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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfere', Or. Friday, Sept. 25, 1999 "Everyone w South em Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Diily except Saturday by " ftDJJi1 OKI) FtU.NTL.NCi CO 33 North Mi St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RITHL. Editor KERB GRE'V Advertising Manager ERIC W ALLEN JR Managing Kditor KARL B ADAMS, City Editor HARRY (JHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD jeWETT Sports Editor , OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editor An Indeoendent Newtsaper ' Entered a& second class matter al ftledforn Oregon under act ox March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ,Rr Mai I In Advance. Copy 10c DaU- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 ' Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8 .00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only Ona year $420 . fiv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Ear la Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill ' Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv- ' er. Talent and on motor routes , : Dail7 and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and unuay 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casr tn Advance Official Paper of City Medford otficlal Paper of Jacsson cooniy United Press International PuD Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAy CO.. INC. Of. fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Lot Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATION Al EDITORIAL ASCTa Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The NAail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sant. 25. 1949 (Sunday) Diane Fay Oden of Butte .Falls is only five days old hut that makes her three days .older than her aunt, Mary Ann, who was born Friday to "Diane's grandparents. State and federal foresters forbid slash burning because of heavy smoke and the dan ger of fires spreading. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1939 (Monday) Local Townsendites plan to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their unit here. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "An ef fort to organize saxophone players has failed. Fears were probably felt it was a plot to get them all together." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1929 (Wednesday) Bids are opened for the -widening of Pacific highway south of Medford. John Anderson of Central Point is named a chamber of commerce director. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1919 (Thursday) The Big Applegate is stocked with. 22,500 rainbow trout. A Siskiyou tunnel cave-in delays northbound traffic on the Southern Pacific. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 25, 1909 (Saturday) A "monster" 70-ton steam shovel is brought here for work on the P and E railroad. Medford may get a mattress ' factory. , What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is svperler; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is a magazine rifle a singie-saoi, or a repealing rifle? 2. Is the weight of pearls measured in carats, drams, or grains? 3. What do Moselle, Sau- terne, and Chianti have in common? 4. What birds can fly back wards? 5. Do the stars in the Amer ican flag have four, five, or six points, and do one or two points point up? 6. The names of three of the five Great Lakes are Su perior, Michigan and Ontario; name the other two. 7. With what sport do you associate Epsom Downs? 8. In what game is the term "a split" used? 9. Did Jack Dempsey win Sullivan, Johnson or Willard? - 10. A mythological creature depicted as half man and half horse is called ac r? Answers: 1. Repeating rifle 2. Grains. 3. All wines. 4. Hummingbirds. 5. Five points, one of which points straight up. 6. Huron and Erie. 7. Horse racing. 8. Bowling. 9. Willaxd. 10. Centaur. ADLERMAN APPOINTED Washington-flJPD-New York has been appointed acting chief counsel of the Senate Rackets committee. Chairman John McClellan (D-Ark.) said Adlerman will replace Robert F. Kennedy, who resigned as chief counsel earlier this month. -. "4 Railroads Clifford W. Ferguson was appointed director of rail transportation for the Oregon public utili ties office by Commissioner Charles Heltzel, a Republican. He was retained, and given greater leeway in his work, by Howard Morgan, the Democratic PUC under Gov. Bob Holmes. Under both Heltzel and Morgan, Ferguson received superior efficiency ratings. . He was active in a and was vigorous in presenting and protecting ins view ui uie jjuuuus road regulation. THIS week he was fired summarily by Jonel C. Hill, the Republican