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X i MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1959 -Medford. une : "Everyone it Southern Orecon - Reads The Mail Tribune,r , Z Published Dnilj except Saturday by ... MJJJFOMJ PRINTING CO 33 North Pli st Ph SP 8-6141 ROBtsr W RUHL Editor .HERB GRE'i Advertising Manager GEFALD. LATHAM Business Mn 'ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing ttrbtor ;FAR1 H ADAMS City Editor , HARRY CHIPtaAl Teleg Editor , RICHARD JETT Sports Editor -Ol IVE STARtrHER Women s Editor DALE ERJCKSt N Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at , Medford Orecon under Art of - Marrp 3 189? I SUBSCRIPTION RATES .By Mai. in Advance Copy 10c Da 11- and Sunday 1 rear $15 00 Daily and Sunday J mos . 8.0(. Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford . Ashland Central Point Eagle - Point. - Jacksonville. 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Portland St. Louis. -At-- lan'i Vancraver BC , - 0f NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDJTORIAl AS)CTN Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1949 (Thuridar) The Medford Central Labor committee urges additional ie''eral housing for Medford linder the auspices of; the parkman bill recently pass ed by Congress. - - An emergency campaign to aise more funds to fight po- Jio in Jackson county, is an nounced. . . 0 YEARS AGO Sept. 8. 1939 (Friday) V The Central Point school district asks the WPA for aid Jn constructing a new $18,000 gymnasium at the high school. From; Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Na tives are confounded by the names of Polish towns in the war news. Take Umpqua or .Siskiyou. Either one. or both jvould twisi the tongue of 1 a Pole, able to sneeze Czesto "chowa with his eyes shut." i 30 YEARS AGO .Sept. 8. 1929 (Sunday) i. Medford - merchants claim thenew rule against double parking inconveniences shop jpers. ' , A fine program of harness traces is slated for the county fair. ;'" .'" 40 YEARS AGO jSept. 8. 1919 (Monday) r Court Hall is rescued, from drowning in the Rogue by a lady tourist from Boston. I The Bardwell Fruit com pany ships out a load of local Bartletts which are sold in 2ew York at $5 a box. 0 YEARS AGO -Sept. 8. 1909 (Wednesday) i ' The : state's case against ledf ord T r i b u n e Editor George Putnam for libel is $ismissed. 0 Tag day in Medford is re ported a great success, , ' Vhal's Your I.Q.? Wine or ten 'correct is luperier; 'seven or ekjht is excellent; five ot .six is good. . " " r :: J 1. "In'Lewis , Carroll's Zf 'Through '. The Looking ;Glass," which two characters engaged m eating oysters? 2. To whom did Jim Jef fries lose " the heavyweight boxing title in 1910? - 3. What have the following ikilly? S 4. , Name the two largest divers that flow into the Mis sissippi River. 2 5. Who was the mother of sJblih the Baptist? i 6.: Who succeeded Cordell JIull as Secretary of State? J 7. With what saint do you -associate the nervous disorder chorea? . 8. Who was the author of 'Poor Richard's Almanac"? C 9. From the roots of what 4lant is tapioca obtained? t 10. -In the Hawaiian lan guage, what does "Aloha Oe'' ;jnean? ' j 1. The Walrus and the Car Renter. 2. Jack Johnson. 3. Jhey are soups. 4. Missouri nd Ohio. 5, Elizabeth. 6. E. JL Sleli'nius, Jr. 7. St. Vitus. Benjamin Franklin. 9. Cas sava. 1TJ. "Farewell to thee, A 1 100-mile covered high--tay 'will be gouged out of ilhe CrV-eenland ice cap to sup- iply an isolated Army camp now under construction. Birth Control Debate A fundamental split between Roman Catholic churches on one side and Protestant and Jewish churches on the other was evidenced again last month as an Anglican Bishop spoke in favor of birth control over the government - operated British radio. A conservative member of- parliament, "VYil liam Teeling, . a Catholic layman, protested H in advance against the broadcast, but was overruled by the postmaster general. Teeling made the point that advocacy of birth control by Bishop Mervyn Stockwood, without debate,' would of fend many Christian families in Britain. The Church of England is on record as en dorsing birth control. The Lambeth Conference of Anglican 'and Episcopal Bishops last year adopted a resolution which stated r The respon sibility for deciding upon the number and fre quency of children has the consciences of parents everywhere. ; ; rOR an American to understand the conflict in r Britain, certain factors have to be pointed out The B.B.C.. is. government-controlled, and to an extent the Anglican iaith all the broad religious tolerance which exists in Britain, Queen Elizabeth H is the temporal head of the Church of England. In the language of Debrett's "Peerage," she is the -"Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. 