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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford-, Or. Mondsy, Aug. 10, 1959 MEDFORDtSWTRIBUNX "Iveryone m Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune Published Dnil except Saturday by MJJWOftD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPALO LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR- Managing Kxtitor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor DALE ERiCKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as semnd class matter at Medforri Orecon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat I in Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa. 8 .00 Dailv ant1 Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenla Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ef City f Medford Official Paper el Jackson County United Press International Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of flees in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Lotus. Al lan Vancouver B.C. lO? NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS "-ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASgcSjTlgN 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 Aug. 10, 1949 (Wednesday) Medford officials consider sale of the city's old sewage disposal plant on Biddle lane. Cooks are needed for the Camp White veterans' domi ciliary, federal officials an nounce. . 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 10, 1939 (Thursday) The Central Point boys in volved in stealing watermel ons from Arnold Bohnert's patch get suspended ' sen tences but must apologize and make restitution with cash or by picking tomatoes. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A number of the Older Girls see no hope, or a silver lining, and glumly predict:. It's hot today, and going to be hotter tomorrow." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 10, 1929 (Saturday) The Coos Bay newspaper praises the aviation spirit of Medford area residents. The Medford Legion drum corps wins a cup at the state meet. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1919 (Sunday) The last codling moth spray of the season is applied. National Editorial associa tion convention delegates and other dignitaries are expected for a special visit to Crater Lake. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1909 (Tuesday) The Rogue valley's casaba, musk, water- and other mel- lons are reported to be the greatest. - A "modern" business col lege is to be established in Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five ot six is good. 1. Name the Hungarian Car dinal who was tried bv a "People's Court" on a charge of treason. 2. In what town near Pitts burgh did Andrew Carnegie found his first public library? 3. There are no mosquitoes in Alaska: true or false? 4. Is it tiie equinox, or the solstice, that occurs at the beeinnine of spring? 5. In what war did British troops burn the White House in Washington? 6. -Is the hollyhock a native plant of- Holland, China, In dia or America? 7. Name the Secretary, of Agriculture of the United Rtates. o Tn the nursery rhyme, what color was Mary's little lamb? ' 9. Of what mineral is coke a derivative? . 10. In what country is the TJanffnon? pull v- c Answers: 1. Josef Cardinal Mindssenry. 2. Braddock. Pa. - a. The spring equi nox I! War of 1812. 6. China 7. Ezra Tafi Benson. .?J . Coal. 10. Burma. LI7 Boothbay, Maine-JIPD-Harold Cross, 69, widely Sown libel lawyer and for mer associate dean of the Co lumbia University School of 0 journalise, mtu Taxing Churches "Tax the churches," a frequent slogan of those eager for tax relief, but one carefully avoided by candidates for office, got a boost, of a sort, from an unexpected quarter recently. In. an article in the publication "Christianity Today," the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, stated clerk of the United Presbyterian church and for mer president of the National Council of Churches of Christ of America, called on churches to re examine their policy with regard to taxation not that hex recommends putting churches on the taxrolls at once but he does point out some tax advantages which might well be curtailed. One of those is exemption from the corporate income tax on business operations, which gives churches (and other tax-exempt non-profit organizations) a competitive advantage over private owners. 'TAKING note of a growing "anti-church feel- A ing" in the United States Dr. Blake says that a government with mounting tax problems can not be expected to keep its hands off the wealth of a rich church forever . . ." He ventures the opinion that if the present exemption on gifts, inheritance and real estate and income taxes is continued in a hundred years the problems con fronting the state may be of such magnitude "that their only solution will be revolutionary expro priation of church property." Expropriation is an ugly word, reminiscent of the action of Henry VHI in England when he broke with the Roman Catholic church, of the French Revolution in the 18th century and with nationalization of church property by Communist states in recent times. IXfHILE the purposes of the church are laud- able, when a church becomes large and rich it excites envy, says Dr. Blake. However much the enterprises of the church may be appreciated, they are "not sufficient of themselves to make a poor man love a rich church." As a starter Dr. Blake suggests that gradually local property taxes could be levied against churches up to 10 per cent of the normal tax