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MAIL TRIBUNE, MatfferJ, Or. Friday, Amtwt 7, 15 Beads Th Man Trthm.' Published Dily except Saturday by MU3rOHD PRINTING CO 33 North riT St. Ph. SP 2-3141 ROBERT W BUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertlrin Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Ugt ERIC W ALLEN JR, , Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JgWETT Sports Editor LIVE ST ARCHER Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation MT Ad Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at MedforH Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 to Advance. Copy 10c. Dall- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 8i)t Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Adyance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Earl Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenta Shady Cova Rogua Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance) Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper of Jsefcson County United Press International full Leased Wire MZMBZR 0? AUDIT BUHEAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WIST HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. sir UEUfCIABIB mm i aiicusae ''ASSOCIATION MAT. ON A I f OITOtrAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Tht Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1949 (Sunday) Fire destroys a ichoolhouse and other buildings in Tolo and blackens Blackwell hill. Boy Scouts hand out warn ing leaflets -as a prelude to police enforcement of Med ford's jay-walking prohibi tion. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1939 (Monday) From "Side Glances": "John Day carrying around a ther mometer In his shirt pocket just to prove how hot or cold he could get during the day." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Rain is badly needed throughout the ; state, with no county fairs to cause it, until the first week of September." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 7, 1929 (Wednesday) The Medford city council approves the extension of South Central ave. to the Pa cific highway. 'Jack salmon are reported plentiful in the Rogue river near Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1919 (Thursday) A band concert is planned in Medford's city park to night. A coal vein is found on Iy Ann butte, and is to be developed by local men. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 7. 1909 (Saturday) Feeling is reported intense among Medford citizens against the water line injunc tion obtained by M. F. Han ley. Medford's new, crankless telephone system goes into service tonight. Vhsl's Yor I.Q.? Nino or tea correct is tuperier; avail or eisjhf is xcelknt; five t six is food. 1. Which of the twelve apostles do Roman Catholics regard as the founder of the papal line? 2. Name the Roman god of war for whom the month of March is named. 3. Is the distance between pegs on a regulation horse shoe pitching court for men 30, 40, or 50 feet? 4. The U. S. Constitution prohibits increasing the Presi dent's salary after his term has begun; true or false? 5. Lincoln is the capital, and "cornhusker" is the nick name of which state? 6. A millennium is a span of 100, 1000, or 1,000,000 years? 7. What is the identical five- lettered word , that denotes a boy's nickname, a policeman's club, and a male goat? 8. On the Fahrenheit ther- .mometer scale, would you think that 44 or 98 degrees 'represents body heat? 9. Does a buns en burner use coal, electricity, or gas, for fuel? 10. Cream is lighter Jhan milk; would a pound of cream weigh more or less than a sound of milk? Answers: 1. St. Peter; 2. Mars; 3. 40 feet; 4 True; 5. Nebraska; 6. 1000; 7. Billy; t. 98 degrees 9. Gas; 10. The same. Editorial in Very Few Words b sasi 77ne 7o Protect Ourselves There is a 20-acre hole in the ground just east of Central Point, where the contractor on the freeway construction dug up fill material. The hole is carved out of rich topsoil to a depth of 10 or 12 feet. It is reliably reported that another area of agricultural land, some general area, has also been sold to the contractor jfor a similar purpose. TTHIS is the situation which motivated the county court to ask the planning commission to work out an interim zoning ordinance to pre vent such -indiscriminate gouging out of the valley's limited and valuable topsoil. It was largely on .'the premise it would do the least amount of damage so-called "Bear Creek was selected. i - But much of this route, running through Med ford, will be on an elevated grade. And an ele vated grade takes a lot of fill material. And contractors will obtain they can, and as close to the job as they can, to save money. And there will always be someone willing to sell to them to make a few quick dollars. IT IS a real threat to What to do about it? . The hiehway commission, under the laws srov- erning its operation, cannot specify where con I tractors will obtain their materials. Contractors, in turn, are reluctant to contractually or by verbal agreement, to abstain from any particular practice in obtaining such 1 1 ; maienais. And, alas, there is no zoing ordinance in Jackson county to prevent them from taking soil wherever they