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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, M4fer4, Or. J MEDFORDS&TRIBUNE "tvsryuue u: Southern Oregon Read f he Maii Tribune" Published Dh11 except Saturday b MijmtrtP PRINTING CO -33 North t'ii St Ph SP 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB iRE Advertiirinc Manager GE1VALD LATHAM Business Mgt ERIC W -OEN JH. Managing "rftjtor EAFci B ADAMS City Editor HARRV cHIPNlAN Teieg Editor KICHAKU JVUETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARS 'HER Women s Editor DALE ERiCKS 'N Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper' Entered at sernnd class matter at MedfoT Orwron under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Ma . in Advance Copy 10c Da II' and Sunday 1 Tear $15 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos 8 Ot Dail-v am Sunday 3 mos 425 Surda." 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Shady Cove school is slated to open its doors on Labor day, Sept. 5, the first county school to resume classes. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1939 (Friday) Word is received that Hit ler's troops are marching on Poland, heralding the start of World War TJ. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot' column: "Ben Harder, former banker, has bought a farm, and will soon be able to come to town, and pray for rain." . 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1929 (Sunday) Hopkins lateral users are to vote next Wednesday on the formation of an irrigation district. - Prink Callison, high school football coach, calls the first gridiron drill for Wednesday. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. 1919 (Monday) County Agent C. C. Cate reports there is no need to hurry about picking winter pears. A Japanese bootlegger is arrested here. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 1, 1909 (Wednesday) A California fruitgrower urges Rogue Valley orchard ists to organize. . The arrival of a great influx of homeseekers is anticipated. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or ei.jht is excellent; five oi six is good. 1. Who is the United States Postmaster General? 2. In what sort of establish ment does a croupier work? 3. What book is said to be the best seller of all times? 4. When the explorer John Cabot sailed westward in 1497, what was he seeking? 5. Of which country is the drachma the monetary unit? 6. Which weighs more - a cubic foot of aluminum or brass? . 7. Do you associate Waikiki beach with the Fiji Islands, Indonesia, or the. Hawaiian Islands? 8. If a motorist drives his automobile 30,000 miles wearing six tires equally, how many miles has each tire cov ered. - 9. Correct the following: The United States were rep resented in the conference." 10. What is arachnophobia? Answers: 1. Arthur E. Sum- merfield. 2. Gambling estab lishment. 3. The Bible. 4. Asia. 5. Greece. 6. Brass. 7. Ha waiian Islands. 8. 20.000 miles. 9. "The U.S. was represented . . .' 10. Fear of spiders. Albacore Tuna Off North Oregon Coast Astoria - (UPD - A good run of albacore tuna was reported off the northern Oregon coast today. Many boats report catches of 200 to 300 albacore start ing Saturday and one boat, the Banner II of Seattle, had 550 fish in one day. Twenty Twenty "years ago this week Europe was plunging into war. The airwaves were filled with the ranting, screaming speeches of Adolph Hitler and the chanted "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil" of his followers. The Panzer divisions invaded Poland 20 years ago today, and, 20 years ago Thursday Great Britain and France formally declared war. How long ago it seems! And yet, how vividly it remains in the memory. IT IS startling to realize that a whole generation has grown up which does NOT remember these stirring incidents at all. And yet the war which started just two decades ago changed the entire shape and size and orientation of the world. It is difficult to say whether today's world is a "better"world or a "worse" world than it was before World War H. But it certainly is different. One who believes it might, in balance, be a bit better is Charles A. Sprague of. the Oregon Statesman. . ..' IN A column of reminiscenses, he says: ". . . As we look over those 20 years we Americans have great reason for pride in the course we have pursued. "We have not sought war, but we have met it bravely when it came. We joined in crushing the worst tyranny of our time, that of Hitler and his Nazis. We have sacrificed much to contain that other form of , tyranny, totalitarian Communism. And we have pre served political freedom at home and maintained a . prosperous economy. "The successes of these years lend confidence that we shall be able to meet and master future crises. But we must be prepared to do more than render lip serv ice to shibboleths like Peace, Justice, Freedom. As the poet Lowell wrote: 'They have the rights who dare maintain them.' " It is, perhaps, too easy to overlook this record, of which Mr. Sprague rightly says we can be proud, , in our preoccupation with the new crises, the new concerns of the changing world. E.A. The Danger of 'Tear We were admonished by. a correspondent the other day to recall the warning attributed to Abraham Lincoln, to the effect that this nation is in more danger of falling from within than from without. With this we are inclined to agree. But we believe that we are in less danger from the obvious, communist subversion, than from the !es3 obvious but, to us, far more potent danger of losing our liberties, our freedom, our hardrwon form of government, through the hys terical fear of communism which afflicts some people. