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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Seat. 10, lMt MEDFORDtWTRIBUliE . "Everyone it Southern Oregon J- Reads The teal Tribune Published Dh11 except Saturday by MJ JJFOaD PRINTING CO 83 North fll St Ph SP 2-S141 " ROB&RT W HUHL. Editor 01 RB GREY Advertising Manager GERAJLD LATHAM. Business Mjp ERIC W ALXN JR. Managing "alitor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JFWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Editor PALE ER1CKSPN Circulation Mar An Indaeendent Newspaper Entered a lernnd elaaa matter el Medfor Orevon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a i in Advance Copy 10c Da 11- and Sunday -1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday moa. 8.00 Dail? an Sunday 3 moa 4.23 Sunday Only One year 84.30 8y. Carrier In Advance Medford , Ashland Central Point, Eagle Point -Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and SunUay 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Deal era c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ef City of Medford Official Paper ot J season Connty United Press International run Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OT CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San, Francisco. Los Angeles. ' Seattle, Portland St. Louie, Al lan Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER US2 PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI ASCyT,N Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, "40 nd 50 years ago. 10 YERS AGO Sept. 10. 1949 (Saturday) Frank Morgan and Harold Snodgrass change the name of their funeral home to "Chap el Mortuary." The Salvation Army con tinues Its drive to raise funds for a new transient dormitory here. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 10. 1939 (Sunday) NmtIv 3000 rjersona fam Gold Hill 'for the seventh an nual Northwest Jackson county fair. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A N snappy breeze leaped up Wed. pan. but did not last long enough to whisk all the leaves from the neighbor's lawn." 30 YEARS AGO . Sept. 10, 1929 (Tuesday) - Downtown Medford mer chants may . hire an attorney and seek an injunction against the new city ordin ance prohibiting double park ing, as they claim this keeps many people from shopping. The Jr.ckson county fair is set for tomorrow's opening. 40 YEARS AGO - Sept. 10, 1919 (Wednesday) School opens next Monday with the faculty still shy five teachers. Pear shipments so far this Reason total 497 carloads. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 10, 1909 (Friday) Excavation for Ashland's new hospital ' is completed and the first, concrete work is now unlerway. . v The eighth band concert of the summer : is slated this evening in Medford's city park. Vhat's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent! five o six is good. 1. Correct the following: "If anyone thinks so, they are mistaken." 2. How many parts of speech are in the English lan guage?" 3. Was Jim Thorpe a noted boxer, movie star, athlete, or federal official? 4. Complete the proverb: "Marriages are made --" . 5. What are goobers? 6. Who crossed through what body' of water, in Bibli cal times, pursued by char iots? 7. What is the minimum age for eligibility to the. of fice of President of the U.S.? 1 8. Did the Boer War take place before, ox after, the American Civil War? - ' 9. "Spud" is a nickname for what vegetable? 10. -Bright lights used for theatrical purposes are known as K - lights? Answers: 1. "... ha is mis taken." 2. Eight. 3. Athlete. 4.". . . in heaven." 5. Peanuts. 6. The Israelites through the Red Sea. 7. Thirty-five years. 8. After. 9. Potato. 10. Klaig lights. . MORBID MOTIVE POWER " New York (UPD - Used hears es are gaining in popularity as college students, plumbers, carpenters and other trades men dig up new uses for them. It all started when some Har vard and M-I.T. students found the somber vehicles ideal for going off on ski trip. Schools in the News : - Schools are very much in the news these days. Many schools in the county have opened for the year and others, including the expanded ivieaiora aistnci, win open next Monaay. Patrons in the Phoenix and Talent districts are pondering the relative merits of consolidating into one district a decision which will be made at an election next Wednesday. And, in the back of the minds of all those who are at all interested in the schools in the larger view, are the nation's needs for an edu cated, literate and thoughtful citizenry. -- OOW well do the schools perform their tasks? The answers to this question are many and varied. We are convinced, however, that in Jack son county the accomplishments of secondary and primary education are relatively good. Not perxect, cercainiy noi witnout sometning sun to be desired; not withbut faults and drawbacks and little failures. But Jackson county citizens have, over the years, supported the schools in a manner, which i -J? .ii r ' i ' i is uie envy oi many omer uregon aisincus. THE schools .endeavor, and personnel limitations, to present a rounded background for students. Not only are there the "hard" courses Eng lish, history, languages, science but there are also the sports programs, vocal and instrumental music, art and debate and dramatics and shop and home economics