJFOiiD PRINTING CO. 33 North fit St Ph SP 8-6141 ROBIHT W RtJHLs Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM, Businesa tfgr ERIC W ALLEN JH, Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a semnd elaat matter at Medforri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai .In Advance. Copy lOe. Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday S mom. 8-0(. Daily and Sunday 3 moi. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Bacle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor rout Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunOy 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealer copy 10c All Term Cash In Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper et Jackaoa) County United Press International Full Leased wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fices in Nev York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angelea. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "-ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Z7 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 . July 13. 1959 (Wednesday) Medford's 1949-50 city budget is approved without alterations following a pub lic hearing before the city council. , Republican Senator Morse charges Army engineers in Portland with carrying on a "subtle and snide political at tack" against him. 20 YEARS AGO July 13. 1939 (Thursday) North and South Dakota expatriates plan their annual picnic at Jackson Hot Springs. Trom Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "At nun time vesterday. for al most ten minutes, only eleven autos were treble parked in front of the post office. This indicates business, and no de sire to walk." 30 YEARS AGO July 13, 1929 (Saturday) Fast pear trains this year will carry local pears to east coast markets. Oct. 2 is set as the date for dedicating Medford's new air port. 40 YEARS AGO July 13. 1919 (Sunday) Two men are arrested in the Siskiyous for possessing a pint of moonshine. Grants Pass is mad at the attitude of Medford anglers over a study of fish life. . SO YEARS AGO ' . July 13. 1909 (Tuesday) Southern Pacific announces tilans to advertise Crater Lake all over the country. An expert notes a $1,600 shortage in Jackson county's books. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eKjht is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which is more brittle, cast iron, or wrought iron? 2. The mating of a mare and a jackass produces a mule; what is produced by the mat ing of two mules? 3. If a body is. adjourned "sine die," in what manner 'is it adjourned? ; 4. Of what cattle are white faces and markings and red bodies typical? 5. What is popularly called the Dark Continent? ' 6. Who said; 'To the victors belong the spoils ? 7. Which of these cities was named for a pioneer patriot whose nickname was "Mad Anthony": Jackson, Colum bus, Ft Wayne, Washington, 8. Is Dr. Walter Reed fam ous as the discoverer of how the blood circulates, the polio virus, of how yellow fever is transmitted? 9. Which of these are le gumes: potatoes, onios, peas, squash, cauliflower, beans, radishes? 10. What gulf lies between the peninsula of Lower Calif ornia and the mainland of Mexico? i Answers: I. Cast iron; 2. Nothing; 3. Without day; fin ally; 4. Hertford caille; 5. lfriea: 6. Andrew Jackson; 7. Fi. Wayne. Ind.; 8. Transmis sion of y-Uow iaw; 9. Pea. tad beans; 10 wr? ioroia. --" .' 3en Can't Escape It , Pretty soon white lane stripes and pavement signs will take the place of yellow on Oregon highways and city streets. . The people won't like it, but higher authority rules, so that's the way it has to be. It is recalled that a few years ago the State Highway Commission attempted to change to white paint not because it really wanted to, but because the commissioners thought Oregon ought to conform to the other states. But the people liked "different." It was more and motorists could see or m the fog. Public pressure was irresistible, so the state went back to of white paint can still be were left when the change-back was made. DUT now the situation is different. The Gov ernment is taking Public Roads has decreed ways must be striped wouldn t make sense for Oregon's two interstate in white and the state highways in yellow. Nor would it make example, to be lined in outside the city limits were striped m white. The change isn't to be made over night, or in a week's time, or a month. But as new painting is done it will be m white. Like it or not, it must be accepted. Salem Capital Journal. Oregon Will Be Battlefield There's going to be a hot time in Oregon in 1960. And all the nation will be watching. The Oregon Legislature set the stage for it this year by amending the presidential primary law. The amendment requires that the secretary of state place on the. primary, ballot as presi dential candidates the names of all persons he decides are ' generally advocated or recognized in national news media" as candidates for president; " - - --- - TTHERE is another provision of the amendment that makes it even more interesting. It pro vides means by which a person whose name has been entered in the primary by the secretary of state may withdraw. He can do so by signing a formal affivadit stating that he is not how and does not intend to become a candidate for president. ! Oregon's primary always is watched closely both because it comes early (May 20 in 1960) and because Oregon is one of only a few states that conducts a primary. It's going to get a lot more attention henceforth. . IF OREGON'S Secretary of State Howell Ap nlin rr nTiro nnmnilinrp Vl a lief 4-nAatT -fff trio filing WdC ,jxumxig iii usii nuuaj