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT once said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Never was that more true than it is today.. For if, in a panic over internal subversion, we turn ourselves into a police state suspicious, regimented, fearful we will have lost what we value, just as surely as if the whole organization of government were turned over, lock, stock and barrel, to the communist party. There is very little to choose between totali tarianism of the extreme right and of the extreme left. They differ only, in the catch-phrases used for self -perpetuation. UE HAVE as yet neither Gestapo nor NKVD " for which let us offer thanks. But if, in our fear of what the NKVD stands for, we erect our own model of a Gestapo state, we have, indeed, "fallen from within." Let us, instead, retain our pride as Ameri cans; let us value and protect our heritage of liberty; let us reaffirm our faith in the worth of the individual ; let us support our free institutions of government; let us still permit each man to determine his own values in his own way. If we do this, we need have no fear of com munist subversion on the one hand, nor of the more insidious danger of fascism on the other hand. E.A. Its Been Quite a Summer Where has the summer gone? Next Monday is Labor Day and, despite the calendar, Labor Day is the "beginning of fall" in most people's minds. The Shakespearean Festival will wind up Sat urday; the Centennial Welcome Stockade in the Siskiyous will close after Labor Day; schools in the county are already beginning to open.. And, of course, there's that indefinable "tang" in the air in the early mornings which can mean nothing except autumn. ITS. been. quite a summer, too, what with one thing and another the long hot, dry spell, the opening of the Centennial, the whopping success of the Shakespeare Festival's season, tie Jack sonville Gold Rush Jubilee, the combined county fair activities, the Roseburg explosion, the Ash land fire, the Morton mill fire. It's been nice in parts, exciting in others, sad in others. But we're about ready to welcome the rain and buckle down for the long haul to spring. E.A - Years 99 Dennis the Menace 11111 M0M CAUS 'M 'DRAWER'S, 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 initia rfor publication is permissible. The 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 ot the paper; in fact the contrary is often the csa Wonderful Community To the Editor: Here, high above our beautiful city, I have realized what a wonder ful community we live in. Our Our new Rogue Valley Me morial hospital is a shining tribute to us. So clean, so beautiful and so well kept. Our doctors, the best there are, so thorough, on call at all hours, always with., a smile. Our nurses, bless them, on hand at the ring of each bell. Our minister, there at the bedside, just when he is most needed to not only give need ed strength but to bless the healing hands of the surgeon. The ladies in pink, so quiet, so gracious, in and out, taking care of our flowers and many other' useful services. I have found each lady in pink to be' as charming and gracious to me as they are to me when I am the clerk and they the customer at Swems. Mr. Swem and Otto, the bosses, say my time card is still in the slot. The crew, bless them all, sent a card "Some people will do anything to get out of work." It was signed "With love, and we miss you." v The friend, the visitor and the beautiful flowers. To real ize that each bouquet has been specially made up for me. Lu cille, the favorite Talisman roses, from Morris, but ar ranged : by you, each rose wired so that it would stand in its proper place, the beautful bowr on all the flowers are like a rainbow in the room. Each night for five days there was an evening Mail Tribune paper on my dinner tray. I was taking this for granted until the sixth day and no paper came. I wonder ed why until a nurse said "No paper on Saturday". So will settle down in this traction gadget and be thankful that tomorrow will be Sunday, a new day in our wonderful community and with my tasty breakfast tray will come the morning Mail Tribune stamp ed across the top, "Compli ments of Courtesy Chevrolet." Mrs. Alice Boughner 202 South Orange st. Medford. Worth a Second Glance To the Editor: The other day our family was a part of the sight-seeing group which helped keep Roseburg's traf fic lanes filled. , It did not take one long to realize the destruction was far worse than what we had realized. We were .told that the occupants of several apart ment houses had just vanish ed. Twisted