successor to Morgan and Heltzel. His division was transportation . section, both railroads and trucks. Hill's reasons for allegations of "misconduct, inefficiency, insub ordination and unfitness to render effective service." Ferguson will appeal service commission, where presumably the charg es will be thoroughly aired. Morgan has defended his former subordin ate by saying the firing on Gov. Mark Hatfield charge which was shrugged off by Warne Nunn, Hatfield s chief assistant. THE OREGON Statesman takes a dim view of the discharge. In part, it says: , "When it came to protecting the interest of Ore gon shippers, "Ferguson has been a vigorous fighter. He was active in the case dealing with rates on meats. He was the key figure in the effort to combat boxcar shortages which have plagued Oregon lumbermen at times. He conducted hearings on the Rogue River pas senger train case and submitted his report to Morgan before the latter's retirement. (The case has never been ruled on by the commissioner.) He represented the department in the Portland Traction passenger "S service case until it went to the courts. No one can say Ferguson hasn't been diligent in seeking to en- - force state regulation of railroads. Perhaps he was too diligent, but that was in line of duty. "Hill is the chief and the responsible head of the department; but it is a serious matter summarily to release one with the experience in rail regulation and knowledge of rail transportation that Ferguson has, ' particularly when Hill himself was an utter novice when he took over his duties eight months ago." DERHAPS there is more to the matter than, at the moment, meets the eye. If so, it well could come out at the civil service appeal. But unless and until ing as a victory for the railroads, who long have been out to "get" Ferguson for his stout defense of the public s rights. If this view is substantiated and it will take some pretty convincing and damning testi mony, to overthrow it then it will be a black mark indeed on Hill's record, and on Governor Hatfield's administration. E.A. $5 'for a A little-noticed law lature has been called forcibly to view by Thomas Swanton, justice of the peace in Coos Bay. It is to the effect that under the age of 18 to smoke, use or possess any form of tobacco m a public place. Before, the law prohibited adults from pro viding tobacco to minors; now the 17-or-under minor is himself liable to a fine of $5 or two days of jail for violation. Swanton has fined several youths. And at Hillcrest and MacLaren schools the law has created a real problem among boys and "girls who have the smoking habit, but now are de prived of cigarettes. It was a factor in the escape of four girls from Hillcrest earlier this week. The law is the law, and should be enforced. But we wonder if the legislature was aware of some of the complications. E.A. Bad It may be tnat every twice a year it does a day in bed, surrounded cold tablets, aspirin, couerh svrun. throat loz enges, tissue handkerchiefs, and all the other paraphernalia of misery associated with a bad cold. If it is humiliating to be so helpless, it also is humbling. One finds that one is not, after all, indispensable. And likewise is it salutory to see that the family secretary of health, education and wel fare actually does all the work around the house that she has often told you, a skeptic, that she does. : -' T'HERE ARE some compensations. One is waited on. Meals arrive on a tray. Er rands (to the office, to the drug store, to the grocery) are run for the invalid. Children mira culously keep their voices (and their radios) at lower volumes. v Even the dog, impervious to surprise, sniffs sympathetically. The bed is strewn with clippings, notebooks, magazines, typewriter, papers and other odd ments in gloriously disorderly array. And,; as the silver line in the thermometer gradually descends again to normal, and as vigor succeeds lassitude in head and limb, one again can face a return to work with eauanimitv. rested and - refreshed somewhat, thousrh still slisrhtlv runny of nose and bleary 9 Victory? dozen lines of endeavor, iiiLeicat ao icgoiua xau reorganized into a new with jurisdiction over firing Ferguson included his dismissal to the civil resulted from pressure by railroad interests- a it does, we view this fir Cigarette passed by the last legis it is illegal for youths Cold so often say once or person good to spend a by clinical thermometers, of eye. E.A. Dennis the Menace IHcN rvw CW OKI wpntiT woiia ni rwn Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - Charles E, Bohlen is coming home to the State Department to pro vide the most vitaUof service to a political party which