against private property. That would be a modest beginning, to be sure. Church trustees and treasurers, hard pressed now to meet budgets, may wonder where the money would come from to pay taxes. It would have to come from present sources of income from the pockets of the faithful. Dr. Blake's frankness should and" will stir discussion of this important topic both within and without the churches. Oregon Statesman, Salem. There He Goes In the closing hours of the 1959 Legislature, Sen. Dan Dimick, Roseburg'Democrat, made an impassioned speech about "the chiefs and the Indians. The burden of more highly paid officials ("chiefs") were get ting too much money, the lower-paid employees ("Indians") too little. He succeeded in eliminat ing pay increases for the career service. ; Maybe this sounded fine to some voters and maybe it seemed to put side of the "little man. of only .0007. per cent on the biennial budget. And it did the career service, as a service, great harm. His attack was calculated to improve the morale of career em ployees who know they could do better, finan cially, elsewhere. MOW we're losing Art Handly. Mr, Handly, a relatively young man and a very able one, was drawing $9,000 a year as the No. 2 man in the board of control office. He stood to inherit the top job when William Ryan, board secretary, retires. Mr. Handly was, by Senator . Dimick's definition,' a chief. Because he made $9,000 a year he was, by Senator rageously overpaid. . In his new job as principal assistant in the Wisconsin department of finance he will get $13,500. And presumably he won't have to take a rash of insulting oratory from a legislator. Good men with training and experience, men willing to spend their lives in the service of the state, are hard to find, and they're getting harder to find. A pay raise, and a few kind words last spring would have been well invested if they had kept for Oregon young men like Art Handly. Eugene Register-Guard. Purposes of Living A sociologist, writing in the Saturday Review asks " is not the fathering and mothering of chil dren the point and purpose of living?" Well now, that adds something to the discus sion of what life is all about, and we think that this comment might mere appropriately have come from a stockman. The Christian says we live to serve the Lord, the hedonist that we live to enjoy ourselves, the communist that we live to serve the state. Nearly all the philosophers of our present white, Christian civilization have said that man must contribute something to society to live prop erly and most of us go along with that rather humanistic ideal. Sherman County Journal. ULTIMATE WEAPONS Manila - (UPD - City prose cutor Hermogenes Concepcion suggested today that the city require licenses for possession of bows and arrows, blow pipes, darts and slingshots. it was that the state's Senator Dimick on the But it resultei in a saving an insulting one, hardly Dimick's definition, out HAY FEVER HANKIES New York-flJPD-As the hay fever season got into full sneeze, a New York depart ment store today advertised a sale on "drip-dry handker chiefs.'? - Dennis the Menace I II l .-l I Ml I'll. I III -NSVL I I II II I I 1 KTrt-T ii c, - sr- i a ii ii i a ill 'SURE LUCKS I WeWALCUSl Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for. publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the cae. Poeis & Monkeys To the Editor: Look, Mr. Acklin, your Hup- mobile rush Chased a couple of "poets" out of the brush. Welcome Mr. B.L.J, and Mr. Weaver Did you bring along your monkey cleaver? Or did you just come along for the ride? -Those monkeys may eat the tan off your hide. Monkeys have been fighting on that M.T. page For weeks now, it seems like an endless age. The monkeys multiply by leaps and bounds. Anyone v have a couple of monkey hounds? I might enjoy a trip to Nir vana, Even though I become a ba nana. . But back to the heat, and flies by the score. May I repeat - No more mon ... keys, no more! ... Mrs.-i Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point Support Firemen -- To the " Editor, and the people of Shady Cove: I heard a criticism today that made me very unhappy and I would like the people of Shady Cove to hear about it. There was a fire which threatened two buildings on the former Martin ranch. The Shady Cove fire department was called and they arrived in record time. The buildings were saved but some brush was still burning when the Shady Cove five department loaded up their hose and de parted. I overheard some one make the remark to the ef fect that the fire department was certainly in a hurry to leave and they thought they could at least stay until the fire was completely out. Perhaps I should state that the men who answered that fire are all Shady Cove busi ness men and that they closed their places of business to answer the fire call, and I might also add, they are the same few men who answer all the fire calls, day or night. They receive absolutely no pay and seldom any thanks for their effort. I for one appreciate what these men are doing and I think it is a shame for people to expect these few men to leave their places of business and then criticize them for not staying until the last spark is out. It seems to me the people of Shady Cove should appre ciate having a fire depart ment enough to at least come to the fire meetings and learn how to use the equipment and not to expect the same few business -men to do all the fire fighting. Many men have been asked to just serve on the fire board and they have refused and again that