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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dfortl, Or. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 19S9 "Everyone u Southern Oreron - - " Readi The Mail Tribtme Published Doily except Saturday by MU3FOAD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUfTL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Mr ERIC W ALLEN JB- Managing editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETf Snort. EViitw OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor dale imumiN circulation Mtr Entered a second class matter a! Medforrt Oreeon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mai I In A1wMMm rM in Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and SundayA moa. 8J)L Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday only Una year $430 If fmi I Til Arfwttt4M Mulnl Ashland Central Point. Eagle rami, Jacksonville, uoia Hill, Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 130 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c tut lerma i;asn in Advance Official Paper of City f Medfori United Press Internationa Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU " OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of- Bees in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Loa Annies. Seattle, Portland St. Louis, At- iama. Vancouver B.C. 07 NEWSPAPER BP PUBLISHERS "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 Aug. 18, 1949 (Thursday) Jackson county's h u c k 1 e berry crop is reported to be extremely poor this year. Some 120 airborne artillery men and infantrymen are to "attack" Medford airport Sept. 18 as part of the city's aviation fair. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1939 (Friday) Edward G. Brown, who came to Medford in 1909 and soon afterwards established a food and drink emporium by that name at Main and Front st., announces that he and his wife are retiring. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column (By Claude E. Ingalls): "As I grow older I find that my notion of nothing to see is the initiation of a candidate for membership into a lodge." 30 YEARS AGO v Aug. 18, 1929 (Sunday) Fire Chief Elliott holds a party for all boys of the city. The model plant of South ern Oregon Sales, Inc., will open Thursday. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1919 (Monday) Fifteen firefighters are dis patched to Foots creek to com bat a brush fire. Local Bartletts are now selling in New York for $3.71 a box. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1909 (Wednesday) Picking at the Gore orch ard this year confirms that this tract is "the best Bartlett pear orchard in the world." The bleached bones of a man with a bullet in the skull are discovered along Trail creek, and are believed to be the remains of Will King, who disappeared mysteriously four years ago. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et is is good. 1. When it is autumn in the Rockies, what season is it in the Andes? 2. What is the most abund ant metallic element in the world? 3. What valuable medicine is obtained from the bark of the cinchona tree? 4. What seven letters are used in the Roman system of numerals? 5. What famous New York State prison is located at Os- sining? 6. Which of these is heav iest; irridium, osmium, platin um? i 7. Does the law require that an inventor hire a patent at torney to obtain a patent? 8. With what New Eng land town do you associate John Harvard? 9. Is a moppet a baby, a long-haired dog, or a mop used for cleaning a cannon? 10. Which was the older son, Cain or Abel? Answers. 1. Spring. 2. Aluminum. 3. Quinine. 4. I V X L C D M. 5. Sing Sing. " 6. Osmium. 7. No. 8. Cam bridge, Mass. 9. All three. 10. Cain. KEEPS OFF HIS FEET Waterbury, Vt. (DPD Mail man L F. Marchi wen an award from the National Safe ty Council for 24 years of safe driving. Rocky s 'Platform9 Like charting the skips and jumps in an eve ning's conversation, tracking public opinion to its source is nearly always a hopeless task. By the same token, it's futile to seek a cause-and-effect relation between a single formulation of opinion and events which follow. Nonetheless, it may be useful to try to see what's happened to the block-buster reports is sued during 1958 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. These reports were the work of a high octane combination of scholars, opinion-makers and political insiders. But the policies advocated seem, whether rightly or wrongly, to have be come identified in the public mind with the personality and political fortunes of Nelson A. Rockefeller. a HTO DATE, there have been four reports. The first dealt with defense, the second with