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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medfer., Or. Taesday, Sept. 22, 1959 MEDroRDt4tSTRIBUNB cuutnetn Oregon Reads, rh Mail Tribt una Publish Dnil except Saturday by M JJ 'AT- PRINTING CO 33 Nurir tti St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBiSl W RTTHL Editor HERB ;REi A-dvertMne Manage GEI'-ALD LATHAM Businew Ugt sTPM W -Uj-N IK. 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B C. , NEWSPAPER A f A$SOC!ATIOM v NATION At EOlTOBfAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History front the tiles ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 ind 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1949 Thursday) The Mail Tribune tops the 13,000 figure in circulation for the first time, reflecting popu- . lation growth in Medford and environs. Dairy animsls are judged todny in list d-y of "the annual .1 Jackson county 4-H fair. 20 YEARS ACQ Sept. 22, 1939 (Friday) Billy Ousterhout of Little Butte is the grand champion exhibitor at the 4-H livestock show closing here today. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A roan and rural calf is exhibiting a spot aft, where a bullet that mistook him for a 'deer peeled away the hide and hair late Wed." , 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 22. 1929 (Sunday) Elimination of the "death curve" on Crater Lake high way near Prospect is sought. ' Deer are reported plentiful and tame in the Mils of the county. . . 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 22. 1919 (Monday) Miss Mary Truax will leave next week to enter OAC. Eight-hundred Elks and their families attend a picnic at the new grounds of the lodge on the Rogue river. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 22. 1909 (Wednesday) Burglars make off with $1,000 worth of loot from the Deuel and Kentner store. Medford dons purple and white as "Bill Elk" arrives for the installation of an Elks lodge here., " What's Ycar l.Q.7 Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or aijht is eaeetlestt; five at six is 1. For what purpose did the ancient Egyptians and Greeks use papyrus? "2. Is linseed oil obtained from cottonseed, hempseed, or flaxseed? , 2. What religious system did Mary Baker Glover Eddy found? 4. Did the feudal system ever exist in England? ' 5. Is beer a distilled bever age? 6. What is an auk? 7. Where did Little Jack Homer sit? 8. What fur of royalty comes from weasels? 9. The Immigration and Naturalization Service is in which Department of the U.S. Government? 10. The next Presidential terra will begin when? - ; Answers. 1. As writing ma larial. 2. Flaxseed. 3. Church of Christ Science. 4.. Yes. . 5. No: it is a brewed bever age. 6. A sea bird. 7. In a eorrer. 8. Ermine. 9. Depart' meet of justice. 10. Jan. 20, 1961. J ,685 New Students At Portland State portland-DPD-Portland State starting this week, had more than 1,685 new stu including 645 transfers. Registrar Howard Impecoven I M was an increase ofl S. p over 1958 W'.;. total fall PSC enrollment is 4.10- Pride and Prejudice There has long been rivalry between the University of Oregon and Oregon State College rivalry which extends into the fields of curriculum and enrollments and faculty. At times it has been bitter. Until the state board was formed, a chancel lor appointed, and all state-operated schools of higher learning integrated into the state system, each was independent and sought state appro priations as individual organizations often in competition with the others. Now the state system prepares and submits a combined budget request to the state legislature", and the board controls the size of the allocation to each school. THE system has worked well. It has, in fact, been watched and imitated by many, other states. Its advantages are obvious. Each college .and university in the system has, and should have, an individuality; each should have pride in itself, and each should hold a re spected place in the state. Each, within limitations, should have ambi tions for growth and excellence. Yet, at the same time, each should subordi nate itself to the greater good of the system as a whole. And the board should be decisive and strong-minded in choosing what the role of each must be. E.A. OSCs Ambitions Oregon State College wants to become Ore gon State University, v It also wants to have the rierht to issue degrees to liberal arts majors an not now have. The University of Uregon, wmcn is the major liberal arts institution in the state svstem of hio-her education, resists this. But if it is ranted, the TTniversitv undoubtedlv will ask for the righth to grant rnis situation is tne.crux pi a dispute oetween the two schools, now in the lap of the state board of higher education. " It boils