bedsteads bore mute evidence. The odor hanging over the blast area is not what we'd call pleasant. As we viewed the scene of desolation, the realization came afresh that human life is indeed uncertain. What we saw clearly indicated that hu man beings, just like us, had a short time before been car rying on their daily pursuits. Now aU was silent. Piles of rubble, twisted metal, molten and broken glass, charred embers and windowless build ings showed that something frightening had happened. Above it all, to the east rose fresh clouds of billowing smoke. A fire had reached vir gin timber so a policeman in formed us. And another for est fire was raging uncon trolled. Our minds were filled with .serious thoughts as we turned homeward. It makes one wonder some times if this old world of ours is getting better as many would have us believe. What is it all about? Perhaps that old Book that lies so dust covered on so many of our shelves is .worth a second glance. Its precious promises along with predictions that BUT I CALL 'EM 'STEPS Mail Tribune reserves the right tc seem so hidden to many of us, might take on a new meaning to us. We've tried everything else, so it seems. Let's not be like the ostrich and hide our heads in the sand. Recently there came to my attention a touching story, about a young man right down here at San Francisco who had committed some crime. His way of life seemed patterned after his father's. Police authorities banished him from American shores for five years. His Godly mother marked and parked a Bible at the bottom of his trunk. When he found it he took those tear stained pages, grabbed them up, and hurled them far out to sea. The whole story, a thrilling true one too, told how he finally came to his senses. You can't get away from God. I'm not selling cop ies of this story but I have a few extra copies I'd gladly give anyone. Just drop me a line or give me a ring at MU 2-9781. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. What Fun! ' To the Editor: I've been reading about the "Aging Problem." Now that's SOME THING! I've had one'' foot in the grave for ages, . but to save my liver, I don't know which one it is. So - no prob lem. Life just naturally slips along this way. In this age we are lucky if we live to get old! . Now if we were young; turning the grindstone with our noses in order to earn enough to keep both Uncle Sam and our families' bodies and souls together - ah, youth would indeed have a problem, and it has! When we reach the Golden Age we've learned that what we can't have, we just do not want anyhow. But of course some oldsters do get a bit age-conscious, have doldrums and they miss the old days when we didn't have these silly wiggle-waggle songs.. We had real classics such as Ta ra ra boom de aye, Hot Time in the oP Town To night, etc. Now if you are over 50 and feeling sorry for yourselves, there's the Fifty Plus club that meets every Friday noon at the St. Mark's Guild hall on the northeast corner of 5th and Oakdale in Medford. There's music, singing, games and friendly coffee breaks. I, for one, have gotten ten years younger since I learned that I had so many friends whom I hadn't met before. I know of another place where oldsters can shed prob lems: the city lets us use a room at 601 East Jackson, just across Bear creek bridge. It is the Senior Activity center. It hasn't anything in common with the Fifty Plus club, but there are good books, music, pastel drawing lessons, Span ish class and coffee if you wish. The place is a bit too small and we are hoping that - oh, well - "we mustn't look a gift horse in the mouth." God's in His heaven; All's Right With the World, so we know there'll ever be a Sen ior Activity Center for us as we grow in numbers - some where we'll find more room. Sometimes we meet in homes to practice music and singing. - Thursdays at 10 a.m. we gather there to learn music. Whatever we do - it's all free to old people. Our "orchestra" has about a dozen members now and what fun! Mrs. John Spackman, P. O. Box 33, Jacksonville, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Note to Mr. Nehru in con nection with the communist shooting ruckus on India's northern border: You can't play with a skunk without running the risk of getting befouled. TRAFFIC fatality note: The highway fatality TO TAL for the first half of 1959 is the highest on record. . But- The highway fatality RATE is the LOWEST on record. It stands at 5.1 deaths per 100 MILLION MILES of travel. That is to say: . . There are more fatal acci dents on our highways because there are MORE PEOPLE on the highways for them to hap pen to. QUESTION: Can people be taught to drive more safely? These figures seem to indi cate they can be. F TAKES time, of course. For example: Several years ago our cities began to eriace ordinances re quiring motorists to stop for pedestrians in the crosswalks. At first, the ordinances were very sketchily observed be cause motorists hadn't been in the habit of stopping. They just didn't think of it in time. But, as time passed and the educational process went on, they began to think of stop ping. It has