jlvx uit Oregon primary he would have to list Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller on the Republican ballot. And on the Democratic ballot he would have to place the names of John Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Stuart Symington, Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Robert Meyner and Mennen Williams. By the time he must prepare the primary ballots there Oregon s law also provides that a name may be placed oh the primary ballot by petition of 1,000 voters. This presents the possibility that those Democrats who want to support Wayne Morse for the partjrs presidential nomination will use the petition procedure to get his name on the primary ballot. , . THOSE persons who submit to having their names listed on primary ballots in Oregon (those who do not use the escape clause in the primary law) are' going to have to come into Oregon and campaign. And they will have to campaign vigorously. A poor snowing in the Oregon primary could be date, as it was in Oregon in 1948 when Tom Dewey defeated Harold Stassen and went on from there to get the Republican nomination. That finished off Stassen. ' You who have welcomed a breathing spell from political warfare this year had better enjoy it to the fullest. Oregon will be a political battle field next year. Pendleton East-Oregonian. Turn About Is Fair Play Republican State Chairman Peter Gunnar is traveling around Oregon with a challenge. He wants Senator Richard statement of his earnings outside his senatorial salary. If Gunner is serious out with a disclosure of How much did Gunnar make- as a lobbyist Defore the legislature, when at the same time he was serving as Republican state chairman? This was a larger problem of political moral ity than Neuberger's sale leisure hours. Bend Bulletin. Officers Rebel Argentine Naval Buenos Aires - (UPD - Rebel lious naval officers tried to hold the Argentine fleet in Buenos Aires harbor today to force the resignation of Adm. Adolf o B. Estevez as secretary of the navy but it appeared the move would fail. The new rebellion was part of a series against the gov ernment of President Arturo Frondizi by military men who yellow. Not only was it sightly, it held up better, it through snow, slush yellow paint. Remnants seen on the streets that a hand. The Bureau of that all interstate high and signed in white. It Highways 99 and J0, highways, to be painted sense for city streets, for yellow while paved roads may be others. disastrous for a candi L. Neuberger to make a - about this he should start his own. of the products of his believe he has been too lenient with the followers of former Dictator Juan B. Peron. There have been a series of such crises since early summer. " It was recalled that a navy threat to- bombard ' Buenos Aires forced Peron to flee into exile four vears aim There was no indication 'that any such ultimatum- had been made by the dissident naval officers. Dennis the lbw oo eu fvotv you dont heed glasses? bu CAN'T TU UNLESS VOL) CAN READ THE ALPHAdBT'.' Washington Report By WILLIAM IKE ON TOP Washington President Eisenhowers, progressively strengthening national and T party leader ship has now become so evident that few seriously dispute the change any more. True, there is much disa greement as William S White to whether he vet. aggressive is. even enough. And there is much disagreement as to whether he has not waited too long, at any rate, to make the tradi tional use of the powers of his office, t Tn short, to attempt any un qualified estimate of the Pres ident's present : posture and effectiveness is pointless. For any absolutely flat judgment sets off, even among the de tached, an insoluble argu ment - insoluble in that it is one which nobody can entire ly win or entirely lose, whlcn- ever side he is on. ' Within these limits, how ever, there is this central and undoubted reality: Whether or not he has gone far enough or started going there soon enough, the President is now going much farther than ever before to give personal direc tion to the Republican party and to the country. ' THIS rise in Presidential firmness is being illustrat ed in many ways. There is, for example, the frequent use of the veto over a Democratic Congress by a President who as recently as a year ago seemed to stand almost in awe of the men on Capitol Hill -in both parties. Again, there are almost daily smaller demonstrations that the President is more nearly oh top of his job and more aware of all the prob lems within his Administra tion than he used to be. And this is reflected in an obvious ly improved personal morale. He is much more relaxed than a year a go and it appears that he is enjoying his work. Physically, too, he looks much better. His face sometimes used to alternate quickly be tween a cherry-red tone and one of chalk - white, both alarming to those concerned about his health. ' Now, judging from his ap pearance on two or three dif ferent kinus of recent occa sions, the ordinary faintly ruddy coloration that has been his before his first ill ness has returned to the President. as this correspondent be lieves, the President really Try and By BENNETT CERF- IN CHICAGO a reporter asked Marilyn Monroe, "How do you react to stories that you're America's sex symbol for men?" Marilyn snapped, "How do I know about man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girL" An. an ; afterthought, she added "1 guess sex counts like every thing else. I'll not be the one to discount sex." Marilyn keeps her famous figure without dieting. Tn too busy to diet," she ex plains. "After all, I'm the mother of two stepchildren (a boy, llj and a girl, -14) I