7 In this country, after several years of trial in the courts, federal action against birth control activities was brought once and for all by the decision m 1936. Laws restrictive of birth control are operative in 29 states, but m 13 of these, doctors and m some, druggists are, exempted from statutes on dissemination of contraceptive information." IN THIS country as in Britain, Protestant and Je-rgish clergy generally approve thi use of con traceptive devices. Catholics do not oppose limi tation of births, but they consider it a sin to use any mechanical or chemical means of preventing pregnancy. " The church does view ried couples the so-called "rhythm method" continence during the woman's fertile period for the purpose of spacing the birth of children or preventing birth for medical reasons. A mature discussion of birth control would not be unusual on UfS. radio or television. But outright advocacy, without onnortunitv for re buttal, would go against the grain of local and network sensibilities and could conceivably in volve intervention by the federal communications commission. QF ABOUT 2.7. billion people in the world, more than a third, about one billion, live in countries which have adopted pro-birth control programs. France is one ot the few western na tions which outlaw birth control, but in France, Margaret Sanger, the American birth control crusader, reported reliable techniques are handed down'from mother to daughter. v Pitted against religious ob jections- tot birth control are practical considerations of demogra phy. The President's committee to study the U. S. military assistance program on July 26 recom- menpea. researcn. teaamg w ine avaiiaDiiuy oi relevant information in a form most useful to individual countries in the formulation of prac tical programs proposed popuiauo.ns. William H. Draper, chairman, on the follow ing day denied that the committee was "advo cating any methods of birth control," but the implication was still clear. E.R.R Building With Statistics ' We could wish that Health Secretary Flem ming's enthusiasm for publishing figures on, the classroom shortage were matched by effective ness in doing something about it. ; The work of at least 8,000,000 pupils will be hampered this year, the secretary says, by over crowding in classrooms, while another 2,000,000 pupils will attend school in obsolete or otherwise inadequate buildings.' He estimates that 35,000, 000 children will be attending public schools this fall. V . . , - Earlier this month Mr. Flemming estimated that there would be a shortage of at least 130,000 classrooms when schools open in September ; he said the figure was likely to be closer to 140,000. A year ago the shortage was estimated at 140,500, so the progress, made in reducing it has- been minuscule. , ' , .-v" ILf R. FTjEMMING said at a news conference 1TA Wedhesday that "these facts demonstrate it is time to get started" on a program of federal aid for school construction," but he reiterated his belief that such a program must fit President Eisenhower's balanced-budget - policy. The Administration plan for helping needy school districts retire construction bonds has at tracted no interest in Congress. Mr, Flemming indicated he disapproved of the scaled-down Democratic bill which now calls for a billion dollars in school jconstruction grants to the states in two years. This measure might pass the Senate this year, but it has -virtually no chance in the House. - ; So the statistics flow, time passes, the short age remains. St Louis Post-Dispatch. been laid by God upon is a state religion. For to an end presumably U. S. vs. One Package as permissible for mar . - -" .--. by rapidly expandmg Dennis the Menace ITS GOT N07HINS TO DO WITH PBOPtB HAVB CfW5 GRASS'' OomiiiysniGatioiis 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! for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed -400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views ot the paper; in fact the contrary is often the cae. Where They Come From To the Editor: A . present century miner- prospector asked me where I get aU the mining stories I write. . That question is an easy, one,, for looking back almost half a century there? was no carbon-dioxide or smog to dis tract attention from a serene life of simple living. Instea'd of radio and talkie pictures, we had the phonograph and silent movies. Out in the hills where the old miners and prospectors could relax after a strenuous day's work, they delighted to sit by a fire-place at evening time and tell their favorite mining experiences. Consequently having lived among prospectors for a dec ade, we soon learned to record all the mining stories we' heard from memory. -r - In those stirring days most of the mining element wore j high-top leather boots, and one of their Javorite axioms was, if a . miner wore two straps and buckle at the top of his boots, he was good for 200 feet underground. The story setting is the Gold Hill mining district. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford. Monkeys Again To the Editor: For a long time I haven't seen anything in the papers about them Can avaral or Carnival monkeys. Why haven't we? They are on strike. What do them kwazy monkeys want now? They wants more bananas to eat. They wants warmer water in the English channel and they wants coconut trees on the moon. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Human Rights Council To the Editor: Some in quiries have come to me con cerning the recently formed Medford Human Rights Coun cil, of which Mrs. William Pearson is acting chairman. I think it may be well to clari fy the purpose and aims of this group in the' hope that there may be those in our community who find them selvs willing' to join in our common endeavor. The f oUowing "statement of purpose," which wiU be a part of the Council's constitu tion, should serve to answer questions ,- and (we strongly hope) to excite interest among some good citizens of our area. - "We believe in the brother hood of men and the applica tion of the Golden Rule to aU people. ' ' v '-. ; "We believe in the funda mental democratic principle that all men are created equal as set down, in the Declaration of Independence and guaran teec! by the Constitution of the United "States. ' "We believe in the laws of the state of Oregon which pro tect all our citizens regardless of race, religion, color, or na tional origin, against discrimi nation in housing, employ ment, entertainment, and pub lic accommodations. S "Therefore, since we do so believe, we pledge .our moral support to theMedford Hu man Rights Council in its pro gram of study, education, and friendly persuasion, working toward .the prevention of ille gal and inhospitable discrimi-natjiaV- and toward a more truly; democratic community." We like to think of our selves as a' sort of stand-by organization, perhaps com parable to a fire-fighting unit to be there and ready to help when actual need arises. Our next meeting wiU be held on Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. in the first Methodist church, THE WAY I ACT. JOTS OF Main and Laurel sts. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend. Marijane Duncan, Secretary, pro-tem 1500 Terrace dr. Medford Game Slaughter To the Editor: The viciously unfair . slaughter of the buf falo,' encouraged by the U. S. Military to starve the na tive plans tribes into submission, is past history. Oue would think that sorry happening would be a prime guidepost for the present. Not so. A visiting C a n a d i an Mounted Policeman, now re tired after some 30 odd years of duty from his station on the Caribou Trail to deep into, the Arctic, country, tells of the slaughter of a conserva tive estimate of 10,000 moose in that lonely land by airmen of our military- branch on as signed government projects. This indictment is hard to take. But' this is not all. The killing of .caribou and especi ally the rare Dahl sheep has been so bad that a 50 year hunting closure has been put on the latter by the Canadian government. . There have been plenty of news releases in the press of our worsening relations with our big sister nation to the north. It has been generally assumed that the reason of this is .the inept, handling of our claims for use of Colum bia river waters and our dumping of surplus wheat that has wrecked the sale of Canadian wheat in various parts of the world. Not so, claims the Canadian Mounty. For the obvious fact that slaughter of their game ani mals is, without reason of any kind. . v What is still more astonish ing to me is the complete lack of any news releases of this tragic affair in the U.S. press. Not even in our out door-life magazines, so far as my, quite extensive reading has', disclosed. The issue of live ammunition to military pilots is said to be for the killing of timber wolves that prey on. the game herds. But they are hard to get and the few that have been killed, in no way compensate for the shooting of game "animals, as the Canadian policeman ex plained. . It is my most fervent hope that someone in authority can factuaUy say that the above is aU wrong. But until that time arrives, we must believe what the Arctic lawman of Canada has disclosed. Will we ever ever learn? r - F. J. Clifford Tlout2,Box200F -Central Point Antique Show To the Editor: As co-chair man of the antique how and sale sponsored by the Chin-Up club and held in the Medford Armorv on Sept. 2 and 3, I would like to thank all our friends who participated in any way, and also those ,wno attended and nelped. to make it a success. i The oroceeds will eo toward buying more wheelchairs, etc., to be on loan at the Salvation Army for those who are tem porarily disabled. Thanks agam for your re sponse, for without you we could not hare had an an tique show. Those of you who did not attend