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MAIL TRIBUNE, MeeW, Or. Monday, July 20, 1959 MDF0RD4TRIBUHS "Everyone to Southern Ortrofl Read TVi lUsil ri.....r Published DhJJ except Saturday by 33 North 1i St Ph SP 2-Hl RORJ.ST w pi mi .. uiui Advertising Manager iy LATHAM, Business M(i ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWUTt Snnrt. EHItio OLIVE STARCHEH Women's Editor uau miCTUiUH Circulation Mjjt An Independent Nrnnuiur Entered ai second class natter al .ueaiorn Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 i In Advance Conv lOe. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 bunaay only Ona year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point E a g 1 roinv Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix Shady Covav Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo. ISO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance 6fflcial Paper of City t Medford mriciai raper ot Jackson county United Press International Fun Leased Wire : MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WFST.Hni.ifiiv rn ron Of. fices m New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver BXZ. r NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHER! "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 20, 1949 (Wednesday) Rent decontrol in Medford was unanimously approved by city councilmen at city coun cil meeting. Norris K. Porter's low bid of $20,140 accepted by city council for construction of new swimming pool building. 20 YEARS AGO July 20, 1939 (Thursday) Two United Mainliners at Medford airport were delayed until a mechanic could arrive from Oakland, Calif., to re pair ignition trouble. ' From. Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The phone company . has advised the city council it intends 10 eliminate poles on South Riv erside ave. Speed-idiots will have to be content to crash into trees, as best they can, at no late date." ' 30 YEARS AGO . ' July 20, 1929 (Saturday) William J. Hutchinson, new head of the local . weather station, to show that a new boss is on the job, forecasts a change in the waether. Construction .work on the installation of power lines to sites for beacon lights for air mail night flying between Delta, Calif., and Drain, Ore., begins. 40 YEARS AGO July 20. 1919 (Sunday) " Medford employment office of the federal employment service to close doors as it can't make ends meet on $47 a month donated it by county court. Pacific coast is urged to boost tourist travel. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot six is good. 1. Name the Biblical char acter who guided the Israel ites in their exodus from Egypt. 2. The likeness of which U. s. President is on the U. S. $10 bill? , 3. To whom is the speaker referring in the following. "Brothers and sisters have I none. but. that man's father is mv father's son"? 4. Both the male and female kangaroo have pouches; true or false? 5. Is a fathom a distance of four. five, or six, feet? 6. Astrologers assert that persons born between Janu ary 20 and February 18 are influenced by which zodiacal sign? 7. Do bananas grow with the end of the fruit pointed upward, or downward? 8. Radio waves travel at a speed of approximately 1,860, 18,600, or 186,000 miles per second? . 9. Complete the quotation from Alexander Pope, "To err is human, " 10. Name the former Army Chief of Staff whose recent book is titled "Crusade in Eu rope." Answers: 1. Moses; 2. Nona (Alexander Hamilton); 3. His own son; 4. False; 5. Six; B. Acruarius; 7. Upward; 8. 186.000; 9. " forgive. divine;" 10. Dwignt D. Eisenhower. Don't Kill the Path Bill The Saturday Evening Post assails Oregon Sen. Richard Neuberger's Senate Bill 2010 au thorizing the Interior Department to set aside up to 100,000 acres in any which the secretary may park. It is this bill which at Florence, around which one of the areas Sen ator Neuberger contemplates as a national park centers. It has also aroused opposition at Cape Cod, Mass., where another park is proposed. The Post criticizes the measure on the ground that it gives the Interior Department arbitrary powers, enabling it to bypass Congress and estab lish parks without congressional sanction; that it provides no means whereby wishes of property owners and residents of designated park areas can be officially heard, and that the areas now tentatively considered for park purposes are not national monuments, like Yellowstone and Gla cier National Parks, and are already adequately protected by states from despoliation by com mercial interests. IT IS Cape Cod with which the Post is chiefly nnrrUt if rviATitinns ales 4-Vt r "Oi-a. gon dunes." That the bill may contain such flaws as the Post points out need not carded, as the Post would have Congress do. To amend ifr in such a manner that local preferences could be given some weight and that Congress would have something nations would not necessarily divert it from its intent to rob it of its effectiveness. To ask that Congress be given some recognition is not unreasonable, since Congress must provide the funds for financing national park programs. But the bill should be given full consideration. We need all reasonable legislation which will preserve for public use all areas whose value for public recreation purposes outweighs their eco nomic value. But it should Department to ride rough-shod over established communities. Albany Democrat-Herald. Nobel Scientists on Secrecy The best place to find out the effects of government secrecy on scientific progress is among those scientists with