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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Aug. 14, 1959 "Everyone in Southern OregYiB Reads The lusil Tribune" Published Diil except Saturday by iUJJFOiiO PRINTING CO 33 North fir St Ph SP 3-6141 ROBLHT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager Oti'AJ.lJ LATHAM, Business lgT XRIC W A I, I, FN JR. Mans sine editor CARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor .OLIVE STARCHEH Woment Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper .Xntered a seennd class matter al Medforri Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai I la Advance. Copy 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year flS.OO Daily and Sunday tnos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3. mos. 4.23 Sunday only cm year 4.zo By Carrier1 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 18.00 Daily ana suncay i mo. Carrier and Dealerscopy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City t Medford Official Paper of Jacteon 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. NIWSAPEK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION H ATI O MA L 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 Aug. 14, 1949 (Sunday) r.cr,roe Milliffan. CAA em ployee and pilot, has set out to-form a non-prom air am bulance service. Medford police plan to crack down ra jaywalkers by Issuing citations starting to morrow. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1939 (Monday) Medford City Councilman Bob Deuel Is reported not critically hurt as the result of n automobile accident Satur day. -'- From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The latest Rogue River fish im broglio .has been adjusted, without the Grants Pass Cave men donning their coyote kins to scare the state game commission." SO YEARS AGO Aug. 14. 1929 (Wednesday) The unidentified' arsonist sets 10 more fires in the Pleas ant creek district. Distribution of earwig bait to Medford residents is re ported completed. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 14. 1919 (Thursday) A total of seven Table Rock farmers now own tractors. Medford Elks attending a state convention at Klamath Falls lose an automobile when the garage burns. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 14. 1909 (Saturday President Colvig 'plans to formally incorporate Med ford's Commercial club. The latest issue of Rogue magazine has an - article on J. A. Westerlund's achieve ments in developing his or chard properties here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; even er efehr is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Size of the human head Is no index of the intellectual powers of an individual; true or false? 2. Are lemons allowed to ripen on the trees, or are they picked green for commercial 3. Montpelier is the capital of which State in New Eng land? 4. Is "Be Prepared," or '"Do a Good Turn Daily," the of ficial slogan of the Boy Scouts of America? 5. Name the Philistine giant ,who was slain by David with a stone from a sling. 6. Who was President of the U.S. when the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., oc curred? ? 7. Is the earth the second, third, or fourth, planet in dis tance from the sun? 8. What color is a symbol of royalty? 9. Marshal Tito is dictator of which Balkan country? 10. Where is the body of George Washington buried? Answers: 1. True. 2. Picked green. 3. Vermont. 4. "Do a Good Turn Daily." (Be Pre pared is the motto.) 3. Go liath. 6. Herbert Hoover (Mar. 1, 1932) 7. Third. 9. Purple. 9. Yugoslavia. 10. MU Vernon, Va. CONFUSED Chicago-(EPI-A man named Henry Ford stole a Chrysler here Thursday. , . . . A Imost The American who the United States can go it alone without regard for the other nations of the world is almost extinct. The few of his species who remain will succumb if they don't get their heads out of the sand. ' . Much has been written about what would happen to the United States if the rest of the world turned against her. One of the best things we've seen on this subject was discussed recently by Don Lynch in his Ontario Argus-Observer column. This shows how immense the odds against us are. Mr. Lynch wrote: THE June 1 issue of Contact magazine used an old device to make an interesting com parison. It reduced the world to a community of 1;000 people and found these significant relationships. Sixty persons would represent the U.S. popu lation; and the other 940 people would repre sent the rest of the world. Over half of the people in this hypothetical city would be unable to read and write, and half of them would never have heard of Jesus or what he taught More than half of them would now be hearing of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, and other communist leaders. WITH the