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S3 MAiPtRIBI&I. Mdfor1. Or. Friday, Sep. 18, 1959 r ' i. "Every ox ie u. SouUtern OiegoO DAn.i- -m... s.i fpihrnw Published Dh11 except Saturday by MJJJFOP PRINTING CO 33 Nurtft til St Pt SP 2-3141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB CJRE Advertising Manager CF.PAL.D LATHAM Business Ugt ERIC W tl.l.FN JR. Managing iWitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor R1CHAKD J1CWETT Sports Editor OMVE STARS 'HER Women's Editor DALE ERiCKSN Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Enterea at sernnd clans matter at Medfor Orecon under Ar of March 3 1897 ; - r SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' Ei Mai in Advance Codt 10c Da 11- and Sunday 1 vear SIS 00 Dail; and Sunday 4t mom 8 Ot Dail-v am Sunday 3 mot 4.23 Sunday Only One year 8420 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. 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Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Mack : buy Taylor's Pennywise drug store, 323 Eastt Main st 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 18. 1939 (Monday) A car is stolen here, but the thief leaves a note saying he :will return the vehicle to its owner next spring. 1 From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge, Pot" column: "The deer season opens Wednesday. The usual warnings to hunters to return4 and be counted in the 1940 census, have been sounded by the press and better-halves." 30 YARS AGO Sept. 18, 1929 (Wednesday) Deer hunters complain that it is too hot to hunt, and the deer stay in the shade all day. Jackson county's assessed value isQreported as $28,154, 290 - an increase of $265,390 over last year, 40 YEA'RS AGO . Sept. 18, 1919 (Thursday) A gasoline shortage at Klam . ath Falls is reported. The American Legion opens war on agitating aliens. 50 YEARS AGO .".''.- Sept. 18, 1909 (Saturday) Twelve local ranchers work ing on the P and E railroad go ' on strike when refused an ex . tra 15 minutes during the noon hour to feed their teams. Nine new school buildings have been erected in Jackson . county during the past year. Whal's Yourl.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five ex lix is good. ;"-vV 1. There is less oxygen in a cubic foot of hot air than in . a cubic foot of cold air true or false? 2. To the number of repre sented by the Roman numeral C, add a baker's dozen, ;-and subtract the number of per sons on a petit jury. What number is left? " 3. Name the two types of astronomical telescopes. 4. In American slang, what is a "grand ? 5. What is a metronome? 6. Is carbon monoxide heav ier, or lighter than air? 7. What was the cause of death of Walter Johnson, famed baseball pitcher? 8. What is the difference between a comptroller and a controller? . . ' 9. In what field in science are the names Herschel, Co pernicus and Halley famous? 10. What is a shorter way of saying two thousand thou sand? Answers: 1. True. 2. 101. 3, Reflecting and refracting. ' 4. $1,000. 5. Instrument for measuring musical time. 8. Slightly lighter. . 7. A brain rumor. 8. No difference.- 9. Astronomy. 10. Two million. TV DIRECTOR KILLED ' ,. Louvain, Belgium-flJPJ-Bery Leysen, 39, director of ,the Flemish section of the Bel gi ..Revision, - was : killed Tnursuay when his car hit a tree. ' - : T. Changes at the M-T The Mail Tribune yesterday joined the pictures-by-wire network of United Press Interna tional Newspictures. ' This will enable the paper to bring to its readers pictures of current happenings while they are still fresh and new. It is, we believe, a major step forward in the news services offered to the people of southern Oregon and northern California, and is one of a number of improvements already accomplished or planned to make the paper better and more responsive to the needs and desires of its readers and advertisers. ; . ' A NOTHER major change in the Mail Tribune's " operations was put into effect earlier this week, when the paper began publishing two editions. This change had two objectives: 1. To permit earlier distribution of papers to our subscribers at some distance, particularly those on motor carrier routes, and, 2. To permit greater flexibility in news han dling, with a later deadline for major newsbreaks, and the ability to "tailor" the two editions to regional needs. TTIE production of a newspaper is an immensely complex operation, requiring the close coop eration of hundreds of people, .tight scheduling, and advance planning. - :..... Throughout the world, the United Press Inter national's writers (and now its photographers) gather, process and transmit the news (and pic tures) of significant happenings. 1 In Jackson, Josephine and Siskiyou counties, our own correspondents and reporters and pho tographers do a similar job for the local scene. I Advertising people, both in classified and dis play departmenjts, prepare ..the advertisements, which also constitute "news," in truth,; to the newspaper's readers. ' ;.