leaves the same few men to carry on. If everyone would make it his business to do his share instead of criticizing these few men we would all have a better community to live in. -; I would like to give a vote of thanks to the business men of Shady Cove for offering their time and effort so that our community can have some protection from fire. We are very fortunate in hav ing two good fire trucks but we are unfortunate in not having more people who are schooled in the use of this equipment. How about it folks - Don't you' think it is high time you 8-f0 DAD 30T TUB 0O&ST got behind our fire depart ment and helped do your share? Next time it might be your home that is on fire. Thelma Reinning Clerk of Shady Cove-Trail Rural Fire Protective District. P.S.: No member other than myself knows this letter is being written. Prospectors Gone To the Editor: How true is the statement voiced in the United Press a while ago at tributed to one Oregon U. S congressman, that the old time prospector had vanished along with the legendary do do bird. In fact there should be a kingly monument erect ed in each of the early west ern mining states in memory of the prospector and jack ass miners who blazed the trail for future civilization to live and develop into a mo dern economy. Yes, the old time prospec tor has come and gone "the way of all flesh,"-and in his stead, is a modern day man in a jeep, helicopter or jet plane, equipped with late gadgets to test out, analyze and segregate all indications of active minerals in a jiffy. Now the few remaining sym bols left of the old time pros pector are the packsack and burro of today. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st., Medford. - Farewell, Jacksonville "Jo the Editor: We arrest our activities to pay tribute to Jacksonville, well loved, once crowned with the most envi able honors that courage, cul ture and progress could be stow. Jacksonville, this mo ment being snatched from us on the eve of her rebirth into a life of promise,' will then not truly rise and shine in a modern afterglow of historic wealth with a radiance that might outshine her meager beginnings. Her life was long. To go back to her beginnings is to go into another world, of pio neers with courage, diligence and foresight and faith in her future. Gold brought some, the land brought some, adven ture brought some, and some came only to serve those al ready here. But the gold has long since been gathered, the land settled, and adventure presently lies beyond newer horizons. Those who remain to serve find little call and less appreciation for what they do. Although it is not altogether- fitting to think now of what might have been, few will view this passing without regret that the necessary mir acle did not happen, and that the prescritpion for her ills was not utilized when pre scribed by those qualified to advise. But like a fever rid den child, sleepy and weak, she closed her ears to the call of true friends, and she would not open her eyes to see her decaying parts. Jacksonville could have been great. She could have annexed Medford and renam ed the entire town as her own, thus restoring to her fold the county courthouse and seat, retaining her state school dis trict number one rating, re gaining a railroad, and adding the prestige of an airport and position as fourth in popula tion in Oregon. She would have had a sewer, and a high school, but her taxes would have been lowered. Her name, once called "Jacksonville Hub of the West Coast and Cultural Center," would have become known across the na tion as she stood upon her past and builded great and Rockefeller's Problem: With Nixon For Wide By RAYMOND LAHR Washington - (UPD - It could be that a Republican Gover nor far from New York might want Nelson A. Rockefeller to visit and teU about the New York's civil defense pro gram. It could be, too, that Rockefeller would decide that it was his duty to respond to' the invitation. He needs to do something like that to get on page one occasionally in competition with Vice President Richard M. : Nion. He now has no plans for trips outside New York, but . his plans could change. The '. Rockefeller operation does have Some ideas about getting him attention this f all but nothing so spectacular as Nixon's Russian tour, -which already has lifted the Vice President in public opinion polls. . Decision This Fall Rockefeller expects to de cide this faU whether to con test with Nixon for the GOP presidential nomination if the Gallup Poll should indi cate he would be a stronger greater tomorrows. Farewell, Jacksonville. The highest honor we can pay, and the greatest tribute we can give you is to say that you lived aristocratically as did your sons and daughters, and though you walk over the edge of doom, your head is unbowed, and you smile, per haps uncaring, certainly un thinking, but were you undig nified? ... Never.. Virginia D. Card, Prop., Terminal Book and Gift Shop, " Jacksonville. On War Prevention To the Editor: I write once agaifi to express my convic tion that our government should be taking the lead in trying to brine nuclear weap ons, their further develop ment, production, distribution and use, under; international control.. And I should like to take this opportunity to point out that such efforts as arms control need not entail either "unilateral disarmament" or the "nuclear disarmaments rice" of which F. J. Clifford and others have been so crit ical. . I am not so politically naive as to think that the American people are likely to divest themselves of the