eat spaghetti and potatoes whenever I feel like it. In fact, potatoes are my favor ite food." At this point, seven Chi cago press agents threw away their calorie counters. . " ' ' Octogenarian Somerset Maugham, told a visitor to his French Riviera estate recently, "Now that Tve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success. One's best friend must also have failed." - ' ' , C !. gcMKttCcit Distributee' lj Bag Features SyndicaU. Menace S. WHITE has entered a new phase as a confident and seemingly fit executive, what are the un derlying reasons for this com paratively "new" Eisenhower so late in his tenure? Oddly, some of his associ ates in the Cabinet are not too far apart from his critics in their estimates of the why. Their analysis runs about as follows: ' 1. In taking, last January, a determined and consistent stand for budget - balancing at nearly any cost the Presi dent, for one" of the few times in his whole Administration, suddenly became the spokes man for a unified GOP. The Old Guard Republi cans in Congress, who have never, really been pro-Eisenhower, were thus brought in to a' spiritual kinship with him they had never known before. Often in the past the President had , actually de pended on Democratic rather than Republican Congression al support when the going was really rough. "OUT in the "anti-spending! campaign he became the authentic leader of all the Old Guard as well as the Eisenhower, or "modern," Re publicans. Here he spoke a common GOP language and slogan. And here he was able to find the first true comrade ship with all in his own party, while together they found a truly common enemy, the Democratic party. 2. The departure fr(0i the White House of Sherman Ad ams, the erstwhile "Assist ant President," was slow in throwing up visible effects. But these effects are now be coming plain, and they great ly help to explain the "new" Eisenhower. In the old days he depended to an extraordin arl degree on Mr. Adams. In the post-Adams era the Presi dent by necessity began to do some of the things, and make some of the decisions, he had once rather airily left to "Sherm." The process of "letting Sherm do it" has long since ended. The President's do-it-yourself campaign is now ful ly in motion. Whether he is doing it "better" is still argu able; but the fact that he him self is really doing it is not arguable at all. (Copyright, 1959, by United ' Feature Syndicate, Inc.) KING IN SWITZERLAND Montreaux, Switzerland -(DPB - King Mohammed V of Morocco arrived by car from Paris Sunday for a three-week vacation. A whole floor with 30 rooms was reserved at the plush Palace hotel for the King and. his entourage. Stop Me I W I Communications Letter to tha Editor must bear tha nam and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances tne use 'of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The MaO 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 Fan Letter To the Editor: I was getting short of anything to write about, when I received my first fan letter. I don't know who wrote it, but it's good. He or she said: "You should go back to that little mining town in Colorado and not be in Jackson county. When you get there, jump in their" deep est river and stay there until you can't write no more let ters." I'm beginning .to be lieve they don't like my let ters, but they're readin' them. They wanted me to take the whole Medford Mail Tribune staff with me for daring to print my letters. All this, be cause my poor old cow jump ed into the milk bucket back in 1910, got her feet wet and died from pneumonia in 1920. Anyhow, we didn't throw her in the milk pail. When she didn't get her choice of cereal for breakfast, she'd let us know by putting one foot in the milk bucket. The second paragraph is good too. It says, "You are the one who polluted Bear creek and killed all the fish." "You polluted aU of Colorado, all the rivers and tributaries, including the Atlantic and Pa cific oceans." ; I'm a rootin", tootin', polutin' son of a gun, but ' I didn't pollute Bear creek. I ain't fell into Bear creek for 30 years. When Bear creek was polluted, I was in California polluting creeks. The third paragraph is the best one. It says: "You are as kwazy as a monkey." I knows that, it's easy to be as kwazy as a monkey, but if a monkey wants to be as kwazy as peo ples, he's going to have his little cotton pickin' hands full That just about covers my first fan letter. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. , Fears Red Propaganda To the Editor: Disagreement must be registered with you in your Mail Tribune editorial Sundav. Julv 12. 1959. The particular case of trav elling to Soviet Russia to learn of their educational practices represents an .easy oath to Intellectual homicide. In these trying days of world upneaval, we must be ever aware. -the: central con cern of Atheistic Communism is to gain control of men's minds. Very often we see evi dence of the exrertness of the agents of the Soviet system in gaining control of men s thinking. The Soviet communists .are expert propagandists, and in light of their oft repeated claim of world domination by using all means helpful to this end, does it not remain dan gerously presumptuous to state we must go to the U.S.S.R. to see what makes them so effective? Again, in light of their claims and the effectiveness of their propa ganda, who is foolish enough to believe they are expert themselves, to a degree tney are able to investigate them in their own home, detect their weaknesses and gain the information needed to propel our civilization to remain con stantly ahead of them on a technical level. The