down to this: Do we want (or can we afford) two big schools which offer just about everything? Or shall we continue, within certain limits, to "speeiale" in education? IT. IS not that science, engineering, agriculture or forestry majors at OSC cannot get liberal arts courses. They can. - But for a student to graduate in the liberal arts field, he must go to Eugene, not Corvallis. And for a student to graduate as an engineering, forestry, agriculture or engineering major, he must go to Corvallis, not Eugene. Is this bad? We don't think so. It fits the pattern laid down when the state system was organized under the board in 193!; it is somewhat less expensive than two major, broad-spectrum ' universities would be, and it permits each institution to con centrate on excellence in its areas of major interest. E.A. Other Colleges Too? Another major factor in the problems of higher education is the rapid growth of the "smaller" colleges Portland State, Eastern Ore gon and Southern Oregon Colleges, and Oregon College of Education at Monmouth. . ' . The growth of SOC is too well known in this area to need review. It will continue to grow, and more and more fulfill what seems to be its des tined role as a regional college, serving more than just future teachers. 'But the most significant growth of all is at Portland State College, where, with a downtown location and a half -million residents within a radius of a few miles, PSC gives promise of be coming the largest of of higher' education. . IF THE board of education, attempting to pro- gon student capable, of Oregon btate to become a fully-rounded, non specialized school, what possible excuse would it have for denying similar status to the other colleges and particularly Portland State? And, in a time when cries of "high taxes" are heard on all hands, can the state afford three full-scale, big-time institutions of higher educa- i fit. i. P a- J uon, wiun no pretense oi specialization ana, possibly, no pretense of "quality" education? The board faces difficult decisions. But we fail to see any urgency in making such a change if indeed it ever really need be made. E.A. OSC to OSU? . . ' , As to OSCs desire to be called a "university," it now has enough schools and departments to make this name correct. Mostly it is a matter of semantics and pres tige, for "college" as accurately . describes the institution as does "university." But, particularly in Europe, the latter title carries with it th feel ing of greater size, importance and excellence. So let OSC beconie OSU if it wants, even with the attendant minor confusion. E.A. Or OAU? Or, harkening back to the "cow college" days when it was Oregon Agricultural College, it could become Oregon Agricultural University. Couldn't it? E.A. - beyond the gridiron and authority which it does degrees in engineering. all the state mstitutions . : benefiting by it, allows Dennis the Ate. WllSOU SAYS IF HE HAD OomRiuiiBGations Letters to the Editor must Bear the name snd address of the writer although under certain circumstances the" use ot 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 of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the cae. Against Proposal To the Editor: Just a few lines to clarify a statement made in the Sunday, Sept. 20, issue of the Medford Mail Tribune. The Tribune stated that the residents of an area between Rocky Point bridge and Fid dlers Green had submitted a petition to be included in the Rogue River School district. This is not true, as the peti tion was circulated by several Rogue River businessmen, not residents .of the area that is affected. The paper does- not state that there was a counter petition submitted by this ?rea which Md almosc double 'he signature's thst the 3?-ie River petition had. Cur local petition had a large number of names on it that were also on the Rogue River petition, ours having been signed at a later date. . It is not hard to understand why Rogue .. River wishes to have us included in their dis trict. It is always a great help to have someone else pay your taxes. It is my understanding that the reorganization board wishes to establish high school districts which can graduate 100 students each year. If this is true Rogue River should join a larger district. I stUl say, why should we trade a "whole loaf for just a small slice?. . ' ' ; Arthur H. Boye, 1 ' Route 1, Box 193, Gold Hill, Ore. Police Problems To the Editor: Your Edi torial, "Oregon's Police De faults" relating to techniques in law enforcement, is most interesting and relates to a subject which should merit continued . concern by the public. - Last fall I addressed the Oregon Sheriff's Association with respect to two specific ways in which I feel the State of Oregon can assist in improving techniques