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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfor, Or. Thursday, Aug. 20, 1959 MEDFORDtSTBIBUliS - "Everyone is Southern Oregon . Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Htlly except Saturday jr , MJJ3FOVLD PRINTING CO 33 North Fii St Fh SP 2-6141 ROBIRT W RUHL. Editor KERB GRE Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor -HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second clan matter a1 . Mediorrt Oreeon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai i in Advance. Copy 10c. Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday mos. - 8 DC 1 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point. Eagle - Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 - Daily and Suncay l mo l-ao - Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casp in Advance Official Paper of City f Med ford Official Paper of Jackson uonT 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOtlAl 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. 20, 1949 (Saturday) Palm st. between Summit and Columbus aves. is graded in preparation for paving. A single picket from Team sters local 962 has been pa rading in front of the Crane company warehouse at Fourth and Grape sts. this week. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1939 (Sunday) ' Medford Police Chief Cla tous :McCredit closes down all pool hall poker games in the city. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The country, is now confronted with two Thanksgiving Day dates, when there is hardly cause enough for one." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 20, 1929 (Tuesday) Plans are completed for the first annual Community Chest drive here this fall. John Boyle is named gen eral manager of California Oregon Power company, ef fective Sept. 1. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1919 (Wednesday) Fishing in the Rogue river Is reported poor, and fisher men complain. The new garbage system disposal plant is put into op eration. ; SO YEARS AGO Aug. 20. 1909 (Friday) . Acting Medford Mayor W. W. Eifert thwarts attempts by city councilmen to entangle him iii the brambles of parlia mentary procedure. John Harrington sues for false imprisonment " in circuit court here, alleging., among other things that he suffered from lice and offensive odors during his incarceration. Yhat's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who was the best known contemporary associate o f Karl Marx? 2. In which- State of the U.S are political subdivisions known as narishes? 3. The names of five states end in the letter "s": name them. ' . . 4. For what was Steve Brodie famous? . A stereotyped phrase is known as a c e? 6. What sport uses the term T formation? 7. Is it easier to swim in deeD or shallow water? 8. Complete this saying, "The pen is mightier than . 9. What is the largest living bird? 10. Recently a court de cision overruled the refusal of the Post Office to transport a certain book in tne mails; Jiame the book. ; Answers: 1. Friedrich En gels. 2. Louisiana. 3. Arkan sas, Illinois, . Kansas. Massa chusetts, Texas. 4. Jumping off Brooklyn bridge. 5. CUcne . Football. 7. Both the same. -8. "the sword." 9. Ostrich. 10. Lady Chatterly's Lover. pENY SUB-MUGGLERS Luino, Italy-flJPD-Italian cus toms police Wednesday offici ally denied a report that Smugglers were crossing 35 mile Lake Maggiore from Switzerland in a submarine. Who Starts Fires? It was ironic that the -first meeting of the Jackson County Keep Oregon Green committee held in many months came the week after-the big fire which for a time threatened the city of Ashland. . The irony had a bite to it, too, for that -fire was man-caused, and, what is almost unbeliev able, was apparently set deliberately. It is the objective of the Keep Oregon Green organization to remind alL citizens that it is the responsibility of all to protect the forests from fires. Its message obviously never got through to a couple of criminal minds or if it did it didn't mean anything. . rjELIBERATELY setting a fire on forest lands . is a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Setting a fire by accident is not a "felony," as such. But it is criminal negligence, nevertheless, A thoughtlessly flipped match or cigarette; an untended campfire, a carelessly operated power saw any of these things can set off a confla gration, particularly in seasons such as this when the forests and brushlands are tinder dry. "INLY a warped mind could on purpose set a blaze such as the one which did hundreds of thousands of dollars 'worth "of damage, and cost the state and federal governments hundreds of thousands more in fire fighting expenses not to mention the narrowly-averted threat to lives and property in a populous area. But setting a fire such as that through care lessness or neglect, while perhaps not the action of a warped mind, certainly doesn't speak well for its owner's sense of responsibility and citi zenship. Neither action, really, is excusable. E. A. Mercy Flights ' Job In the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Montana this week, the cry went up for airplanes planes to transport the injured, planes to fly in emergency supplies, planes to spot marooned survivors, planes to bring in. news reporters .to tell the world about the event. The same was true, the Roseburg disaster, when-the airport at the stricken town was humming with activity. mi i il i H-- T 1 1 i nis serves to point out mat meaiora is iuckv to be the "home base" of the only privately op erated non-profit