now reached the point where I'm often embar rassed by motorists stopping for me before I've even step ped off the curb. Let's not lose faith in the processes of education. Peo ple can be taught to do almost anything that is sensible and logical. FROMVashington: President Eisenhower has vetoed a BILLION AND A QUARTER DOLLARS public works money bill because it contained funds for 67 new navigation, flood control and reclamation projects. The President doesn't want any NEW programs of this sort right now because he thinks we are already spending too much money. Assistant Senate GOP Lead er Thomas Kuchel of Califor nia and OTHER REPUBLI CANS joined the Democrats in criticising the veto. The bill, often characterized as a "pork barrel," carries funds for work in EVERY state and many congressional districts! WHY THE opposition? Why " the talk of passing the bill over the President's veto? It's quite simple. The sen ators and the representatives who are kicking up the dis turbance think the people of their states and districts re gard the money spent for these projects as manna from heaven that costs nobody any thing. So, they reason, they will LOSE VOTES if they fail to support this pork barrel spending, which is deeply im bedded in our system. No member of congress wants to lose votes. IS THIS pork barrel money manna from heaven? Of course not. It comes out of taxes. Everybody pays taxes. YOU MAY dispute the state ment that everybody pays taxes. , Listen: The Tax Foundation, which is doing much to enlighten all of us on tax truths, tells us in a recent publication that there are 151 HIDDEN TAXES IN THE PRICE OF A LOAF OF BREAD. It points out that the price of a loaf of bread includes taxes on the land the wheat is grown on, the seed that is sown, the machinery that plows and harvests and mills the wheat, the fuel, the trans portation, the baker, the wrap per, ant so on. ALL of these taxes have to be reflected in the final price of a loaf of bread. EVERYBODY pays taxes. In one form or another. Hearing Opens on Roseburg Explosion Roseburg-(DPD-A precedent setting three-day hearing con ducted by the Interstate Com merce commission opened here today in an investigation of the Aug. 7 Roseburg explo sion and fire. The fact-finding probe is aimed at the determination of what new regulation:, are nec essary to avoid this type of disaster in the future. Rupert L. Murphy, ICC commissioner from Washing ton, D.C., presided over the hearing.' The hearing is believed to be the first ever held by the federal agency in connection with a motor carrier disaster of this type. Some 17 persons were sub poenaed to testify at the hear ing, which opened at the sen ior high school auditorium here at 9 a.m. The blast and fire took 13 lives and caused an estimated $10 million damage. Political Indicators Point Toward Algerian Peace Try By ARTHUR HIGBEE Paris-OJPD-All the political indicators point to a fresh ef fort by Gen. Charles de Gaulle for peace in Algeria. Some predict de Gaulle may give Algeria self-government with close ties to France and cast-iron guarantees for the minority of one million Frenchmen in Algeria (a mi norityof ten forgotten by those who think immediate, outright independence is the only an swer). De Gaulle, a man who keeps his own counsel, may not go that far. But the time is ripe for a new peace initiative of some kind-and some previously im movable forces now seem ready to step forward to meet it- , v De Gaulle himself has per ceptibly modified his public approach since he took power 15 months ago. At that time he was re ferring to Algeria as "French soil, now and forever." Last fall he indicated that France and Algeria were not one and the same thing: "The future of Algeria . . . will be Matter of Fact THE FOUR ' COMMUNIST CARDS Vientiane, Laos-In a clear ing in the jungle, among its swampy rice paddies, the lit- "mie village 5 sleeps. In ; their thatched barracks, the squad . of six Laotian army sold l e r s as signed here to restore order in this corner of the coun- ins-oh Aisop tryside, are also sleeping peacefully. No more than a splash in a rice paddy announced the ap proach of the 12 or 15 gueril las. Once within range, they belly down in the mud and open fire on the palm hut barracks. In accordance with their orders, the tiny village garrison seizes its arms and melts into the darkness, to make its way to the nearest larger unit of the Lao army. Next morning, the Commu nist Hanoi radio triumphantly blares the news that another garrison has been surprised and forced to surrender, per haps at a place not far from Vientiane, the seat of govern ment itself. AnH among many nervous, simple people, this news produces almost the ef fect of the fall of a great city. TN ORDER to get events here into some sort of propor tion, it is vital to note that this is the sort of tiny opera tion that has been making the news in the war in Laos in the last 10 days or so. But it is also important to note that despite the pinprick character of many of the reported Com munist successes, this new Communist aggression in Laos is decidedly more formidable than the highest