in law enforcement. They are, first, establishment of a Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, which would effectively coordinate the ef forts of state police, county sheriffs and municipal police departments; and, second, the establishment of a police academy for the training of police officers in sheriffs' of fices -and city police depart ments. I drafted legislation for both proposals which then were sponsored bi-partisanly, but unfortunately neither pro gram was adopted. The Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation passed both Houses but the Legislature ad journed before the .Senate could vote on concurrence to the House amendments. A resolution for an interim study of a police academy failed to get out of committee. These measures -which I sponsored are important for adequate law enforcement. The public is entitled to in quire of legislative candi dates their stand on these matters. Carl H. Francis State Senator Dayton, Oregon Hatfield's Reply To the Editor: On Septem ber 11 you carried the full text of Senator' Neubergers five paragraph telegram to Governor Hatfield. The Gov ernor was asked by the Sena tor for his comments. Ex cerpts follow: "Dear Dick," "From your expensive, du plicate, three-page telegrams the contents of which could have been conveyed just as easily and almost as quickly by air mail, I judge that your concern might be filed in the category of your re-election Menace A NICE H0USB UKB MINE, bid and perhaps the cost could properly be charged to the campaign chest . . . "Now as for your disturb- annk at- nowonanors 1aViflirif7 Mr. Gunnar as my personal . 1 . - . 1 C caoice xor cnairman oj. uie party may I make it emphati cally clear that Mr. Gunnar alonte4 Vitr fhp 3R POimtV representatives to the Central v. . ... "May I suggest that you and Mr. Tupiing . oegin a corres pondence with Mr. Gunnar di rectly because atter au ne is one of your constituents and a respected member of our community and state. I am sure he would be de!igh'.ei to e-r from you. "I em giad to ha.e you tall . J 1 JS 1.U me that you nave ww me Senate you think the Presi dent is 'sincerely interested in world peace.' That is a wonderful statement, I have never heard it said mat uic . im 'sincerely interested uwu ted in war. I am sure he appreciated- your speaking out for him. "Now as for what acuon you take in supporting the President's position this is up to you and your . conscience. Certainly l wouiu uw (V..f tiit fear Of DOSS1- ble denunciations would deter you from tne course and just ... - . 'Tinally . . . I nave long thought how marvelous it would be if our congresai. delegation and the chief execu tive of the state , pould sit down together every once in a while to work together on nmmnn nrrihlems. Instead I find now that you and your assistant are apparency "j ing to develop a feud between Mr. Gunnar ana myseu- u n nH me. I refuse UClVt-i - . - to dignify such silliness with further silliness ... "This office wUl not pick ' t mill differ with on yuu. - . you when in fundamental dis agreement. You nave u job to do there and I shall give you no . cause for un necessary diversion from it. Many of my friends are amaz ed that you nave triea repeat edly to rupture what could have been a remarkable friendship." Travis Cross ' News Secretary to Governor Hatfield Salem, Oregon Other bangers to the Editor; In light of Mr. Khrushchev's visit, I am reminded, of a short story. Cherry Blossom was a Jap anese girl here to attend school. One Christmas she was invited by her American roommate home for the holi days. A week later Cherry Blossom was ready to depart. Her motherly hostess asked her, "What do you think of us Americans?" "Well," she replied, 'Tve enjoyed it very much here, and have seen how you Americans live, but. over in Japan we have a God shelf in our homes where we worship our Gpd. Where is the Go I in your homes?" ; I just wonder sometimes if our friends and visitors have to leave our homes as empty hearted as did this dainty Japanese girl. I .wonder if Nikita Khrushchev and his family will go back to Russia with the same feelings. All of us are aware of the Godless attitude that exists in Russia. Our hearts should go out to the individuals held under such conditions. Yet I fear we are too quick to de nounce and throw insinuating remarks. Because Nikita's wife is not bedecked with glittering jewelry, or her lips are not painted barn red, or that her shoe heels are not high enough to cause her to wobble as she walks, she is Washington Report By William S. White NEUTRALITY Washington One elevated factor and one distinctly down-to-earth factor are mak- , ing it increas ingly unuKeiy that president E i s e n hower can or will long maintain his declared neutrality a s to whom the