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Newspaper Page Text4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. ' Friday, Aug. 28, 1959 "Everyone to Southern Oregon Read The Mall Tribune Published EWI except Saturday by MJJJFOrtD PRINTING CO 33 Worth tli St Ph SP 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor KERB GR Advertising Manager GEHALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing K.drtor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Editor PALE ER1CKSPN Circulation May An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as sennnd class matter at Medfor Orecon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a i I In Advance Coot 10c. Dail- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday onlyOne year 5420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily snd Sunday 1 year $18 00 uaiiy ano bunoay l mo lJO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c aii i erms wasp in Advance Official Paper of City f Medford Official Paper ol Jackson Connty 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 EDITORIAL Ml c5"fN 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. 28, 1949 (Sunday) Articles of incorporation for Mercy Flights, Inc. are filed with Jackson county clerk. The Medford Prop Nuts hold a free flight tournament today on the Agate desert west of Camp White. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1939 (Monday) One of the richest free gold strikes in Oregon in years is reported on a 54-acre tract next to the city park in Rogue River. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Mem bers of the fair sex are getting ready to enter OSC and the U. with 27 dresses for the four books they will study." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 28. 1929 (Wednesday) A total of 150,000 visitors are expected at Crater Lake this year. L. A. Banks from Cali fornia leases the Illihee orchard. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1919 (Thursday) Chester Fitch buys a Ford son tractor. The finding of a human bone unravels a murder mys tery in Jacksonville. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 28, 1909 (Saturday) Huge crowds flock to Med ford to see the performance of Ringling Brothers circus. An exhibit of exceptional needlework by students at St. Mary's academy is planned. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five er sis is good. 1. What is a horse's with ers? 2. In what small country on the Mediterranean is the famous gambling casino of Monte Carlo? 3. Name the largest island group in the Malay Archi pelago. 4. What is the capital of West Virginia? 5. When President William McKinley was assassinated, who succeeded to the Presi dency? 6. In Printing books, are even numbered pages on the left or right? 7. From what is snuff made? 8. What American person is credited with inventing the sewing machine? 9. Who is the author of the book, "I Led Three Lives"? 10. When copper and zinc are mixed, what alloy results? Answers: 1. Ridge between shoulder bones. 2. Monaco. 3. Philippine Islands. 4 Charleston. 5. Theodore Roo sevelt. 6. Left. 7. Tobacco. 8. Ellas Howe. 9. Herbert A. Philbrick. 10. Brass. BETTER LATE . . . Knoxville, Term. - (UPD -John Chester Bowling, 42, told police they were a little late when they arrested him Thursday and found S750 worth of counterfeit $20 bills in his pocket. "I don't care about these bills," he said. "I've already passed $140,000 worth." Lighthouse Dreams Shall we dream a little? Let's. Off the, Oregon coast near Tillamook stands the Tillamook light. Built in the last century, for decades it guided ships in the area. More recently, however, it was superseded by more modern navigational aids, and was left standing, dark and lonely on its rock m tne ocean. Efforts to have it converted into some sort of public park or monument were unavailing, and this month it was put up for public auction. 'THE rock on which it stands is rugged, and the surf is more often rough than not, making access to it extremely difficult. But this, apparently, was one of the attrac tions which led 61 people or organizations to submit bids for its purchase. They ranged from $2 to the winning bid of $5,600. The dream we mentioned must have been shared by many of a completely isolated spot where one could get away from everything in peace and solitude, one's own "desert island," so to speak, but with substantial buildings and facilities. TTHERE'S another sort of dreamy situation in- volved in the apparent purchasers of the light house on the rock. The purchasing firm has the unlikely name of Academic Economic Coordinators (AEC). And it has the unlikely home base of Las Vegas, Ne vada. Its members, apparently, are largely en gaged in the construction business and related trades, although one of them is president of an engineering and electric company. The firm's representatives won't say for what precise purpose they want the offshore rock and lighthouse, except that will be used for "research" which they say is "classified." ")NE is tempted to dream again. Are the Las Vegans involved in research as to how to beat the gambling odds in Las Vegas? . Or is the research in some esoteric line of endeavor? Are they working toward anti-gravity? Or psionic achievements? Or in the use of magnetic forces? Or in new forms and applica tions of nuclear energy? And what does their Academic Economic Coordinators? Do they co ordinate academic economics? Or is the name only a "blind" for some highly-secret activity? Are they affiliated with any of the major re search organizations of the nation? Are they doing defense research? TTHEY won't say, yet So about all we can is to wonder about the rock, dream a bit of the vanished hope of living in splendid isolation, and dream a bit more of thearcane "researches" of the Las Vegas con struction men with the oddly-named firm. E.A. Beauty of the Land, We are ever and always amazed and gratified at the beauty of this land. The other day, standing at the summit of Mt. Ashland, we found ourself, once again, bemused and enthralled by the ranges, the valleys, the hills and crags of southern Oregon and northern California.