air ambulance organization in the U. S., and, so far as is known, in the world. lyiERCY FLIGHTS, INC., is now more than 9y2 years old. Just 10 years ago this month the idea for such a service the late summer and fall of 1949, the plans were ited, the first plane and its rudimentary equip ment purchased. ; . In January, 1950, the. phrase we're now used to Since that time the number of patients earned by the planes, has grown each year nearly three each week and the total number of patients has gone over the 1,000-mark. MERCY FLIGHTS, INC.V primary job is the ' transportation of the sick and injured, quick ly and safely, to medical treatment either from elsewhere to Medf ord, or from this area to the big hospitals of Portland, Seattle or San Francisco. But the nob is not alone. For instance, a Mercy Flights plane was the first emergency vehicle other than fire, en gines, to -arrive at Roseburp; before dawn on the morning of Aug. 7, carrying two doctors, three gas company repairmen, On other occasions, the planes have been pressed into moving supplies for the forest serv ice during fire emergencies. ; But none of these other activities, worthwhile as they are, have been allowed to hamper the service's readiness to serve emergency patients. JUfERCY FLIGHTS' support from this commu "1 nity (meaning not only Medford, but all of Jackson and the surrounding counties of north ern Oregon and northern California) has been remarkable. . From the very first, when school youngsters gave their dimes and nickels to make the organ ization a reality, Mercy Flights has received the cooperation and support, not only of off icials and organizations, but of people everywhere. . -It has responded by standing by,' around the clock, ready to perf orm its errands of mercy. - THE organization's chief 'means of financial support comes from tions," which, for $5 per year per family unit, or $3 for individuals, entitles one to free -transport tation in medical emergencies within r a 400-mile radius, and low rates for other forms of ambu lance service., , . , (Charges to non-subscribers are lower than "commercial -air ambulance service for those living in Mercy Flights' sendee area, but it is the firm's policy not to compete with such commer cial services.) v inis service is operated witnout remunera tion (other than expenses by local people. The best way to insure that it will. continue is to take out a subscription to its service, or, u aireaay promptly when the subscription exmres. The address: Post to a lesser extent, after was conceived. During and early winter months developed, money solic first "mercy flight a hereabouts was made. to an average of 150 limited to that function and a supply of blood. the "pre-paid subscrip - - . v for the volunteer pilots) a suDscnoer, to renew Office Box 522, Medford. . E.A. Dennis the -".-r r : - v 8-23 : wGO Matter of Fact LABOR BILL POLITICS Washington - The next act in the great labor bill drama is going to be dominated by two f o r c e s, one obvious, the other as yet unseen. The force that has emerged already is the conviction of the Congress that the voters want a strong labor reform Jns.ph Alsop "J1"- - The other force will emerge soon. It is the determination of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to fight to the end against the specially se vere prohibitions of organiza tional picketing and second ary boycotts that the House of Representatives included in the labor bill. As the author of the orig inal labor-reform bill, and as chairman of the Senate con ferees, Kennedy has "the pow er to deadlock the Senate House conference. He does not want to do so. He is riot op posed to regulation of organi zational picketing and second ary boycotts. He wants a com promise. But Kennedy is con vinced that in their present form, the picketing and boy cott clauses in the House bill go decidedly too far and are even, in patches at least, doubtfully constitutional. "What everybody ought to understand," he says, "is that these clauses in the House bill won't make a dime's worth of difference to big labor, in cluding Jimmy Hoffa and his Teamsters. What they will do is bring the union movement in the South to a dead, screech ing halt. And I'm not going to vote for that, much as I want labor reform. .. -.- P? HE can get ho compromise of the sort he wants, Ken nedy - can deadlock the con ference, because he " can be sure of the support of . the Sen ate's other Democratic con ferees. By the same token, a majority of the House con ferees will surely support their leader, Rep. Graham A. Bar- den of North Carolina. Barden wants the labor reform bill to be as severe as possible, and is far from averse to im peding the unionization of the South. As Kennedy will deadlock the conference if he cannot get a compromise, the question really is whether Barden & Co. will offer a compromise. The answer quite largely de pends, in turn, on the esti mates of the legislative tem per of the -House and Senate reached by Barden's Republi can allies, such as Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona. The most natural result of a deadlock in conference will be to. present the Senate with a choice between no labor re form bill at all, or acceptance, &&&& I Try and Stop Me - By BENNETT CERF TWO BROADWAY characters, on a . sightseeing trip through the Everglades, were separated from their guide. Suddenly one cried, "Help! An alligator just bit my leg off." .'