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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE. Medford. Or. Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1959 'Medford&,teibunb . "Everyone ir Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune published Dnil except Saturday by Mi.DFOrtD PRINTING CO -HJHL f'U St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GRE Advertlring Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Met ERIC W AI.l.EN JR. - Managing Hditor EARi. H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor R1CHAHD JKWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editoi DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as, sernnd class matter al Medfor Orecon under Act el March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Hal .In Advance Com lfJe Dsll- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8.01 Dailv anc Sunday 3 mos 4.23 bunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In 'Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle foint Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Taln and on motor routes Daily snri Sunday 1 vear $18 00 Daily anc Sunday 1 mo 150 Carrier ari Dealer c o p y 10c ".ii lernas asr in Advance Official Ppr of City f Medford omciai t-apei oi Jack ion County United Pres. International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC Of fices m New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At- Jan Vancouver B C EWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASQcSATa Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1949 (Friday) A .Tru-Mix Concrete com pany bulldozer clears Bear creek between the Cottage st. and Jackson st. bridges as a health measure. The state highway depart ment's landscaping project at the Big Y interchange prog resses rapidly.. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1939 (Saturday) A CCC youth at the Camp Applegate post recovers from two days in the wilds. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" , column: "The revival meeting and fried chicken season has started in several parts of the valley." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 26. 1929 (Monday) ! A special speed boat will be placed in service on the lower Rogue to stop fish law viola tors. The survey for the WU llams creek cut-off road will start this week. 40 YEARS AGO ... Aug. 26. 1919 (Tuesday) Word received that ;the price of hogs is the highest in history as living costs con tinue to mount. The Eastern Star plans a celebration in Ashland next month. 50 YEARS AGO', ' ' Aug. 26. 1909 (Thursday) . ; Southern Oregon pioneers hold their annual meeting in Ashland. . ' " Howell pears bring .$3.70 rjn the Chicago market. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine o ten correct is superior; seven or ekjht is excellent; five ot six is good. 1. Is apiculture the growing of apples, keeping of bees, growing of avocadoes, or train ing of apes? - . ': 2. Where was the Boer War fouaht? . " ' 3. Name the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee Tn Investigate Improper Ac tivities in Labor-Management Relations. , 4. Is bamboo a tree, shrub, or erass? 5. Of the persons eligible to vote in the U. S., are there more women than men? : 6. Who was Barney Old- field? : 7. Is it true that handling toads causes warts? 8 What is the name for a Seep, .wide ditch that often surrounded a medieval castle? .. 9. Susan B. Anthony was a nioneer in what movement? 10. In dry measure, are there four, six, or eight pecks in orip bushel? . Answers 1. K e p in g of bees. 2. South Atrica. 7. Joan 1.. McClellan (Ark.) 4; Grass. 5. Yes. 6. Famous auto racer. 7 No. 8. Moat. 9. Woman's suffrage. 10. Four. ' ncr nTTTS RT.OCTf - ; limerick, - Ireland - (DP -'About 300 persons were left jobless today by a o,ouu,uuu Jire which gutted a block of Anns and homes Tues day in' the heart of Limerick. Officials called the fire the tvvorst in ;. Ireland Jn many X3 Is This Your Dish? "The Footlighters" is a little theater group. It is not a very successful littlo theater group. But then, few such organizations are fabulously successful. Few of them have (as the Footlighters do) their own building. Many of them are born, struggle along for a while, fade away, and then, as some new and vigorous personality puts forth effort, are reborn. The problems of such organizations are not hard to find. -. An adequate number" of talented amateur thespians is difficult to come by. Directoral skill is even more scarce. And, while the chief attraction is in acting, each theater needs steady, reliable people to do the endless behind-the-scenes chores required in each production. THERE are other factors, too. For instance, in a small group of this nature, largely involved in dramatic endeavors, tempera ments and personalities are bound to cause con flicts and jealousies. Mix all these difficulties into one pot, stir well, season with chronic lack of funds and lim ited public support, and the wonder is that ANY little theater, ANYwhere, ever survives at all. But survive they do. better word.) And there is a never as to how their problems can be ameliorated. IN THIS search, the local daily newspaper fre quently is called upon, for publicity, for re views, for editorial support. This, more often than not, is forthcoming. For such a community theatrical effort is a worthwhile thing for any community to have. It vert orms a valued public service. It oilers an outlet to those with theatrical bent. And, in many cases, it