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MAIL TRIBUNI, Medfore', Or. Tuesday, July 14. 1959 , MedfordSWTribuke "Everyone u Southern Oregon Reads Th Mail Tribune Published Dnily except Saturday by MJ.DFOM PRINTING CO 33 North tlx St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBEHT W RUHL. Editor HERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPjVLD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor -RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women's Editor DALE ERiCKSON Circulation Mgr An- Independent Newspaper Entered ai second class matter at Medfor Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By Mat - In Advance. Copy 10c. Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 4S mos. 8.0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only Ona year 9430 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 f 18 00 Daily and SunOay 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ah Terms casn in Aavance Official Papar of City af Medford ' Official Papar ef 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. i NEWSPAMR i PUBllSHEtS '"ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 3 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years, ago 10 YEARS AGO July 14. 1949 (Thursday) Fire danger is high in south ern Oregon with Medford's maximum temperature 104 degrees; new restrictions ordered on water use. . A three-point one-year trial program is established by the Jackson county juvenile court committee to provide proper personnel and facilities for "tremendous case overload" of Juvenile Officer John Richards. 20 YEARS AGO July 14. 1939 (Friday) John Colley family of 10 loses home in fire on Hillcrest- . Phoenix rd." " ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "The rich are still getting richer, and the poor pcorer many of the latter in new autos." 30 YEARS AGO July 14. 1929 (Sunday) Rogue River Traffic associ ation is assured of fast car shipments to eastern markets, new route via Alturas cut-off to take only 11 days. One hundred and fifty Busi ness and professional, women and families hold . picnic at Grants Pass park. 40 YEARS AGO July 14. 1919 (Monday) George Vilas returns from service with Army in France. Brush and grass fire burns 1,500 acres on Anderson creek; 50 YEARS AGO July 14. 1909 (Wednesday) "Art Work of Oregon" by W. D. Harnev. featuring pho tos and history of state, is dis tributed locally. Automobile drivers repair TAD H in Crater lake, begin ning with construction of bridge across Union creek. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nina or fan correct is superior; seven or eight is seallent; five six is good. 1. Complete the proverb, "All roads lead to-.' 2. Was Peru once ruled by Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas? 3. Which organ of the hu--man body contains four chambers known as right and left auricle and right and left ventricle? . 4. To what did veterans of World War n refer as the "ruptured duck"? 5. Persimmons are ripened by frost; true or false? 6. The Strait of Dover sep arates what two countries? 7. In what sport was Red Grange ah outstanding star? 8. A rattlesnake will not cross a rope made of horse hair; true or false? 9. The body of what revo lutionary leader has been kept open to -view since his death?. 10. Supply the missing name: "Elementary, my dear Answers: 1. Rome. 2. Ia- cas. 3. Heart. 4. Honorable Discharge button. 5. False. 6. England and France. 7. Football. 8. False. 9. Lenin. 10. Watson. New York -4CPD- Ninety-five out of 100 beer drinkers con at least some of their beer at home and three out of four now drink an or most of it there, according to an American Can Co. survey. Fish and Dams Hank DeVoss, who writes the "Woods, Water, Wildlife" column for the Mail Tribune, is an ardent fisherman and conservationist. He's a man who thinks few things can com pare in importance or pleasure with fishing. (And who's to say he's wrong?) But Hank is also smart, and as able as the next man to see the handwriting on the wall. And the handwriting which Hank sees these days is the need for the end of the "blind opposition" to dams on the part of fishermen. ' THE day when conservationists (and we use the word in the narrow sense, rather than the broad one) can, simply by opposing a dam on the basis of its threat to the fishery, kill it, is rapidly ending. He believes that those who' ap preciate the fishery s another look, and work He is, in effect, arguing for a compromise with the inevitable. Last Friday, he said in his column: "There have been too many dams built over our blind opposition, and they have been built with no facilities and no planning as to what values could be saved." , And hp. declares that, instead, the fishing en thusiasts had better change their emphasis to a balanced, cooperative approach, and make sure that the dams that are, built (and will oe ount, regardless), are built with an eye to the protec tion of the fishery resource. IT WAS largely the fishery people (notably the Izaak Walton League, which caned, on its co horts across the nation) that defeated the Rogue T?nsin dp.veloriment Dlan as Dresented in 1948. (After that, it should be added, they coop erated or. rather, agreed not to ODiect wnen the.Talent division, a part of the larger plan, was proposed and approved.) Things remained unchanged up until Decem ber, 1955, and January, 1956, when one of the worst floods in the modern history of the Rogue occurred. - This woke up the people of the valley to