exception of about 200 people rep- i Lciuuiug ii vtiviii favored areas of the American people in this would be ignorant, poor, hungry and sick. About a third of the people would be Chris tians and of these 330, less than 100 would be Protestants, while about 230 would be Catholics. At least 80 people (more than the American population) would' be believing communists and 370 others would be under communist domina tion. ' Less than a third of the people (303) would be white skinned, the non-white races. IN THIS mythical community the. 60 Americans would have so much the best of life as to seem dancrerous to their nosition. . They would have half of the total income, while the other 940 nersons shared the remaining half. They would have an. average life expect ancy of 70 years compared to 40 years for. the rest of the citizenry. ' The 60 Americans would nossess 15 times as much goods per person people. Aitnougn composing only six per cent of the population, thev would produce 16 t)er cent of the town's total food sume all but IVo per mat ior tneir own luture equipment. The 60 Americans much electric power as as rrracn coal; zl times as much oil and gas; 50 times as much steel and 50 times as much Gen eral equipment. CINCE most of the 940 non-Americans would always be hungry the situation created by the disparity in food supplies would cause a tense atmosphere. In many instances the Americans could save money by. giving their excess food away instead of storing it. However that wouldn't fit American philosophy of helping other people. The world is still pretty scattered and far flung. It may be "One World" as Wendell Wilkie proclaimed, but is far1 from being one small town. ' However, it is shrinking. American abun dance makes her position ever more hazardous. We need to discover how to share effectively with the rest of the world, not just in expensive, grandiose projects; but in useful, down-to-earth ways that will help other people make their own progress. We need to avoid a superior attitude, and instead, be-a helpful and courteous friend. Pendleton East-Oregonian. j . . Vice Presidential Nomination The conspicuous success of Richard M. Nixon notwithstanding, participants at the recent Gov ernors' Conference exhibited a high degree of residual contempt for the office of vice president. Though it's not recorded that any of them have been offered the job, at least four governors have turned it down Brown of Calif ornia, Stratton of Illinois, Meyner of New Jersey, and Rockefeller of New York. Whether this reluctance is ritual or real, -only time and the pundits will tell. In the back room, it's whispered that three of the four are aiming higher. IT MAY BE, however, that Brown and Rocke 1 feller in particular mean what they say. Not all hardheaded politicians are impressed with the durability of the Nixon example. It is a commen tary on the stature of the average vice president that Alexander Throttlebottom, the. fictional run ning mate of "Wintergreen for President," is bet ter known than many who have actually filled the office. In the final analysis, what the vice president is depends on the will of the president. If the office can be a springboard, as with Eisenhower Nixon, it is more often a quagmire. Without the confidence and respect of his chief, the vice presi dent is condemned to the role of "spare tire on the automobile of government," as John Nance Garner phrased it. "Some vice prisfdints," wrote Mr. Dooley, "have been so anxious f'r th' prisi- dint's Safetv that thev've hnrl tn he worried riff th' White House grounds." E.R.R. J .. . . , Extinct continues to think that uui vjjjc auA v-ci waiil uuici world, most of the non- imaginary community remaining 697 being; of as all the rest of the! sunnlv and would onr cent and keep most of use in expensive storage would have 12 times as other people; 22 times Dennis the Menace DA0 15 SURBACTJN'SJUY! HIM OUT THS WATEKi Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - Federal aid to education, which nearly everybody seemed to favor at the top- of his lungs two years a g o, i s caught now in a crisis of al most inde- 4 scribable com- pucauons. i z any thing is d o n e in this Con gress to build a single William S. Whits one of those 135,000 class of those rooms of which the nation is officially said to be short, it will be aU of these things: . A small miracle. A triumph of one part of the Eisenhower Administra t i o n over another part: a victory for the left side of the GOP split personality; a success for those who want to help edu cation moderately over those who are only willing to help it too much. The biggest danger to the program Is that it will be kiss ed to death by over eager friends. The next biggest danger is that it will die from the sheer frustrations of those