R e p u blicans wuiiams. r V j waita nate as his successor. If he does not in the end flatly come out for Vice-President Richard Nixon, circum stances themselves may well do this job for Eisenhower,! willy-nilly. The whole Republican Ad ministration - and the whole Republican party, despite the anguished protests from some of its right-wingers - is in creasingly committed to nego tiations for easing the cold war. This above all. The final and climactic record of eight years of Republicanism in the White House, the last and most remembered part, will be tied to the one overmaster ing issue of "peace." Nixon is inescapably involv ed in the Eisenhower-Khrushchev exchanges, no matter if he never sat in on a single one of them. He is thus inescap ably involved with this ulti mate and decisive issue of these Republican years. rpHE Administration cannot X succeed in finding peace without succeeding for Nixon, too. And, of course, its failure there would be a Nixon fail ure, too. , . Few politicians in either party now believe, therefore, that the President can long sustain the amiable position of the present. This, roughly, is that the Republican party has many good Presidential prospects for. 1960 - so why ask me to decide which one would be best? To sustain it to the end, that is, up to the time of the Republican Na-ti-,!-'l Convention, would be. by ordinar' political stand ards, incredible. It would be doubly incredible because of nresent circumstances. For Eisenhower and Nixon must, and do, march together, and more and more they will so march. This is the central, the unchangeable reality. Indeed, the fact that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York is uttering few hurrahs for the new ice-thawing diplo macy is seen here as a reflec tion of this central reality. Rockefeller, Nixon's prospec tive rival for '60, by necessity cannot expect to run . on the Eisenhower Administration's record. -. a. VriXON." again by necessity, cannot possibly do other wise. (Though it is possible that those who know him well susDect that sometimes he wishes he were not bound so held as a object of mild de rision. ' We Americans get the idea sometimes that our ideas are just it and 'that's aU. If all of us were to act as some Americans do we'd have quite a place in which to exist. Communism, with all that it stands for, is not desired by freedom-loving Americans. Yet while we decry its dread aspects, we have at work as never before right here , in America, - other forces far more sinster than communism. I dare not name openly what I refer too. We have freedom of the press it is true, but one must weight the words. When God-fearing men even have their lives threatened for ex posing such abomination, it's time to awaken to the danger right here. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 ' Ashland, Ore. Bill Is Passed To the Editor: Now that the President -has signed the bill giving broadcasters r e li e f from the Lar Daly decision, I want to thank you for the edi torial help you gave to the cause of remedial legislation in The Medford Mail Tribune. The amendment to Section 315 of the Communications Act goes a long way in mak ing it possible for radio and television to give adequate coverage of political affairs in newscasts, news interviews, news documentaries and on-the-spot coverage of news events. To a very considerable extent? this modification of Section 315 is the result of vigorous, clear-sighted edi torials and forceful news cov erage by the newspapers of this country and another dra matic demonstration of the classical role of the press in a democracy. It is now up to broadcasters to put these new freedoms to good use in the public inter est and justify your effective supnort. With the new rights we must accept new responsi bilities. Frank Stanton, President, Columbia Broadcasting ' System, New York, N.Y. , I '' . De Gaulle's Bold Move To End Algerian Crisis Faces Blocks By PHIL NEWSOM I7PI Foreign Editor French President Charles de Gaulle has made his bold est move: to restore peace to revolt-torn Al geria. The question now is will it work. , There is gen eral aeree- ment that De . V I fTaiilta Is Via MAW man in France who could r i Phil Newsom n a v e onerea the Algerians self-determination, meaning complete inde pendence, .if . they so desire,' and gotten away with it. And even he probably could not have donevit without the backing of the new French constitution which took away j from the quarreling French deputies the right to topple governments at will or to pre vent legislation simply by their own inability to agree. Self-determ ination, De Gaulle said, would come not later than four years "after the effective return of peace." Feel Strong Militarily Militarily, the French now feel they