do mestic economics, the third with foreign eco nomic policy and the fourth with education. All were long and packed with specifics. Only a few of the main policy recommendations can be cited here. The military report, : prepared by Henry A. Kissinger (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Pol icy), called for increasing the defense budget at a rate of $3 billion a year for the "next several fiscal years," tightening lines of authority in the defense department to reduce inter-service rival ries, and revising strategy to prepare for "the full gamut of possible limited wars." ' The defense department was, of course, reor ganized in 1958, with President Eisenhower himself leading the fight. No doubt the Rocke feller report helped drum up support. However, the President stopped a long way short of the re port's recommendations, and Congress wouldn't go even that far. The creation of the Strategic Army Corps in May, 1958, was a tiny step along the path of the last recommendation. As for the first: much of the $2 billion tacked on to the defense budget in the past two years has gone for purposes which the report seemed to disapprove. THE tally sheet on domestic economics is equally spotty. Congress speeded up the public works program, as recommended to fight the recession. But there was no general tax cut, nor, since the recession ended, has there been any move to develop a shelf of programs for emer gencies. Detailed suggestions on tax reform, agri culture, metropolitan problems, economic growth and welfare matters have simply added to the volume of debate. ' The same can be said for the education re port, least specific of the four. Federal aid to which the report saw no alternative short of a "painful . . . overhaul of state and local tax sys tems' is up again in is perennial. In terms of results, the foreiem economic uol- icy report seems to have Steps have been taken to with Latin America, and shift toward longer-haul development programs and away from short-term aid. PERHAPS it's too much to suggest that these rntrrv4- -rv.s,. 4-Vt n ln.. a1..m T.1. efeller's skyrocket political rise. But they cer tainly gave him jet assistance on the takeoff. And, along with several reports yet to be pub- lisned, tney could furnish similar aid if, after consulting the oracles, Rockefeller decides this November to enter the' lists against Nixon. Obviously the gap between the goals set forth in the reports and achievement is wide enough so that any journeyman politician, let alone Rocke feller, ought to be able to throw together, a serv iceable platf orm out of leftover pianks. E.R.R. U.S. Industrial Colonization Results of a new survey of spending abroad by American private industry show that outlays for new plant, expanding as had been foreseen, are taking a new and significant turn. A McGraw-Hill study discloses that new money for plant, equipment, and property outside the United States this year will run to $2,143,600,000 up 5 per cent from 1958 investment. A like expendi ture is expected for 1960. Even. more important, U. S. manufacturers next year expect to spend more on new facilities in Europe than in Canada and Latin America combined. This is a reversal of a long-term trend and must certainly be attributable to new. condi tions brought about by the European common market. In contrast, in 1957, about 92 per cent of the capital of American industry invested in manufacturing abroad was in these regions 44.4 per cent in Canada, 21.3 per cent in Latin Amer ica, and 25.3 per cent in western Europe. IN SEARCH of a better basis of competition with foreign firms, U. S. companies are push ing sales by foreign subsidiaries to such an extent that they are expected to increase faster than U. S. exports. Total exports are reversing a down ward trend this year and are expected to continue upward next year. Even so, the new figures support the contention of Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), April 21, that "the export of American jobs has just begun." American capital invested abroad, American automation and know-how, on top of lower foreign wages, Proxmire holds, are a combination "not only cutting a terrible swath in the export market for American factories," but also ''beginning to cost them some of their do mestic U. S. markets." E.R.R. Congress. But the issue been the most fruitful. imrjrove economic ties there has been a definite Dennis the 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. Dunes Opposition Reasons To the Editor: I am inter ested in your editorial on Cape Hatteras in which you mentioned the proposed Ore gon Dunes National Seashore, implying that what was good for the outer banks of