-' - The business staff handles the complications of billing and bill-paying, of payrolls, ordering supplies, and so on. ' THE circulation department takes care of the important subscription records; and, through the- mail, its motor carriers (who travel a total of about 1,200 miles each day), and the scores of paper boys (who are" independent contractors, not employees, get the paper, delivered to more than 17,000 homes. K In the "back shop," skilled craftsmen take th news and advertising, and in a series of opera tions convert them from paper into type, an4 back to paper- newspapers-again. 'Pictures are converted from black and white prints into metal engravings. Pages are assembled, "matted" on :. heavy cardboard-like sheets, and then the impressions are cast into metal cylinders and placed on the press. "'; : '.-2:-: :V'V? y. The press rolls, and the finished papers come out, folded, at a rate of thousands-per-hour. ' CINCE all these complex processes are done by human beings, and not perf ect machines, news papers commit errors, despite every precaution taken against them. Jsut, to those familiar wittr the hundreds of separate operations which go into the daily pro duction of a paperit is, in effect a complete and different manufacturing process each day the, wonder is not that there are errors, but rather that there are relatively so few. a ; - ' . It is the Mail Tribune's desire to put out the best, most progressive paper within its staff 's ability. ; . ; ; " - (It is gratifying to know that the paper is generally well accepted by its readers. The re cent "Bargain Days" period, when annual sub scriptions were obtainable at a saving, was the most. successful in. the paper's history. For. this we are grateful.) ; The changes of this week,- including the two editions and - the addition xf pictures-by-wire, and others planned,'are only steps in this never ending endeavor. E.A? - New . Much attention has been paid in recent years to the development of planes and missiles which fly higher and faster and farther than any before. - - There is, however, constant development and experimentation in other kinds of aircraft, which have -been more or less overshadowed by the more spectacular craft One such problem on which work has gone on is in VTO (for "Verticle Take Off") planes. The helicopter is the prime example of this, of course. - :But another kind of VTO, which combines the free-rotating blade principle of the how-outmoded autogyro with the power-rotated blade of the helicopter has been perfected. THE plane, which looks . like a conventional . helicopter, starts its motor and engages a clutch, which starts the is rotating at a sufficient speed, the clutch is disengaged,- but there is still enough spin in the rotor to lift the machine into the air. At this moment a propeller is engaged to push the plane forward. . , , . - Its inventor says it will be a low-cost (about $10,000), personal transport aircraft which can take off and land vertically and is simpler and safer to fly than either helicopters or conven tional planes. If it loses power in the air, it sim ply floats down to earth. E.A. ' VTO rotor spinning. When it Dennis the Menace &rt he &)&. Tunito ?m wm Washington Report By W1LUAM ONLY. ONE PRESIDENT ' Washington - -Why not lie beastly to Nikita Khrushchev, the visiting Soviet dictator? There are two rpasons whv iiuti nuu one of --these-the first -has ? the sUghtest resembla nee to the official JF given public TJl 1 y b y v e r y Williams. nl8fl Amen-; wuu can officials. "- First of all, nastiness to Mr. Khrushchev is barfed by the simple fact that our Presi dent has asked him to come here. Boorishness, petty, ugly, street-corner, tough-guyness is out of bounds for decent, and grown-up people everywhere. To say that this kind of con duct is "not American' is surely to say a poor.thing. .- For it is also not Italian, not French, not British, not Irish, not Hungarian, not Rumanian, not Polish, not the thing' to do among any and all peoples of civilized histories. It is pom pous and offensive, to suggest that only "Americans'.' have standards as to what is and what is not done. - i. .; ; THE widespread human 'fact and condition is ' simply this: . disorderly demonstra tions against, any kind of in vited guest, anywhere,; any time, reflect only upon those who . commit such iU-bred nonsense. Only big men. (and nations) can afford to be cour-teous-which usually means, really, -to be unafraid. Only the little, among' nations and among men, need, to show this fellow or that fellow where he gets off. The big .and the secure know, where they stand -and where others stand, .too. But it is the second reason for not being rude to Khru-sbchev-the reason never even whispered off icially - that is the main theme of this piece. The first reason, after all; is only gentlemanliness -i and many people believe that gen tlemanliness is only another word for sissiness. But the sec ond reason, which is the guts of it all, should impress even the most "practical.'Ss : ' It is simply thisr'the United States can have' only one Pres ident at a time, one top decision-maker at a time.And under the Constitution this man's voice-anywhere, "in any administration - is "the counr try's one proper voice abroad. r" may be that this is a bad system; certainly there are occasions when it galls hon est and patriotic men.. But it still remains a bedrock fact: you have got one; single President in this sort of af fair or you have got no ef fective President at all. And when you have no effective President at all, disaster is not merely possible; it is absolutely certain. Many who speak glibly of "democracy" suppose that foreign affairs can be' run like a town meeting or a post card public opinion poll. For good or ill, critical foreign af fairs can neyer be so run. A President in this case D w i g h t D. Eisenhower makes a' great, and possibly a fateful, decision that goes far beyond the water's edge. Once, rightly or not, he has made It, once he has solemnly committed our national strength and purposes,' - re sponsible men can hit at him destructively no longer. Once the .boat is in motion you can not grab the President's el bow while he is rowing, no matter to what terrible shoals you think he may be heading. (This correspondent remem bers with sick and lasting horror what happened to the national interest when decent men were so blinded by bitter partisanship and fear as to t told S. WHITE kick and gouge at another President, Harry . S. Truman, when, wisely or not, our troops were mortally commit ted in Korea.) - VOU have elected the Presi- dent this present Presi dent, any President as your representative leader, not just on Tuesday morning, so to speak, but also on Wednes day afternoon. And in foreign crisis, once the dice have been actually thrown, you must go where he goes. Do not many able public men ; believe Mr. Eisenhower may be heading for disaster? Of course, they do. Don't they believe Mr. Khrushchev typi fies what is still a fearful and brutal system? . Of course, they. do. Why, -then, do they, not still cry out against the President? Only because they under stand the ultimate reality of our system: in the great and terrible matters of war and peace, there can be, to repeat, only one President of -the United States at a time; (Copyright, 1959, by United Failures Syndicate, Inc.) Tpdar & Tornofrbw 7 By Walter THE CONFRONTATION Mr. Khrushchev's first, day in Washington went off wfth tact and good sense on the part of all concerned. Both the President and he were in excellent iorm and quite aware of the nature of their meeting. ;; There . were big crowds to see Mr. Khrushchev but they were quiet. What else could they have been? Mr. K is the chief adver sary of the United States. He has come here to talk serious ly with the President, and to persuade - the American peo ple that while he is their chal lenge, their rival, and their competitor, he is ,not their enemy. He is not bent on de stroying . them but on out doing them in all fields of ma terial and intellectual en deavor. 'This is a sobering prospect, and it cannot be said that M. Khrushchev is concealing the seriousness of the challenge which he poses. For the true inwardness . of this challenge is aimed directly at the criti cal, weakness of our society. THE : critical weakness of our society is that for the time being our people do not have great purposes which they are united in wanting to achieve. The public mood of the country is defensive, to hold on and to conserve, not to push forward and to create. We talk about ourselves these days as if we were a com pleted society; one which has achieved its purposes, and has no further great business to The strength of the Soviet regime,, which accounts for its hardness and its1 toughness and also for its cruelty, is that it is above all else a purpose ful society in which all the main energies of the people are directed and dedicated to its purposes. This sense of purpose accounts for the as tounding success of the re gime in science and in tech nology both civilian and mili tary. The Soviet nation has its energies and its resources focused on purposes which its rulers define, and all else must make way. for the achievement of these pur poses. rpHUS in our encounter .