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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. , Thursdsy, Oct. 1, 1959 "Everyone u Southern Oregon Reads The MM Tribune" feubltshed DtiXy except Saturday by MJ-DFOitD PHINTDJO CO 83 North ffa St Ph SP a-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertifrinf Manager GEI'AJJJ LATHAM Business Met ERIC W ALLEN JK. Managing Kdrtor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teles Editor RICHARD JKWETf Sports Editor OLIVE STAR(!HER Women Editor DALE CRICKS' N Circulation MP An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medial Orrron under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a 1 in Advance Coot lde. DaU- and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uaiiy ana Sunday e mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold H1U Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. 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Ashland merchants voice disapproval of any enforce ment of the city's jay-walking law. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1939 (Sunday) Three more east side dogs are poisoned, and investiga tors press their search for the poisoner, who has operated intermittently in the Siskiyou Heights area. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Henry Offenbacher of the Applegate hayed Tues. with the tooth ache. Either one is bad enough, without the) other, 30 YEARS AGO Oct. I. 1929 (Tuesday) Between 10,000 and 12,000 letters will be placed on the first airplane carrying mail from Medford'a new airport tonorrow. The Medford city council orders all taxi stands re moved from Main st. 40 YEARS AGO Oct, 1, 1919 (Wednesday) Mann's department store celebrates its ninth anniver sary. "Table Rock Tablets" re ports very few went to Med ford last Tuesday to greet the president, there being too much rush work on hand. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 1. 1909 (Friday) Surveyors and graders are busy on the P and E railroad President Taft will arrive by special train about 6 pjn. Mondav in Mediora, dui is ex pected to be still abed at that hour. What's Your l.Q.7 Nine or fen correct la inferiors seven or eight is excellent; five ot fix is good. l. Premier Khrushchev while visiting the U. S. re cently, was accompanied Dy nis wife: true or false? 2. What was the first major league team to win a World Series? 3. Was "Becky Thatcher" the sweetheart of Huck Finn, or of Tom Sawyer?-' .. 4. Complete this title with the name of a city; "Lloyds of . . ." 5. On which side of a man's hat is the bow? 6. Does the term "open hearth" suggest to you copper refining, steel making, or bread baking? 7. Lobsters are correctly classified as fish, mammals, or crustaceans? 8. Name the Negro slave who was the subject of a cel ebrated Supreme Court deci sion. 9. In what city is the Uni versity of Colorado? . 10. Generals . Meade and Lee, respectively, commanded the Union and Confederate armies at what great battle? Answers: 1. True. 2. Rod Sox; -(over -Pittsburgh in 1903). 3. Tom Sawyar. 4. Lon don. 5. Left side. 6. Sleel mak ing. 7. Crustaceans. 8. Dred Scott. 9. Boulder. 10. Gettysburg. Not Whether-When? The most. Hismiietiner uiece of news since the announcement, 10 years ago, that Russia could make atomic weapons is found in the speculations of 'Alton Blakeslee, the renowned science expert of the Associated Press. He says Red China may now have atomic bombs. TTp malcps two other minds us, there is no Second, he says, The big question is not wnetn er China will make her own weapons but when?" In his informed speculations Mr. Blakeslee suggests Oct 1 as the day the Chinese could an nounce they have the bomb. On that day China will celebrate 10 years of Communist rule. In the parade reviewing stand that day will be Big Daddy Khrushchev. The date would be a natural. PIE existence ; of atomic bombs anywhere even here is chilling enough. It is more chil ling when tfie bombs are stacked in countries we do not regard as friendly. And it is worse yet if leadership in those countries is unstable. Americans the past two weeks saw Russia's No. 1 man, a man given to tantrums, to rash state ments, to hair-trigger action. In the western world peace is somewhat as sured because of a cultural respect for human life. The Russian people, if not the government; share this western reverence for life. The sure knowledge on all sides that atomic victory would be almost as disastrous as atomic defeat may be the greatest safeguard we have. . TTHIS safeguard is less safe in the case of China .4. where millions die annually of starvation and disease. While the Chinese probably don't like the idea of long casualty lists, the idea is not so sobering to them as it is to us or even to the Russians. Now what? Do we blow China off the map right now? Unlikely and risky to boot. Do we look down our noses at Chinese tech nology, viewing the Chinese as we viewed the Russians before Sputnik, as people who can make only wheelbarrows? More likely and just as risky. Do we resign ourselves to living in the shadow of an atomic cloud and do we let the Communist Eowers have their way because we fear their ombs? Unthinkable. ")NE other course remains. We must learn to see the world as the world is. These Chinese cannot be ignored. We must reassess our belief that our refusal to let Chinese sit at the world peace table is harmful to. the Chinese. It isn t particularly. But it could be harmful to us. The Chinese can stay home and build bombs. Last week our delegate to