North Carolina would be good here. Let me point out a few differences: (1) There: not a single home was taken. Here: About 250 year-around homes in the pro posed area. Conrad L. Wirth, director of the national parks, has stated, "We hope eventu ally to eliminate all housing." (2) There: no recreational areas. Here: the 522-acre Honeyman State Park, county parks, five U. S. Forest Serv ice camps in the 12,000 acres along the coast next to the state-owned beaches with more planned. Ample access to dunes, lakes and beaches no "vanishing shoreline." (3) There: little industry some fishing. Here: dairies, resorts, lumbering, tree farms, etc., with good pros pects for vast amounts of water under dunes which could not be used under park regulations, we have been in formed. (4) There: a mild climate for year-around tourist trade. Here: much rain. . These are just a few of the differences. Finally, it should be undestood that opposition to the proposed seashore is not confined to the Florence area. Judging from our clipping service; about half the news papers which have taken a stand editorially are opposed. The Lane County Chamber of Commerce, the Baker County Chamber of Com merce and, we have reason to believe, the Seaside and the Grants Pass chambers are opposed. The latter two have not passed resolutions, as yet, but members have expressed strong opposition. The State Grange, at its annual con vention opposed the project. So did the Northwest Council of Indians after a thorough investigation. The current issue of "Liv ing Lands," published by the Oregon Association of Soil Conservation Districts, in its leading editorial, declares that the association "has backed the Siuslaw board in opposing the proposal." Assistant Secretary of .Ag riculture Ervin L. Peterson, in speaking before the Port land Chamber of Commerce, expressed strong opposition, obviously reflecting the atti tude of the agriculture de partment. Sen. Wayne Morse and Congresswoman Edith Green do not favor the seashore. Charles O. Porter appears to be doubtful and is making an investigation. A committee of the Oregon legislature tabled a memorial recommending the project. It is true that at first op position was largely from this area but as our fellow Oregonians have obtained accurate . information more and more of them are reject ing the ill-conceived proposal. John S. Parker, Committee on Infomation, Western Lane Taxpay ers Association, Box 25, Florence, Ore. Let's Go Along To the Editor: About "Air Pollution Again": As we all know, the two major indus tries in this valley are timber and pears. We all in this val ley depend on them for a live lihood: It is good and well to keep our valley pure. I suppose it. is well to do away with every kind of pollution. But Menace if we must have pollution (which is disagreeable at times) let's go along with it until there is some kind of solution to stop it. I'm not really smart enough to figure it out, but of course I have my solutions and the ories. In the first place, as long as we make our livjng from pears and lumber, let's co-operate with them (the people who operate and own them). I suppose if the sawmill peo ple could find a suitable mar ket for their sawdust and trimmings that would do away with the burners, there fore no smoke from the mills. Let's hope they find some kind of market for their waste products. If they cannot find a market for their waste prod ucts what do you say? Let's go along with them until they do. Now about pears. The fruit growers (that is the peach and pear people) have found that smudging is of the very most importance. Without it fruit in this valley would be almost a failure. Let's don't do away with the fruit just because of smudge smoke. The fruit people in the past years have used the open pot, which is really the best heater to protect young fruit from frost. Then there are the stack heaters, but they pollute the air about as much as the open heaters. The fruit peo ple have one more way to protect their peaches and pears and whatever fruit they have, and that is with the smokeless, air - circulating heaters. Let me make this clear to you folks who are hollering the loudest. The cost of chang ing from smoking heaters to smokeless would cost thou sands of dollars. Let's go along with the lumbermen and the fruit grower until we can find a way. Clifford Alden Trask, P. O. Box 405, Phoenix, Ore. Sauce For the Goose To the Editor: Girls and women wearing shorts, Have Mr. Bulman out of sorts. What about men, with their j bellies bare? Don't you think that might make a woman stare? And those hairy limbs hang ing below, They do not seem ashamed to show. Pick- on your own sex, Mr. Bulman, And leave