- While the temperature was in the high 80s on the valley floor, -the wind which whipped across the summit on which we stood was brisk perhaps in the low 60s or tude, more than 7,000 feet, caused us to breathe rapidly from the slightest exertion. 7AR to the northeast, almost obscured by drift- ing smoke from the Medford area's mills, was the sharp point of Mt. Thielsen. Slightly to-the right were the irregularities of the rim of Crater Lake. Still further south, Mt. McLoughlin loomed, smooth, black and snowless. And to its right were the tumbled hills of the Mountain Lakes Wild area, just this side of Klamath lake. To the east were the peaks of the Green Springs area, and further south the dry, brown and green valleys near the Klamath river. Just to the east of south was the monumental Mt. Shasta, still bearing some of its everlasting snow, but far, far less than during a usual August. Just to its right, Black Butte could be discerned. COUTH and slightly to the wests were the Trin- ity Alps, and, closer, the long Haystack ridge, barren and stark in its blackness caused by the disastrous fire of 1955. Further to the west were, the rolling peaks and ridges of the coastal ranges. (Legend has it that, on a clear day, one can see the ocean from Mt. Ashland. This we have always doubted, and we have also heard it refuted by competent au thority. Haze and clouds on the horizon prevented eye-witness proof the day we were there.) Directly west loomed the ridges of Wagner Butte and the Dutchman. And in the distance more hills and valleys. , TPO THE north, spreading out in its beauty, lay the Rogue valley a brown expanse of hills dotted with green trees (almost blue at a dis tance), stretching down to green and brown fields, intermingled with the colors of buildings and cities and roads and highways. Roxy Ann is the most familiar landmark in the area, standing guard just to the east of Medford. Medford itself could only dimly be seen through the haze. But directly below part of Ashland, and the brown scars of the recent fire, showed up clearly. It is a vista of peace and loveliness, and we could have spent hours just staling at it. E.A. strange name mean anyway. do, until we know more, "research," look at the high 50s. And the alti Dennis the ; - I m When we get mad at 7?bm, nt temper, eur when Today & Tomorrow By Walter TRUMAN AND EISENHOWER The day before the Presi dent left for Western Europe Mr. Truman published an ar ticle which began by say ing, "I serious ly question the wisdom of President Ei senhower's go ing to Mos cow." Later on in the ar ticle Mr. Tru man remind ed us that he is in favor of the visit by Mr. Khrushchev to Washington. This separates him from those who object to receiving the Soviet dictator in the United States, who argue that this will constitute an endorse ment of the history of the Soviet Union, that it will con stitute an appeasement of the Communist revolution, and that it will produce a dibilitat ing complacency in the West ern world. Mr. Truman is in favor of the Khrushchev visit, thinking that on balance it may do more good than harm. What he disapproves of is the President's decision to return the visit. Mr. Truman, who is a jeal ous guardian of his conception of the traditions of the Presi dential office, cannot be ig nored when he speaks his mind about what is wise and not wise for a President to do. NEVERTHELESS, Mr. Tru man's reasoning is weaker than his instinct. His instinct tells him that when a Presi dent "leaves the country it should be a momentous oc casion in the exercise of the unique authority of his office. The power and leadership of the Presidency should not be dissipated in ceremonial visits . . ." For my own part, I think that at bottom this is a sound view. But for compelling prac tical reasons it cannot any longer be applied absolutely. Thus Mr. Truman, writing the day before the President was leaving for Bonn, Paris, and London, did not object, and by implication at least gave these visits which are not so very "momentous" his bless ing. To be sure, the visit of an American . President to Mos cow is an unprecedented and spectacular event. Mr. Tru man is afraid that this jour ney may lead "the world to expect that peace can be ad vanced by the mere exchange of visits between heads of government." But is the "world" all that stupid? There is no reason why what Mr. Truman fears should happen if the heads of government are sober, serious, and candid ly prosaic in what they make known to the world news paper press. There is no need Try and Walter LlpDmann -By BENNETT CERF- AT THE LAMBS Club, they tell about a killer who was sentenced to be hanged twelve hours before election day. On the way to the gallows he was informed, "You have ten minutes to make a farewell speech." "I got nuttin' to say," snarled the condemned man. Whereupon a spectator stepped forward and beam ed, "In that case I hope you'll let me speak instead. I'm running for sheriff to morrow." "Talk your fool head off," conceded -the condemned man, "but hang me first"' Dr. Adiel Moncrlef, pastor" of the- First Baptist Church in St. Joseph, Mo., cites three slight errors made by very little boys trying very hard to recite the Lord's Prayer: 1. Harold be Thy iame. 2. Give us this day our jelly bread. 