Washington policy makers as yet appear to imagine. The point is that the Com munist plan depends on the careful coordination (largely by jungle runner) of four dif ferent methods of attack. The scene above described is only one end result of one of these methods. The potential effec tiveness of the Communist plan can only be measured, if you take all four methods to gether. They may be listed as follows: There would be no crisis at all in Laos, to begin with, un less the Communists had been ready for quite naked and open aggression, in the most literal sense of the word. The government of Prime Minister Phoui . Sananikone was mak ing good pregress in bringing order to this troubled country when the aggression occurred -on July 15, significantly enough, just after Khrushchev accepted the President's invi tation. ACCOMPANIED by North Vietnamese Commun i s t troops, a number of battal ions of Laotian dissidents, armed and trained for the pur pose in North Vietnam, cross ed the border into the two ex posed . northerly provinces, Phongsaly and Samneua. Aft er seeing their charges safe across the border, the North Vietnamese troops retired again. The special Commu nist infiltration units, num bering in all about 2,400 men, meanwhile remained to estab lish bridgeheads in the two provinces under attack. The attackers in Phongsaly were driven back almost to the border.' But after sharp fights, three fairly large gov ernment garrisons in Samneua were defeated. A mountainous area of about 800 square miles was occupied. At this point, the second method of attack began to be used. In brief, Laos is only half Lao. The rest of the popula tion is composed of tribal peo ples. The people of Lao stock chiefly occupy the fertile low lying rice lands, while the built on a double base-its per sonality and its close solidar ity with metropolitan France." In taking office as Presi dent last January he put it more strongly, speaking of "the Algeria of tomorrow, pacified and transformed, de veloping herself her person ality and closely associated with France." . De Gaulle's prime minister, Michel Debre, seems more un compromising than his chief. Rebels Less Stiff-Necked But slightly more than two weeks ago, in the middle of a, characteristically fire-eating speech,, he let drop these words: "It is through France and at the side of France that Algeria will find her oppor tunities and forge her future." Thus Debre, indicated that indicated that Algeria and France are not synonymous or so politically-keen French men took his words to mean. The rebels, for their part, have been less stiff-necked of late. Ferhat Abbas, premier of the Algerian rebel "govern ment in exile," said in an in terview with the German Bv Joseph Alsop mountain slopes constitute ge ographical-economic orders of precedence. The higher you live, the poorer you are. The original inhabitants, the Ka tribes, live on the uppermost peaks. The Black Thai, and Meo tribes occupy the mid level, and so oa. These poorer peoples are all more or less disaffected. Recruiting them was the Communists second form of attack. - The scale "of recruitment can only be guessed. In the biggest Communist salient, in Samneua, the original border crossers probably numbered about 1,200. It is Black Thai country here, and the original border crossers have perhaps been able to swell their ranks with an additional thousand Black Thai fighting men. The same sort of thing has also happened at other points where the border was crossed. IN THE north, therefore, a rather formidable problem was created for the small La otian army of about 2,500 'ef fectives. Meanwhile, the third method of attack began to be employed. Again in brief, this coun try's troubled recent past has left behind small groups of hard core Communists in most- of the 12 provinces. These un derground ' groups numbered three or four hundred men per province. In addition, there was the organized Com munist battalion, with a very large cadre of officers, that the Laotian army had failed to disarm a couple of months ago. In each province, the hard core groups went into the jungle as guerilla units Small groups from the Com munist battalion also fanned out across the country to pro mote more guerilla activity. These numerically insignifi cant provincial guerilla out fits are the cause of the kind of scene described at the opening of this report. Al though so small in scale, the guerilla operations against the little village garrisons are al ready tending to produce the desired effect.. The govern ment army was dispersed in penny packets all over the country to enforce order and get the countryside in hand. But it is now being grouped into larger and more conven tional units again. Thus the villages are being left exposed again to the prop aganda and the terrorism of the provincial guerilla outfits. The Communists clearly hope to be able to get control of the countryside in this manner. (Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. weekly "Der Spiegel" that he was ready to negotiate "with out posing any prior condi tions." 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