clothes-choosing to us women. Mrs. Delbert Casey, Central Point, Ore. Darndest Letters To the Editor: The fire is out in Ashland and I'm" get ting some of the darndest letters you ever did see. I got one this morning, it said; We read all your letters in the Tribune and enjoyed them very much and if we only knowed what you wuz writ in' about, they might be in terestin' too. Signed, Goofy. I got three letters in one envelope from three guys who were in the Army with me. The first one said: "If you don't quit writin' letters about monkeys, we is going to sue the pants of'n you." The second one said: "If you don't quit writin' letters about people, we is going to sue the pants of'n you." The last one from my old "fat sergeant said: "If you don't quit writ in' letters about us monkeys who made you wash all them dishes in the Army, we is Confusing Indonesia Celebrating Tenth Anniversary of Achieving Independence By ARNOLD DIBBLE Tokyo - (DPD - The most puzzling, misunderstood and one of the potentially most powerful nations in Asia is Indonesia, which has just celebrated its first decade of sovereignty. To the above it might be added that Indonesia is con fusing, frustrating, ugly, beautiful, rich, poor, and just about any other adjective that might come to mind. One ob server described Indonesia as; "Three thousand islands look ing for a nation." On Aug. 17, 1949, The Netherlands finally gave up going to ' sue the pants off n you." YIPES! The Army has al ready got my pants. They got them in 1917. The Army ran out of pants, but that didn't stop them from taking me. They came up to my house, went into the clothes closet, came out with two pair of pants, put me in them and took me with two pair of pants. When I arrived at Ft. Stevens, I got 19 months on kitchen police for saluting a colonel with fishhooks in my own hat. Another letter I received from California said: "We liked your stories about ser geants, you are the world's champion kwazy writer, Anyhow, my sponsors and I are getting some of the darn dest letters. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Tunnel-Not Chairlift 1 To the Editor: A relative sent me your editorial about the "Abominable Chairlift' which appeared in your paper last month. In regard to this matter I wish to propose that Congressman Charles O. Por ter drop his pursuit of his chairlift into the inner slope of the crater at Crater Lake and take up the more worth while project of tunneling an elevator shaft to the gates of Hades. This would of course neces sitate un-meltable steel tow ers, but at least there wouldn't be much beauty marred along the way. His object is to per mit more people to see the crater from the lake view as the view is less spectacular from the top. My proposed project would certainly offer a spectacular view at the bot tom too. But if no other reason will change the congressman's mind, surely the practical as pects will. After all, the sea son is a year-around affair and the traffic is probably terrific. I hope Mr. Porter will con duct a poll in his district about this new recommenda tion and publish the results as soon as possible. Mrs. John Pendleton (a native Oregonian) 2446 Walnut ave., Venice Calif. Radio Fire Coverage To the Editor: Is there any law, rule, or reason why local radio stations would not sup ply local people with local news? I refer to the sadely in adequate coverage of the fire in the Ashland area during its later stages. Repeatedly dur ing the second and third days of the blaze, we tuned in local stations including the one in Ashland,, in hopes of getting news of its progress and the valiant battle to subdue it, and only once, on the second day, were we successful. At almost any hour of the day one could hear all about the steel strike, the stock market decline, the debate over pending labor legisla tion, what Mr. Hoover thinks about world affairs, how many rounds of golf the Presi dent had completed on that particular day, and news of the brush fire at Elsinore, Calif.! Conceivably if Califor nia station announcers behav ed in a similar manner, one might have had news of the Ashland fire by tuning in El sinore. Unfortunately our ra dio reception was inadequate to find out. Every able-bodied man in the families of our nearest neighbors were on the fire line, and since most of their households are not equipped with television, it was im possible to get any news of them except for the very rare and inadequate reports which dribbled through the endless sequence of drivel via radio. We all felt the public was de serving of better treatment. (Name on File) Jacksonville, Ore. and ended nearly 500 years of rule over the world's larg est archipelago, stretching