do not know what a beautiful sight you Husbands! Wives! Get Pep,Vim; Feel Younger Thousands of couples ar weak, worn-out; exhausted because body lacks iron and Vitamin Bi. For a younger teeling after 40, try new, improved Ostrex Tonic Tablets. Contain iron and high-potency dosa Vita min Bi for quick, new younger pep, vim. 3-day "get-acquainted" size only 69. Or getfiEOBWay iizcMV fl.67.AU druggist. Foreign Editor Eyes Russian Views, Secondary Leaders By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The Winds That Blow Communist sources in Lon don, often accurate barome ters of the cold war winds blowing from Moscow, have hinted that one result of the c o ra i n'g E i s enhower K h r ushchev talks will be an unwritten agreement to preserve West Phil Newsom .Benin's pres ent status while going on with "less complicated" discus sions.' An increase in trade be tween the USSR and the Unit ed States is expected to be one of the topics high on the agenda. Minding the Store While Premier' and First Party Secretary Nikita Khru shchev is in t&e United States, the question arises who will mind the store while he is away? In Moscow, it is be lieved the job will fall to no one many but rather will be a collective job handled by four men. On the" government side, it is expected First Deputy Anastas Mikoyan will take Over foreign affairs, and Frol Kozlov, also a first deputy premier, will handle internal In the Day's News . By FRANK JENSCfNS There is talk in the air of repealing the anti-third term amendment to the constitu tion of the U. S. The argu ment is that ' when barred from a third term a President is hamstrung by his inability to punish those who don't go along witl him. ' ' so-; . ; It is alleged- - A' President is condemned in 'his second term to utter futility. He has to take meek ly whatever is handed to him because he has neither re wards nor punishments to fight back with." He can nei ther dangle the carrot nor brandish the club. , ' IN his amazing second term, Ike has exploded all that. He has told the congress what he wanted. He has laid it on the line. Many of the things he has laid on the line have been POLITICALLY uh popufar. Reduced spending, for example. And reform of labor legislation that has re sulted in lodging too much power in too - few - hands, These things have been, high iy unpal table to a congress dominated by the. opposition party. But they have been accept ed. Even a public works bin that, according to ancient tra dition, promised PAP to every state in the Union and practically every congression al district, couldn't be forced through over his veto. H OW has he done it? : The answer is simple. His leadership has been wise and firm. The things he has insisted upon h-ve been in " line with SOUND public policy. He hasn't been afraid to assert his authority. rjpHERE'S even more to it. President Eisenhower hasn't had to pull his yunches TO missed. Next time come and see for yourself, instead of taking your friends' word for it, all the beautiful authentic antique dishes, glassware, furniture, etc. -' Mrs. L. E. McMurray, 1 440 Fairmont St., Medford. , . Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan '. C or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish ' Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD s INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. business. Communist party matters probably will fall to ranking secretaries A. I. Kiri chenko and M. A. Suslov. All four men have figured in spec ulations as possible successors if or when something happens to Khrushchev. Change of Heart West German business lead ers recently have switched Washington Report By WILLIAM OFF THE HOOK Washington-The Democratic Congress and two of the prin cipal Democratic Presidential fwrra' ',jujmcs noss ihilitips. Senators Jnhn F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, have turned loom ing disaster in moderate tri umph over the labor issue. ' William 8. X white ance by House leaders of a compromise labor reform bill is by all odds the most " significant ' fact of this session. All else pales beside it. ' . ' ' Viewed in one light, it is a hairbreadth escape for the Democratic party generally. For if Congress had adjourn ed without being able to act in this field-and there was the greatest danger of ttiis the Democrats Would have entered the 1960 Presidential campaign year under a heavy handicap. In no other , way on no other issue could ' Republican charges of Democratic "do nothingism" hav been more validly exploited. Almost no politician will .deny that the public had demanded a labor cleanup. "7IEWED in another and " more affirmative light, the ability of Congress to act has kept intact the, large field of Democratic Presidential aspir ants. Ultimate deadlock and inaction would have destroyed all real hope . for. Kennedy. He had staked everything on establishing his leadership qualities on this single issue of labor. The same would have been true of Johnson. It was not so much that he personally had any commanding position on the question. It was sim ply that as Senate Democratic leader he would have borne crushing blame for the inac tion of his party. xnus, among the conse quences of what amounts to a bipartisan solution of .the labor controversy are these: . l. ine moderates ' among the Democratic hopefuls, John son and Kennedy, have, been kept alive for the 1960 con vention. 