--'with the Soviet rulers, in the confrontation of the two social orders,, the question is whether this country can re cover what for the time being it does not have a sense of Disturbing Visit; Soviets Expect By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (OPD - Buried deep in the structure of Nik ita S. Khrushchev's visit to the United States is i dis turbing fact as dangerous as a ticking bomb. It is this: , The Soviet people apparent ly have been led to expect great, immediate and - con crete results from the Eisen howerrKhrushchev .exchange visits. Worse, they are being fed an exaggerated story of the warmth and enthusiasm with which Khrushchev has been received by street crowds. Ovations for Khrushchev from the curb side crowds are. what Russians have been read ing about in their official newspapers. Any. American eye-ball, 'ear-drum witness of the distinguished ' visitor's Washington reception knows there was neither ovation nor warmth for Khrushchev, only curiosity and courtesy. Air of Unreality in Moscow Is Enhanced by Unreality of News By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Ivan, Russia's man-in-the-street. The place: Moscow. The quote: "At last it's come true." - ' Moscow took on a holiday air this week, and the usually stand-offish Russians were ex tending the hand of friend ship to Americans in a way unprecedented. The quote above was ut tered with a content smile by a Russian neighbor of UPI correspondent Aline Mosby. in a Moscow apartment house. He had invited her in to listen to a radio report of Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's arrival in Washing ton. t " ' - ; " ; Soviet Newt Unreal . - The air of unreality in Mos cow was enhanced further by the total unreality of the re porting of Soviet news cor respondents in their reports back to Moscow. . Wrote a reporter for Izves tia, the Soviet government newspaper: " :- - Lippmann great purpose and - of - high destiny. This is the crucial point For without a revival of American purpose, Mr. K. is likely lo win the competi tive race in which fie is. the challenger.- If he does win that race, our influence as a world power will inevitably decline. , It is shocking, and indeed something in the way of a-dis-grace, that this country, which as so many are telling Mr. K these days is so rich, has not had the purpose or the will to keep from falling be hind in the rocket competi tion, or had a sufficienUy re sponsible sense of the future to provide an adequate school system. The 81st Congress was, no doubt, a political tri umph for Mr. - Eisenhower. But "how many years more can this country afford to have such political triumphs when they neglect the needs of the age we live in? rpHERE are some among us, - it would seem, who think that the Soviet challenge the most formidable in the history of Western society can be dealt with by ;iot talk ing with the Russians and by passing resolutions condemn ing Communism and then by continuing business and plea sure as usual. They fancy themselves as great defenders of our civilization when they have made a speech or writ ten -an article which answers some point by Mr. K. . They are mistaken. This contest wUl not be won by nit-picking, and pin-pricking. They do not realize the might of our adversary. The only answer to Mr. K is to stop worrying whether he will seduce us, to stop hud dling together for fear of his witchery, and to become aeain the confident and pur poseful people which, except when we have doped our selves, we really are. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Moscow (UPD A "big color film" of Premier Nikita Khru shchev's visit to the United States is being made by the Central Studio of Documen tary - Films, ; the Tass news agency reported Thursday. The opening shots were tak en at Vnukovo Airport w&en Khrushchev left - M o s c o w. Four cameramen accompanied the premier to the United States to continue the filming, the agency said. , Fact Noted in EChrushchev's Chin and courteous are the words for the greeting Khru shchev received from the thousands , who watched his Washington- arrival. Cour teous and grim are the words to describe' President Eisen hower as the welcoming host. If that is not the way the Russian people are hearing it, then there must be reasons. Reasons For Line The reasons well may be these: - -That the Russian govern ment is making a propaganda play in support of its line that the people of the United States are sympathetic to and support the objectives of the Soviet Union. -A propaganda play to show that the American op ponents of the Soviet .Union are a lot of war mongering millionaires and militarists who will be responsible if not much "comes from the Ike-K exchange.' -A propaganda play to show that the American peo "The streets of Washington are packed with people . . . a solid line of people lines the sidewalks' . . .. people are in windows of houses, on fences and roofs. The ap plause grows into ovation . ; . aU along the way they warmly . greet Khrushchev . . . you hear friendly shouts at Khrushchev." In Moscow, there was no one to teU Ivan that it wasn't quite that way. there had been bigger throngs in Washington - and certainly more demonstrative ones. Crowd Was Restrained Wrote UPI Correspondent Jack V. Fox: ."Khrushchev. drove through crowd-packed streets amid polite applause but scarcely a cheer of wel come." Woolen Mill To Close at Salem Salem-(OPD-TbS Thomas Kay Woolen mills, a leading Salem industry since 1889, will close down in 30 days, company of ficials said today. The move will throw about 90 persons out of work." Company r President Ercel W. Kay and Manager Thomas Kay said the land probably will be sold for shopping cen ter purposes Competition" f