more than once has. found him a great embarrassment. There is a real and iron ic possibility that this skel eton at many a past Re- p u blican i feast may now save the .GOP from fatal po litical errors in its danger ous commitment to negotia tions With Nikita Khrushchev. The strange twists and turns sometimes taken by public affairs - could not be more oddly illustrated. For a single example: Bohlen would not now be available at all but for a man who wholly disapproved of him but neverthless defended him, the late Senator Robert A. Taft. Chip Bohlen is one of the few true experts, among whole platoons of self-nom inated experts, in the field of Soviet affairs. He has now been recalled, from long semi banishment as Ambassador to the Philippines, to be a spe cial adviser in President Eis enhower's climactic talks with Mr. Khrushchev. THE late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ChiD out of the Moscow Em bassy 'in May 1957 and pack ed him off to Manila. To farm out such a diplomat to such a post is like sending a star ball player from the New York Yankees to the weak est club in the Three-Eye league. For Bohlen has been, for nearly two decades a real rjro in dealine with the Rus- Dianc ua irmnnra Tnom HO nan easily handle their language. And he can. also understand what they jmean and don't say. The President simply could not have an abler helper in getting down to the gut issues with the Soviet Premier. But Bohlen - though him self a Republican - is not only an able man. He also made the mistake cf attending the wartime Yalta Conference on the staff taken along by Franklin Roosevelt. At Yalta Mr. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill made vast conces sions to Josef Stalin in or der to bring the Soviet Union into our war against Japan. hindsight Yalta was at least a great mistake. The Try and William S. White -By BENNETT CERF- THIS IS Florence Fletcher's thumbnail description of New York City at the turn of the century: "A New York in which the Flatiron Building was the tallest in the world, in. which cabs meant horses, in which policemen wore butter-tub. helmets and ladies- wore cartwheel hats with ostrich plumes wob bling on top, and in which cyclists in knickers rode 5 ieet high bicycles and ladies played .- tennis in trailing dresses ..." Edward Streeter, author of the memorable "Father of the Bride," has a new . winner called "Mr. Robbing Rides Again," the dedicatory page j. ot which reads. To Judy ... stubborn ingrate that she is . . . I love her stilL" Judy, in case you are puzzled, is a horser-possibly the first nag in history to whom a best-seller ever has been dedicated. . Sign in a Broadway producer's office: "Be kind to your enemies: remember you made them." 1959, by Bennett Cert. Distributed by Kins Featurei Syndicate S. WHITE Republicans went much fur ther and called it a betrayal of non-Communist Interests. Bohlen, though he went to Yalta under orders, was thus caught in the middle; he was the foreign service officer least likely to, succeed with the Republicans. The 1952 Republican cam paign platform, one largely drafted by Mr. Dulles, called in effect for repudiation of Yalta. But when, in 1953, the E i s e nhower Administration came in, Mr. Bohlen was nom inated by President Eisenhow er to head our mission to Mos cow. N - For many of the Senate Re publicans, notably Senator Styles Bridges and the late Senator Joe McCarthy, this was much too much. They marshaled to have the Sen ate refuse to confirm the nom- inaion. Only an extraordinary alliance between "Mr. Repub lican," Senator Taft, and. the Democrats saved the day. Taft found it almost impos sible ta believe that an. ad ministration which had come to power denouncing Yalta had then chosen as Ambassa dor to Moscow a participant in Yalta. He was furious. And he was still sore at the treat ment he himself had received in the 1952 convention which had nominated Eisenhower instead of Taft himself. '. TUT Taft in big crises was O a big man, a responsible man. He refused to join the GOP clamor against the ap- Dointment. Even though he too, thought it was "incred ible," he also knew that its reiection bv the Senate would destroy the Eisenhower lead- ershiD before it began. It was Taft. therefore, who went to bat for Bohlen. He denounced as ugly rubbish the false innuendoes against the diplomat's loyalty. And so Bohlen was at length hanrt somely confirmed by the Sen ate. 74 to 13. "I did the job, yes," Taft later wryly, told this corres pondent. "But don't get any idea that I enjoyed it. It had to be done to avoid destroy ing a Republican administra tion at the start. But I did one other thing, too. I sent word down to those