al most from India to Australia. Indonesia proclaimed its in dependence four years earlier, in 1945. As to whether the Indonesians were ready for self-government - and, if not, why not is an argument Matter of Fact THEY ROCKED, THEY ROLLED Washington Every sensi ble person has a favorite ref uge, remote from the dusty concerns o f his daily life. It may be par akeet training, or big-g a m e hunting, or just the opium of television, but it serves a necessary pur pose. This re- 4 - - JoseoH AIsod P"''s lc x uge happens to be the past. This confession and or seu- justification is in order, be cause China in the miuenium of Our Lord has no business creeping into a political col umn, and the ancient Chinese musical criticism is even more out of place. All the same the knowledge that the old Chinese had a se rious rock 'n roll problem niav console parents alarmed by the wild ways of their off spring, moralists wno connect rock 'n roll with juvenile de linquency, and even the "P r a v d a" editorial writers who are so horrified by young Communists' taste for West ern jazz. The evidence was discovered in the "Record of Music", a section of the "Li Chih" or "Book of Rites", which was reputedly compil ed by Confucius himself. THE Marquis Wen of Wei," reports the "Record", "ask ed (Confucius's disciple) Tzu hsia: 'When ... I listen to the ancient music, I am only afraid that I shall go to sleep. When I listen" to the music of Cheng and Wei, I do not feel tired. Let me inquire why I should feel so differently un der the old and new music? "Tzu-hsia replied: 'In the old music (all) is harmonius, correct and in large volumn ... In (it) the superior man speaks of and follows the wavs of antiquity. The char acter is cultivated; the family is regulated; 'and peace and order are secured througnout the kingdom. This is the man ner of the old music. " 'But now in the new mu sic, (the performers) advance and retire witnout any regu lar order. The music is cor rupt to excess. There is no end to its vileness. Among the players . . . boys and girls are mixed together, and there Halsey Military Funeral Thursday Washington-fDPD-Fleet Adm. William F. (Bull) Halsey will be buried with full military honors Thursday at Arlington National cemetery, final rest ing place for the nr. Lion's heroes. Halsey, 76, died in his sleep Sunday during a vacation on Fishers island off the Connec ticut shore. The Navy said that the body of the famed World War II fleet commander would be flown from Fisher island to nearly Anacpstia, Md., Naval Air Station Wednesday. The body will lie in state in the Bethlehem chapel of the Washington Cathedral from noon Wednesday until noon Thursday, with final fu neral services conducted at Arlington. The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was the last national figure to be buried with full honors at Arlington.- TAXI RIOT QUELLED Kampala, Uganda (UPD- Po lice broke up an unruly dem onstration by about 1,000 per sons at the bus terminal here Monday. The crowd had gath ered to protest slow taxi serv ice from the terminal caused by a police crackdown on il legal parking. There were no casualties and no arrests. BUREAU FOUNDER DIES Weston Conn.-UPD-Lee Kee dick, 79, founder of the na tion's oldelt lecture bureau, died Monday in a hospital at Fairfield, Conn. Keedick had founded the Lee Keedick Lec ture bureau in 1907. Non-Fat Milk nider's Quality DAIRY FOODS that still rages bitterly be tween . Jakarta and The Hague. Dutch Position Untenable But it was all academic be cause the harassment of In donesian guerillas plus the machinations of internation al diplomacy made the Dutch position untenable; and By Joseph AIsop is no distinction between fa ther and son . . . this is the fashion of the new music. "What you ask about is mu sic; and what you like is sound. Now music and sound are akin, but they are not the same." ' rpzU-HSIA, a square if ever -- there was one, then finish ed off the poor, cornered" Mar quis by classifying the particu lar horrors of different types of the new music, as one might label different rock 'n roll singers and bands. "Those of Sune tell of slothful in dulgence and women . . those of Wei are vehement and rapid . . . and those of Ch'u are violent and deprav ed, and make the mind arro gant. . . . All stimulate libidi nous desire and' are injurious to virtue. They should there fore not be used." Presumably these stern words convinced the Marquis Wen, 'though perhaps without correcting his sad tendency to doze off during performances of classical music. He un doubtedly agreed with "Tza hsia's reminder that "a ruler has to be careful what he likes and dislikes." Presum ably, too, he was a conscien tious