weapons they consider so essential to the deterrence of war and the maintenance of peace. "How ever, I am MORALLY naive enough to believe that nuclear war is wrong under any cir cumstances and that bold, con structive steps ought to be undertaken to assure its pre vention. Still I realize there are those who Would rake the specter of man's past failures at disarmament as reason for abandoning all efforts at atomic control today. These people plainly ignore the fact that times have changed and brought with them changes in war and its conduct which now make arms control a ne cessity. Children have long since ceased to save pennies for glorious old "battlewag- ons" like the Oregon. Today they are investing their dimes and dollars in - America's "peace power," alias the de velopment and construction of weapons of mass destruction. And it should be clear to all of us that these weapons can not be used for defense of the civilian population of this country but only for the re- talliatory destruction of the civilian population of an en emy nation. Truly war is no longer glorious, victory no longer meaningful, and defense vir tually impossible. And as we Come to realize these facts of life in the nuclear age, surely it behooves us to make every effort we can to assure that we shall not have to relearn them the hard way in the ca tastrophe of a nuclear war. I have not meant to suggest that I know of any easy an swers either for the solution of the cold war or the preven tion of a hot one. I have sought merely to express my opinion that our present course is no answer at all and that it is high time we Ameri cans began considering alter nate policies more courageous and ' imaginative than that which now stakes our hope for peace and survival upon the threat of annihilation. Ross Flanagan,. North Pacific Highway, Box 606, Medford. candidate. That poll does not rate him so high now but he thinks there may be a shift. Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore gon already has told Rocke feller that he has to come Out of hibernation if he has any j thought about being a candi date, t ; Rockefeller has accepted only one television invitation since he became Governor but is expected to be seen more - frequently on - panel shows this fall. Rockefeller sketches in national maga zines are said to be in the works. Otherwise the New York Governor has a set of state projects going and at least some of them are expected to get more than local attention. The report of his civil defense advisory board already has done so, largely because of its proposal for a . compulsory program of fallout shelters in every home. ' ; Task Forces at Work He has put more than 30 task forces to work. Half a dozen of these deal with edu cation and such subjects as prospective needs for schools and teachers ' and how new techniques could be used to allow more effective use of the limited corps of teachers. Another study is aimed at developing a program of in surance against catastrophic illness under private health insurance plans and still an other seeks ways to enlist private capital for investment in middle mcome housing. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A Soviet radio commenta tor assails American politic ians and "journalists" who, he says, are trying to figure out whether the United States or Russia will gain THE MOST from the Eisenhower Khrushchev visits. "This kind of bookkeep ing," he said, "can piJy do harm."- TM HALF inclined to agree with him. , The big question . that in terests THE PEOPLE of the two countries (as well as the people of all the world) is this: , WLU BOTH the United States and Russia gain from these visits? THEY will - IF out of the developments following the new situation that has arisen there comes the con viction that SOMEHOW all out nuclear warfare MUST be avoided. There is some room for hope. - Ever since : World War poison gas has been in the possession of all the great nations of the world, includ ing Russia. . It HASN'T been used. A WORD now as to Nixon. "Let's quit thinking about whether or not it helped his candidacy. - Let's concentrate our think ing on whether or not it has helped the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and its people. AS THIS is written, catas trophe has overtaken our sister city of Roseburg. An explosion, comparable to an enemy bomb, has damaged a considerable part of the city's business district. The record at the moment , is ten dead and 52 injured. At the scene of the explosion, there is a crater like a bomb crater. From all over the Pacific Coast, offers of help are pour ing in. The telephone system is swamped with calls. The burden of these calls is WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP YOU? . This is a pretty good country,- after all. - ; -. Centennial Serenade Planned by Group Here The Centennial serenade planned by Bliss Heine's Jun ior '58ers will be held Tues day and Thursday afternoons starting at the YMCA. The group will meet at the Moose hall at 1:30 p.m. each day. The serenade will end Thurs day at the welcome booth stockade on top of Siskiyou summit. About a seven-minute program will be played at each stop. All performances will be off the street. There will be about 30 stops, Heine reported. The Very Best! Snider V Quality DAIRY FOODS H ow To Com pete Public Attention Others involve economic expansion, a review or. tne state tax system, long range transportation needs, parks and recreation, transferabili ty of employee pension rights from one company to another, power resources nospitai services and reorganization of the state government. Studying Trade Unions ; Although he already has succeeded in getting one labor reform measure, for fi nancial reporting, enacted over mild labor opposition, Rockefeller also has a group studying "Democracy in Was h i n g to By WILLIAM JACK AND HUBERT . . Washington-" Jack and Hu bert" are forcing so fast a pace in the wide-open race 7 for the . 