people (mean-. ing the White House) that no more Bohlens were to be .ap-: pointed." It is not inconceivable tnat the one Bohlen allowed ' by Taft to get through may him self, through his unique knowledge of the Russians, still "avoid destroying a Re publican administration." (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Sydncate, Inc.) Stop Me British Labor Party Leader, Gaitskeil, Is Phil Nevsom's Man for This Week By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Brit ish Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskeil. The place: London. The quote: "Mr. Khrushchev has put for ward a sweep ing plan for scrapping all arms. Why could not the British gov ernment have given this a warm wel come instead ,yle C. Wilson OI X n e tepid comment that we have so far had?" Britishrpublic opinion polls put their fingers on the na tional pulse this week. Their findings sent chills down the spines of the heretofore cocky conservatives, and warmed the hearts of Laborites. Only last week, the poUs had shown the conservatives holding a commanding 7 per cent or more lead among the voters who will go to the polls in Britain's national elections Oct. 8. This week the margin had fallen to 3 or 4 per cent. Conservatives Running Scared From now on, the conserva tives would be "running scared." Heading up Labor's, drive was a 52-year-old former eco- Hitch Put Into : Bond Sale for Astoria Bridge Salem-flJPD-The State High way commission was advised Thursday by a bond attorney firm that in its opinion the commission cannot sell bonds necessary to finance the pro posed Columbia river bridge at Astoria and Megler, Wash., unless Washington state goes half of the cost. No Legal Authority Washington state officials already have notified Oregon they have no legal authority to underwrite half of the def icit. The deficit would consti- stitute the difference between the annual operation cost and retirement of the bonds, and toll revenues. Shuler, Sayre, Winfree and Rankin, bond attorney firm in Portland, said the commis sion could sell separate bonds to relocate State Highway 42 between Roseburg and Co- quille,- if federal matching money was available. Both the bridge proposal and the highway relocation were authorized by the 1959 legislature by sale of $24 mil lion in bonds. No Money Now Highway Engineer W. C Williams said that as of now, no federal money is available for that purpose. One way to get the highway project roll ing, he said, would be to start with a bond issue of $400,000 and use $600,000 of the $8 million earmarked by the government for Oregon state primary highway projects. The commission Thursday approved parking for 80 ad ditional cars in the ski area of Government Camp on Mt. Hood and improvement of the road adjacent to the Fred Meyer Raleigh Hills store in Portland. Cost of the new Govern ment Camp parking will be $5,000. The commission said the Portland road improve ment cost would be $26,000 but Meyer offered to pay $18,000 of it. More Time Given In other action the commis sion agreed to give cities more time before the change over from-yellow stripe lines to white. Next year white will be mandatory. Approval was given . to posted speeds of 70 miles per hour on the Salem bypass. The commission had a meet ing scheduled today and planed one for Oct. 29 at As toria to discuss relocation of the coast highway between Astoria and Gearhart. Other meetings this year are set for Nov. 5-6 and Dec. 17-18. Brown Doubtful on Johnson Support Sun Valley, Idaho - (LTD - California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, mentioned as a pos sible Democratic presidential candidate, said he would find it "difficult" to support Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas as presidential candidate for his party. - An aide to the governor said it was the first time he had heard the California chief executive speak as strongly either for or against any pos sible Democratic candidate. Brown made the statement while en route to the Western Governors Conference here. Brown said the civil rights and oil positions taken by Texas and its representatives were "repugnant" to other states. , nimics instructor, Hugh Gait skeil, who hopes to succeed conservative Harold Macmil- lan as British, prime minister. Ably abetting him was Aneurin Bevan, a Welshman noted for his fiery speeches, who would be counted upon to carry the burden when the political in -fighting got the roughest. Gaitskeil took over leader ship of the badly - divided Labor Party from Earl Clem ent Attlee in 1955, after a meteoric rise. But though he was the party leader and its chief spokesman, even into this year he remained an un known to most Britishers. He