outstanding reputa tions who have worked under federal security rules. The Senate Constitutional Rights Subcom mittee adopted this course and obtained some illuminating lniormauon. In general, the views prize-winning scientists secrecy rules were most in basic research; They were less harmful and to some extent justified in the development field. PRACTICALLY all the scientists felt that Amer- ican personnel should to all fundamental scientific results. Government restrictions in private companies with govern ment contracts have, .according to a consensus of the replies, caused much duplication of effort. As for the old bromide that a scientist who can show "a need to know" can generally cut through the secrecy swaddling, several of the scientists agreed that this was not so. How, they asked, can a need to know be shown when it is not known what the other fellow is working on? Thus more impressive evidence has been added to the mass of data which shows that over repressive security measures stifle science. Scien tists engaged in government projects need the fullest possible measure Post-Dispatch. Weather Prediction Progress Almost everyone is concerned in a personal if not also in a business way with what the weather is going to be. This makes it seem strange that predicting the weather has not been given as much support, both in talent and money, as, say, guided missiles or the exploration of outer space. Now, however, there are increasing signs of change, witness the announcement of a contract for developing a system that will step up both accuracy and speed in prophesying the weather. Involved, besides the Weather Bureau, are the. Air Force and the Fed eral Aviation Agency.1 '" 117EATHER Bureau forecasting calls for five '" distinct operations: getting information on present conditions from its 330 stations all over the country; collating the data in a systematic way; picturing it on a weather map; figuring out the prediction and making widely known both the forecast and the facts on which it is based. The new system will do all of this by auto matic devices except the actual forecast, which will still call for the use of human experience, judgment and even, we suspect, a bit of mtuition. COME progress.has already been made in the use of such devices for example, the "amos" or automatic meteorological observation station, the mechanical computer and the chart drafting machines. But even with these, in their present state of development, it requires about four hours to take all the steps in useful weather prediction. When the new system is in operation it will all be done in from thirty minutes to an hour which can mean a lot when a hurricane or a blizzard is roaring up the coast or a tornado is building up out West. ' This will be progress indeed. But conditions in the far upper air, which largely determine those below, are still to be explored and put to human use. New York Times. - : three areas of the country designate as a national has stirred up controversy mean it should be dis to say about park desig not enable the Interior of 17 American Nobel were to the effect that narmiui ana senseless have unrestricted access of freedom. St. Louis Dennis the Menace '1 WAS HElPIN'MR.WllJN WATCR Strengthening FBI in Arson, Bombing Cases, Seen Likely By LYLE C. WILSON wasmngton - lura.- xnere seems to be chance, and a pretty good one, that the strong arm of the FBI will be raised by Congress against good squads who bombing and arson in labor and racial dis putes. This does not mean that yla C. Wilson local law enforcement agen cies will be relieved of their responsibilities. Far from it. Neither does it mean that, in each instance of arson or the bombing of premises, the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop ON A MOOSE EMERGING Washington - With all the shy hesitation of a moose in the' rutting season, the Presi dential candi dacy of Sen. Hubert Hum phrey .has now crashed out of the se cret glades in to the open glare of day. The Minne sota Senator's " I g f day V-l I 1116 Minne jh-J soa Senator's 4ospn Aisop , campaign was formally launched by his two leading Minnesota collaborat ors, Gov. OrviUe Freeman and Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who announced, the formation of a Humphrey - for - Presi dent committee. That makes it official, although Senator Humphrey has promised to add his own formal announce ment later on. This will be awaited with the breathless interest usually accorded to last week's weather bulletins. Whoever makes the grand, time - hallowed gestures, the ritual of American politics is always wonderfuUy comic, precisely because it is so transparently phoney. In Humphrey's case, however, there was a serious side to the elaborate, conventional ized disclosure of what had long been transparently obvi ous. I", plain terms, there are reasons for thinking that the Humphrey announcement was made so early because the more demure tactics of his rivals have not been working very well for Humphrey. Polls and other indices have been suggesting that something big and bold was needed to get the show on the road. But why should this be so? Logically, the . Humphrey candidacy should have won much support in its earlier, unannounced phase. After all, Humphrey is a brilliantly clever and fearsomely ener getic politician. Few men to day are more effective on the platform. He has warmth and humor that even his enemies admire. His record may be disliked by many Southern Democrats and by all conser vative Republicans. Yet it is a record that