3. Lead us not into Perm Station. & 12i3, bj eaaeU Cer, Distributed by King Features Sjaditala. . Menace lippmann to suppose that we shall all lose our heads? A SSUMING, as Mr. Truman does, that there were good reasons for inviting Mr. K. to Washington, then there are very good reasons for the President's returning the visit by going to Moscow. For if the talks are to produce use ful results, they must in the nature of things take place in two installments with a considerable interval between In the Washington visit the utmost that is possible is that propositions can be formulat ed by tentative agreement which, on our side, will then call for serious examination by the Western allies and for free discussion in the demo cratic world. After that, they will in amended, edited form need to be discussed again with the Soviet government, and for that discussion the visit to Moscow would offer a suitable occasion. Then, if the talks prosper, the final negotiations might take place at a summit meetmg. In any event, there are good reasons for thinking that if the President is to talk with Mr. K., the two of them should talk twice, with an in terval for consultation and deliberation and for second thought. TITR. TRUMAN deplores these "ceremonial visits" which are to him "so remin iscent of the days when diplo mats and rulers traveled back and forth on their 'balance of power' visits which marked this the bloodiest century of history." It is not clear to me what Mr. Truman is trying to say. But if he means that meetings by the heads of gov ernment are a new invention in this century, he is mistaken What is new is that the American Presidents, begin ning with Wilson in 1918. have felt it necessary to par ticipate personally in these meetings of the heads of gov ernment. The reason for this is very obvious. Before the first World War the United States was not a world power. Since the first World War it has been a world power, and as such the President is bound to participate responsibly and personally in all the great decisions affecting the peace of the world. . rpHE most serious objection -- to personal Presidential diplomacy in foreign countries is that when the President himself is the negotiator, he has no backstop who can in struct him, warn him, and overrule him. That was the main source of the trouble in Wilson's experience at Paris in 1918, that as negotiator in Paris he agreed to things which as President in the White House and with final Stop Me Republican Leaders Dragging Feet on C By RAYMOND LAHR United Press International Washington (UPD Republi can leaders in Congress are insisting that they are drag ging their feet or making deals to prevent the passage of a civil rights bill. GOP leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois told the Senate this week there was no truth to a newspaper re port that the administration was not interested in passing a bill now because it felt it could get a better one in the 1960 election year. The Democrats, he remind ed, are in control of Congress. And House Republican lead er Charles A. Halleck of Indi ana, using the White House as a forum, has denied that House Republicans would help stave off a civil rights bill this year in exchange for Southern Democratic votes on the labor reform bill. When asked if the Republi cans on the rules committee would vote to send the bill to the floor, he said he didn't In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, President Eisenhower is speeding across the Atlantic in a super jet plane that is fitted up with all the conveniences of a con venient age and all the luxur ies of a luxurious age. He will have no worries as to how the bills are to be paid. It's an all-expenses-paid trip. And . . . the best will be none too good. U'EATHERPATES will envy -- him. More thoughtful people, aware of the tremendous re sponsibilities that rest upon the back of bis neck, will pray for him and hope him luck. GOVERNOR Earl K. Long of Louisiana (the natives pro nounce it Loozyana) celebrates his 64th birthday with the hope that his presents may in clude "a little campaign money." The dispatches inform us that "the volatile governor barreled into New Orleans last night claiming he would win his bid for an unprecedented fourth term in the FIRST pri mary." (Louisiana is a one party state. If he wins a ma jority of the votes in the pri mary election, he's in. If he fails to get a majority of all the votes cast, there will have to be a run-off primary.) He told the reporters: "I'm here to see. a few friends and maybe raise a lit tle campaign money. I may even go to Bourbon Street." (Bourbon Street is New Or leans' Wan Street.) ' HMMMMMMMM. What Governor Long is saying is that when he's ap pealing for votes he's against anything Bourbon Street might want. But when he's looking for campaign funds money is money. A THOUGHT: Wouldn't it be rather won derful if we could have a political campaign in which there would be no baUyhoo, no whoop-te-doo, no playing to the galleries, no appeals to prejudice? Just a plain, sim ple, sincere statement from each candidate as to what he wiU stand for and what he wUl DO if elected. UTTERLY foolish? Fantastically idealistic? Impossible of achievement? Well, you can't stop a guy from dreamin. authority, he would have re jected. Secretary Dulles, who was in Paris in 1918, had acquired from that experience his deep distaste for summit diplomacy. I have always thought he was right. But why then was he being driven in the months before he died, why has the President now been driven, to accept the hazards of summit diplomacy? Because, so it seems to me, normal diplomacy through Foreign Ministers and Am bassadors -has become frozen and sterile. Yet, as the Presi dent said on Tuesday, the race of armaments goes on and nothing is being done to pre vent an explosion. That is why the President has gone off on his venture because there was no visible alterna tive to going off on it. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Laos Mercy Man In Good Condition New York-(UPD-Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, who returned here from his jungle hospital in Red-threatened Laos for a cancer operation "that may save my life," was reported in good condition today at the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. know but pointed out that the committee is 8 to 4 Demo cratic. Revival of Coalition Regardless of a "deal," spoken or unspoken, the House vote for the administration-backed bill was the best evidence yet of revival of the coalition of Republi cans and Southern Democrats which once plagued Presi dents Roosevelt and Truman. Now it plagues the liberal Democrats who .up to a few months ago had thought the 1958 election had put them back in the saddle. There was ample evidence last winter that House GOP leaders were in no mood to crusade for a civil rights bill this year. It could be that they wanted help from Southern conservatives to keep the Democratic new dealers from running the show. In any case, Baseball Box Score Printed in Congressional Record 1st Time By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington - (UPD - Rep. Samuel S. Stratton (D-N.Y.) favored readers of the Con- gressional Record the -: other day with a report on the Little League Base- ball team of S c henectady, N.Y., which had just clob ered Bridge- Frank Eleazer port, wnn., o to 2, for the right to play in the Little League World Series this week in Williams port, Pa. In the memory of some old congressional hands this marked the first time that a baseball box score had been printed in Congress' own daily paper, which does not as a rule carry sports. The Record carries nothing formaUy labeled as comics, either, but this is considered a mere technicality. It does include almost everything :!: s it..... - m Britian Wondering When Next General Election Will Be By GREGORY JENSEN United Press International London -(UPD Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan and the rest of Britain currently is occupied with international afairs as epitomized by Presi dent Eisenhower's visit. But in the background looms the closer - to - home question of when the next general elections will be held, a question that has become something of a national guess ing game. It has been decades since the game was played with anything like the present sus- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer -although "ader. cer tain circumstances trie use of a pen name oi 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 net exceed 400 words M-T Chastised To. the Editor: I subscribed to your paper on' the first of this month and have found it to be an exceptionally poor paper for such a town as Med ford. In my opinion it is very poorly planned, arranged, etc. I had decided to drop your paper at the end of the month as I have been unable to find very much enjoyment in read ing it. Your edito.rial regarding the American Mercury maga zine has very definitely con vinced me that my subscrip tion money has been very much wasted. It is in my opin ion as much of a misinforming editorial as I have had the chance of reading. To me it smells of the Old Commie line if any article ever has. Apparently it would do you a lot of good if you could read some of the sayings of Old Abe Lincoln. The one that is so impressive to our times is: "America will never fall from without, but from within." In my opinion it will pay you to wake up along with a lot of others before it is too late. Earl W. Temple, Route 1, Box 258, Rogue River, Ore. Editor's note: We subscribe to another of Lincoln's state ments: "I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall ap pear to be true views." Insist They Are Not ivil Rights they have had most of the help they needed. Provided Good Football Until 1957 when the Sen ate and Congress-passed the first civil rights bill since the reconstruction years, the civil rights issue provided a good footbaU. With Southern Democrats dissenting, each party de clared itself against racial discrimination, but few in Congress took the commit ment very seriously. Among men who had to live with each other on dozens of other issues, it was easy to lose a civil rights bill in the cum bersome machinery of Con gress. Now the pressure has grown greater and the racial and la bor groups demanding civil rights legislation seem more aware of how the congres sional machinery is used. else, and lately there have been indications it even may have to start a letters to the editor column, to carry com plaints from the readers. Some Readers Unhappy There are about 43,000 of these, but the only ones whose complaints carry much weight around here are the 536 members of House and Senate whose daily activities the Record purports to relate. Some of these readers have been pretty unhappy lately at the way their own remarks were, or were not, reported; at the way the remarks of some others have been magically improved in the printing; and at the way pretty near everybody has been littering the Record with not clearly revelant to the bus iness at hand. Nobody has specifically mentioned box scores as fall- ing in the later catgory. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) reported to the Sen ate recently his discovery that history was being rewritten, or at least heavily edited, in pense. Cliff-hanging tension has been building up for al most a solid year. By today, everyone was about ready to burst with it. This is the way the game works: British governments are elected for five-year terms. But they are not required to serve the whole period. They can call a general election at any time. Select Own Time Naturally, those in power call their elections at the time most advantageous to them. If they've ben in office only three years but see a dead sure win at the polls, they'll pop a new election and win a new five-year lease on No. 10 Downing Street. If there's any doubt, they'll postpone the poll until the omens set fair. Macmillan has been "it" in this little game since late last summer. It was about then that the possibility of a quick general election began to be bruited about. And it was right then, al most a year ago, that the op position Labor Party began to feel the suspenseful squeeze of this election guessing game. The opposition's dilemma is easy to understand. Macmillan will pick the moment when he thinks he holds all the cards. After his formal announcement of the election date, labor will have only a few scant weeks to or ganize its election campaign and do its electioneering. Prepare in Advance Therefore, it has to prepare in advance. Plans must be drawn up, speakers mobil ized, campaign material de signed and prepared, posters printed and space for them rented - and all this without a definite date to go by. If the opposition organizes too well around a specific date, it may march the public right up to the polls and then discover the election isn't for another six months. If it organizes not well enough, the lack of prepara tion can cost it the election. Right now, the best edu cated guess is polling will come Oct. 22. Most observers have settled on that date as the most likely. Only Macmillan can act Under the rules of Britain's election guessing' game, he alone knows the answer to the question all Britain has been asking for a full year: When will the election be? Passage William F. Knowland, th Senate Republican leader, forced the 1957 showdown in the Senate, where all civil rights bills had died for years although he later had to yield management of the bill to Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson. In his Senate speech this week, Dirksen applauded Knowland for his ' "daring step" in 1957. Yet he has con tented himself so far this year with applying the needle on Democrats rather than taking the lead to force a showdown. ' President Eisenhower re peatedly has listed a civil rights bill as an essential part of the legislative program for this year. But he has not ap plied the pressure on Congress like that used on such issues as the budget, labor, reform, housing, highways, the wheat surplus and interest rates. the pages of the Congressional Record. ReDartee. according to Neu berger, consists of the bright remarks you would have made if you had thought of . them at the time. And in Con gress, he points out, you still can make them, risht ud until press time of the Con gressional Record, which is usually some time around midnight. Can Delete Remarks If Neuberger was dismayed at what happens to the pur portedly verbatim account of what goes on in the Senate, he ought to see the way things go in the House. House mem bers not only can edit their remarks before publication, as can the senators. They also can take 'em out of the Rec ord entirely, or insert state ments never actually made. Senators aren't supposed to do that. Just this week, though, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (D.-Tex.) had to patch up a dispute in which Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah) accused Sen. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (D Pa.) of having censored out of the Record four pages of transcript including remarks not only by Clark but also by Bennett and others. Clark pleaded not guilty and Johnson was able to restore harmony by establishing that a helpful clerk was to blame. The four pages of censored transcript were duly inserted in the Record two days late, a clear vindication of history but one calculated to baffle any historians who . may try to figure what happened. Neuberger has proposed to stop this kind of thing with a new rule under which Sena tors would have to say what they mean And they wouldn't be allowed to change their minds later. No Outcome Expected Although Neuberger has been joined by Clark and Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) in sponsoring this proposed change in the rules, nothing is expected to come of it. Mean time several House, resolu tions to clean up the Record also have been assigned to a proper committee for burial. These are aimed at cutting down on the volume of re cipes, poetry, newpaper edi torials, jokes, unmade speeches, letters from home and other such matter that al ready this year has filled 7,431 printed pages in a sec tion of the Record appropri ately labeled "appendix." Rep. Paul M. Jones (D-Mo.) and others have in bills to limit such insertions to a handful per member per ses sion. Some members put 'em in now by the hundreds. Another 15,682 pages of the Record have been filled this year with what passes for actual proceedings of House and Senate, for a total of 23,113 printed pages, a new all-time high in wordage for a single congressional year. 1 L SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR FLOORS WITH A RENTED SANDER Easy to Operate, Low Rental Rates, Clean and Dustiest. FREE PARKING! 245 S. Centre! at 10th r.