lacked political "glamor." Took To Provinces In an attempt to change that, this week he took to the provinces on a 2,000 - mile Taxpayers Can Win Tax Cut by Seeking Economy, Wilson Says By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (UPD - If the voting taxpayers of the United States were not listening to Maurice Stans the other day, it was their fault, not his. M o r e o v e r, they deserve no sympathy. Maurice H. Stans is the U. S. Budget Dire c tor. Cyie c. wusod What he was saying this week was this: That U.S. taxpayers could win a tax cut without any reduc- In the Day's N By FRANK The Russian rocket is be lived to have hit the moon in an. area known to some astronomers as the Sea of Serenity and to other astron omers as the Sea of Tran quility. ... Hmmmmmm. Maybe this space travel idea does have something to recommend it, after all. HURRICANE Gracie, with winds up to 100 miles an hour churned slowly through the Atlantic today, less than 500 miles distant from the Florida coast. Small craft warnings were displayed from' Miami to the Carolinas. Fall is here. That's the sure sign. "II'ORE. weather: . The temperature dropped to a record 110 degrees BE LOW ZERO at the U. S South Pole station Sunday The report said temperatures last week averaped 100 de grees below zero for four days. Comforting thought: No matter how bad our weather night get during the upcoming winter, it can't get as bad as that. NOW Rark to Mr. K. He's touring an Iowa farm today to try to learn how 12 per cent of this nation's popu lation produces enough food for all of its people with a big surplus left over. In Rus sia it takes oo ner cent oi the total population to pro duce an admittedly inade quate diet for the Soviet pop ulation. At the start of the trip, U. N. Ambassador Henry Ca bot Lodge recited a long list of statistics on American farm production and high liv ing standards of the Ameri can farmer. In reply, Mr. K said it was UNFAIR to compare the out put of American and Russian farmers because American agriculture is a PROFIT MAKING VENTURE WHILE R U S S IA'S AGRICULTURE IS A COOPERATIVE AF FAIR! OF all the strange things Mr. K has said during his visit, that is in many ways the strangest. Any way one reads it, it seems to suggest that somewhere in the back of his inquiring mind there lurks the thought that maybe, after all, this American sys tem of free enterprise does have its points. ARX, who lived more than a century ago, taught that communism must even tually supplant capitalism be cause communism is a more ADVANCED way of life than capitalism. Communism HASN'T sup planted capitalism. That thought must be bothering Mr. K. . Particularly at this moment, because of some strange things .that are hap pening in Kussia. upper bracket Russian communists in Russia have begun to do some odd things. . They are PAID HIGHER swing liberally interspersed with the whistle stops familiar to American politics. . A difficulty for labor has been the scarcity of real poli tical1 issues. Britain is pros perous and unemployment is comparatively low. On foreign policy, particu larly as regards nuclear weap ons, the Labor Party is divid ed within itself but generally must follow the conservative line of close ties with the United States. So it was with alacrity that Gaitskeil thumped the drums for the Khrushchev disarma ment proposal and the new chance he held it offered for world peace. The chance had been given him by the Conservatives' cautious approach to the plan, paralleling closely the reac tion on military spending if they demanded economy in other areas. Stans knows where the gov ernment's money comes from and he knows where it goes. It is not idle talk when Stans says the voters could compel economy in government if they demanded it. The plain meaning of Stans' comment is that a great many of the dollars Congress squeezes from the U. S.. taxpayer are spent wastefully to no imme diately essential purpose. Such as that should make the U. S. taxpayer angry and set him to thinking about cor rective ways and means. It JENKINS than the common run of Rus sians. And They are beginning to AC CUMULATE property. They are helped in this direction by the Russian tax system The maximum income tax in Russia is only 13 per cent, The inheritance tax is only 10 per cent. So- Not only are these Russian bureaucrats and technologists enabled to ACCUMULATE property. They are enabled to. BEQUEATH it to their heirs. That sounds like the beginnings of a capitalistic system. BEFORE coming over to visit us, Mr. K made the boastful statement that in the lone run communism will BURY capitalism. It just might be, you know, that these developments are straws in the wind. Maybe in Russia capitalism is begin ning to bury communism. 