who want to do something practical but find it impossible to "break through the bureau-, cratic and political jungle now surrounding the issue. HERE is the position, so far as it can be put into words: 1. Some ultra - liberal Con gressional Democrats have been insisting upon a bill that would involve not merely bil lions of dollars in ultimate outlays but would also com mit the government to subsi dizing teachers' pay as well as building schoolhouses. The teachers' lobby is inspiring this demand which, however good it might be in theory, is wholly unrealistic because it simply cannot pass. 2. Moderates in both par ties, but primarily among the Democrats, are trying to raise enough support for a biU to provide $1.5 billion over a three-year period to assist the states to build schools, but to stop right there. 3. Arthur Flemming, the Secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, is . in the middle in the . most . painful way. Flemming wants .some thing passed which President Eisenhower will not veto. The Secretary dares not encourage even the moderate Democrats too far, even though they are his most needed and useful allies. He has already bucked the Administration's budget- balancing line as far as he can go. Thus, what he is trying to do is to blow into a small, contained flame the' dying em bers of Congressional enthus Try and Ay i 7:im By BENNETT CERF- rTTWO PROVOCATIVE (to say the least!) advertisements cuHed A" from the classified columns of small town news weeklies: 1. "Lost: Will the gent who picked tip a fur coat at Inspira tion Pomt last night please return the redhead that was in" it. No questions asked." 2. "Will the person who took a slice of chocolate lay er Cake from the police com missioner's office please re turn same. It is part of the evidence in a food-poison-1 ing case." Red Buttons hu another story about one of those deter--mined wives who just learned to drive. Her husband Cam -borne from the office and found Jus new convertible parked in. the living room. How in blazes did yon get the ear in here?'" he cried in agony. "Nothing- to it," explained his wife. "When I got to the kitchen, I just made a left turn." John Simms asked his Maine guide, "Ep, were you ever really lost in these woods?' "Never," said Ep, "but I was kind of be wildered once for a couple of weeks." 6 1969, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kias Features Syndicate. US 1ST A LIFEGUARD CABBY mr S. WHITE iasm for modest school jcon struction. fFHE REAL and underlying truth about the whole busi ness is this: The political at mosphere has wholly changed since this country went into a great nap when the Russians sent aloft their first smitnik. The President is at the point now of negotiating with the Soviet Union; the cold war, for- the moment at least, is thawing. Moreover, a national mood which once wanted to Dut everv lad of ' 1 4 intn a physics class now assumes that an will be well as things stand or soon will be well. But as public excitement over education's shortcomings has subsided.! the tnchor' lobby and the ultra-liberals in general have not been able to scale down their own demands to fit the new realities. AiSH the President himself,, who was never too keen about the whole idea of Federal aid to education, is anvthincr but keen about it now. The attitude represented by Flemming was never reallv the attitude of the Republi cans generally. He was, and increasingly is ' in a minoritv within the GOP. Thus, today his real necessity is to appeal to his Democratic friends in Congress to help him - but, for heaven's sake, not in heln him too much and bring out a bill at which the Present would not glance twice before reaching for the veto pen. It is at this moment that he most needs the understanding assistance of the most earnest advocates of Federal aid. But precisely because they are so earnest, they are withholding that assistance. He wants somethine. Thev want all or nothing and are extremely iixeiy to get the latter. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Press Women Honor Hillsboro Publisher Portland - (UPD - Mrs. .Em ma C. McKinney, 87, Hills boro Argus Co - publisher, Thursday night was named as "Woman of Achievement" for 1959 by ' the -National Federation of Press Women. The Federation is holding its convention here this week. Mrs. McKinney. won the Amos E. Voorhies award in 1957 for outstanding service to journalism and she has been the honorary president of Oregon press women since that group's founding in 1951. The award was presented former Argus employee Ed ward C. Coman, who is now co-publisher of the Wood burn Independent. Stop Me Start of Long-Range Hassle Between California, New York Noted by Theis By WILLIAM THEIS United Press International Washington - (UPD It looks like the