overlord of his small cor ner of Old China. Otherwise, he would just have ordered out the dancing girls and boys, without nervously asking Tzu hsia about it. One likes to think of the Marquis's court, happily purg ed of libidinous sounds, firm ly restored to complete decor um, with Tzu-hsia smugly tri umphant in his corner. But it is even more enjoyable to realize that this kind of argu ment may really have oc curred in 500 or 600 or 700 B.C. Maybe it did not occur exactly as reported in the "Record of Music." As the Chinese classics are also Chi nese puzzles, their literal ac curacy is not dependable, but there certainly was a general debate about old music and new, which is duly reflected in the "Record." In this de bate, furthermore, persons like Tzu-hsia certainly felt just as violently as he is rep resented as feeling. They had even better reason to feel vio lently, after all, than the "Pravda" editorial writers who clearly feel very violent ly indeed. For this was sacred and magical music the Old Chinese were debating about. IT W A S performed at the sacrifices to the spirits of the ancestors and the spirits of the land and the gram. It was thought to help the seasons and encourage the crops and strengthen the government and improve public order. No wonder, then, that rock 'n roll-ish tendencies before the holy altars caused fussbudgets to fuss. To be sure, if one may judge by surviving and very much later old music of China and Japan, even the music that left Marquis Wen "not tired" would have caused snores at the most respectable church social. But that is only another proof of the first rule one learns by taking refuge in the past, the rule that ev erything is relative. And the story of Marquis Wen also proves the second rule, that eternal change and eternal continuity are the sole con stants in the life of men. (c) 1959, Nev York Herald Tribune Inc. Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan I M I Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friandly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. on the personal level, tragic, as thousands of Dutch citi zens, many of whom had never seen their homeland, were forced to flee this lush tropical land which many argue was the site of the biblical garden of Eden. Today, the situation in In donesia is not dissimilar to the United States ten years after it 4iad shaken the yoke of George LH, except that in many years of Indonesia liv ing conditions of the rulers and the ruled are more primi tive than America 170 years ago. Hard to believe, but true. President Sukarno has just ordered a return to his fa vorite political philosophy. guided democracy " abolish ed political parties within his government, and cracked down on public political de bate on the street corners and in the press. This has led to charges of "dictatorship." Open to Question But like just about every other conclusion drawn of In donesia, this charge of "dic tatorship" might be open to question. Certainly, in most other nations such action would constitute dictatorship, pure and simple. But Indonesia, like the orig inal American states, is more under the control of local political and military leaders in many areas than it is un der the control of Jakarta, the central 'government's capital. Army commanders, in many areas, carry out their, own foreign trade negotiations, levy their own taxes, and in general run little kingdoms that are thousands of miles away from Jakarta - in spirit as well as in actuality. Further, there appears to be such a delicate balance within the central govern ment itself that no one can actually aspire to dictator ship. Someday, perhaps,, but not now. U. S. Backs Nasution ? The two main players are, of course, Sukarno and his chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution. The best in formed observers, of Indo nesia doubt that either could survive without the other. The United States has given strong backing to Nasution, who is known to be strongly , anti-Communist. And under the able, low-pressure am bassadorship of Howard P. Jones, : America's stock has been going up steadily .since its low point in the spring of last year. But Nasution can scarcely risk making any bid for pow er before he has gotten the armed forces, including his far-flung regional command ers, under firm control - and that seems to be a long way off. ... when a food hopper's "paradise" y - - will be opened ft you Watch for M DONT BE THE GOAT ABOUT A BOAT! We will'- provide proper in surance coverage for you, your sons and daughters who might be involved in an accident with; a borrowed boat. Kids will.be kids and an accident could put you on the skids. ;' 1 Bill Fish V