ought to com mand great Northern Demo cratic enthusiasm What, then is his handicap?. "There's nothing wrong with the Humphrey campaign that wouldn't be cured by your assassination." This gen ially blunt remark was made to Adlai Stevenson by Hum phrey's able campaign advis or, the Washington lawyer, James Rowe Jr. It answers the question about Humphrey. The; plain truth is that the natural Humphrey-ites among the Northtern Democrats are also the loyal Stevenson-ites. They are not yet plugging for Humphrey because they still hope Stevenson will make a third Presidential try. I mm . j !SWlW,&ITHRREfl Ml' 1 would be comneUed to eallOD in to investigate the crime. What it does mean, is this: That Congress has pending several bins covering the sub ject, among which are some good ones which would ap proach the problem by amend ing what is known as the Fugitive Felons Act. Such amendment, for ex ample, is the purpose of Title 2 of the civil rights bill pend ing now before the House Ju diciary Committee. The amendment would establish as a federal crime, punishable in federal courts, any flight across a state line to avoid prosecution for destruction of educational or religious struc tures by arson or explosives. Fleeing witnesses also would TTUMPHREY himself has not H directly pressed Stevenson to stop blocking the road. He has only intimated that a time may come when he will ask for Stevenson's support. Rowe who worked hard and long for Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, has gone somewhat further than Humphrey. In particular, Rowe has pointed out that Stevenson is going tn have to snpalr his minH eventually, unless he wishes to be entangled once again m the experience he most loathes, which is a Presiden tial primary. . This is because all generally mentioned potential candi dates, announced or unan nounced, are automatically entered in the primary in Oregon. When confronted with the grisly thought fot Oregon, Stevenson asked Rowe to find out how he could keep out of the primary there. Rowe thereupon secured a letter from the National Com mitteeman from Oregon, C. V. Girard Davidson. Davidson wrote that unless Stevenson was entered on pe tition, he could escape the primary by filing, an affidav it that he "is not now and does not intend to become a candidate" in the forthcom ing Presidential election. The letter, which is in Steven son's hands, has not yet evoked any answering affi davit. STEVENSON remains sphnix-like. One or two of his immediate entourage favor plumping for Humphrey. At least two more favor doing business with Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. The rest, allegedly including the former candidate's clos est advisor, William Blair, favor a wait - and - see policy. Under the circumstances, therefore, it seems doubtful that Humphrey will get the thing he needs most, which is Stevenson's early and active backing. Thus Humphrey's present hope is the strategy of trying to defeat the Democratic front runner, Senator Kennedy, in the primaries that have not been foreclosed by favorite sons. More than half serious ly, Humphrey-advisor Rowe has sugested an unprecedent ed gentleman's understanding with Kennedy. "Whoever wins two out of three primaries will win the ball game, and the beaten candidate will back the winner." That is the essence of the bargain. -The bargain is probably too common - sensible to be quite feasible. For who would say which primary Humphrey and Kennedy were to enter? And what guarantees would be given that the bargain would be kept? But at least the proposed bargain is some thing new in the frenzied his tory of our Presidential poli tics, and its simple common sense makes it worth record ing. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Foreign Assignment: Indonesian Trouble; Elections Soon in Japan, Great Britain By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Cherchei La Femmet Look for more trouble with in the Indonesian military at least part of it caused by a . woman. Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abdul 4 Haris N a s u- ti5n, finally has gotten control of the entire armed forces as de fense chief in President Su Phil Newsom karno's new cabinet. But Air Force Chief of Staff Vice Marshal Suryadarma is fight ing hard to maintain the whip hand over his service. And, it is said, he is being pushed strongly by his wife who is said to be friendly to the Communists. be covered. The language in this pro posed amendment is signifi cant in two respects. First, it limits the area covered to any building, structure, facility or vehicle used primarily for re ligious or public or private educational purposes. Furth er action would be needed to cover labor violence. Second, the amendment says that vio lations may be prosecuted in a federal court. It does not say that it is mandatory for the FBI to investigate. Wheth er the FBI did or did not in vestigate would be a matter for determination by the at torney general or by FBI Di rector J. Edgar Hoover. This permissive rather than man datory authority to investi gate suits the FBI fine, The record win show that, in practice, the FBI is not slow to undertake within the limits of its permissive juris diction what, are called pre liminary investigations. These are undertaken to determine whether, in fact, the circum stances of the given crime are such that the FBI has juris diction to act. The last thing the FBI would want would be any requirement that it move in on and supplant local en forcement agencies. No Hoarding Of Evidence If