courses. These are presented school districts want them and, up to now, have been willing to pay for The day may come patrons in this area believe these "extra" educa tional advantages are too expensive. But that day has not yet arrived. And we hope it never does. E.A. : , Bands and Apropos of the above, comment on the instrumental music, programs m the schoolsthe bands and orchestras. Since we have, in the of the vocal music department, we are glad to do so, to pay tribute to the ers, and their students who are taking advantage of the opportunity to stand them in good stead One publication characterizes the band and orchestra teacher as "a teacher, a musician, a confidant, a leader, and an organizer for many young people in their forma tive years all on a modest teacher's salary." This versatility, like of the schools today, constitutes a real bargain for patrons and taxpayers. E.A. Opportunity in Roseburg The explosion and fire, of disastrous propor tions, which hit Roseburg early in the morning of Aug. 7, were bad. But the town, as one might stories which have since An eight-block area ous damage to buildings larger area. But most of and now back in business. Nor, some stories to "heart" of the city which was destroyed. The main "downtown" area suffered great damaere. but little which was irreparable. "HIS is not to minimize the proportions of the ' disaster, but only to point out that Roseburg still is a live and vital city. It's no ghost town. And, arising out of the disaster, it has an opportunity which seldom comes to cities an opportunity to create an imaginative, attractive and distinctive area in the blasted part of town which will make the city "something special." The odds, we suspect, are rather against this happening, as they always are when something new and challenging and different is proposed for what is essentially a conservative city. DUT odds against do not mean it can't be done. It can. k It will take cooperation of city "officials, planners, community leaders, citizens generally, and, most of all, the owners of the property in the area proposed for the development. The proposal has been made, and initial reac tion appears to be favorable. We hope it remains so as the details are worked out. For if these properly owners, working with the. city, the engineers and with the internationally-noted architect, Richard Neutra, can work out a bold plan, this eight-block area can become one of America's show places. v - TTHERE are many things in favor of this : Roseburg, because of the. disaster, is now in ternationally known, and people throughout the world will be interested in how it rebuilds. Roseburg, because of this, has the opportu nity, through cooperative endeavor, to set an example in town planning and creativity that cities everywhere could emulate. - , Roseburg, one of the nation's top lumber towns, could present a display of the potential uses of wood construction which could be used in international promotion by the forest industry. And if an imaginative combination of busi ness construction, park area and memorial, sites is eventually a reality, it will stand as a tribute not only to Roseburg toughness of fiber but to its determination to progress. EJL within their financial because the people of the them. " when school district r Orchestras we have been asked to past, spoken favorably band and orchestra lead learn a skill which will for a lifetime. man or woman who is a the many other aspects they did not "wipe out" gather from some of the appeared. was devastated, and seri was caused in a far the town is still there, the contrary, was it the Dennis the Menace 'MOM.CW I HAVE DINNER WN &NA? HgR M0M$ FIXIN' SQMB my FOOD THATS GOT MB TAPVFO' Washington Report By WILLIAM BIG SWITCH Washington - political con servatives . on both sides of the Atlantic are riding high onr the "peace" tide that con servative political leaders have set loose in the world. Republican prospects for our 1960 Presidential elec- ?' tlon are nn. deniably ru ing. Few lead i n g members of the rela-tivel;- liberal D e m o c ratic party will claim other wise in pri vate. Presi- white ant jisen- hower's leadership in negoti ating" with' Soviet Premier Khrushchev has done more than to begin an internation al "melting of the !ce." . It has also set up a thaw in tne neretotore . cmuea hopes of the GOP to retain the White House. And it prob ably has reelected the Con servative British government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. (This is not unfit ting. For it was Macmillan who prodded Eisenhower to take the long step of meet ing Khrushchev.) . . e r Britain, the growing strength of the Conserva tives is an absolute certainty. For proof, there is Macmil lan's decision to seek the re election of his party and him self in October, even though his term does not formally end until next May. In Eng land, any Prima Minister has a right to go to bat with the voters at any time he chooses before the official end of his tenure. . Macmillan would not be go ing to bat unless he knew that his party had certainly reach ed a market crest, ant" prob ably its highest foreseeable crest. The Conservatives the Tories, as they are called in England never had it so good. - We are seeing historic de velopments, d e v e 1 o pments without any exact