have the upper hand in Algeria, with no sizeable areas any longer under rebel control. But it was an indication of the deplorable state" of affairs in Algeria that De Gaulle could define peace as a state in which no more than 200 persons per year were killed in ambushes and attacks. De Gaulle saw three possi- tightly to every part of the White House policy). Actually, the Vice-President is not at all desperate for pub lic salutes from the Presi dent In fact, a hands-off poli cy by the White House at the convention would not plunge him into despair; he thinks he can -win the nomination on his own. But he knows that any prospect of a final White House stance of total neutral ity is wholly unrealistic. How unrealistic it really is may be ssan by examining the second, and comparatively low-level, reason for the slow, inevitable destruction of Ei senhower "neutrality." All pleasant public state ments to the contrary, the GOP National Committee is pro-Nixon by better than 4 to 1. Its chairman, Senator Thur ston Morton of Kentucky,1 has said repeatedly that Rockefel ler will get a fair shake so far as this committee is concern ed. By this Morton actually means so far as such a situa tion can be said to be mean ingful - but this is not very far. -. : - a FOR NIXON is the entrench - ed and natural heir of or ganization Republicanism; the fact that in the housekeeping and surface sense the organi zation will be "neutral" does not change this heirship. And the Vice-President is certainly being done no harm in the 30,000-mile speaking tour on which Chairman - Morton is now engaged, crying out to the Republican faithful, "Re cruit for '60!" Before Morton has done, he will have been in 30 states holding 355 of the 537 Presidential electoral votes. Everywhere he goes he wUl point out what the present Administration is doing for "peace." You eannot carry presumed "neutrality" to the point where you speak as though Nixon were not a part of that Administration. And Morton is not even trying, as he made plain recently in Chi cago by saying that, of course, the Khrushchev visit had "plus value" forNixon. and the GOP. (Copyright, 1959, by U ailed Features Syndicate, Inc.) Transportation , Changes Planned Salem - (DPD Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill to day announced plans to com bine the PUC motor regula tion and rail transportation divisions into a single depart ment of transportation. Hill said the present posi tions of director of rail trans portation and of superintend ent of motor regulation would be abolished in favor of a new director of transportation. "These plans have been in progress for some time," Hill said. "It is expected they win be completed shortly." Personnel of the motor and rail rate departments already have been integrated, Hill said. The new division will handle regulatory matters con cerning motor, rail, and water transportation and also air traffic "as we are interested," HU1 added. Husbands! Wives! Get Pep.Vim; Feel Younger Thousands of couples are weak, worn-oat, exhausted because body lacks iron and Vitamin Bt. For a younger feeling after 40, try new, improved Ostrex Tome Tablets. Contain iron and high-potency dose Vita min Bi for quick, new younger pep. , vm. 3-iay "get-acquainted size only 69c. Or getJ-xonomy size, save 1 1.67. All druggist. bilities for the Algerians: out right secession; complete Frenchification" as a part of metropolitan France, or a gov ernment of Algerians within the framework of the French community to which other areas of former French-held Africa now belong. The Algerian revolt has been the source of steadily increasing irritations between France and her NATO allies. The revolt forced France to go back on her commitments to NATO and to place the cream of her army in Africa. France Makes Accusations On her side, France accused the Western allies of failing Matter of Fact aisoP THE BAD OMEN Washington The genial phoniness of Nikita S. Krush chev's U. N. proposal for i k" "general d i s-"v-sp-vI armament" is ill M r proven by I v it single blood- stained name: ' Hungary. It is even better p i o v e n ' by adding four names more: Poland, East Jns'oa A.isn Germany. Czechoslovakia and Romania. If the Red Army were to be totally disbanded, in ac cordance with Khrushchev's offer, aU these provinces Would be lost to the world Communist Empire within a matter of months. Even in pliable Romania and cautious Czechoslovakia, nothing but the Red Army sustains the native. Communist regime. They Jive by the "right of re entry", which .the Red Army exercised in Hunga. y. In Poland, Wladyslaw Go mulka & still respected and aanurea; nut uomulka's Con raunlst Party also lives by the Red Army. So does the sordid Uiricht government in East Germany, whose true situa tion