the fact that the original Rogue Basin plan would have prevented, or at least much mitigated, the flood. Damage to property was immense, and the threat to life was serious, although fortunately no one lost his life that time. THE resulting discussions led to -a new consid- eration of the Rogue and what should be done, not only in flood prevention, but also in other areas of potential good for irrigation, power, recreation, fish and wildlife, and municipal and industrial water supplies. Now, the time is again nearing for a' decision by the people of the valley as to what they want in the way of water resources development. The Oregon water resources board has completed its study of the basin, the bureau of reclamation has conducted further studies, and the corps of engi neers is nearing completion of a large-scale study of the entire problem. A! public, hearing: on which take into consideration the factors pre sented by other agencies, will be held, probably, in September. OANK'S column was based on a resolution adopted, by conservation groups with re gard to a proposed privately-built dam on the Deschutes. It asked for studies by all agencies concerned, and for formulation of a program of the entire basin. We don't want to misinterpret Hank's atti tude. But it seems to us that this approach is one which can also be applied to the Rogue basin. The engineers' report, and those of the other agencies involved, will provide a thoughtful, overall program for development And they should provide protection for the Rogue fishery. If they do not, they should be revised. But if the fishing enthusiasts fail to realize the necessity for a cooperative approach, and are led again into "blind opposition" based on an all-or-nothing attitude, the valley stands to lose. TTHE classic fishing on the Rogue is a valuable resource. But so would be the new recreational, power, flood control, irrigation, fish and wildlife, and water supply benefits of an integrated plan. (As to recreation, let it be noted, the situation has changed markedly since 1948. Then fisher men outnumbered boaters. Today, boaters prob ably outnumber the "classic" fishermen. on the order of 20 to 1. And the impoundments proposed in the engineers' report would provide a tremen dous resource for this type of recreation. One needs only to. look at the use given other lakes, new and old, in the area.) It is another case where "the greatest good for the greatest number" should be the govern ing consideration. E.A. Eternal Complaint We are indebted to a Medford physician for a clipping containing the following quotation: "Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the rodm..They contradict their parents, chatter be fore company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." " " - Sounds familiar, doesn't it? The kind of thing one hears frequently these days? It is a quotation from Socrates, written in the fifth century B.C. E.A. value had better take out a new approach. ' the engineers' plans, Dennis the l NEVER KEWD s9Atm Nam Free World on Red By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor As of the end of 1958, the United States had poured some $800 million into aid for South Viet Nam -an i n d e pendent republic born of the Geneva conference of 1954 and an other of the Southeast Asia outposts guarding Newsom " 6 " 1 " new n rr , encroachment by communism. It. was there last week that terrorists, officially identified as Communists, burst from the jungle and killed two American military advisers. The Americans were addi tional victims of an undeclar ed shooting war which ex tends along a vast periphery reaching from the 38th Paral ley in Korea-to the Branden burg Gate in Berlin. This is the boundary set up years ago to "contain" com munism. And it is the result of international communism's unceasing efforts . to burst through this area of contain ment that Americans die over the China seas and in Indo china and run the risk that they will be the center of a new world war in Berlin. Nine Year Civil War South Viet Nam is about twice the size of Maine and contains more than 10 million people. It is the southern part of. the former French Indo Chinese colonial ' empire in which the French invested more than $2 billion over a period of 80 years only to lose it after World War II. Civil war raged in Indo china for nine years after the end of World War II in 1945. Ostensibly it arose because of French foot-dragging in grant ing any kind of independence to the Vietnamese. But as much as that, it arose from international com munism's insatiable appetite which could only be satisfied with larger and larger chunks of the free world. , Indo-chinese Communist leader was Ho Chi Mmh, a man with a wispy: mustache, a slender physique and a mighty constitution. Ho Chi Minh today rules Communist North Viet Nam, and presumably last week's raiders against the billet in which two Americans died. were under his orders. Split in Two The 1954 Geneva confer ence split Viet Nam at the 17th Parallel into two sec- tors-non-Communist and Com. munist The situation was much like that in Korea. The Commu nists in the north control mines, raw materials and in dustries but are short on ara ble land. The anti-Commu Try and Phil By BENNETT CERF- GEORGE OPPENHELMER tells of two typical stage mothers who met after a Broadway producer had given a wild party. One show girl had been persuaded, as a rlimax. to QLsroDe ana aive lnio a pool filled with champagne. "It's a blot on the theater," fumed