rpm southern low-wage mills 'caused the closure, officials said. The firm lost $30,000 last year despite sales " of -.more man $i nuuiuu, ouiuou scuu. 45 FOOT, 10-WIDE 2 BEDROOM MOBILE HOME Complete with large refrigerator, gu stave, storm windows and many, many more plus ' features. The boys with the RED CANES will trade for anything and give you the easiest terms, in town when you buy the ali-hew. Great Lakes "Huron." You'll have to hurry . . . this offer good through CAPITAL 1911 N. Pac. Hiway Concrete ple would love Mr. K and his Kremlin associates if, only, the master of the Ameri can people would permit them to know the truth. This is very dangerous propaganda, indeed, especial ly if it works. If it works, the Russian people will vast ly underestimate the determ ination, of the American peo ple to protect their way of life and fight for it, if need be. If the Russian people do so underestimate the American point of yiew, so much easier will it be for the Kremlin to torment international rela tions with more crises, threats of calamities, needling and the like - such as the near-hot war which Khrushchev brought about with respect to Berlin. Dangerous Misconception The Russian people might not greatly fear a threat of war' in which they believed the enemy would be only half hearted or less in resistance. This was a wait-and-see crowd. - ' Undoubtedly, a large part of its makeup was curiosity- the first leader of ' Soviet Russia to come to the United States, a man who could reel off a homely parable, who could talk of peace and free dom even as be snarled to Western diplomats, "We will bury you." , - But th.': crowd also con tained an awareness that it would take more than ' a toothy smile or a gesture to sweep away barriers, many of which were of his or of world Communism's own making. The Eisenhower meeting was one long-sought by Khru shchev and he lost no time in springing his own particu lar .type of propaganda. . ' Olive Branch Contains Rocket "Our countries are much too strong and we cannot quarrel with each other," he said. v It was an olive branch en twined about a rocket. ;v i ' But of the sober reflections in Washii gton and elsewhere in the United States, Ivan was told nothing. , : u ; v ; For him, it was the prelude to the end of " the old- war and the restraints were fall ing away. ;. '.'::-'- r . : Ivan v. ill dp as - the state tells him. If he is disappointed at the outcome of the current meetings, the state will tell him how to react. But the ef- J f ects of the reports going back to Moscow are global and are intended to be that way. It is high-pressure - propaganda designed to force Western con cessions or face the wrath of peoples whose - hopes have been falsely raised. . Soo tho man REP for a RED-HOT DEAL Mobile Horn GREAT LAKES' . i i o - TRAILER Medford Results Whatever may be the reasons. the Russian people are getting a distorted report of the man ner in rrhich Amerians have received Communism's top man. Cultural exchanges m hun- dred-f old beyond anything undertaken or, even, possible, could not undo the damage which this misconception may cause. There are misunder standings enough between the two peoples already to be the ; basis for serious worldwide trouble; m i s u nderstandings and basic human differences. How can America under stand a people whose top man' can answer up with a half smile playing over his face to -a question about the Russian: massacre of rebelling Hun garians? That was one of th. questions at the National Press club lunch this week. Mr. K's half smile told . more than his many-worded response. , . . In the Day's llevs By FRANK JENKINS At the White House dinner, j Russia's Mr. K stood up on his feet and offered a toast that went something like this: "The Soviet Union and the United States MUST NO" QUARREL. We are too strong to quarrel. . ' ' "If we were weak coun tries, then it would be another matter, because when the weak quarrel they are just scratching each other's faces and all it takes is a couple of days with a cosmetician and everything comes out .all right. "But if we quarrel, then not only our countries can suffer colossal damage but the other countries of 'the world will also be involved ik a world shambles." . HE WAS speaking immense ly important truths. Wouldn't it be wonderful If he had MEANT WHAT H WAS SAYING? . ; V ' F'S so easy to say It. The Russias want peace. We want peace. . EVERYBODY wants peace. TUT . 13 NOBODY. MUCH BU SWITZERLAND HAS EVER BEEN A B L E TO "HAVE PEACE... .:;.; -.,-U- WHY peace in Switzerland? :T WeU, Switzerland. hasn't got much that Caesars and "kaisers and czars and fuehr ers, duces, and such WANT. And the spunky Swiss have made it plain for centuries that what they have can't be taken away from them with out a BATTLE that will cost more than it would be worth. BUT let's not forget this: The Swiss are among the most prosperous people In the world. They are prosperous because for centuries they have had PEACE. with tho SALES Phone SP 3-6440 ME