beginning of a long range hassle between New York .and California - politi cally and economically. The political contest, cur rently, the. more, dramatic, in volves the presidential ambi tions of Vice President Rich ard M-, Nixon of California and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefel ler of. New York. This duel could' run right through the "1960 GOP presi dential convention. The rough talk already hag started. Economic rivalry is reflect State Department Would Stop Activists By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington -(DPDj- The State Department, goodness knows. favors international travel. All it wants to do, said under secretary Robert Murphy, is stop all this running around by "activists"in the Commu nist Party. Did he mean people like Ni kita Khrushchev? Wondered Rep. Clement J. Zablocki (D Wis.). Well, no, said Murphy. That is different. What's so different? Za Writer Notes Fear Building That Visit May Lead to Letdown By ARNOLD DIBBLE United Press International Tokyo-fliPD-There is a build ing fear in the minds of many Americans that the Eisenhower-Khrushchev visits may lead to a terrific letdown in Asia. And that means literally as well as figuratively But most ly literally. . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the turn and address ol the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor 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 Informative Reply To the Editor: In regards to the communication by Mr. C. T. Sheppard: I want to thank him for his helpful and informative reply. If my let ter had produced no other re sults than to make him inter ested enough to write his views publicly - it was well worth any effort on my part. I believe he is the first mill wright that has taken time to express his opinions and let others know exactly what his problems are in this contro versy, rnis is wnat we want Nothing could ever be accom plished without understanding both sides of a question. No, Mr. Sheppard, you are not being snide in asking why came here, just humanly curious. I m not in tne least ashamed to tell you: To get out of L. A. smog. Not be cause I wished to gaze on the beauties of a mill burner, nor because I was starving for a luscious Rogue Valley pear. For 6 years we visited the valley at vacation time, each year it became more difficult for me to leave. During, this period it was our big dream to live in this valley of such breath-taking beauty. Have you ever noticed how really beautiful it is? Or- is it pos sible you have been here so long '- you fail to see it? I admit' it is becoming increas ingly difficult through the smoke and haze. It won't be necessary for me to change to electric heat, as that was the first thing we did when we bought our home. I know this is not pos sible for everyone, and we're thankful we were able to do it. , - - Methods of smudging can be improved without pulling the trees up by their roots (as I have heard many homemakers say in the heat of anger). I'd like to commend the mill you're employed with for try ing different methods of burn ing. It's a step in the right direction. Have they given you a booklet for study called "Wood Waste Disposal and Utilization"? published by the Oregon State Engineering Ex periment station for the ex press purpose of serving Ore gon industry. I'd be glad to send you a copy, if you djon't already have one. I'm sure you would find it very interesting and helpful in your line ot work. I would also like to extend to you a sincere invitation to attend a public meeting on air pollution, to be held at the courthouse Aug.' 21 at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is cordially invit-j ed in the scramble for defense contracts. This is no short term affair. New York's congressional delegation, led by Republican Sens. Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating, has or ganized a joint non-partisan committee to work on the government contracts situa tion which has seen California get a lion's share of the de fense business. ', . The New York . senators have introduced bills designed to guarantee more competitive bidding on such government business. " . California can see' nothing blocki persisted, and the For eign Affairs committee, was O-f to a morning's debate. The question was whether to restore to the secretary of state authority to deny pass ports to suspuected subverts. He thought he had that power, and had used it, until the Su preme Court last year said he didn't. Poses Travel Problem "We are out to encourage world travel," Murphy ex plained. "But we are faced with a problem. That is, the It must be understood that just as the West, for all its best efforts, is lacking in in sight into the ways of Asia, so Asia is unsophisticated, in its understanding of the do ings of