.'That's terrible," groaned the other. "Which one?" "How should IV7V wJ "All alligators look alike to me." ' Banker Arthur Goodman is satisfied with the progress his wife is making in auto driving. "Six more lessons," promises Goodman, "and I'm going to put the door back on our garage." David Niven, quite a master inf the colorful vhrase. re turned empty-handed from a fishing trip off Montauk Point re- cenOy. "All I did," he admitted ruefully, was to flog, the water 4s troth." - v . , When a couple of automobiles are double parked, observes Buddy j Hackett, you never have to think twice to know -which one was parked by your wife. It's the one on top. 1959, by Bennett Cert. .Distributed by Kins Futures. Syndicate. - Menace MBfiD. I'M USTENIN' By Joseph AIsop en bloc, of the labor bill passed by the House. If Goldwater thinks the Senate will take the unchanged House bill, he is likely to want a conference deadlock. It is not at all im possible that just this conclu sion will be reached by Gold water and his fellow Republi can conferee, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen .of Illinois. BESIDES all the sectional and .labor- management strains, the labor reform issue is also super-charged with Presidential politics. ; On the Republican side, the House's affirmative response to Presi dent . Eisenhower's plea for a strong bill was very fine oint ment, but there was a civil rights fly in it all the same. - House Republican Leader Charles Halleck almost tear fully, and quite unconvincing ly, denied any deal to obtain Southern support by helping to block action on civil rights. Almost within minutes, the Republican - Southern . Demo cratic coalition , - downright pridefully exhibited its' unity apd power. This, kind of thing is not a source of unalloyed delight to Republicans like Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who think civil rights ought to be a vote-getting Re publican issue. On the Democratic side, Sen. - Kennedy's position is painful, but it is slightly less painful than the positions of his rivals. He and his brother, Robert, have worked hard and successfully to make labor re forms their family issue. If Kennedy votes against the House bill on afmatter of prin ciple, he can still hope to re tain much of the support he has gained by his own and his brother's work. For the Senate's other Democratic Presidential aspirants, how ever, the. choice can lie be tween being against labor re form, which the country wants, or being against labor, which will have much power at the Democratic convention. THE choice is especially pain ful for the leading, un avowed and inactive candi date, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas. His state is so desirous of a strong bill that most of the Texas Congressmen, including the member from Johnson's own district, refused to support their revered chief, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. Yet labor opposition, if added to Johnson's Southern handi caps, would be a severe blow to Johnson's Presid ential hopes. As Johnson is in the middle, however, and as .he has a genius for. finding ways out of dilemmas . of this sort, a compromise both he and Ken nedy can-vote ior may per haps be agreed on somehow. ; (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name 01 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 Call To The Ladies. To the Editor: Attention la dies! To all of you who were "up in arms' during last Spring's smudge, let's DO something about it!. Attend the public meeting on air pollution abatement Let them know we don't want the same disheartening ex perience of cleaning our hom es f the almost impossible-to-clean oily smudge again. Don't let it-be "out of sight -out of mind." Another Spring is coming-we want it to be fresh and clean. We need all bf you to help make it so. - Please attend, Friday, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. at the courthouse. Mrs. Leonard Matheus 1124 West 10th st. Medford. Ike Said Gullible To the Editor: Whatever has happened to the thinking of our 'new Ike' as recent news releases have been pic turing President Eisenhower in his - new and ' surprising dominating leadership role? He has mads it so that the Soviet top-hatchet man, Khru shchev, does not have to go to the trouble of building a Tro jan horse to gain entrance to our sanctuary. President Eisenhower may not be budging one inch from his defiance-shouting position on wall-top archer and stone thrower embrasure, but he has ordered the lowering of the draw-bridge for the avow ed enemy to gallop across to a bon homme red-carpet wel coming, more gullible to my way of reasoning than any recorded in history. . The guide - posts are plain," splashed as they are with the blood of millions of captive people, aye, splashed with the blood of our own brave boys, six: of their bodies shipped back by the Soviet, the other 11 so evidently shot up they did not dare to return them, denying it all even though we have the recorded voices of enemy pilots gloating over the cowardly attack on a peaceful mission plane near the Rumanian border. . And there is the so recent example of stout - hearted people of Sweden, Norway and Denmark creating such a ground-swell of indignant op position to "goodwill," tour of Khrushchev and henchmen through their loved home lands, arranged to the last de tail, hour, minute and place, that the Russian premier an grily cancelled it. Are we, the. people of our loved America, we, the court of last resort, so weak-kneed, so lacking in the Spirit of 1776, to allow such a shameful disaster to be visited on our loved land? Are we? One thing is certain sure in the minds of serious thinkers: that had Hitler and his hand ful of storm troopers been stopped at the Rhine line, the following ghastly war would not have occurred. So must this modern Attila of Russia be stopped in his land-grabbing enslavement of free people before it is disaster ously too late. It is disturb ing to see our general press going along with this long cherished idea of Eisenhower, stubbornly opposed by John F. Dulles, so lion-hearted that only death could stop him. Life is indeed a continuing fight for survival. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point Hits Dam Re-Naming To the Editor: I can sin cerely agree with the Oregon Young Democrats in their blast at Senator Neuberger and Congressman Porter for their proposal to re-name Green Peter Dam for Ex-Governor Douglas McKay. The so called "Eisenhower Partnership Policy" was very largely the brain child of Douglas McKay when he was Secretary of the Interior, and not only did it delay every government dam in the entire northwest, but McKay, more than any other one man, was responsible for the fact that East Oregon lost the high dam at Hell's Canyon, a dis-service on his part that will hamper the development of the Snake River valley for generations yet to come. I am not averse to naming public structures for states men who have helped to achieve them but I cannot re call another occasion when otherwise seemingly intelli gent statesmen have proposed to name such a structure for the man who, during his life time, did everything in his SQUARE PEA URGED Chicago -fllPD- The National Canned Pea Council said Wed nesday it would like to see the development of a square pea which won't slip off the blade of a knife." Time Said Ripe for Eisenhower Visit to Asia To Aid Relations -By ARNOLD DIBBLE ; Tokyo-dJPD-If ever the time was ripe for a visit to Asia by President Eisenhower, that time is now. Since the President decided that he has good-health, good will, and will travel, there have been all kinds of sugges tions, feelers and trial bal loons' concerning. ' a tour of Asia. Asians realize that the focal point of the cold war still is in Europe, but they also caution the United States to keep its eye on Asia. As UPI's Asian affairs ex pert in Washington, Ruther ford Poats, pointed out in a dispatch last week, U.S.. rela tions with uncommitted na tions of Asia have improved dramatically with the past year-mainly, it must be said, through the blundering of Red China m Quemoy, Tibet and with her communes; and the bullying threats of Russia in the Berlin crisis. Ike is just the man to put the frosting on the cake - in this happier state of affairs, to consolidate and strengthen the better relations building. Resent European Policy Those . are the immediate reasons why a visit now by the American President would heighten American prestige. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the wires are humming with BIG news Earthquakes. Flash floods. Heat waves SOMEWHERE ELSE. The kind of news that makes headlines. It makes for avid reading But How is a' commentator go ing to comment on that kind of news? EARTHQUAKES just hap- pen. Flash floods just happen. Heat waves just happen. There isn't much we can do about it. We can't even shake our heads wisely and say THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW. We could pass laws, of course, FORBIDDING earth quakes. We could pass laws forbidding flash floods. We could pass rlaws forbidding heat waves. & But it would do no good. It is so obvious that it would do no good that no one even pro poses it. TfcERHAPS it is iust as. well There are already so many laws on the books that we can't find time enough, or officials enough to enforce them all. There are times when it appears to a moder ate cynic that we can't even REMEMBER them all. . If we can't remember them, how can we enforce them? A CASE in point: In our sister city of Rose burg, a tyuck loaded with ex plosives blew up with shat tering force.- A dozen lives were claimed. A considerable part of the city's business dis trict Was destroyed. Almost the first thought that occurred to us was that there should have been a law to PREVENT such things. Or a rule. Or a regulation. AS IT turned out, it appears that there was a rule-an interstate commerce commis sion rule requiring trucks car rying dangerous explosives to be manned by two persons, one of whom must remain constantly with the explosives-laden vehicle. In this particular case, that rule if it had been strictly ob served would in all prob ability have prevented the ca tastrophe. The truck was parked in front of a building that caught fire. . It is pre sumed that the fire caused the contents of the truck to explode. It must be assumed that if one attendant had remained with the truck in accordance with the rule that has been cited, he would have driven the truck away in time to avoid the explosion. A THOUGHT: Might it not we .reduced the laws and rules tions to the point remaining on the be better if number of and regula where those books could be ENFORCED? It seems to me we would be better off in the we did just that. long run if power to prevent such achievement. If it is deemed necessary to rename Green Peter dam I would suggest it be given the name of Wayne Morse, who has, without doubt, done more to bring about the final achievement than any other one man. D. Ivan Fritts 794 Fortner Lane Ontario, Ore. We Give d&l GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central But there are other and deep er reasons that perhaps would add 'up. to more in the long run. .:' Asians always have resent ed the