one of the , moms. "No daughter is safe in this town any : longer. ;What more, I hear theyneverpaid the poor girl the $500 they promised her." "That's'the worst part of all," gasped the other mom. "Where was her mother?" ; . Teachers told their pupils for years that the geographi cal center of the United States was in Kansas. Now that Al aska and Hawaii are states, however, there's been some, drastic re calculation! The new geographical center of the U. S. is Pondosa, Oregon! "Everybody is aware," notes Dan Kidney, "that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and that's why so many people don't fool with it" C1SW, by Bennett Cert, stttrtboted by Bag Xmham SrulteU. Menace Among Outposts of nists control a rich agricul tural area but have little in the way of resources and power. ' At the head of South Viet Nam is Ngo Dinh Diem. Washington Report By WILLIAM HERTER'S APPROACH Washington - The return to Geneva of Secretary of State Christian Herter for the re sumed foreign ministers con ference over Berlin is a great book marker in the unfolding story of his tory. v For the Her- Williams. . . whit 1 1 c 1 pates in Phase 2 at Geneva embodies the end of one chapter and the opening of another in United States diplomacy. For the first time, he is strictly and wholly his own man. . The grip of his : powerful '.dead predecessor, John Foster Dul les, upon our affairs is now finally and forever relaxed. The line between the old Dulles approach and the new Herter approach was drawn, by seemingly casual but skill- ful suggestion, by Mr. Herter even before departing Wash ington. He never announced in so many words, of course, that any alteration was, at hand. But he made it 'plain, nevertheless, to those who cared to listen attentively. . 1ITHAT, specifically, is the nature of the change? It is . not the abandonment, m whole or in part, of the de termined American line to ward the Russians. It does not suggest that Christian Herter will be easily open to compromises which Foster Dulles would have stonily spurned. It does not mean an alteration of principle at all. ; But it does mean an alter ation of method and manner. And method and manner sometimes are almost as sig nificant as substance itself. If any country, antagonistic or allied, supposes that Mr. Her ter will be "soft" where Mr. Dulles was "hard," that coun try will be very wrong. It can be safely assumed, how ever, that Secretary Herter will negotiate with . rriuch more flexibility, with more grace and with a less stiff sense of unbending lightness. MR. HERTER, indeed, has already taken steps that Stpp Me Senators Nothing Appears Likely To Happen Soon By FRANK ELEAZER Washington-(DPD-It is gen erally conceded that U. S. senators talk more, and are heard less, than the members of any other legi s 1 a t i v e body. For a while there was hope something was about to be done about this. No curb ever was thought Frank Eleazsr n-ciy uu uic senators' wordage, of course. But serious consideration was given by Senate leaders to installing an amplifying sys tem so visiting taxpayers could hear what the lawmak ers were saying. Sen. Alexander Wiley (R Wis.) reminded the Senate just the other day that noth ing has come of this. And it looks now like nothing will, Periphery He has headed the republic since its birth and his main job has been reconstruction and resettlement of one bil lion refugees from commu nism who poured south. S. WHITE have these inner, meanings: 1. Concede to the Soviet Union, "for negotiating pur poses at any rate, a larger de gree of sincerity or at least a sometimes-and-maybe sin- cerity-than Mr. Dulles would have conceded. 2. To move the United States just a faint fraction away from the almost ' total and automatic deference it showed under Mr. Dulles to the desires of old Konrad Ade nauer of West Germany. This does not mean for a moment that Mr. Herter has broken the American - Free German front. It only means that he is seeking a measure of freedom of movement that Mr. DuHes never sought. 3. Thus to edge closer to the position of the British,, to bring to the Anglo - American alliance a more sympathetic touch. 4. To put the State Depart ment even more solidly into thegood books of the Demo cratic foreign policy leaders in Congress. These were al ready more truly behind Mr. Herter than they ever were behind. Mr. Dulles, largely for human reasons- - again, large ly because of matters of man ner. Mr. Herter, a long-time former member of Congress, understands the Capitol much better than Mr. Dulles could or did. He is, moreover, per sonally more nearly- in -tune with the Democrats, for he never was much of a partisan Republican. .. . . rfiHUS, Cliristian Herter has -- carried subtle but impor tant things back to Geneva in his crested dispatch case. There was a notice that the United States has in true fact a new Secretary of State with a new approach designed to maintain old principles. There was a frank desire to deal with the Russians, if only they will permit it, with greater trust than in the past. . And, finally, here was evi dence, for all who may trouble to see, that if Christian Her ter is not outwardly as "hard" as Foster Dulles, his softer tones overlie the very reverse of a soft political backing at home. (Copyright. 