the great powers of Europe and North America. Too Much Expected Asia has all . the cohesive qualities of quicksilver. But soundings made by United Press International through out the vast area indicate that, at least from the Ameri can point of view, too much is being expected of these his toric visits of the two most powerful leaders in the world today. The danger is, again from the American standpoint, that me sweetness and light will cut the ground from under the strong preparedness stand taken by our allies in Asia weaken the pro-Western stand of government leaders in such countries as Japan and The Philippines; and strengthen the hand of the Communists in the so-called neutralist na tions of Asia. Plainly, the fear is that the visits have been "oversold." Diplomat Gives Views Not long ago, this corre spondent talked at length witn one of the top American diplomats in Asia, one with long experience in East-West affairs, and one who long has been advocating "summit conferences" as often as the Russians want to hold them ine Dig lear, ne said, "is not in meeting with the Rus- sians-but in giving the world the idea that something might result from such meetings." Ultimately, he reasoned, we must meet with the Russians. But if we keep on insisting we won't meet with them un less concrete results are as sured, then we are in danger of building up for the let down when "ultimately" we do get together. Central Point Man Reports Robbery Guerdon Ray Mann. 32. of 118 Amy st., Central Point. reported to Medford police Wednesday morning he had been robbed of between $50 and S70 the night before. Police said Mann renorted he had been drinking in sev eral taverns along Riverside ave. Tuesday night, and woke up weanesaay morning in Grants Pass with bruises, torn trousers and missing billfold with the cash. Police were investigating reports that Mann was seen accompanied by two other men Tuesday night. ed. As they say, "The More the Better." -' Mrs. Leonard Matheus 1124 West 10th st. Medford. Road Inspection? To the Editor: From a re cent news item it was reported that the state road commis sioners decided to inspect our roads (which really need in specting). But how did our commissioners do this very important job of checking the rough road beds? They took a 1,300-mile long ride by air plane! Sam Edwards Route 2, Box 390A Gold Hill, Ore. wrong with having a natural and industrial climate that has attracted its concentra tion of defense industry. There isn't much likelihood that any thing short of disarmament in depth would alter'the current contract balance. And there seems to be no stopping Cali fornia's population growth. Go West Politicians recognize that the' same jet transportation that took Nixon from Wash ington to 3 Moscow in nine hours is also shrinking their homeland. And some pro Rockefeller Republicans think their man had better start ng Reds travel of shall-we-say activists in Communist groups who are interested in contact with the international Communist movement." Zablocki said this left him confused. You say your purpose is to control the flow of informa tion among Communists," he said. "Yet we have invited the chief Communist to come -to our country. This doesn't make sense." ' Murphy said politely he thought maybe it did, and added: We think this individual has some warped notions about this country. We hope that these rotions may be cor rected through his personal observations while here." Won't Want Contacts Well, said Rep. Edna F. Kelly (D-N.Y.) if it's so smart to invite Khrushchev to this country, in the hope his erro neous views might be altered. wouldn't it also be smart to let American Communists vis it Russia the likeliest nlace of all for a Communist to re pent of his folly? -Diplomats never squirm Murphy just shifted a little in the witness chair. He said American subverts in Russia could contact the International Communist Movement, and that's what the State Depart ment hopes to prevent. "What's to prevent them from contacting Khrushchev while he's here?" wondered chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-Fa.). Murphy said that's something which, in this coun try, we can try to control. Rep. James G. Fulton (R Pa.) announced that he for one favors these high level ex changes with Russia. He even said Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.), who talked to Khrushchev eight hours, wore out the Soviet leader. Americans Endanger Selves Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D Ohio) thought if there is dan ger in having American acti vists go over there, "it must be 10,000 times as dangerous to have the number one acti vist come over here." He said Khrushchev made a monkey of Vice President Richard M. Nixon in their Moscow TV debate, and that he may make "the same kind of