is shown by the endless, heartrending outaow of ref ugees. , a a a '. rpHEREFORE, it is not ne:es A sary to analyse the trans parent f akery of Khrush chev's remarks on interna tional control of disarmament. It is a waste time to ex plore the other implications of the program Khrushchev presented to the U.N.''It is only necessary to1 look at Khrushchev's own situation. Far more than "Winston Churchill, Krushchev has not become the head of state "to preside over the liquidation of the empire." Since his U .N. program plainly involves the automatic - abandonment of much of the Soviet Empire, it is a grinning fraud. Normally this would not be particularly disturbing, since the Kremlin has been prac ticing the most shameless frauds in the field of disarma ment for the last four dec ades. But in the present cir cumstances, on the eve, of Khrushchev's crucial conver sations with President Eisen hower, the announcement of thTs grinning fraud is very disturbing indeed. THE one solid argument for 'the Khrushchev visit was the belief that Khrushchev had something serious to say, which- he wished to say only in person and only to tne President of the -United States. This mysterious some thing always seemed a bit like the Monster of Glamys, which was the only known head of the house and only shown to his heir, from father to eldest son for generation after generation. Yet there was good evidence for this mysterious something, and Counsel With . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan fmA V- Syr 4 Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. to understand French prob lems. . De Gaulle still is far from being out of the woods. The French already have said they will boycott any debate on the subject in the United Nations. But they des perately need support, and for this they are looking to the United States. There also is evidence the French army in Algeria does not wholly back the De Gaulle plan. On the night following De Gaulle's announcment army patrols went through ' Algiers pasting up posters pro claiming "Algeria Forever French." wise and expert men, includ ing the American Ambassa dor to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson, made the argu ment above-cited for inviting Khrushchev. Urihappily the one topic on ; which it really seemed possi ble that Khrushchev might have something vital and pri vate to say to President Eis enhower was the top'c of dis armament. Of course he may still have something to say on this topic. He no doubt wants to press for his inter im program, including the du bious Rapachi Plan among other things, which was em bedded in the larger program he outlined to the U.N. But after the kind of friv olous propaganda gesture Khrushchev made at the UJN., the odds against any fruitful discussion of disarmament have certainly increased. They were heavy .enough al ready, in view of Khrush chev's grimly rigid stand against any workable control system, taken at the Commu nist Party Congress in Mos sow last February. And if serious talk about disarma ment is ruled out at Camp David, the President and Khrushchev will almost b in the situation cf the guests in the old cartoon by the forgot ten Fish, depicting a- Palgi Beach dinner disrupted by a servant's strike. The caption remarked that . the , dineA were "Face to face with star vation, and what was vorse. with one another." "INDEED, . the Camp David scene will be even more unhappy; for the President and Khrushchev will also be face to face with Berlin, and 'r a l n Wim ijaos too. iu uic uuua baloo about Khrushchev, no one even seemed to notice the extraordinary extent of the commitment to defend Laos, which Secretary of State Christian Herter made at the ; U.N. the day before Khrushchev spoke. But it is in fact the settled policy of the U.S. government to use American military force if need be, to safeguard Laos against the current Commu nist attack. The explosive character of the situation in Laos is not at all diminished because the Communists have decided on a lull. The explosive charac ter of the Berlin crisis has no way been diminished, either, just because Khrushchev has been taking his time about bringing the crisis to a head. Nor is the American govern ment ready to surrender at Berlin. What is done about Berlin and Laos will be the acid test of the Khrushchev visit, and the result at Camp David may yet be good. But it must be admitted that what Khrush chev said ai the U.N. was a bad omen, precisely because it was too good to be true, (c) 1959, New York Her old Tribune Inc.) KIDS DAMAGE YOUR LIABILITY Legislation passed at the last session makes parents responsi ble for property intentionally destroyed by juveniles ... We have the proper coverage for your protection. Better check on it. V'- If' Bill Fish