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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtJforJ, Or. Monday, Sept. 21, 1959 Medforditribuio "Everyone u Southern Orcgoa Reada The Mall Tribune" Published EW1 scp7 Saturday b r-lUNTITIU CO 33 Nortn rti St Pb SP 2-6141 FtOBiar W BUHL Editor HERB jrs Adverttsiai Manas GEPAup LATHAM Biisineas tfgi Managing "alitor CAhL 0 AOAMb, City Editor -HARRY cHIPMAN Teleg. Editor - R1CHAHU JVWETT Sporta Editor Ol.IVE STAR: 'HER Women s Edit . PALE ERifKS N Circulation Mcr An (ndcnendenf Newspaper " Enterea sewnd Um matter at " . 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At- ian' Vancouver n C NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION .nwiiunAL EDITORIAl Ias)C5tin Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from , the" file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sop. 21. 1949 (Wednesday) The Jackson County Prop erty- Owners association de mands reform in local garbage disposal service. Rabbits, .swine and live stock are judged at the Jack son county 4-H fair. 20 YEARS AGOk Sept. 21, 1939 (Thursday) Medford -.police officer Clyde Fichtner leads bulls, cows, sheep and chickens in the 4-H .livestock show parade on his motorcycle. ' v From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The first hunters have returned from . the hills, - where they had no luck outside of getting back." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 21, 1929 (Saturday) Double-parkers are' remind ed by Medford's police chief that they face arrest if they do. The first frost of the fall season hits the Rogue valley. 40 YEARS AGO . Sept. 21, 1919 (Sunday) A local youth is fined for mixing rum and gasoline. A brush fire near Gold Hill causes great excitement. 50 Years Ago Sept. 21. 1909 (Tuesday) Jackson county's tax as sessment on the Southern Pa cific railroad is raised from $30,000 to $38,000 per mile of track. A Packard '30 runs from Medf ord to Crater Lake in the record time of four hours, 45 minutes and loses but 18 min utes in passing teams. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or ekjht is excellent; five ot sis is good. 1. What is, the meaning of the slang expre.'Bion Adam and Eve on a raft?" 2. Docs a student graduate from . university? 3. Who was the father of Cain and Abel? 4. Chewing-gum is partly composed of rubber; true or false? . v. 5. Which is the actual weight of a Ship - the gross tonnage," : p r displacement tonnage? 6. Which state in the U. S. has the most northerly boun dary? . . ' 7. In what year will the next census of population be taZien in the U. S.? 8. In what river is Niagara Falls? 9. Complete this quotation from Shakespeare: "Uneasy lies the head -." ' 10. What is the difference between Arabian and Bac- trian camels? Answers: 1. Two poached egg on toast or two fried eggs. 2. Hot he is graduated. 3. Adam. 4. False. 5. Displacement ton nage. 7. 1960. 8. Niagara River. 9. ". . that wears crown. 10. Arabian have one hump; Bactrian have two humps. .mnifn TrT5 OFFICE Amman, Jordan - (UPD - Mousa Nasser Sunday took of fice as Jordan's new foreign minister to complete a cabinet ghakeup oraereu. uy rxcuua Highest Pass Newspapers in Southern Oregon have been conducting a battle of the passes. The Klamath Falls- Herald and News says the highest point reached on a principal high way in Oregon is the Quartz Mountain pass, 5,504 feet in elevation, on the highway between Kla math Falls and Lake view; nearby' on the same route is Drews Gap, elevation 5,306. But the Medford Mail Tribune responds that the prize should go to the summit of the Diamond Lake cutoff, north of Crater Lake Park. The Eugene Kegister-Guard admits that the 5,329 feet of the McKenzie Pass are too few to qualify. , There are a number of Oregon highway passes more than a mile in height. But we're not sure that elevation is the .only gauge that should be used. The sharpness of the rise should also be considered. A mile-high pass in plateau coun try is little more than a hump in the road. But a mile-high pass reached in a short run from a valley makes for a real climb. Having within the past two years traversed all the passes mentioned above, we nominate for the sharpest rise the western approach to McKenzie Pass. Our car's temperature gauge agrees. Portland Oregonian. " ; Why the 'Bad Press'? .... Last week's issue of the Oregon abor Press reprinted an article that should be required reading for every union official (as well as mili tant member) in the state. It's by Bill Abbott of the United Rubber Workers Union. He