preliminary investigation fails to establish FBI jth-isdic- tion, the routine is to with draw, but only after handing all evidence and other per tinent information to '.local authorities. The FBI, although it may withdraw for lack of jurisdiction, remains ready and eager to handle out-of- state leads for local authori ties. FBI laboratory facilities always are available to the local officers This is the way the FBI hopes it "wUl be with respect to the new field of inquiry brought on by racial and la bor difficulties. Arson and bombing in labor disputes al so would be reached by amendment of the Fugitives Felons Act. United Press In ternational was informed that such amendment is likely at this session of Congress,' al though probably not by ex panding the language of the pending civil rights bill. It has been suggested that Congress would make a bad mistake if it moved in either area much beyond the scope of the FFA. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of pen name or initial for publica tion is pe-missible. 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 Something Else, Please Mr. Editor: I ask you, please: No more letters on missiles or monkeys. The writers are wearing that subject so thin . I think rigor mortis must have set in. Hot weather must affect their brain, Or surely from this they would refrain. Why not tell about Uncle Charley's hat? Or won't the Editor print about that? Or tell of Clarabelle's new false teeth. Any other subject would be a relief. Please, Mr. Editor, if more monkeys or missiles come your way, Toss them in the waste basket, and caU it a day. Mrs. Delbert Casey, Route 1, Box 358, ' Central Point, Ore. Bear Creek Pollution . To the Editor: I have heard some people say, " A monkey General elections are in the offing for both Japan and Great Britain both staunch friends of the United States, ' and key issues for both will revolve around relations with the U.S. in Japan. The new security treaty with the U.S. will be up for ratification by Parliament early next year. Socialist opposition is expect ed to be so stiff that Prime Minister Kishi will dissolve the Diet and call for general elections, which he is sure to win. But he would welcome the challenge because it would prolong his regime. In Britain, there is strong oppo sition within the Labor Party to U.S. missile bases. The split could become so deep as to reduce labor's election chances. Fifty-Fifty: Speaking of Prime Minister Kishi, he was on a good will visit to Bonn last "week and said agreement . had been reached between Japan and West Germany on aid to un der-developed nations in southeast Asia. Behind this announcement, informed cir cles see agreement between the two nations to divide As ian markets and thus elimin ate cutthroat competition over sale of such goods as cameras, radios and optical applian ces which both manufacture. West Germany realizes that low wages and high produc tivity give the Japanese an edge in many markets. Long Summer: The West German delega tion is resigned" to the idea that the present four-power Foreign Ministers' Conference may run on toward fall. The delegation quietly has warn ed its staff in Geneva that it In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Houston, Texas: FOREIGN steel poured into Texas through the port of Houston as the nation's steel strike entered its second day, About 21,000 tons of the metal from Belgium and Ja ships here Wednesday. Two other ships were waiting for empty berths (at which to un load more foreign steel). Why is that interesting? Well, Houston is only ONE of the many; many American ports at which, presumably, foreign steel will be pouring in to replace the steel that won't be made in America while the strike lasts. 1I7HAT does that mean? " Well, it means that pres ently many, many JOBS are being created in the steel centers of foreign countries And It MIGHT mean that while America's great steel mills are idle these foreign steel makers may get a foothold in America's steel markets from which it will be hard to displace them. Foreign pro duction costs are now admit tedly lower than ours. T7ROM New York: - B$- the end of the first week of the strike, steelwork ers will have lost about 62 million dollars in wages and the STEEL INDUSTRY will have lost about 248 million dollars in business. THAT raises this question: WHO IS INDUSTRY? are traditionally in clined to think of Big Business as a FEW portly characters wearing plug hats and Prince Albert coats and smoking fat Havana cigars. That once was true. It isn't true now. For example: U.S. Steel Corporation, the giant of the steel industry, has 223,490 employees. It has 331,229 stockholders (the fig-. ures are for 1958.) I S that an unusual situation? By way of answer, here are some more figures: Eleven of the nation's larg est manufacturing corpora tions including steel, mo tors, foods, electrical appli ances, oil and chemicals have, according to the latest figures available, 1,741,550 EMPLOYEES and 2,778,679 STOCKHOLDERS. That is to say: These 11 big American cor porations have approximately 50 per cent more OWNERS than EMPLOYEES. is kwazy." Maybe he is, but he don't dam a creek, then try to swim in it. Everett Acklin, . Ashland, Ore. do FALSE TEETH Reck, Slide or Slip? FASTEETH. an lmDroved powder to be sprinkled on upper or lower plates, i holds false teeth more firmly In place, j Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy epoey. pasty taste or feeling. FAS- i TSETH is alkaline (non-acid) Does not sour. Checks "plate ooor (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any true counter. well may remain there until Aug. 31-if not longer. The general feeling in Bonn is that the second round of Gen eva also may be recessed or perhaps downgraded to dep uties' level while Soviet For eign Minister Andrei Grom- yko goes off to Scandinavia for Premier Nikita Khrush chev's tour beginning Aug. 9. It might also give U.S. Sec retary of State Christian Her ter a chance to attend a meet ing of the organization of American States in Santiago, Chile. The OAS will take up troubles in the Caribbean, an area of vital interest to the Washington Report By WILLIAM FACE TO THE STORM Washington-You may fair ly charge this or that real shortcoming to most any poli tician, but if he is a genu ine big-timer you have got to give him two things. He is cap able - of total self candor. And when it William S. , , , white solutely neces sary he will look at reality head-on and with the air of a man ready, if he must, to spit in the eye of fate. His may not be the kind of courage that wins battle medals. But it is a sort of courage all the same, the valor of a fellow who certain ly is not looking for a fight but nevertheless doesn t go around telling himself when he is in trouble that he really isn't in trouble at all. To get to the top in his profession, in short, often re quires almost the exact re verse of those mealy-mouthed qualities which safer men tend to associate automatical ly with the very word "poli tician." rpHE latest example to prove A this unwritten law of pub lic life is Sen. Hubert Horatio Humphrey of Minnesota Humphrey, one of the Sen ate's Democratic Presidential "possibilities," has coolly re assessed his situation and found it far from reassuring . His close political associate. Gov. Orville Freeman of Min nesota, has been running into painful difficulties. These are difficulties of the kind that beset many very liberal poli ticians when they find that even liberal programs have got to be paid for. At this point some of their most mad ly "liberal" followers, who loved them when they were dishing out the public money, turn a bit cool when these leaders begin by necessity to scoop some of it back , into the-public till. Public opinion polls : of proved past reliability, con ducted by the Minneapolis Tribune, have indicated that 'Ole Hubert" may be going down a little, rather than up, in the affections even of his home state. "Ole Hubert" and his people know, moreover, and do not deny, that perhaps his principal Presidential rival- Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, is getting a long lead and showing few signs of weakening. THERE are three things a politician can do in such an unhappy state of affairs: Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY, ' A- 3 Perl jg U.S. "There goes a million dol lars worth of publicity and good wiU." That was the re action of at least one promi nent Japanese and it sum med up the thoughts of some others to the announcement that crown Prince Akihito's princess Michiko is pregnant. There had been plans for the young couple to promote Jap an on an international good will tour which now must be postponed. And by the time the trip can be made, the bloom wiU be off the romance, at least so far as the interna tional public is concerned. S. WHITE 1. Just give up; 2. Say it isn't so; 3. Resolve not to run from the storm but to turn around and head right into it. . Humphrey has taken course No. 3. He has suddenly be come the only flatly an nounced Democratic Presi dential candidate. He has done this by "authorizing" bis Midwestern associates to throw his modishly eastern- styled hat into that well known ring. Maybe it can be argued that he should have hurled in the homburg him self. But criticism carried that far would seem a bit carping and extreme. Humphrey does, after ell and understandably, hope to keep his present place in the Senate if the big place turns out to be absolutely unat tainable. And even the most candid of men "will not go so far as entirely to throw away an existing job while out looking for another. So he has allowed himself this small hedge: he has retained free dom to withdraw from the big race and concentrate on reelection to the Senate next year if after a great deal of campaign work now ahead1 he finds he simply can't "go" for the top nomination. Not even total honesty requires a worker voluntarily to join the totally unemployed. AND, having taken his basic decision, Humphrey has taken still another. On the very day after his announce ment he went to New York to proclaim himself the one true candidate of the " ultra liberals, particularly those on civil rights. (It was also the very day after local elections in Virginia had resulted in general victory for moder ates who wish to bring about a common sense solution of the school integration issue.) This Humphrey step was risky, indeed. For what he is really saying is that he has gone all the way over to those immoderates who will never accept any civil rights settlement on anything but their own immoderate; tee total, terms. The Senate, at least, is not a tee-total place. Humphrey thus has cast to the winds the last, small chance he ever had for any convention support from the moderates, let along the con servatives. But he has also done this, at any rate: he has stood up to be counted. This is not to say he ought to be either nom inated or elected. It is to say, however, that he has, indeed, turned his face straight into the storm. 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