offers genuine entertainment. So much for preliminaries. Now for a few specifics. v THE Footlighters are, as their major Centennial effort, presenting a" melodrama, "On .the Bridge at Midnight."; It ran for several days last week and "didn't draw It resumed again last its series of performances Our reviewer told us, were, that "the play's lousy, the acting is lousy, the directing is lousy, no but it's a hatful! of fun cause it s a melodrama, it s even more fun than if ' everything went right." And he added, Tm DETWEEN acts the company presents an oho (from the Latin olla, a pot, later a hodge podge), a variety of acts in conformity with the general "mellerdramer" theme. Coffee is served. The atmosphere is friendly and informal. The organization is deserving of support and encouragement. If these things combine to tickle your iancy, it's probably just your dish. E.A. Down With "Culture " The word "Culture" (with a capital "C" please) scares some people. It arouses connotations of. long-haired affi cionados of classical music listening with eyes closed. Or of bearded artists spiasnmg paint on a daubed canvas. Or of a bookish pedant buried between the covers of some obscure volume. And so on. The theater, opera, seums, concerts, universities, study ana discus sion groups these all at one time or another have been lumped together as "Culture," and, through a process of a distorted or inverted snob - - . bery, shunned. ET'S forget about "Culture," because, first, it is a loaded word, and secondly, because it tor today millions upon minions oi people nrp finding that, things which once were reserved to a favored and wealthy few are, in fact, a lot of fun: . Trip irrmrnvpmprit. nf v ja j v w-. v no-rnnh nnrl nnrtifnlarlv -""J jf-M. has brought the joys throngs who once would nave missed mem. Thp TnVtnm'nl "arte ' T)aintinp scukture .and w - - - O their experimental cousins, are more familiar to everyone, largely because duction now possible, and magazines have featured, them. w rRAMA in all its forms comes alive and close nvpr tpl p vi si nn' And the world of easily accessible as it is now, through good mag azines, and in book form, particularly the handy and ineYTipnsivp -nanprhapks. -. Let's not, then, sail that's what it is). Let increasing appreciation heritaere of the arts and creasing active participation in them , and their dpvplnnmpnf ' " 'i : " And people lots of it is, inaeea, lun. I (Perhaps "persist" is a - ending search for clues flies." night, and will wind up Saturday night. ' oil the record as it one knows their lines all the same. Maybe, be going bacK. . N ballet, libraries, art mu- . . a trie rarKn and the phon w w - j the Inrirr-nlavinp record. - o x j o of good music to vast oi the quality oi repro the fact that the mass ideas has never been so this "Culture" (even if us, instead, call it an and savoring of . our humanities, and an in them are finding that Dennis the 1 Hi. Ate. WlisoN! 1M stoseo Today fir Tomorrow By Walter SOME GUESSWORK The time schedule of the visits-the President's to West ern Europe and Mr. Khru- shchevs to this country show that both visits are almost certain to be sketchy, and fpr the most part concerned with generali ties. It "is evir rwsvu WalUr Lippmann dent that there will not be nearly enough time for the President to negotiate under standings which will remove the strains and stresses with in the Western alliance. And, while Mr. Khrushchev is spending five days at Washing ton, it would be a surprise if from the discussions emerged any concrete proposition which, if agreed to by the Al lies, would decide and settle any big issue. Whatever may be the virtues of meetings at the summit, they are not like ly to accomplish "in a few days what normal diplomacy can not accomplish in many months. In affairs of this sort the usual device is to take the curse off the inconclusive gen erajties by a procedural deci sion as to how and when and where to continue the discus sions later on. The President and Mr. K. can talk quite a lot about talking again-when the President goes to Moscow, if they are to talk at the sum mit, about talking at another Foreign Ministers' meeting, about talking in a disarma ment commission, and at the United Nations. Thus, without succeeding, they can avoid a' failure. - FMAY sound like it but I do not think that this is a cynical view. It is,-1 admit a deflated view. It rests on an estimate, which may of course be mistaken, of the situation of the two contending alli ances. I do not believe that this situation can or will be changed significantly by Mr, K's personal impressions in this, country. Very many of our people take an inflated view. They talk as if they were fascinated with the hope and the belief that Mr. K. win' change Soviet policy because of what he sees during his visit to this country. Jt is an illusion to think, so it seems to me, that he will be over awed by American material achievements, beguiled by American hospitality. What will inter est. him most, I ven ture to guess, is to judge for himself in bis official con tacts what are the levers of power ani decision in the American government and in American society. In the situation itself, there is not in either coalition any pressing and urgent need for a settlement of the cold war over Germany. The partition of Germany is regarded on both sides as not intolerable and, on the wjiole, preferable to reunification under any conditions that are theoreti cally possible. For the U. S. S. R. the only trouble with