tells about being sent into a neighboring state to conduct a school on labor problems for a local (union. He dropped by the newspaper office to' supply a story about the school. An amazed reporter soon had Abbott in the publish er's office,where the publisher said: "You know, you're the first labor man who has ever been in here in all these years and you have to come all the way from Ohio. Tell me something, do we have B.O.? . - "Our reporters call up the union when there's a strike on, and the union says: 'No comment.' So we print management's side of the story and the union -gets mad. Had the union said something, we would have printed that too." e e e e y ABBOTT goes on to detail the solution, which is to stop hiding out. He says: "Even the most conservative papers will print your side of the story if 'you only give him , the facts." And he doesn't overdraw the picture. We'd be' just about as amazed to see a labor official walk in. In Salem, it's even difficult to get a "no fOTTiTTieTit " since some union officials never seem to be in their offices and have never "in all these years," for example been ahlp tn talk to the Teamsters asrent, although we've tried during every one of the many dis putes. Salem CapitalJournal. . "Can t Afford It Thfi Wall Street Journal is alarmed. True, not for the first time but it - - . The Umted States is facing a iiscai crisis! "Tt cannot hp. an easv decision." the Journal editorializes, "for the President to make public acknowledgment that the government of the government of the United States is in. financial straits. "There is the very real fear that dramatic gestures might carry such a tone of desperateness as to make matters worse," the paper iears. "TIME has caught up For : more than a spent money like the proverbial drunken sailor. We nave poured out billions to maKe me more pleasant for farmers, to pay handsome rewards to veterans, to give ourselves a luxury of houses nnd roads and anv sort, of 'welfare' that came happily to mind. We've hard-earned money an over tne gioDe. Ana we ve done all this with a blatant disregard of the deficit the billions accrued in our accounts The barrel is running dry not only for the treas ury of the United, States but for everybody. "But a warning is an "opportunity. Here the opportunity is time to choose between two paths. une is xo cnoose umauun, iiui, uue muuci iuj.ix tinn wp have heard so much about but inflation in mammoth doses. The 111 U1UC1, Brtjr W-IC l UCi-LllCH. How does one put his house in order for such a dire calamity? According to the Journal: stop spending, and pay higher interest on the money we borrow. v. . , - Tf all we have to do is nav the hankers and loan sharks more interest, it will be cheap at half the price, ur someuiing. . CO MANY people in 'the administration, 'and ? amongst its friends like the Wall Street Jour nal, claim these things that they must be true: . We can't afford to educate our children. We can't affordvto build highways to han dle our commerce. - ! . , - ' We can't afford poor, or our aged. We can't afford to give our oldsters a de cent standard of living. - ' We can't afford to take care of him who bore the battle, and was injured thereby. ,. We can't afford to help our needy, neces sary friends abroad. x i ' i - We can't afford to defend ourselves All we can afford to do, apparent is more of our treasure to the bankers. Coos World, r , . ' - , '- never can be found. We 99 is really alarmed now. . 1 with a prodigal country. decade this country i has poured many billions of other is to put our house to house ourselves, our Dennis the Menace If weiros mm Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington Nikita ' Khru shchev has already convinced the best judges of such mat ters, our top prof essi o n a 1 polit i c i a n s, that he is an extreme ly able politi tician and a canny horse- trader. wf Bu.t ,behind Williams. IC whiu those whose science is that of dealing with men believe they discern another factor in our visiting adversary from the Soviet Union. : He has that . touchiness which, in the 'capitalistic so ciety he so scorns, has long been known as the special pride of the new-rich. No one is more contemptuous of the poor than &. man who himself has lately climbed up from among them. This, in the cpn viction of some who have talked to Khrushchev, is per haps the most important key to what makes him tick. ... 