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) - 2,500 Acres of Grazing Land Burns Boardman -(DPD- Some 2,500 acres of grazing land were blackened by a wind whipped range fire near here Sunday. The blaze was under control Monday. John Hunt, bureau of land management fire control offi cer, said the fire was appar pntlv started when a pickup truck overturned and burned in a ditch four miles west of Boardman on Highway 30. A ranch house and several smaller buildings were de stroyed. The ranch was unoc cupied, according to officials. Pondosa, ghost town geo graphical center of the U. S., erunted into flames again Monday from timbers which had smoldered when the small one-time lumber town burned month ago. TTnnt said that fire danger remained critical in most of eastern Oregon with thunder storms predicted. Find Need at least not anytime soon, Senators have been polled by the rules committee on whether microphones and am plifiers should be installed in the Senate. One third voted aye. One third said maybe so, maybe not. Makes Own Decision . So the rules committee has made its own decision, sort of. No public address system will, be installed in the Sen ate unless it's the best in the world. The $25,000 system re cently proposed by the Capi tol' architect-the same sys tem which House members, for years, have found reason ably satisfactory-wasn't near good enough, it was ruled. So now they have ordered a "study." And I guess this means that 20-20 vision, plus lipreading ability, will con tinue a principal requirement for reporters trying to cover the Senate. . Wiley noted that those in the press and public galleries aren't the only ones who often can't hear a word of what's said in the Senate. He said the members can't hear each other, and that things lately have gotten so bad they often can't even catch the opening prayer of the chaplain. Can't Mist Prayer Although Wiley didn't press this point any further, his implication was clear that if they don't hear anything else, the senators can't afford to be left out on the prayer. Senate debate often con sists of a private chat between two members standing three feet apart, and what got Wiley worked up this time was that so often the two members are Senators Lyn den B. Johnson (D-Tex.) and Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.) They are the majority and minority leaders respectively, and it behooves all right thinking senators to have in mind at all times what they are talking about. Except when he gets his dander up about something, Johnson is among tne better known whispering senators. Dirksen usually addresses the Senate in the soft, pearshaped tones of a senior partner in an eld and dignified firm of undertakers. Shocks Senate Wiley sits right behind Dirksen, and if he can't hear the exchanges between the two leaders it stands to reason the 90 or so senators further removed from the posts of command might as well have renamed in their offices, Some of them, it turned out the other day, have been doing just that, though not intentionally. "This was brought to light by Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), who shocked Senate sensibilities by Interrupting a roll call on the TVA bill to pose a par liamentary inquiry. Nuclear Surface Ship Christened Quincy, ,Mass.-(UPD-The na tion's first nuclear - powered surface ship; the guided mis sile cruiser Long Beach, was christened today. More than 7,000 persons, headed by principal speaker Harold S. Vance, a member of the Atomic Energy Com mission, attended the christen ing at the Bethlehem Steel company shipyard. The 721-foot ship, boasting the latest developments in re actor technology in a two-reactor power plant, was chris tened by Mrs. Craig Hosmer, Long Beach, Calif., wife of Rep. Craig Hosmer (R-Calif.). Secretary of the Navy Wil liam B. Franke headed the official Navy delegation at the christening. 'i Hanford Projects Picketed by Union Richland-OIPD-Some 500 men were off their jobs at Hanford Atomic Works construction projects Monday as a labor union put up pickets in the area. An Atomic Energy Commis sion spokesman said members of Local 77 of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electri cal Workers set up picket lines across roads leading into the Hanford Works plant here and that other unions refused to cross them. The spokesman said the protest was against a $9,415 contract awarded by the AEC to Estep Construction Co., Yakima, which employed non union labor. The company was contracted to build about six miles of transmission line a.t Hanford. Husbands! Wives! GetPep,Vim:FeelVounger Thousands of couples are weak, worn-out. exnaustea because body tacics iron ami Vitamin Bi. For a younger feeling after 40, try new. improved Ostrex Tonic Tablets. Contain iron and high-potency dose Vita min Bi for quick, new younger pep, vim. Xlay get-acquaintea size oruy oa. ur gEicaoomy$ua,$v f 1.67. All dracsuts. for Amplifiers, But Goldwater said the bells by which senators live weren't functioning in the new ofiice building. He wondered what would be the parliamentary situation when a , senator failed to answer the roll call because he wasu't warned by the bells that a vote was in progress. Sen. B. Everett Jordan (D N.C.), who was presiding, re minded Goldwater that one does net interrupt Senate roll calls for anything, least of all a parliamentary inquiry. Reopens Question The; voting continued, and Matter of Fact JIM'S MAN-AND GEORGE'S : Washington - Five short years ago, in 1854, Kep. George H. Bender of Ohio was chosen by the Ohio Re publican's to run for the un expired Sen ate term . of the greatest Repub 1 i c a n Sena.tor of modern times, Robert A. Taft. As Bender said himself at the time, 1 4osDb Alsoo