United States' "Europe first" policy. - This ' feeling, when set against the oriental exclusion laws, has given many Asians an attitude of being treated like "second class" citizens. Asian nations also are just beginning to dig out from cen turies of Western colonialism. There still is much evidence of national inferiority com plexes and there still is a reservoir of bitterness toward former rulers. - " Thus, a visit by an' Ameri can president-especially one so revered as President Eisen- Today Xr Tomorrow By Walter FROM CUBA TO LAOS At the Conference of Ameri can States in Santiago, Chile, the central problem has been how to make an old prin ciple fit a new situation. How can we apply the doctrine of non - interven tion, to which we are deeply committed, to the irreconcil able, conflict between Castro and Trujillo, between the Cuban revolution and the Dominican dictator ship? The doctrine of non-intervention was adopted, by the American States in 1936. It is sweeping and absolute. It for bids "intervention . . . direct ly or indirectly, and for what ever reason, in the internal or external affairs of the parties' Taken literally, this would forbid intervention even to check an intervention for ex ample, to check an interven tion by Castro's forces against the Dominican Republic or by Trujillo forces against Cuba, The sweeping" and absolute nature of the doctrine is ex plained by its history. Until the adoption in, the 1930 by the Roosevelt administration of the Good Neighbor policy, this country had been in the habit of intervening freely in Central America. We had in tervened in Cuba, in Haiti, in what is now the Dominican Republic, in Nicaragua, Pana ma, and .Mexico. The Latin American' .states '. demanded and the Roosevelt administra tion agreed that these inter ventions must stop, and the language of the doctrine is designe dto remove" all doubt and to close every possibility of evasion. - . AS the doctrine was ad dressed to this country, it was easily enforceable when in 1936 non-intervention had become our own national pol icy. But the conflict between Castro . and Trujillo presents a auite. different problem of enforcement. For Castro and Trujillo are mortal enemies, each convinced that he must destrov the other or be de stroyed himself. Neither be lieves in non-intervention as a governing principle in this feud, and neither can be counted upon to observe the principle by suppressing clandestine forces on his own territory. Moreover, even if either of them wanted to. it would be hard to suppress these forces. Aaoa from kit Walter Llppmann FRANK MORGAN . HARCH.D SNODGRASS, FUNERAl D RECTORS DAY OR NIGHT Jlp PHONE SP 246x bower:-could do much to alle viate and palliate these feel ings. . , No President Visited .;' To understand Asians feel ings, it must be realized that no American president ever has visited Asia while ' in office. , - There is scarcely a country in. Asia-those behind the iron curtain except-in which Mr. Eisenhower's presence alone could not quiet, if not actually lead to peaceful solution of, some extremely important problems. Eisenhower has said ...he would like to travel the world once he has left the White House. It is to be hoped, that so far as. Asia is concerned, he can do.it before. Lippniann We ourselves could hardly say that we are able to police and prevent revolutionary and counter-revolutionary activi ties based on United States soil. If the American republics wanted seriously to suppress the mutual interventions . in the Caribbean, they would have to ask the United States to. institute a sea-and-air pa trol of Cuba and the Domini can Republic. "But this would violate in. principle and in spirit the 1936 doctrine of non intervention in the "external affairs" of Cuba and the Do minican Republic. In practice it would .mean the interven tion of U. S. forces in an area where their intervention has been outlawed for nearly a quarter of a century. : It is, then, not easy to ap ply and , enforce the estab lished principle of non-intervention. The best, it , would appear, that can be done with it is to. dampen down by dip lomatic conciliation the more overt and embarrassing hos tile acts of Castro's and Tru jillo's partisans, hangers on, clients, and mercenaries. - ".'. I1THEN . the President sees Mr. K, he means, so he has told us, to talk about the fighting in Laos. If Mr. K. is in a candid and confiding mood, this might well prove to be a most useful way to open up an enlightening dis cussion. For the interesting question about Laos is wheth er Mr. K is the driver or mere ly a passenger. If he is only a passenger, . which is almost certainly the case,, if the drive is ' from . Hanoi and Peipjng and not from Mbscow, . the President and Mr. K. will have something very interest ing, to talk about. .- , ... One of the interesting things would be the fact that though the U.S.S Jt. and the U.S-A.. are much the strong est powers within their re spective spheres of influence, they are very far from being supreme. The Soviet Union must deal with Red China, as ah equal power, and we, of course, have no pretensions to supremacy "in Western Europe or in the Western hemisphere. Only in respect to the capa city to , annihilate with . nu clear, weapons is this a two- power world. If, as the result of the .conversations which are to be held, the illusion could be dispelled .that what ever happens in the world de rives from Moscow or from Washington, a new sanity would have begun to dawn in world affairs. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Ine; the Ceurlhout