117HAT make him really an- ' gry - perhaps even an grier than a direct attack .on Soviet motives ' is any sug gestion that the Soviet Union might be in any genuine way inferior materially to the West. Over and over he has made the barbed point, with little or no provocation, that he has not come here "to beg anything of you"; not come here "hat in hand"; not come here "with a long hand to try to get into your pocket!" . Those of our officials who may yet have tcr deal with the details" of one of the Pre mier's objectives, an increase in American-Russian trade, will not find the v going smooth. For Khrushchev is so sensitive about the glories of Soviet production as to make it risky to insinuate, even that the iceboxes are bigger in the United States. Without suggesting at some point that maybe you have one or two items that are bet ter than his, it is not easy to trade with another man. . KHRUSHCHEV has left the impression in many minds that he is at least as proud of Soviet economic and indus trial achievements as he is of that famous shot to the moon. It is an extraordinary exper ience to sit and listen and re alize that this head of the vast apparatus . of conspiratorial communism sometimes thinks and talks like a man from the Chamber of Commerce. Devoted as he no doubt is to the grim and murky ' ideol ogy of communism, he seems Unr cind -By BENNETT CERF- EBBETS FIELD, all but deserted since the Brooklyn Dodgers followed the lure of lucre to Los Angeles, brings back a host of fond memories to oldsters. The very first day Ebbets Field was to open in 1913, not one -of the large and eager crowd could gain ad mittance for more than an hour. The keys to the gates had been lost. Then came the elaborate opening game ceremonies. Behind a noisy if uncertain brass, band, marched the Mayor of New York, fol lowed by Prexy Charley Ebbets and his valiant athletes.- When they reached the flagpole, they discovered there was no flae to hoist. Ebbets had forgotten to order oqe. Yeaxs later, at another opener, after the Dodger hurler had fanned the lead-off batter, someone recalled that a VXP. had been invited to toss out the first balL The game was started all over again . . . Af emortes ... . . . .. e e. e . . . - A husband Z know reluctantly closed Us joint checking account, at the bank. His wife always beat him to the draw. use rr, mi ism.' S. WHITE no less devoted to trade fig ures and .charts .showing high Soviet oil production. The feeling, therefore, grows here that the best way to deal with this stout, easily amused and easily angered tourist may be on something approaching a strictly mer cantile basis. This, in turn, means to deal through con servative spokesmen with a special skill for giving what might be called a high-class business tone among high class business equals. . Khrushchev has a- rather arch way of expressing fond ness for those in America who may be Communists or turned that way. But it is ten to one that when it comes down to real business ,to almost any aspect of his business here -he would ignore such charac ters in total contempt. PRO - COMMUNISTS have value to him, that is, as docile disciples of the per verse theology of communism. But Mr. K. - and quite sound ly, too would never entrust anything of importance to such as these. He did not reach his present place with out realizing that the loudly doctrinaire people are nearly always only windy bores, no matter ! how earnest their faith. If this estimate of the Pre mier is correct, incidentally, it raises one ressuring possi bility: Certainly there are dangerous . Soviet agents in this country. But they are ex tremely unlikely to be among that rag-tag group of breast- beating party-liners that Con gressional committees used to abuse and to chase so melo dramatically back and forth across the political landscape. Mr. K's agents would be of a different sort altogether. - What we have here is a man who respects power - in dustrial power quite as much as military power who plain ly intends to run more than one kind of propaganda show. Not the least of these propa ganda shows is the one by which Mr. K. intends to sug gest that they don't do it any better in Detroit or Pitts burgh than they do it in the Ukraine or Leningrad. (Copyright. 1959, by United . Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ICEBREAKER IS SUCCESS London - (UPD - Radio Mos cow Sunday announced that the maiden voyage of the Soviet, atomic ice breaker Lenin was successful and said the vessel's engines had been working almost two days. The Lenin was reported to have set course for Finland. Stop Mo f Communications Letters ic the Editor tnust bear fte name Aid address oi the orritei although sder eer - tain circumstances tne use of a . pen name ni initial for publica tion is pe-roissible The ftfai Tribune reserves the right to edi all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must ant exceed 400 words An Incident To the Editor: Here is a story which , everybody in America ought to know in connection with Mr. Khru shchev's arrival. In the opin ion of Frank Laubach it ex presses beautifully the. deep universal cravingpf all peo ples for peace. Mrs. Margaret Westmoreland, of Canton, North Carolina, was visiting Kiev, Ukraine, Russia, a month and a half ago. This is her story: "I was standing under the statue of a memorial to the wives and mothers of the dead Russian soldiers. It was a statue of two women. On the arm of each woman was a wounded soldier. As I stood there looking at that statue a great wave of compassion went out from me, and I pray ed that God might bring peace to the hearts of all those who had suffered. I noticed that a little distance from me look ing up at the same statue stood two old Russian wom en. As I stood loking at them I felt that perhaps they, had lost a husband or a son and that they had come there to pay. tribute. All of a sudden my heart was so full of love for them that I started to pray for them too. When I looked up they were walking toward me with such kindly faces that . I automatically reached out my hands to .them. Before I knew it we were embracing each other and weeping. Neither of us could speak a word of the other's language, but in our hearts we read each other's thoughts. We were hoping and nraying like hundreds of mil lions of other fathers and mothers like us ,that there might never, be another war and that our countries might join hands in love. "As Mr. Khrushchev comes to America I believe it is an answer to the prayers and longings of the common pe pie of the world. And I hope and pray ' that America will welcome Mr. Khrushchev with the same love and warmth as I felt from the Rus sian people last July when I ws there." . I received this from my sis. ter who met Frank Laubach at a religious conference this past summer. We are so prone to Dass on only the bad things we hear about others. So I felt compelled to pass this on to you for what it is worm. Mrs. Harold Ottosen, Eagle Point, Ore. Vote? Votel ' To the Editor: The few lines below were also written be fore I knew the outcome ot the Phoenix-Talent consolida tion election. Vote! Vote! Vote? I flipped a coin It turned up "heads," But "tails" I had called. I flip again, (the modern trend). Tails it is. a-ha! " Flip again? But I might lose! Two out of three? How square. ... x I have what I want, Why flip (vote) again? . Luetta M. Miller Route 1, Box 329 Talent, Ore. Hope. For Objectives To the Editor: The member ship of the. Oregon Council of Outdoor Advertising wishes to express our. thanks for the very fine editorial you wrote in the Sept. 9 edition of the Medford Mail Tribune.- We have high hopes that the for mation of this group will pro duce the objectives we have outlined. Jack E. Schnaidt Public Relations Manager Oregon Council of Outdoor Advertising Portland, Ore. Old Stuff ' To the Editor: Ain't nobody ever told them Russians that the Democrats were the first ones to hit the moon with the ceiling in 1937? Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Concerning Faith To the Editor: My what a two-faced, morally and spirit ually weak America we have become. Before the world we welcome Nikita Khrushchev -the power of Russia and the slaughterer of Hungary, Korea and all the others. What kind of confidence ' must these slaves of Communism have for us now? My grandfather said years ago - "atch out for Russia." Now I wonder at his 7ords. Many people are already applauding and I thinking -"Well, he's not such a bad guy after all - he wants peace -so do we." But any way you look - at - peace to Nikita Khrushchev means Commu nist domination. Communism he believes just happens to be the latest style in govern ments, so why should Amer ica "be old-fashioned? Foreign Notebook: Red China Rocket; Oil; Algerian Wai By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: FALSE FRONT. If Red China should-as ru-mored-send up a big rocket to celebrate its 10th anniversary around Oct. 1, don't jump to the conclusion that the Chi nese Commu nists h a v e a well - develop ed missile pro gram. Accord ing to the best information in Asia, the Chi run in ew from nese Reds could launch a rocket only with the help of V JaV Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop WILL HE. WONT HE? Washington - While Nikita Sergeyivich Khrushchev tours the United States, the inner group of American V policy -makers wait for the answer to the key question - about this 'i strange -but historic visit. Will he, or will he not -inspb AIsop change hii his previous1 estimate of American and Western pow er, as a result of what he sees here in this country? This is the key question about the Khrushchev visit, which will only be ! answered when he gets down to serious business with President Eisenhower at Camp David. The inner " policy - making group think this is the key question for a fairly simple but unpalatable reason. They believe that Khrushchev came to this country with the con viction that the Soviet bloc has already decisively, out stripped the Western bloc in crude military strength. Some even suspect that Khrushchev interpreted the President's in vitation to America as an ad mission of weakness. If this is true,. Khrushchev has most certainly arrived here in no mood for opening true nego tiations, but In the expecta tion of dictating his own terms. ,- , ' UNFOR TUNATELY, the evidence is strong that the Khrushchev' estimate of the world power-balance is just what the inner group of poll cymakers fear. The persistent threat to West Berlin is part of the evidence. The Com munist attack on Laos is another part of the evidence The tone Khrushchev " took with W. Averell Harriman is still another part. So are Khrushchev's formal, public pronouncements, like this Moscow speech to the Soviet Communist Party Congress last Feb. 5. press him with all of our fancy gadgets, automobiles, homes, televisions. Apparent ly he isn't much impressed for he says "Russia will soon pass you by." Then he gous on to impress us with their scientific achievements and we are . impressed - even to the extent we have seemed to forget Hungary and the others. I think we've put our faith, upon falseness and made a great mistake. Lest we. all become blind and taken in by the charm and clever words of Khru shchev Let's consider these things: . 1. How and why did Amer ica come to be in the first place? Did God have a part in it or not? Consider the Constitution and the men who wrote it. They all became angry, we're even picking up their hats and coats and get ting ready to leave, - when Benjamin Franklin said "Wait a minute gentlemen. This country was conceived in faith in God. Many of us here be lieve in prayer. Let us get upon our knees and pray Al mighty God and see whether God shall give us the answer to our dilemma and problem1." Upon their knees these men went, and out of that prayer meeting came the immortal document, the Constitution of the United States. Even our coins read "In God we trust" but do we? 2. Upon what does Russia put their faith - God or Science? Maybe some of us should ask ourselves the same question. 3. These riches we seek to impress Khrushchev with -to whom or what do we give credit for these blessings? You figure it yourselves-if we too put all our faith. on material things or Scientific things - giving . God second place shall we also become Communist slaves? B. M., (Name on File) Medford.,. Russia. As one expert nut it: "About the only thing Red China would be able to con tribute would be the land for the launching pad." Big Business " Italian state oil monopoly chief - Enrico Mattel is . ru mored on the Verge of anoth er big deal. Mattei is the man who broke the 50-50 rule di viding oil income between the state and participating, oil companies hut its nature still is undisclosed. Peace Is Relative . N Foreign observers are ap plauding President Charles de Gaulle's new definition j of peace in Algeria - fewer than 200 killed per year in battles or street attacks. The defini tion by-passes provisions for 7 : "The scale is already tip ping' in favor of the peace loving countries and not in favor of the imperialist states," he proclaimed in the political part of his speech. And later he went on: "It is high time ; for the American strategists to come out of their fool's paradise - that in the event of a military conflict, the territory of the United States would remain invul nerable. For a long time now, this has (been) nothing more than wishful thinking on the part of America's generals. As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union today has the means to deliver a crushing blow to the aggressor at, any point of the globe." Because of such evidence as this, both the American Em bassy in Moscow and . the American intelligence ana lysts in Washington fear that Khrushchev believes he has