monkey" out of Ike unless the President's speechwriters sharpen up and his valet does a better job of matching his shoes. Zablocki asked whether, in the event Congress still is in session when Khrushchev gels here about Sept. 15, the State Department will ask Congress to invite him up for a speech No, Murphy answered. What if he asks for an in vitation, what are you going to do?" Hays demanded. -Says "He Ain't" "If he asks for one," Mur phy said, with a smile, "per haps we might inform you of his request." Rep: Leonard Farbstein (D- N.Y.) said the way he heard it Khrushchev already has said he understands this is the custom and that he would like to address a joint session of Congress. Murphy said Khrushchev is not chief of state. He's just head of the government. And apparently that makes all the difference. Anyhow, Rep. Frances P. Bolton (R-Ohio) said this ought to settle the question. Rep. Omar Burleson (D Tex.) brought out then what really will settle the question. He said Speaker Sam Rayburn already has delivered a state ment on whether he is or is not going to ask Khrushchev to appear in the well of the House. . "He said he ain't," was the way Burleson summarized the speaker's position. using it to get around th country and be seen in some thing other than newsreels. ' Both the California and thft New Yorker are trying to keep their political timing ef fective. No candidate likes to be a "cliff-hanger" too long. ? Nixon s front-running Re publican position clearly was strengthened by his Soviet Polish tour. Cashing in on this, he has returned to his active domestic speaking schedule. This week he'll -have been in Washington, D. C, New Jersey, New York. Illi nois and Ohio appearances ranging from a savings bond dinner to the annual Soap Box Derby. His warmup for the March 8 New Hampshire presidential primary will come next month. Nixon will be the hon ored guest at the six-state Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, Mass., on Sept. 25 and .then participate in ground - breaking ceremonies the following day for the 30 million dollar Hopkinton- Everett Dam in New Hamp shire. His schedule will be crowded, and officially it's all part of the job of "being a good vice president." Conversely, " self - assigned job of "being a good govern or" makes him more of a stay-at-home. Others are doing his political pulse-taking around the country and setting in motion the necessary political organization for the day when he makes the formal cam paign decision. The California - New York political rivalry roughened up just this week. Los Angeles county GOP Chairman Al- phonzo Bell Jr. criticized the Rockefeller forces for spread ing a "Nixon can't win" line in advancing the governor's cause. Bell said a "victory at any cost" approach does not in sure public confidence or tlo justice to the Eisenhower ad ministration record "on which our party's candidate must campaign in 1960." He said the "can't win'? line is refuted by public opinion surveys and has been , dis proved in every campaign in which Nixon has been a candi date. Those backing Nixon can't hope that such California backfires alone will block this political blaze from New York. They have a key Nixon leader fight in Rockefeller's own domain. He's former Re publican national chairman Leonard Hall of New York, Ex-CAngressman Hall, pro among political pros, is slated for a top role in the Nixon pre-convention campaign. His value lies not so much in New York or in California - -hut in all those political target areas in between. Centennial Plans ; Special Events Portland (CPU - The Oregon Centennial Commission, hop ing to increase attendance dur ing the final month of the Ex position here, has announced plans for a special event each day. A parade of the On-to-Ore-gon Calvalcade covered wag ons will be featured Monday. After that officials plan some thing different every day. The events will include treasure hunts, gunfights with visitors invited to participate and prizes for the "fastest draw," a rodeo and cattle drive, and prizes for costumes. Officials also will invite Da mascus to stage its highly suc cessful bear, beef and buffalo feed at the Centennial grounds. -- The Exposition closes on Sept. 17. Today was the 65th day of the show in north Portland. Total attendance so far is 853,272. July Sales of U.S Bonds Are Noted July sales of VS. savings bonds in Jackson county amounted to $69,495, the treasury department has an nounced. . .... Jackson county residents, according to treasury esti mate, now own and hold more than $17 million worth of series E and H savings bonds. The savings program in its 18-year history has built up a savings reserve of more than $42 billion worth of E and H bonds held by more, than 40 million Americans. Healthful! nidei's Quality DAIRY FOODS