Soviet government wants our people to visit their country; they relish the idea, and they encourage this; and they wait with devious antici pation because they know travellers will return home and encourage the Soviet way. Atheistic Communism must be rejected lest our learned educators become the pawns of this Soviet conspiracy in the destruction of our Ameri can system. On the surface it would ap pear Soviet Russia is advanc ing their civilization in the field of science. On the sur face! Ultimately, and you speak in favor of farsighted ness, we are resolved to two Kacipaiiv onrjosed dogmas: Atheism and Materialistic evo lution, opposing belief in a Supreme Being, the way of Christian morality, to be re paid with eternal joy. If a man had even one small ,inht and he chose Atheistic Communism, he would be a fool or a liar. We must teach of Atheistic rmnTTiumsm for what it is, from the fruits it bears on the withering vines of Butter ing humanity in the commu nist dominated countries oi the world. Robert J. Howard, 828B West 14th st., . Medford. He's Amused To the Editor: I have read with amusement certain press releases concerning organi zational and fund - raising attempts of the Republican party in its preparation for the 1960 campaign. r-r Tn the oast years we remem ber the attempts of the G.O.P. to woo -labor, and its criti cism of the Democratic party for its appeal to the average man bv calling it a party pro moting the class struggle, Foreign Notebook: Planes to Germany; Summit Location By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Bon Voyage The first planes to be trans ferred from American bases in France toN German airfields will start arriving in West Germany around the end of the month, according to well Matter of Fact bv AT LAST. 'QUIET PRECAUTIONS' Washington-What are offi cially described as "quiet pre cautions" that will be "quick ly noted by the Soviet in telli g e n c e" have now been taken by the American government. The official phrase half muffled, half revealed a de- i 4osoh Aisnp veiopmeni oi real gravity. For these "quiet precautions" are intended to prepare for the possibility that the Berlin crisis will eventually develop into a test of will by military force. This outcome is not foreseen, but preparedness is thought de sirable. The most important of the precautions has not been ex actly quiet. Nine squadrons of American aircraft now occu pying French bases are being redeployed. The reason given was Gen. Charles de Gaulle's refusal to allow atomic weap ons to enter France unless he controls them. Therefore, it was said, the nine squadrons are being transferred to Brit ish and German bases, where their nuclear weapons can be legally stockpiled. TUT the foregoing, 'though all quite true, is only half the '.truth. In normal circum stances, the Franco-American row about control of atomic weapons would almost surely have dragged on without re sult for many additional months-perhaps until the Eis enhower-De Gaulle meeting that is now much discussed. The present circumstances are not normal, however, be cause the NATO supreme commander, Gen. Lauris Nor stad, has been ordered to be ready to protect the access routes to Berlin by military force, if the need arises. A couple of weeks ago, General Now our local Republican party expects to raise $30,000 for campaign purposes from less than 3 per cent of its registered voters. In a recent registration drive our local G.O.P. group limited" its search for non - registered voters to a list of professional people contained in the yel low pages of our telephone directory. The state Republican chair man in a recent talk before the Salem Exchange club crit icized Oregon professional and business people for not taking a more active part in politics, that is, Republican politics. It must be distressing tq the G.O.P. to discover that a good number of enlightened pro fessional and business people are Democrats because they believe that a government in terested in the welfare of all of its citizens is a benefit to all. Mark E. Norton, Phoenix, Ore. . New Cent To the Editor: Every time a new coin is placed in circula tion a great number of ru mors spring up that something is wrong with it. Recently I have been get ting quite-a few calls regard ing the new Lincoln Memorial cent. Here are a few facts about the new cent: The small "o" in the word of is intentional-not a mis take. The coin is naturally lop sided. The metal to form the raised shoulder has to come from some place and that is the rim and field around the shoulder. The coin is" not being re called. No U.S. coin has ever been recalled outside of the gold. Nearly a half billion, of the cents had been made up to May. - The cent design has been changed about every 50 years so these will be with us a long time. They are extremely unlikely to ever become valu able because of the large pro duction. William F. Thompson, 204 North Columbus Ave. Medford. Now Many Wearv FALSE TEETH With Mere Comfort FASTEETH, a pleasant alkaline (non-acid) powder, holds false teelb more firmly. To eat and talk In more comfort, just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH on your plates. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Check "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. ill I 1 v informed sources in Frank furt. The planes will be spread around bases through southern Germany, although their exact disposition is a closely guarded secret. The warplanes are being transferred as result of the French dispute with NATO over atomic stockpiles on French territory. While Amer ican spokesmen have empha- Joseph Alsop Norstad came to Washington, primarily to discuss his prob lem with President Eisenhow er. Norstad pointed out that he could not carry out his readiness directive if nine squadrons of his attack-aircraft remained on French bases, with no bomb stocks available. With considerable reported reluctance, the President then approved the redeployment of the nine squadrons. The ac tual order for the redeploy ment was only delayed until the President s decision could be communicated to General De Gaulle. THE result of the order, as the Soviet intelligence can not fail to observe, is a large increment in General. Nor stad's nuclear capability. This most significant transfer of aircraft is only part of a larger pattern, however. For example, the NATO ground forces in Western Ger many have for long been seri ously deficient in certain cate gories of technicians. The ta bles of organization have now been filled up, however, by the dispatch to Germany of all the necessary technical ex perts, including "special weap- J ons technicians." The phrase, "special weapons," is an offi cial euphemism for nuclear weapons. Again, the French, British and American convoys travel ling on the Helmstedt-Berlin road have lately been mili tarized, so to say. The trucks have always been military ve hicles, driven by military per sonnel. Yet the convoys to Berlin formerely travelled al most as civilian trucks might travel. Now, however, the convoy personnel are armed for combat; troop escorts on motorcycles are provided; and light tanks are sometimes in cluded. There are two things to be said about these precautions and others of the same sort, such as the inauguration of a much extended air-borne alert by elements of three groups of the Strategic Air Command, In the first place, they are partly intended to cure Nikita Khrushchev of his conviction that President Eisenhower's firmness about Berlin is fake and a fraud. The Khrush- chey conviction was not un reasonable, in view of the pre vious total failure to take any precautions at all. The result ing Khrushchev conviction that the President was faking has been reported from all sorts of satellite and other sources. JECRETARY OF STATE ' CHRISTIAN A. HERTER has therefore pressed for pre cautionary measures just as energetically as General Nor stad. Indeed, the decision to take "quiet precautions" must be considered the first major policy decision quite largely attributable to Herter, that has been reached in the pe riod since Herter became sec retary. In the second place, as al- Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) v.., W' f ftef .Funeral Home n V Phone SP 2-6675 f l LADY ATTENDANT Perl aj.llJigiMjfe FRIENDLY, sized that U.S. feelings to ward France remain as friend ly as always, British news papers are sayinc that this final step means that France almost is out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mount Olympus If there is a summit meet ing following the Foreign Ministers Conference in Gen eva, it is almost certain to take place in Eurone. Th British, the Americans and the Russians have no objec tions to a place like San Fran-cisco-in fact, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev might pre fer ft. But the Germans and the French do not like the idea and that makes Geneva or Vienna the most likely sites. ' Trade War In the midst of the uproar over Berlin, British official dom is very worried about a problem that is providing few headlines-the economic war in Europe. - High-level British thinking is that a po tential economic war between the six common market na tions and the free-trade "outer-seven" led by Britain can do more damage to Eu rope and NATO than Khrush chev s threats. The common market nations include the Netherlands, Belgium, Lux embourg, West Germany, France and Italy. Britain fears that if the six common market nations should erect a common tariff wall, then Western Europe would be split just as effectively as if by a war. Royal Tour It's now almost certain that Crown Prince Akihito and his commoner princess will make a tour abroad, probably within a year. Their romantic marriage created headlines around the world and a tour would help popularize Japan and Japanese products. For tha Women Italian fashion shows open July 16, and there are pre dictions skirts may go down to below the knee, bringing them to American length. At least one fashion' house-Ava Gardner's favorite Fantana Sisters of Rome-plans a "nat ural silhouette" with the em phasis on tiny waists. ready suggested, the decision to take precautions does not imply belief that the precau tions will be needed in the end. On the contrary, the American policy-makers still think that something will be achieved in the second round at Geneva, most probably by the removal of the 18-month, deadline for a Berlin settle ment which the Soviets at tempted to impose. There is also hope that a later summit meeting will lay the founda tions for an agreed solution of the Berlin problem. But the former careless mood has now vanished. A mood perceptibly more som ber has been induced by the fruitlessness of the first round at Geneva, plus such episodes as the menacing interview that Khrushchev accorded to Averell Harrlman. Thus, while the worst is not expect ed, it is no longer considered prudent to go blandly hoping fof the best without preparing for the worst. As this system of policy making has gener ally proved suicidal, its aban donment at this time should really be considered a most encouraging development. (Copyright 1959, New York . Herald Tribune, Inc. Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by 'Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