example, in transatlantic politics. Until lately, conservatism of both shores had been considered more likely to be "hard" to ward Soviet Communism. Here at home, the compara tively more liberal Demo crats were widely reckoned to have a degree of "soft ness." indeed, 20 years of Democratic control of the White House was broken in 1952 primarily on this charge. In England, the old notion was that only the Tories were reliably "a n t i - Communist" and anti- appeasement, or opposed to negotiation. The opposition Labor party was supposed to Le altogether too Try and 0 -By BENNETT CERF- A TEXAS INDUSTRIALIST had to visit our big new state, Alacira hut Vi v3'nn the defensive every moment that: he was there and conceded nothing. Out in one oi his cus tomer's small boats, the Texan spotted an iceberg near the horizon and smiled for the first time in days. 'I'll erant you one thine he told his host Your ice cubes are bigger than ours!" "I know they're hanging up new baseball . records every season," admits Lefty Gomer, , one-time pitching great of the New York Yankees, "but they don't seem able to break my record for the longest home run ever hit in the stadium. Jimmie Foxx, hit it off me!" ; '''... "Am I the first girl you ever kissed?" she whispered softly in the back porch swing.. "That's quite possible," admitted her legal light escort. "Were you in Atlantic City in 1947? 0 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. S. WHITE well-disposed toward Mos cow. 1 THE fact that neither of these concepts was ever exactly true, on either side of the ocean, did not affect the greater reality. This . was, simply, that the voting public generally believed they were true. The curious truth is that the most significant critics here on what they see as an over-eager rush 'o deal with Khrushchev are Democrats, and very liberal Democrats, at that.- They include Harry S. Truman himself and his secretary of state, Dean Ache- son. Tflere is no precise parallel for this one situation in Brit ain. The foreign policy spokesman of the opposition Labor party, Aneurin Bevan, used to be distinctly ."soft on communism." But Bevan has long since been greatly calm ed. And his chief, Hugh Gaits- kell, the top Labor party lead er, once made privately an appeal here for a harder Western military alliance. It was at least as urgent an ap peal as any ever uttered by Macmillan. Actually, this correspond ent's own impression after talks in London a few months ago with Macmillan and Gaitskell and their associates was this: On foreign policy, these Britons were about as close together as, say, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, the Sen ate Democratic leader, and Vice-President Richard Nixon rpHE plain truth is that both -- the United States and Brit ain under conservative lead ers have been moving toward some form of accommodation with Moscow. To be sure, this process was often delayed and even momentarily reversed here by the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles was supposed to em body resistance to negotia tion and usually actually did. But always there towered in the background the figure of the President himself. Few who had watched Eisenhower at close range doubted his de termination to close his pub lic life with a cold-war armis tice. The lesson of a new Tale of Two Cities of Washing ton and London - is clear, for good or for ill. It is that Anglo-American voting ma jorities will tolerate from conservative leadership over tures to communism which, if undertaken by non-conservative leadership, they would repudiate in fear and anger. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me Labor's Political Muscle Still Potent Wilson Says, Despite New Labor Bill By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - Another show window opportunity for big labor to demonstrate its political mus cle is coming up in the field of presidential politics This oppor- tunity will come when the resolu tions commit t e e s of the LTleC. Wilson wo major parties attempt to write the labor planks of their party platforms. Platform drafting is more than 10 months away. There is not much doubt, however, about the 1960 Re publican labor plank. It will cite the 1956 platform and as sert that President Eisenhow er compelled a Democratic Congress to make good on the 1956 Republican labor pledge. The 1956 Republican labor plank contained a promise to: Revise and improve tne Taft-Hartley act so as to pro tect more effectively the rights of labor unions, man agement, the individual work er and the public." Whether the labor reform bill just enacted did or did not make good on that prom ise is a matter of angry dis pute. This will extend as an angry issue into the presi dential campaign. . Writing a Democratic labor plank in 1960 will be more difficult. In 1956 the Demo cratic platform said: We unequivocally advo cate repeal of the Taft-Hartley act." Another Matter in 1960 Any Democrat seriously mentioned for the presidential nomination in 1956 could have accommodated himself com fortably to that promise of re peal. Of five Democrats now most often mentioned for the 1960 presidential nomination, it -seems that only one now would be in a position, com-. fortaMy to support an une quivocal proposal to - repeal the Taft-Hartley act. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS - President Eisenhower, back from his astonishing diplo matic mission to Europe, says: "I am certain that all the lit tle differences among West ern leaders have been talked out. I am quite certain that, for the moment, at least, everything is going splendid ly. Among the heads of gov ernment in Western Europe, I found governmental unity." , He added: 'Tar more heartening even than this was the evidence that can be seen in these countries of the deep friend ship of these people for the American people." rOME ahead, Mr. K. Our house is all tidied up, and we're all ready for your visit. . What Ike tells us is all we needed to know. A THOUGHT: Suppose Mr. K was the same kind of man as our Mr, E. In that event, how easy it all would be. Anyway, the present .situa tion dramatizes for all of us the suoreme importance of getting the right kind of men into government. THE traffic toll for the long Labor Day holiday stands at more than 430. It's pretty bad. But wait a minute. It is estimated that 71 mil lion cars were on the toads and the streets from Friday evening to midnight on Mon day. It is at least a reasonable assumption that the average was two persons per car. That would mean a total of 142 million people whowere ex posed tq traffic hazard. - A total of 430-odd deatns out of 142 MILLION expos ures isn't too staggering a RATE of risk. LETS do a little more ana lviinff. It is probable although of course it can't be proved pre cisely - that the bulk of these 430-plus fatal accidents re sulted from reckless driving on somebody's part. We can't stay off the roads. Or, at least, we WON'T stay off the roads. . But We can drive more care fully. If EVERYBODY drove more carefully, the accident rate could be ENORMOUSLY reduced. . rpHE moral: - Let's not permit our selves to become so scared that we will refuse to get into a car on a holiday or a week end, thus missing all the beau ties of outdoor America. In stead, let's concentrate on DRIVING MORE CARE FULLY. That's tha BETTER way. (" 'h That one is Adlai E. Stev enson. He did not have to vote on this year's labor reform bill. Stevenson ran in 1952 and again in 1956 as an advo cate of Taft-Hartley repeal. No Democrat who opposed re peal could have been nominat ed. The four others mentioned now as potential 1960 nom inees are U. S. senators and all of them voted for the labor reform bill which nota bly stiffened the Taft-Hartley act. . How a vote for this year's labor bill could be reconciled in 1960 with another platform pledge to repeal the Taft Hartley act is a question which labor leaders and the India -Red Roots Back in Spring By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Back in the spring of 1954, Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was making consider able of the five-point non aggress ion pact he had just signed with Red China. Later, in 1955, it was held up at the Bandung Con- Phii Newsom ierence oi .tne Afro-Asian nations as a model of the sort of neutrality Ne hru advocated. Death Penalty Still Cause of Debate in Many Localities By RICHARD SPONG Washington-"I believe that the state, by its refusal to take the life of a human being, would be setting an example of . proper morality . which would serve its citizens in good stead." Thus Gov. Michael V. Di Salle in a "State of the State" message delivered before the Ohio General Assembly in January. DiSalle, who subse quently lost a vigorous fight in the legislature to abolish the death penalty,- practices what he preaches. Nine of the ten persons on the household staff of the Ohio executive mansion are convicted mur derers. The most recent state to outlaw the death penalty was Delaware, in a law signed by Gov. J. Caleb Boggs on April 2, 1958. Voters in Oregon re jected a proposal to abolish capital punishment in a ref erendum last November. Sim ilar measures failed of enact ment this year in the legis latures of Connecticut, Flor ida, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. Penalty Abolished Michigan abolished the death penalty a century ago, and Maine in 1870. Nine oth er states and territories have since eliminated or sharply re stricted the use of capital pun ishment. In addition to Dela ware, they are Alaska, Ha waii' Minnesota, Noth Dakota, Rhode Island Wisconsin, and the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Federal law provides the death penalty for treason, es pionage, murder, rape, at tempts on the life of the Chief Executive, and kidnaping-it the person kidnaped has not been released unharmed ana if the jury so recommends. But the penalty is gradually falling into disuse. The Fed eral Bureau of Prisons reports that only 48 persons were exe? cuted in the United States in 1958, the smallest number since 1930. Considerable agitation against capital punishment, much of it inspired by propa gandists, was noted before and after the execution, June 19, 1953, of Julius and Ethel Ro senberg. They were the first to suffer the supreme penalty for espionage in the peacetime. history of the United States; the first spies ever executed IILRB Recommends Rehiring Woman San Francisco (DPD An ex aminer for the National Labor Relations Board has recom mended that two Ontario, Ore., firms reinstate an em ployee who charged she was fired last December for union activities. Examiner