the status quo is in West Berlin, which is a thorn in the flesh of the East German state. The partition suits Poland and Czechoslovakia who are afraid of a united Germany and its inevitable territorial demands upon them.. It is very probable that Mr. K. will be looking for some sort of modus Vivendi about West Berlin which he can per suade the East German Com munist leaders to accept. -- IN OUR r Western coalition, the existing situation, which means the partition of Germany, is not only not in tolerable to any of the lead ing governments, it is, in fact, better than any alternative. On - this crucial subject no Menace t) ee w w&jSffifWBl Lippmann Western government feels it can be candid. There are, to be sure, public men in every Western country who sincere ly want reunification because they believe that in the long run the divided Germans will be unhappy and dangerous But the leading forces now within the Western govern ments wish to keep things as they are with Germany divid ed, and while they pay lip service to reunification, they know that with the terms they lay down, there is no danger of reunification actually tak ing place. France and Great Britain prefer the partition of Ger many because they both fear the economic and political power of a united Germany, Moreover, France.. and Ade nauer's Germany 1 are both committed to - an economic union of six continental allies which, while now it has pow erful economic, interests, be hind it, is also a great politi cal venture. They think they are creating a new political power, which not only ends forever the Franco German quarrel but establishes a new great power which is to be the equal of the Soviet Union or the United States, and is to . leave Great Britain in the position of being a big off shore island. This political venture is not likely to suc ceed if the 17,000,000 East Germans are united in the same electorate with the West Germans. For they are pre dominately Protestant and So cialist, and in a united Ger many this would mean the downfall of the Catholic and conservative regime of Ade nauer. THE movement toward Franco-German unity, which is full of crusading zeal, is a very deep and very powerful, though not an avowed oppo nent of All-German unity. Thus, after 14 years the Great Powers have not only become used to German partition, they have acquired very strong vested interests in con tinuing the partition. This is true also of the Unit ed States. The geography of Western Germany and the prospect of German armed forces has become an indis pensable part of the whole military policy and position which NATO represents. A united Germany is inconceiv able without a radical disturb ance of NATO, and this fact is not without its influence on what we think about the reunification of Germany. Not only is there no press ing and urgent need on either side for a settlement of the cold war in Europe, there is also on both sides, but for separate and complicated rea sons, a desire to avoid a show down and to play for time. The U. S. S. R. says openly and frequently that it wants seven to ten years of peace and a relief of tension in or der to carry out its program o f economic development. There is no good reason to doubt that this is true. THE West also has its rea sons for avoiding a show down and playing for time. Showdowns are not only nerve-wracking in themselves but nobody can be quite sure what a showdown would show. There are other reasons why the West wants time-to catch up in the race of arma ments, to "promote the boom ing economy of the Western world, to work its way through the transitional peri-od-which is the present-between the old colonial lystem and the new independent states of Asia and Africa. All of this leads me to think that the statesmen will make no dramatic settlements but that for good and suffi cient reasons they will go on talking with each other. (Copyright 1959, New York Htxald Tribun, Inc.) Ma rch of Disease Up Despite Vaccine; Asks Help By DON OSTENSOE State Chairman March of Dimes In a year when polio, one of . our most dreaded contag ious, diseases, should be at its lowest, we are experiencing a case level higher than any year since the advent of Salk vaccine. --: Oregon is in an extremely vulnerable position at this time with cases running well above those for 1955, our last View Holds Russ Want Test Ban Due to Fear of Chinese By K. C. THALER London - (DPD - Hifih allied diplomats see behind Russia's stepped-up pressure for a nu clear test ban Moscow s grow ing anxiety to keep Red China out of the exclusive nuclear club. There is eood reason to be lieve that the Kremlin, de snite its close alignment with the Peiping regime, has no de sire to have China equipped with the atom bomb. Red China, pushing deter minedly for world power sta tus, Is already giving Moscow more of a headache than So viet leaders care to admit. A nuclear test ban, until recently under negotiation in Geneva between the Soviet, the United States and Britain, would not automatically bind other nations. Would Close Club , , But, once , such an accord were completed, it would in practice close the nuclear club. Significantly, Russia is al ready building up pressure on France to desist from her plan to explode - her first atom bomb in the Sahara. Red China, which has been vociferous in the past in en dorsing Russia's call for a nu clear test ban, would find it difficult to go ahead once a test ban accord is reached. - Since no new power would thus be ; able to test atomic weapons without encounter ing strongs opposition from would public opinion no coun try could acquire them in the future through its own efforts, China would remain perma nently dependent for the use of nuclear weapons on Rus sia's good wiU, which is what the Kremlin appears to be aiming at. The subject has never been formally mentioned, but it is held to be among the funda mental problems in Sino-Rus-sian. relations.: ........ Revealed by Announcements That Red China wants the atom bomb has been revealed by a few scanty official an nouncements in the past. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writei although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name ni initial for publica tion is pe-missible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publiea tion must not exceed 400 words Complaint Investigated To the Editor: As a volun teer social welfare worker for the American Red Cross, I was disturbed by Mrs. Dusen berry's letter to the paper last night regarding help re fused a mother with six chil dren, and decided to investi gate the source of her infor mation, as at no time was Red Cross contacted td assist this family. . Investigation proved that the Jackson county public wel fare commission had offered to make arrangements to send the mother and her six chil dren by rail or airplane back to her home in Kansas City, Mo., where, as a legal resi dent, she would have been entitled to financial assistance and free medical care. This offer was made several times, and interim help was offered while arrangements were be ing made, but the mother re fused to go Home. It was then understood that she had ob tained a job baby-sitting as payment for rent, and that a small church was providing groceries. Neither the Salvation Army nor the Red Cross are pro vided with funds to give long term assistance to residents of other states, but emergency relief to worthy needy is given by both organizations. Mrs. Sheridan W. Scott, Chairman Social Welfare American Red Cross, Jackson County. Dimes Head Tells of epidemic year - and two months left before our peak season is passed. Paralytic cases are doubling the median for the last three years. Funds Exhausted We have the further prob lem that funds for the assist ance of victims of polio have been exhausted in eight Ore gon counties and the national chapter emergency fund nor mally available to help them has also been exhausted. A year ago, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi announced in a press interview that Peiping intend ed to have the bomb. The announcement coincid ed with an ominous letting up of Red Chinese propagan da for a nuclear test ban. Earlier this year, Ho Chi Minn, the president of Com munist North Viet Nam, pro claimed seemingly out of the blue that the Chinese will have atom bombs "in the not distant future." Significantly, none of the Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF JOE E. LEWIS, night club favorite, discovered that a race horse had been named after his long-time piano accom panist, Austin Mack. "You know what a sentimental cuss I am," sighed Lewis. "I made a bet on good old Austin Mack. And to my amaze ment, out of nowhere, he came in strong to finish last!" A cute young stenog in the Wall Street sector confided to Broker John straley that her roommate was causing her some concern. "She's con vinced herself," said the stcn og, "that she's an alarm slock! And what's worse, -sometimes when I set her so I can get . down here in time for the opening ot the market, she. doesn't ring until it's too late!" A New Englander wired a fashionable Florida resort hotel for "something nice and relaxing at about ?20 a day." The return telegram read, 'Try warm milk." O 1959. by Bennett Cert, Distributed by Kin? Features Syndicate. In the Day's News By FRANK From staid old England: "Locomotive drivers (we call them engineers on this) side of the big water) report a new game among the youngsters of the town of Bootle. They line up along the track, put their HEADS ON THE RAILS and issue challenges to each other to see who will stay there longest. An official of the state-operated railroad - system says drivers are getting so nervous over this practice that many of them refuse to operate trains anywhere near Bootle." JJMMMMMMM. I suppose that will be in terpreted widely as further evidence that in this day and age the younger generation not only in our own country but elsewhere in the world is going, hog-wild and unpre dictable. j wonder! Thumbing back through memory's album, I recall a game that was current more decades ago than I care to confess in a quiet, predomin antly agricultural neighbor hood back in the Mississippi valley. It went like this: With a .group of your com panions, you climbed a tall haystack. You then dared each other to see who could jump closest (landing belly buster) to the edge of the stack WITHOUT GOING OVER. If you went over, as you sometimes did, you could break your neck, but gener ally you just got the breath knocked out of you-in which event everybody came down from the haystack and pound ed you on the back until you could get your breath again. AFTER all, laying your head on a railroad track and trusting to luck that the en gineer will see you and pun his train to a screaming stop isn't much sillier than seeing who can jump closest to the The Very Best Snider's Quality DAIRY FOODS Public inertia to the Drob- lem has increased through low incidence years in 1956, 1957 and 1958. For instance the March