can find it and buy it. Therefore, to forestall this danger, the county court requested the zoning ordinance. TTHE idea came from Lane county, which has had the benefits of a planning commission and a zoning ordinance with some teeth in it for sev eral years now. The same situation arose in Lane county dur ing construction of the freeway there, and the zoning provisions stopped it. The ordinance, as it applies to the taking of fill material, is now under challenge in the courts in Lane county, with a decision expected in about three weeks. Observers there are hoping for a decision upholding the zoning restriction. -. If it is upheld, Jackson county will be able to do something to protect its valuable topsoil. If not, we're in trouble. TTHE thought of a series of 20 or 25 acre holes x in ' the ground in topsoil land all along the freeway and Bear creek, from Central Point to the other side of Ashland, is enough to give one the willies. There is real urgency in doing something to forestall such an eventuality. And, more, the entire situation adds compel ling evidence to the need for county-wide zoning legislation, adaptable to a variety of unforeseen situations as they arise. Jackson county twice voted down zoning ordi nances. We were convinced at the time, and still are, that the defeats were due to an imperfect understanding of zoning, and what it is designed to accomplish. LJOW many more lessons do we need? A Must we wait until we are surrounded by rural slums, by 20-acre holes in the ground, by iunk . yards in residential areas, by slaughter houses next to schools? . Isnt it about time J facts and acted to protect ourselves? E. A." r-: : I 'aj I T 15 (f prc::3iteo 20 or 25 acres in the same to agriculture that the Route" for the freeway this fill'matenal where the valley's agricultural bind themselves, either we woke up to the cold I 1 It - ".rrivVr , " , r R.V. Dennis the Menace Rockefeller Kicking Into Civil By WILLIAM THEIS Washington -(OPD- Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller could miss the presidency by an inch or a mile, and still make his place in the history books as the official who finally kick ed some life into civil defense. He moved a step in that di rection by getting his fellow governors at Puerto Rico to endorse his ideas for stronger civil defense action. The Republican's behavior! at the annual governor's con ference left little doubt in many minds that he's prepar ing to challenge Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon for the GOP presidential nomination. And one of his intervening state problems is that of doing something meaningful about the apathy -ridden, faltering program of defense against neuclear blast and fallout. Rockefeller's own New York state committee has rec ommended that he endorse a program of compulsory shel ter construction. That is a lot stronger medicine than most elected officials want to pre scribe for their constituents. And it did not show up in the report RockefeUer's civil de fense committee made to the governors at San Juan. The Rockefeller program called instead for education on fallout danger, action by responsible government offi cials to get people to prepare their defense by building shel ters and obtaining survivial kits, and an inventory of state facilities that could be used as shelters. Basic Danger Unchanged But the New Yorker's rec ommendations appear signifi cant because: -They are applying pres sure at the level where it is needed if local action is to be generated. . -They underscore the "long look" on U.S. defense plan ning that the Eisenhower Khrushchev visits, the Nixon tour and other manifestations of more friendly relations with Russia do not modify the nuclear threat. They may 'help to convince the Kremlin leaders, if prop erly implemented, that this country is not "fat and hap py" and diplomatically gulli ble. Rockefeller, like any well advised political aspirant, seems to be getting his tough tasks out of the way before the. presidential year arrives. Congress, with its big batch of presidential contenders, is doing exacUy the safe thing. : The New York governor is said to feel his political stock has swung upward again after dropping with his unpopular early 1959 tax boost program. His handling of the whole civil defense question in densely populated New York could be made easier if the rest of the country was mov ing with him. Opposition To CD Some of the open disre spect for the current civil de fense effort is reflected in re cent Senate speeches by Stephen M. Young GMDhio). Young has charged that the program is "obsolete" and full of waste. He says the pro gram should be cut back rather than expanded, be cause the military would take over in event of a nuclear at tack on this country. Young was a World War H colonel and military gover nor. He -also is a 'eshman senator who first attracted attention in that body by re fusing to walk down the aisle with his Democratic col league, Sen. Frank J. Lausche. This year's congressional testimony on nuclear fallout danger and the scope of its increase in an era of contin uing nuclear tests has 'helped to put civil defense back in tht minds of public men. Ik " "Stick AfVUN'.iM man' a fresh" 6Azu. OOH