Herman . Marx recommended that Ore-Ida Potato Products, Inc., and the Oregon Frozen Foods Com pany reinstate Fern Miller. If the recommendation is upheld, Mrs. Miller will be reinstated and paid back-salary dating from her discharge on Dec 13. Democrats will have to con sider next year with some care. More Influence at Convention Big labor's muscle is likely to be more effective in a Dem ocratic national, convention than in a Democratic Con gress. That is the way it has been in the past and that is the way it is likely to be in the future. It is a matter of persuasive record now that Democrats in the 1940 national convention were advised to "clear It with Sidney" before making basic political moves. "Sidney" was Sidney Hillman, the No. 1 la bor leader in FDR's New Deal. China Dispute Had It had five points: Mutual respect for each other's terri torial integrity, mutual non aggression, mutual non-interference in each other's inter nal affairs, equality and mu tual benefit, peaceful co existence. Coexistence Key Plank The latter point was and is a key . plank in world-wide Communism's propaganda platform. Now it. is learned that in tha same year Nehru and the Chinese signed their pact, there began a series of in creasingly irritated notes over which nation owned what along the long border sepa- on the order of a U.S. Civil Court; the first married cou ple ever executed together in the United States. In England . But in this country there Is by no means the agitation against the death penalty that is found in Great Britain. Queen Elizabeth II more than a year ago signed a Parlia mentary act making life im prisonment the highest pen alty for murder. Excepted were murders committed in connection with theft, in re sisting arrest or escaping cus tody, against police or prison officers or persons aiding them, and by shooting or caus ing explosions. Executions re cently in two of these cate gories have revived agitation to make the bar against the death penalty for murder complete. The Soviet Union officially abolished capital punishment in 1947; but the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Janu ary 1950 revived it for "trai tors, spies, and saboteurs." And in 1954 the death penalty was reinstituted for unusually horrific murders. The Bonn Constitution cat egorically abolished the death penalty for West Germany. A law providing the death pen alty for first degree murder survives on the statute books in France but is seldom -in voked. Elsewhere in Western Europe, and in Finland and Rumania, capital punishment is not imposed for ordinary criminal offenses. In almost all nations, however, death is the penalty for treason in time of war.' Our door opens upon an atmosphere of deepest -respect and reverence to the call of all Faiths. Asren from ths CeurlhevM & HANK MORGAN - H At OLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DKfCTOtS DAY OR NIGHT Vice President Alben W. Barkley had the endorsement of President Truman and Democratic National Chair man Frank McKinney for the 1952 presidential nomination. Labor leaders rejected him and Barkley quit cold. He knew when he was licked. It is a matter of record that the UAW's Walter P. Reuther triggered the Democrats in 1956 to reject Averell Harri mar. and to nominate Steven son for president, instead. Any citizen or politician who thinks big labor has ceas ed to be an effective political force in the Democratic party is in for surprise and shock. of 1954 rating India and its protector ates from Red China. As long as 10 years ago. Red Chinese maps were show ing areas of India of its pro tectorates, Sikkim and Bhu tan, as Chinese territory. In 1954, the Chinese com plained that 30 armed Indian troops had taken possession of Chinese territory at "Wu-Je" in the Tibetan area. - But so wild and unmapped was the country that it took the Indians a year to find out that Wu-Je was a place the. Indians call Bara Hoti. Early Dealings Backfire New that Nehru's trust in Red China has backfired, he is caught in some of his own earlier dealings. 1 - He now says that the Chi nese tacitly had recognized the so-called McMahon line, a border line negotiated in 1914 by Sir Henry McMahon, a rep resentative of Britain, which established India's .border with Tibet. , The Reds say, truthfully, that China never formally ratified that accord.. But, meanwhile, from Nehru's flank comes Tibet's ousted Dalai Lama. He says that when India recognized a bor der with Tibet, it also recog nized an independent nation. And that therefore Nehru can not logically oppose Tibet's case against Red China in the United Nations. As . of now, Nehru does oppose it. Tillamook Woman Fair Kitchen Queen Salem-flJPD-The 1959 queen of the kitchen at the Oregon State Fair is Mrs. John Schweizer of Tillamook who also won the honor four years ago. . Mrs. Schweizer outdid her rivals in baking, preserving and cooking skills to win the coveted honor and the prizes that go with it Placing second was Mrs. Al fred Zelinski, Salem, and fol lowing her were Mrs. Toivo Kivisto, Astoria, and Mrs. Donald Hood, Gervais. THE DANMOORE HOTEL 1217 SW Mem'tee St. . PORTLAND, OREGON All transient guests. All these wfce come, return. Rates net high, met lew. Free garage, TVs and radios. Reputation for cleanliness. Children under seven no charge PHONE SP 2-8030