of Dimes in 1958 raised a total of $489,148. In 1959, March of Dimes revenue drop ped to $366,147.09. I feel that a large part of this drop is a result of negative publicity led by the uninformed pres sure groups last January in which statements such as "Polio is whipped" and 'The references to atom weapons production has mentioned Russia's assistant. Western in telligence believes that, apart from the supply by the Soviet of atomic reactors, the Chi nese have been left to their own devices in this crucial field. Some suggestions have put forward 1960 as the possible date for the first Red Chinese nuclear atom bomb explosion. Hence, the Western diplomats believe Russia's pressure for a test ban this year to beat the deadline. JENKINS . edge of a haystack without going over. - The engineer will be pretty likely to see you and slow down, and if he doesn't you can pull your head back in the remaining second. When you start, head first over the edge of a haystack there isn't anybody there to yank you back to safety. Anyway, I can't help think ing that today's younger gen eration isn't any wilder or woollier than the younger generations of bygone days. Maybe they just get into the papers oftener. H ERE are some statistics: In 1958, 91,000 persons were killed in America and nine million others were dis abled in a record number of accidents. That's bad. But listen. Last year's accidental deaths -on the highway and elsewhere amounted to 52.5 fatal accidents per 100,000 of population. In 1923, 35 years earlier, there were 77.4 accidental deaths per 100,000 persons 50 per cent MORE, on a per. capita basis, than last year. Weisfield Named to Director's Term Leo Weisfield, president of Weisfield's Inc., was reelect ed to a. three-year term as a director of the Retail Jewel er's association recently. . Weisfield, who heads a group of 28 credit jewelry stores in Washington, Oregon and California, was elected at the New York jewelry and trade show earlier this month. WEDDING CHAPEL C M. Litwiller For that happy occasion, we offer you beautiful Mountain View Chapel. Adequate for your fondest dreams. An ever growing clientele . . . and prices ar? very moderate. LITWILLER Funeral Home ' Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND - We Never Close Pa radox: National Foundation is trying to perpetuate itself" predom inated. , The fact that a large part of this drop was in Multno mah - Clackamas - Washington counties area - actually $73, 408.10 of the total state drop of $123,000.91 - would lead me to believe that since the attack originated in Portland this area was most strongly affected. Problems Result Now we are confronted with the problem of provid ing funds to keep iron lungs running, ship them to hospi tals where patients await their breath-bringing assist ance, and rendering other fi nancial assistance to patients faced by the pauperizing costs of overcoming the effects of this disease. Our total needs in the eight counties amount to about $50, 000. So these counties are now running special campaigns scheduled to terminate by sept. l. The counties most seriously affected by the squeeze of increased polio and diminished March of Dimes money are Washington, Clack amas, Benton, Lmn, Lane, Deschutes, Wallowa and Jo sephine. All of the income will be kept in their county for polio patient aid alone. , There is no correlation be tween the cost of polio in a given county and the money that can be raised there therefore, Clackamas county has spent 123 percent of all it has ever raised on local pa tients, a total of $362,045.54 up to Dec. 31, 1958. Josephine county has spent almost 100 percent. Others are less, but similarly affected. As state March of Dimes chairman, I am. in the posi tion of being forced to ask for help - and with the great est urgency. Last year we cared for 46 "1958" patients on chapter rolls plus 271 "old" patients still receiving help in the way of home attendants, nursing home care, braces, operation and other patient aid expendi tures. On the "active" lists of our 36 county chapters at this time 300 patients are shown, not counting new patients. The situation can only wors en with the current increase in paralytic polio cases. The most we can do is a feeble thing unless we have public understanding of this problem and this after all is the respon sibility of public media. Ojur problem in financing the recovery of these people from the ravages of the dis ease is paralleled only by our problem of convincing the public that polio is still a threat and that vaccine is the answer. In the near future the Ore gon Junior Chamber of Com merce will attempt mass clin ics to protect as many people as possible as soon as possible. After all, we are all anxious to help each individual polio case and we all look hope fully for the day when we can help the last one. Donald Nelson Suffers Stroke Los Angeles-flJPD-Donald M. Nelson, former war produc tion board head, remained In serious condition today - at Good Samaritan hospital suf fering from a stroke. The 70-year-old Sears, Roe buck and Co. vice president was stricken Sunday at a party honoring him and his fourth wife, Lena, whom he wed last Feb. 12. The party was hosted by Greta Peck, former wife of actor Gregory Peck. Have a happy vacation! get money at "MONEYLAND" Pacific gj Industrial prompt, courteous personal loans and new or used ear financing Central SP 3-5308 Bob Griffith, Manager Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us. than to need ui and not know us."