ne maiiiij owed his nomination to the other great satrap of Ohio Republicanism, Secretary of the Treasury George M. Hum phrey. He had served for years as chairman of the Cuyahoga Country Republi can v Organization, in which Humphrey was (and is) the great influence behind the scenes. Bender was in fact George Humphrey's man. But George Bender had some interesting additional supporters in 1954, according to the record newly made by Sen. McClellan's sub-commit tee on improper labor prac tices. . TN the election year, the re- - cord shows, Bender was chairman of a House sub committee. This body went into Ohio during the cam paign to investigate, among others, William Presser and Louis "Babe" Triscaro. These men are Jimmy Hoffa's local bosses of the Teamsters Union. Early in October, Bender, Presser and Triscaro were glaring at one another across the committee table. But just before election day, Presser told an executive board meet ing of the Ohio conference of teamsters that the union s support was to be switched to the grand inquisitor. One of those present, who had been hard at work for Bender's Democratic oppon ent, has testified to. his ex treme surprise. None-the-less, by Presser's command, the Ohio teamsters were briskly transformed into Bender vot ers. Shortly after election, Presser and Triscaro went to Washington to make their final appearances before the Bender anti-racketeering sub committee. After that, Pres ser happily boasted, in a pub lic speech, that the hearings were "over" without anyone being "cited for any contempts . no perjuries!" Fthe same speech Presser generously declared that especially during the latter portion of the hearings", he had found "a friend" on the anti - racketeering sub - com mittee. "His name," said Pres ser, was George Bender." Al most concurrently, Presser's asked the local teamster's spokesman i n Cincinnati joint council for a donation, to help meet the expenses of the Presser and Triscaro de fense before the Bender sub committee. An anti-Presser, anti-Hoffa teamster's leader, the head of tot; Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan -, J -!0L" f --4? z Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. when it was done, Ser, Frank J. Lauhche (D Ohio) re -pened the question. He said the bell didn't ring in his office, and that he missed the roll call. What was his status, he want, ed to know. "Tbe.. chair u informed by. the parliameotarian," Jordan replied, "that the question is not germane to the issue. It's a matrer for the electrician." So the bill was passed, a fact of which most of the ear rtrainers present probably. eren't aware until t -icy read it next day . in the Congres sional Record. Bv Joseph Alsep local milk union, James Luken, thereupon objected, that the lawyers for Presser and Triscaro had already been paid out of union funds in the regular manner. To this the Presser spokesman, George Starling, made a fascinating reply. As sworn to by Luken, , Starling explained that "other money was spent to pull cer tain strings to see that these charges were dropped." A little later still, some quite remarkable things be gan happening to the bank ac count of the finance commit tee of the Bender for Senator committee. This finance com mittee, headed by business men of the most gilt - edge type, filed an official report disclosing contributions o f $95,000. The record now shows that the real receipts were greater than those offici ally disclosed by no less than 3iuo,ao.vo. Ana at ieasi adu,- 000 of this delightful margin was accounted for by a series of large deposits, all in .cur rency, that began to be made in December, 1954. THE Senatorial glory paid for in this manner did not last long. Poor Bender, beaten in the 1956 election,-, then found new employment as chairman of the special com mission named by Jimmy Hof f a to whitewash the Teamsters ice, he has received $58,000 to date. Last week, his jowls wob bling with self-righteousness, this aging politician who used to be George Humphrey's man is now Jimmy Hoffa's man, made his extraordinary appearance before Senator iviuviexian s suu - committee. The other dicta are worth pre- of naming a prostitute as Re publican precinct captain in her red light district. He then added genially, "You don't have to become a prostitute yourself, but you have to get their votes." But the purpose of his ap pearance was not to give these little tips on politics, but to deny that the facts cord had any meaning at alL He did not challenge the facts themselves. He just said it was "a damnable lie" that he had received a payoff from the teamsters. . Such is this strange story, which is worth bringing to gether in one plate for two mam reasons. First, one can imagine the kind of hullaba loo that would now be going on if a former henchman of a super-respectable Democrat say Adlai Stevenson . , . were revealed in the same pos ture as this former henchman of the most super-respectable Republican. What is sauce for the Stevenson - goose ought to be sauce for the Humphrey gander. And second, the story hints at one of the main ills of the Republican partv. which is the peculiar taste in politicians of many very big, very important American businessmen. (c) 1959. New York Herald Tribune Inc. PREFFERED OR MOT . . . We have an insurance market for you. If you have a-placement problem or are consid ered a preferred risk we can still provide insurance cover age at a price you can afford to pay. It will pay you to in vestigate. Bill Fish