AS TarHMy TURNS ON "B WSBR Defense Program Coupled with "this has been the development of the Inter continental Ballistic Missile with Russia admittedly ahead of the U.S. in getting them op erational. Several years ago only the West European NATO countries were sitting on the edge of nuclear doom, within minutes of Soviet jet plane and short-range missile bases.. U.S. observers, including In the Day's News By FRANK More about the sentries at the Buckingham Palace gate and" the rigid discipline that governs them while they are Communications - Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the 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 Witnesses Sought To The Editor: At 2:50 p.m. on U. S. Highway 30 near milepost 260, about 28 miles southeast of. Pendleton, Ore gon, and west of Meacham, Oregon, my husband, Warren Kiltz, age 27, was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He was traveling east, alone on a motorcycle, when an automo bile also going east collided with him. As a result of this accident, he lost his right leg and received other very grave injuries. He has been in a coma much of the time since the accident. There were several cars following the automobile which collided with my hus band. The occupants of these cars aU stopped and rendered valuable assistance. Because of his critical condition and the necessity of rushing him from the scene of the accident, it was not possible for anyone to obtain the names or ad dresses of these witnesses. They may reside anywhere, since one car had an Oregon license and at least one car had an out-of-state license. Their statements pf the -facts are desperately needed. I know that witnesses to any kind of highway accident or other- tragedies are reluctant to involve themselves. It is my hope however, that per sons who witnessed this ac cident will read this letter and, now that they know their accounts of this accident ate so greatly needed, will come forward to help us. My hus band is a twice - decorated combat veteran' of the Korean War; he rescued seven wound ed men under fire. All mail concerning this ac cident should be addressed to P. O. Box 44, Pendleton, Ore. My husband and I and our two little children will be very grateful for any informa tion. Jeaneen Kiltz, 904 NE 91st ave., Portland 20, Ore. Aid Appreciated To The Editor: Mr. and Mrs. Claude S. Kerns, Klamath Falls, wish to thank all the people in Medford who do nated blood towards heart sur gery for their son, Danny, and their prayers for him. - Mary E. Jones (Danny's aunt) 711 Sherman st., Medford. Rogue, Not Rouge To the Editor: Rogue is from rogue, not rouge. I accept your tut, tut. McAr thur's "Oregon Geographic Names" must be correct. It's some solace for me to know my version goes back at least 55 years. Charles O. Porter, Member of Congress 'Barn-Burning Time' in House Disappearance of Rules Comm Bv FRAN IT ELEA7ES Washington -(DPD- This is the period, sometimes refer red to locally as barn burning time, when House liberals start manifest i n g . unaccus tomed con cern for the health, wel fare, and the whereabo u t s I of Hep. How S lard W. Smith Frank Eleazcr " Especially the whereabouts. Smith is 76. He is a banker who still thinks a million dol lars is money, especially when It's borrowed. He also has other peculiarities, includ ing a tendency to drop out of sight along toward the end of each congressional session. It's not so much that the liberals can't do without How ard Smith's company. What gets them is that he is the all powerful' chairman of the Life this reporter, studied civil de fense facilities and plans of countries like little Denmark for examples of self protec tion. The Danes already had 50-man bomb shelters, backed up by fire-fighting, first aid and rescue equipment and trained manpower. Now the threat has leaped the Atlantic. With it may have come political action. JENKINS on duty: Last year an American girl who was touring London paused before the palace gate and, as tens of thousands of others . have done, gazed in awe at the stiff and motion less guard who stood before the sentry box. Then, acting on a sudden impulse, she went up to him and TWEAKED HIS NOSE. The guard moved not a muscle. His eyes deviated not so much as a millimeter from front and center. HPHE guard, it should be add led," was living up to the best traditions of his proud country and his proud organ ization. The American tour ist was living up to the WORST TRADITIONS of American tourism. Tourists of that breed have won us an immense amount of ill will throughout the world. HERE'S another out-of-the- 111 beaten path word to add to serendipity: MELIORISM.. Can you define it without going to the dictionary? I couldn't when it was sprung on me this morning. IITEBSTER'S CoUegiate Dic- tionary defines it as "the belief or doctrine that the world tends to become better and that man has the power of aiding its betterment." A meliorist is one who adheres to that doctrine. There are times', I think, when we could use MORE MFLIORISM in this modern world. all this patter about the gates of Buckingham Palace and meliorism and such? Well, these are the Dog Days. This name for sticky, hot, generally unpleasant weather started with