50-Year Members Of Oregon Bar To Be Honored Bend-flJPD-Members of the Oregon State Bar today faced a schedule of business meet ings and lectures before the highlight of the day, the an nual dinner, which will hon or active members who have been admitted to the bar for more than 50 years. Raymond Burr of Holly wood, Calif., who is better known as Perry Mason, one of televisions top sleuths, will be the featured banquet speaker. George L. Hibbard, Oregon City, president of the Oregon State Bar, is presiding over the 25th annual convention. Civic Duty Alfred T. Sulmonetti, Mult nomah county circuit judge, said in a talk Thursday that employers had a civic duty to encourage employees to serve on trial juries. He said juries were getting too high a percentage of elder ly and other retired persons. About one-third of persons called for jury duty in Mult nomah county are excused because they cannot afford to take time off from employ ment, he said. Report Approved Attorney approved a report by Merlin Estep Jr. of Salem which calls for a law to force speedy taking of an arrested person before a magistrate. Estep said the law at present calls for a speedy hearing but that some officers had an idea they have a right to delay such action for 72 hours. Also approved was a state wide poll for bar sentiment on the "Missouri plan" of judge selection. This calls for a judge to be appointed by the governor from a list sub mitted by a nominating com mittee and then to run for election on his -record, with out specific opposition. j tion in the United States. Whatever the polls said, Gaitskeil needed a break. Last month, he and Bevin visited Moscow and talked to Khrushchev. But any publicity value they might have gained was lost completely in the ex citement of the coming Khru shchev visit to the U.S. Earlier this year he had con demned the government move to liberate the pound sterling, only to have it snap back at him m the face of the coun try's mounting prosperity. But as one labor leader said: "I think the British people always appreciated the horse that is coming up in the straight, that has been behind and takes the lead at the finish. That is our expecta tion." should wind him up to tight resolve about next year's pres idential and congressional elections. That resolve should be to clobber on election day tne politician who clearly can be tagged as a spender: to clobber him good, and to elect in his place a politician who clearly can be tagged as a tax- payer's man. Should Ask Questions If the taxpayer believes U.S. taxes are outrageously high and should be reduced, then he should ask next year's candidates some questions. Among these questions should be this: Where, when and by how much would you vote to reduce government spending? That is, in what areas o gov ernment spending would the candidate be willing to cut? Such questions would ob tain a great deal of evasive double talk in response, and it would be up to the question ing taxpayer to make the can didate answer up. It would not be enough, either, merely to elect economy candidates to Congress or to the White House. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 on a platform which promised a 25 per cent cut in governrrient spending. FDR was inaugur ated in March, 1933. His econ omy program collapsed in April. It is close to impossiblfi to prevent politicians from becoming big spenders with other people's money your money. It is not quite impos sible, however. A taxpayer's rebellion would do it. It Could Be Simple The politician who knew he would probably be licked next time up if he voted to loot the treasury would be very like to vote against same. It could be as simple as that. The massive pressure by which voters rammed a labor reform bill through the last session of Congress could ram through the next session some tax cutting ' economy mea sures. The political mechanics of such an operation would be identical. Taxpayers must be fired-up considerably before they will put that kind of pressure on Congress. Firing up the tax payers will, be quite a job. They seem to be fire-proof, else there would have been long since in the United States political explosion to blow lot of free-wheeling, free- spending politicos out of office and back to the boondocks. A comforting thought: It could happen here. SPANKING CHILDREN London (UPD Magistrate Reginald Seaton, who twice had advised parents of run away children to spank them, reported Thursday that his 15-year-old son David had run away. o beautiful "new roog in just one day with 9 W THE OE LUXE LATEX WALL PAINT tUCIAUSTS IN HOmtWAKtil 245 S. Central at 10th