1950 &Z D e m o c ratic o m i n a tion that the very ! next month matf Krincr'-n .""j o fateful show down between them.' "J a c k" i s Sen. John Fitz gerald Kennedy of Massa chusetts, and "Hubert" is Sen. Hubert Horatio Humphrey- of Minnesota. They are turning westward for a confrontation at the end of September. This will find them crossing trails in Wisconsin. In Western hoss opera terms, it may be a kind of High Noon where the two leading characters meet in the dusty street and gun it out, The risks, however, will be far from even. "Hubert" has everything to lose and "Jack" only some things. Humphrey's whole strategy is one of shoot ing the works. He -has long been aware that his candidacy cannot even get off the ground unless he can first show great strength in his home region of the. upper Middlewest., SPECIFICALLY, this means -Wisconsin, for Wisconsin next April will have an early and a critical Presidential pri mary. This Humphrey simply must carry impressively or, in the cruel phrase of . the pros, "he is dead." A Kennedy loss of . that . primary . would leave him .only wounded. r Kennedy may; or. may not enter that primary, for it is not clearly .so vital to him as it is to Humphrey. And this coming month may determine whether he really needs to enter anyhow. For even apart from the fact that Kennedy now appears to be the front- runner among the Democrats, Humphrey has just been hit a hard blow in his own Mid west bailiwick. 1 A neighboring Senator from Wisconsin itself,: William Proxmire, has done a most unneighborly act. He has re leased a Wisconsin poll which, he says, gave Kennedy 42.5 per cent of the Democratic vote against a mere 17.3 for Humphrey. Close examination of the Proxmire figures makes things look far less bad for Humphrey. For Adiai E. Stev enson who has rio intention of getting into the Wisconsin action and probably no inten tion to contest for nomination openly anywhere got 29.5 per cent in the Proxmire poll. THOUGH Humphrey, is vast ly more liberal than Stev enson, it is generally accepted i m m m St William S. White Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) FRIENDLY. -CV I : tr"' Li1 v Trade Unions." This smacks of regulating the internal conduct of unions and is al most sure to put him cross wise with the labor move ment if carried through in the form of new legislation. Passage of the federal labor law might shelve the project Rockefeller is in no posi tion now to match Nixon for National publicity. But poli ticians who remember Yalta, Potsdam and the - spirit of Geneva wonder if the Vice President will continue to col lect political dividends from his Russian trip. n Report S. WHITE that many of the poll votes that went to Stevenson would have gone to Humphrey had those who voted known for sure that Stevenson would never be in the Wisconsin pic ture. Thus, as a practical mat ter, Humphrey can be said to have done considerably better than the figure of 17 J3 per cent would suppest. All the same, the Proxmire data has badly shaken the. Humphrey candidacy. "Hu bert" is more popular with the Democratic professionals in Wisconsin than is "Jack." But "Jack," on the Proxmire showing at any rate, is more popular with the people. And this is a poll-happy country. No one doubts that the Demo cratic National Convention next year will be strongly influenced by "what the polls say." So, the Humphrey people are moving quickly to repair the prestige damage while in private they make com ments about Proxmire which his loved ones would not like. They have set for September 19 in Milwaukee a "statewide organization convention . for Humphrey." . They have ar ranged for Humphrey himself to arrive in the state on Sep tember 25 for one of those tireless dawn-to-dusk, whirl wind speaking and handshak ing tours at which he is a master. ' THE Humphrey people hope that with all this they will be able to demonstrate that their man has much more strength Jn Wisconsin than Proxmire's poll would vindi cate. They hope, too, that by that time Stevenson will have made some sign say, in a September 23 "non-political" speech he is to make in Madi son, Wis. - that will help clear the air a bit. , But they know that "Hu bert" has got to "look good" in; Wisconsin this time. And they know, too, -6s they wryly comment, that "Jack is com ing in there, too." Kennedy will be in Wisconsin on Sep tember 24 and 25. Humphrey's policy will be to try to force Kennedy to mix it with him among the grain elevators, the breweries, the farms and in dustrial plants to meet him at High Noon. " (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Helps Yon Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No lancer be annoyed or feel Ul-at- esse because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. an Improved alka line non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar- rassment caused by loose plates Get WABTSsm toaay at any drug countec Hear your fav orite hymns cn KMED every ; Sunday, 10:35 . a.m., sung by 'Tennessee - Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 Lady attendant HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