the ancient Greeks. They used it to cover the summer period of about 40 days during which the dog star Sirius rose in the sky. There is an old belief that dogs were apt to "go mad" with rabies during hot weath er. As a matter of fact, the scientists teU us, fewer dogs go mad in hot weather than in cold weather. BUT let's get back to Sirius, thA rlr2 star. It is the brightest star in the heavens. It is one of the stars nearest to the earth, but it is still so far away that its light takes nine years to reach the earth. That is to say: If you had a space ship capable of traveling at the speed of light (about (16,000 miles per SECOND) it would We Have 1005 East Maiii'Street DON STATHOS Insuror PHONE SP 3-6658 very powerful House Rules Committee, and when he dis appears some" of their favor ite bills seems always to fade out of the picture. Committee Routes Bills The rules committee's job is to route bills from other committees to the House floor. When it doesn't they usually die. About this time last vear the committee had a roomful of business, including a cou ple "of bills which Judge Smith felt sure would cost money. One would have let the Tennessee Vallev Author ity sell bonds to expand pow er production. So one . August day he didn't answer when the House clerk called his name on the roll. ' Neither did he answer the following day. Rep. Wat- kins Abbitt . (D-Va.) hinted helpfully that the judge was aboard the submarine Nauti lus which that very day was beneath the North Pole. I 'guess that wasn't so, be cause when Judge Smith re turned, 10 days later, he wore a nice tan. Also an enigmatic smile. He didn't say where he had been. Arrives for Last Riles He got back though just in time for last. rites to be said for the TVA bill which the Congress, only now, one year later, finally has revived and enacted. Coupled with other meas ures lost in the rush to, ad journ, Abbitt said happily that Smith's vacation, what ever it cost Smith, had saved he taxpayers $10,000,000,000 The vanishing judge set a precedent , even more upset ting to the liberal bloc the previous year. . The Judiciary Committee, under Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.)r had approved a strong civil rights biU at that time. Manny and Judge Smith have much in common. Both are members of the House. But apparently they don't speak the same language. On March 2 Manny asked Smith to clear the civil rights bill. It was May 2 before Smith seemed able to hear him. Bill Sent lo House He took up the bill May 2 and must have found it inter esting. On May 17 he was still taking testimony. Other com Multnomah County Fair Notes Opening Portland - (UPD - The Mult nomah County Fair opened Thursday, and brisk opening day attendance encouraged of ficials to predict attendance for the event which will end Aug. 15 -will equal or better last year's total attendance of 151,000. Officials expressed belief that the fair would enhance rather than hinder , attendance at the Oregon Centennial Ex position, on the theory that many who come to the Fair will continue on to Portland for the Exposition. They look ed for this to work the other way around," too, with many who come to the Exposition in North Portland, continuing on afterward to the Multno mah County Fair at Gresham. Duane Hennessy, manager of the county fair, observed: "There is absolutely no com petition between the Centen nial and the county fair be cause they are so different. We emphasize livestock, hob bies, food, needlework, 4-H and FFA. and horse racing, which are not Centennial fea tures." In the judging ateas, visi tors to the county fair are viewing cattle, sheep, nogs and other livestock exhibits entered by stockmen and by members of the 4-H and FFA (Future Fanners of America) clubs. take you nine years to reach Sirius, the dog star, which is one of the stars NEAREST TO THE EARTH. ONE more word about Sirius. . It has a companion star. This companion is one "of the most remarkable stars in the sky because the material of which it is composed is 50,000 times as heavy as water. A cubic foot of material from this star would weigh about 1500 TONS. That ought to be about enough Dog Days stuff for today. to mittee members found their interest lagging though and, over the judge's protest, fi nally cleared the bill for a vote in the House. The House passed the bill, and sent it to the Senate. It was amended and came back to the House for consideration of the Sen ate amendments. This, according to the Rule book which Smith reveres third only to the constitution and the Bible, required a fresh clearance from the Rules Committee. It was mid August, and members were ready to quit for the year. Smith himself was so anxious to leave he couldn't wait for adjournment. He iust left. The liberals chaffed a while, ana iinally went into action to by-pass the judge. inis they can do. tirovided they have plenty of time. Aft er days of delay they smashed tne parliamentary roadblocks. iney convened the Rules Washington Report By WILLIAM ' Washington - With perfect politeness and genteel defer ence, Gov. Nelson Reckefeller of New York is reaching for Vice-President Richard Nix on's jugular vpin MIL rl M r T?nrlrP- feller's d i s -closure that he wiU con- t