gained the whip-hand in the military sphere. Needless to say, both the Moscow v Em bassy and the Intelligence analysts hope and think that this belief of Khrushchev's is completely mistaken. But un less Khrushchev can be con vinced of his mistake, the course of the coming talks at the White House wiU be con trolled by his opinion about the world power balance. much more than by the real state of the power balance, As the American Strategic Air Commander, Gen. Thomas Power, has said: "If our nu clear deterrent is to work as a deterrent, how much dam age we' can actually do to them matters much less than how much damage they think we can do to them." - twti. fowek'S remark is extra-relevant for a spec ial reason. The Soviet lead in missiles, which Khrushchev is so continuously emphasizing by joke and boast, is by no means the only factor con tributing to his confidence. In the opinion of the American analysts in fact an even stronger contributing factor is probably the improvementl of the Soviet air defense sys tem, which has caused a change in what "they think we can do to them." . It is not at aU clear how Khrushchev's views on, these crucial points are going to be changed by his American tour. He may be persuaded that he has been wrong in supposing "the broad masses" do not support this country's foreign policy, as he stated in his Feb. 5 speech above-quoted and also told Averell Harri man. He can hardly help but feel impressed by America's Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) is" 'T VV V -Tun, i i ii FRANK PERL , FREE Parking Space Adjacent To Mortuary FRIENDLY. itr k truce talks, election of Quali fied negotiators and all the rest. It sets a rule of thumb that all the world can apply. De Gaulle originally planned to set the maximum at 100, but was told that even in pre rebellion days, political rival- ries killed about 150 persons per year.1 So he put it at. 200. The present rate is roughly' 100 times that much, j Tradition If the United Nations de bates Tibet, Nationalist China will claim historic right to ex ercise political control over the strifetorn Himalayan re ligious state. The Nationalist government will " not admit that Tibet should now be giv en sovereignty even to rid it of . Communist control. In stead, the - Nationalists will cite President Chiang Kai shek's March declaration in which he promised Tibet self- determination when and if the Nationalists regain con trol of the China mainland. The Nationalists, not unlike the Communists, long have claimed suzerainty over Tibet. vitality and wealth. But. un like some American political leaders, Khrushchev does not count supermarkets as ele ments in the power balance. And his estimate of the power balance matters above all. This is why there is deen though well-hidden pessimism in high quarters in Washing ton about the final outcome, of the Khrushchev visit. Buoy ed by the remembered echo of the crowd's cheers in Europe, tne .President himself is still hopeful, according to reports, but those who have followed the Russian moods and meth ods more closely than the President are the very oppo site of hopeful, at least about the only thing that really mat ters - progress on the ugly, dangerous, . practical issues like Berlin and Laos, (c) 1959 New York Herald - Tribune Inc. : Passenger Plane Escapes Disaster Shannon, Ireland-ffiPD - An Air France Super-Constellation en route from New York to Paris with 21 persons made an emergency landing here Saturday with its fuselage rip ped open by a runaway pro peller and only two of its four engines working. . . . e Passengers said the plane plummeted to wave-top level within seconds after the pro peller flew off and buried it self in the fuselage: No one was injured, however. The huge airliner flew the last 400 miles over the At lantic to a safe landing. here with only its two portside engines operating. - Airport officials called it a laic icau The plane was carrying' 12 passengers and nine crew members. Pilot Andre Compere said his outer starboard engine de veloped trouble and "we had just got it feathered when . . . whoosh . . . No. 3 engine propeller just whipped away." The propeller buried itself in the fuselage on the star board or right side just above the wing. ' . . EX-AMBASSADOR DIES Mexico City, Mexico - (UPD - Former Mexican Ambassador to the United States Antonio Espinoza de Los Monteros, 56, died Sunday. , . Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 JDY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE L We invited him here to im- Hazza juajau. .,