2. The campaigns of the more advanced liberal aspir ants, Senators Hubert H. Humphrey and Stuart Syming ton, are surely not forwarded by this fairly "tough" labor measure. Both, and particular ly Humphrey, would have been by a far softer bill.- 3. The Republicans, for their part, have helped the Democrats to blunt the issue KEEP FROM HURTING HIS, CHANCES OF A .THIRD TERM. ; That's worth remembering. LET'S turn thumbs down on this '; proposal to repeal the " anti-third - term amend ment. President Eisenhower has demonstrated to us that forbidding third terms-which involve the temptation to go after fourth : terms and fifth terms, and so on - is wise and sound policy on the part of the people , of the United States., SCHOOL DAZE BOTHERING YOU? With some of the family old enough to drive to school are you in a daze as to your insur ance covering? Simple answer OOR FAMILY SIZE POLICY: Modernr broad coverage insur ance for the entire family. Come in and talk It over. Bill Fish from opposition to support of President Charles de Gaulle's determination to pacify and hang on to Algeria for France. The change of heart results from encouraging reports of cheap large natural gas re serves in the Sahara, The Ger mans now believe such gas would be a boon to the indus trial Ruhr which needs cheap-, er sources of power than ex- S. WHITE for I960. The compromise bill will actually not too greatly displease much of organized labor. It will not wholly sat isfy the management side. But it will be enough to go on with, at least until 1961 when Congress will be in position to make any heeded revisions in the post-election calm. - . WHAT the Republicans have done, indeed is one of the most arresting and little known parts of- the story.; Many of them set out deter mined to do nothing to "help the .Democrats get off the hook." Their technique . was to insist on labor reforms so severe as to make it impos sible to act at all and so to hold up the majority Demo crats as non-doers. The reversal of this strategy was primarily the work of the Senate Republican leader, Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois. Dirksen behaved in so respon sible a fashion-really almost in an objective fashion-s to amaze the Democrats. It was he who had a great hand in forcing the Senate and House conferees to agree at last. In this sense, it was he who "took the Democrats off the hook" after all. 1 : - There is little doubt at the uapnoi xnai one oi nis mo tives was -to put some check on the vaultmg ambitions of his counterpart in the House, Rep. Charles Halleck of Indi ana. Halleck, the House GOP leader, for months - has been aggressively expanding his role in the leadership in search of the Vice Presiden tial nomination next year. Highly combative, and un ashamedly proud of his per formance, he.' seemed to be ready to take the Republicans into a position of total refusal of any compromise. Dirksen moved in to see to it that this kind of position was not main tained. . THUS, this is the net of what happened. The great bulk of the Democrats at length overcame the party's liberal and pro-labor extremists. Dirksen and his moderate GOP associates did the same with ; his party's anti-labor ultraoonservatives. So," no matter what day this session of Congress is to ad journ, the high point is al ready passed. All the rest will be secondary. The great crisis has been met and mastered The second of the "terrible twin" issues before the Demo crats; civil rights,, probably will go over for final action to the second session opening in January. " A bill of some sort may well pass the Senate this time. But the probability is that it will lie on the shelf in the House until 1960. This will provide the Democrats next year with quite enough in the. way of divisive' work. To have had labor also on the . docket in 1960 would have been to in vite sheer party catastrophe.. Reasonable Funeral (Priced for Everyone) FRANK PERL FREE Parking Spae Adjacent To Mortuary FRIENDLY. pensive Ruhr coal. Politically Sepaking Supporters of Italian Pre mier Antonio Segni expect a big jump in his prestige at home as result of his visit this month to President Eisenhow er and the American people. Segni's Christian Democrats are the largest party in Italy, with the Communists second. 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