HIT Iffivnn White for the Presi dential nomination only if the public opinion polls are kind to him has hit the Nixon forces hard in their one vul nerable spot. They had not been afraid of an outright Rockefeller challenge in the old-fashioned way a frank attempt to go out and grab pro-Rockefeller delegates to next year's GOP convention. They felt that such an unhidden Rockefeller thrust would shatter against Mr. Nixon's rocklike position with the regular, organization Republicans. npHE Vice - President himself J- for months has known, and privately said, that the one danger from Rockefeller was by way of an appeal not to the organization Republicans but to the large, happy public by way of a personal popu larity contest. For the vague factors of like and dislike the wav a man smiles or combs his hair have im mense effect on the polls. This everv oolitician knows, none more keenly than the Vice- President. The trouble is that he has, surely, been "contro versial" - and Rocke teller has not been. The Rockefeller people, therefore, are striking at. Mr. Nixon in an area where his powerful position, and even his historic success in his Russian mission, will not necessarily arm him quite enough. They are doing this, more over, in such a way as to skirt the risk of candidly hitting Mr. Nixon over the head. They have left themselves free to say that Mr Nixon is the fi nest nossible fellow-and may be even the ablest, too - but isn't it too bad that the polls indicate he "can't win"? They are going to the public over the heads of the "politicians," just as the Vice-President, with his bleak realism, al ways suspected they would. THIS blandly adroit Rocke feller strategy is basically the same strategy by which from 1940 onward the pro-1 Mjg WHERE'S THE ) . Af il V ;V BEST PLACE TO I : t S X3 BUY A USED CAP.? 1 v ,- .4 I AT YOUR j y WWgF ( PORD DEALERS -HIS . J ?X 42USEDCARS i ir I Give you a new I Cf SL W ND OP PROTECTION l8iii7 when you Buy! J ifc Every A-l Used Car is inspected,- reconditioned if i sary, and road-tested. And they're warranted in writing by the exclusive new Performance Protection Policy! See cars with the A-l sticker at your Ford Dealer's Used Car Shopping Center. . SEE PAGE 7A FOR FORD INSPECTED a RECONDITIONED Heralds ittee Head Committee without him Just as Smith walked, smiling, in to the room. Barn Burns Down His barn had burned down, out in Loudon County, Va... he explained, and it had taken him 10 days to rebuild it Now the Judiciary Commit tee has approved another civ il rights bill. Smith has said he will consider a request for clearance once he gets it in writing, along with a proper printed report on the bill. After that, Smith will need time to think. I've heard that the judge's mowing machine shows signs of collapsing. I know for a fact he has a bad tooth, and no telling how long it might take if the dentist says it has to be fixed. His grandchil dren in Texas are reported demanding to see him. The liberals had best hire a detective if they want to keep their eye on the judge. S. WHITE fessional Republicans have been overcome at every na tional convention. The results have been the repeated selec tion of Presidential nominees from among the popular ama teurs, like WendeU Willkie and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the nomination twice of the master of that -strategy, Thomas E. Dewey of New York. r Something new, however. has been added. For the Rockefeller approach in which politicians here clearly see the fine non-Italian hand of Dewey has one new strength. It is so prepared that the try can be made with out drawing a visible sword against Nixon. Thus, the RockefeUer people are trying to neutralize their greatest previous obstacle. This was the disinclination of many GOP politicians to break with Nixon, like him or not, lest theirs seem an act of utter rebellion punishable if Nixon should triumph after all. But you can hardly convict a man as a revolutionary if he is not really "opposing" you - but is only awaiting the word of "the people" as to whom ought to be nominated. That is not ugly revolt; that is only "objectivity." NO ONE should now write off Mr. Nixon; he remains the favorite by a wide mar gin. Certainly this is so "as of now" - a phrase increas ingly being used. "As of now" is a hedge against what those well known polls may be saying along in the late fall. The Rockefeller forces obviously are going to be doing many things to influence those polls. So will the Nixon forces. And the Nixon people will have the advantage of operating with a tough and able nation al figure - though not yet, perhaps, a widely loved one. But their disadvantages, and the Rockefeller advantages, will be formidable. The. na tional convention still is near ly a year away and Nixon week by week will have, to take public positions on na tional issues. Rockefeller will still be in the honeymoon per iod at Albany, simply running his own state shop and not required to make many people angry. The headlines no doubt will - run higher and blacker with the name "Nixon." But they will inevitably run more amiablv with the name "Rock- efeller." (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) USED CARS ROAD-TESTED WARRANTED