the United Nations, Walter S. Robinson, made a strong case against admitting" Red China to the U.N. While his argu ments were good, other countries can advance other arguments, arguments which will become more persuasive if it turns out the Chinese have the bomb. THE other nations may not relish sitting down a hnnniTA niuu cm uuvia w uauuii wiav uao uciia v CLi iiscu as wretchedly as the Chinese have behaved. But they may be even more disturbed by the know ledge that there is upon the earth a nation with atomic bombs and without the right to sit in on the deliberations of the instrranentffor peaceful Realistically, then, we session of the bomb would, bring the Chinese closer to membership m the United Nations. Of course Alton Blakeslee could be wrong. Maybe the Chinese don't have the bomb. If they don't, however, he is only partly wrong. He's still right when he says it's not a question of whether but of when. If the big date isn't Oct. 1, it will be Nov. 1 or a year from Oct. 1 or five years from Oct 1. Eugene Register-Guard. Poor Legislation The current dilemma of the Oregon Highway Commission with reference to special bonds authorized by the Oregon Legislature shows con clusively, I believe, the fallacy of a legislature trying to act as an administrative agency. The Legislature, acting under political pres sures, authorized bonds to build Oregon's share of a bridge across the Columbia River at Astoria and to start reconstruction of Highway 42, Win ston to Coos Bay. The stipulation was made, how ever, that federal matching funds must be avail able. The bridge bonds also were made contingent upon the State of Washington putting up half the cost TPHE Highway Commission finds now that if " to rebuild Highway 42 it matches such federal funds as are available, no other part of the state can get highway construction. Yet the commis sion is besieged by delegations urging roads and highways for their particular areas roads of great importance and serving large numbers of people. At the same time Oregon Lifesavers Inc. are pointing to the inadequacy of exisiting highways and the large number of automobile accidents because road facilities aren't sufficient for the traffic they must accommodate. A legislature yielding to pressures by house wives and political leaders presents a sorry pic ture when it attempts to override sound engine ering, complicated formulas and normal pro cedures. The legislature, should learn its lesson from the current situation." Roseburg News Review. - Doints. also. First, he re "secret" of the bemb. world s chief political discussion. must concede that pos Dennis the Menace Matter ot Fact CRUCIAL LAST ARGUMENT Washington - The clue to the President's achievement at Camp David is provided by the last curi ous scene be tween him and Nikita Khru mJ shchev, as re- ' - : Tvnrf nn Tin. z doubted a u- i 1 thority. I . Just to set the stage, the P r e s i d ent's feelings about Jojpb Alsop the Berlin crisis must be un derstood. In brief, he has seen nothing sinister in Khrush chev's decision to reopen the question of Berlin. What has seemed sinister to Eisenhow-er-what in fact made the Ber lin crisis into a crisis was Khrushchev's continuous use of crude threats, his repeated mentions of time limits for ac tion on Berlin, and his gen eral employment of what may be called ultimatum diplo macy. These being the President's feelings, he at once tackled Khrushchev on this point at Camp David. In reply, the So viet leader overflowed with reassurances. Khrushchev said that he had never meant to use threats. He denied any in tent to set hard and fast time limits. He disclaimed any pur pose in ultimatums. He swore that all he wanted was peace able : negotiations aimed at general agreement on more normal arrangements for Ber lin's future. TITHEN it came time to write T the Camp David commu nique, the President naturally wished these assurances of Khrushchev's to be reflected in the published text. The draft communique did in fact include some such statement as the President made at his press conference. There he said he and Khrushchev had agreed that the renewed ne gotiations on Berlin "should not be prolonged indefinitely but there could be no fixed time limit on them." Khrushchev sharply protest ed this passage in the draft. The argument, carried on be fore witnesses, was brisk and prolonged. Khrushchev re peatedly admitted that the language proposed for the communique embodied his own agreement with the President. But he kept insist ing that if this part of the agreement appeared in the communique itself, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would be encouraged to drag out the Berlin talks "for another twenty-five years." At length, a novel compro mise was reached. The Presi dent was to announce at his Monday press conference that "in addition to what the com munfque said," he; and Khru shchev had also agreed "there could be no fixed time limit" on the negotiations. In Mos cow, Khrushchev was then to confirm this Presidential ad Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A FOND MOTHER found the baby-sitter nursing a very black eye. "It couldn't have been Junior," she decided automatically. "He's usually as good as gold." ; "Humphh!"' snorted the baby-sitter grimly. "Well, about 40 minutes ago Jun ior went off the gold stand ard." Some years ago, William Faulkner, Nobel Prize nov elist, placed an order with, his publishers for all the Dostoyevsky -novels. "In several reviews of my books," he noted, "critics detected a Dostoyevsky in- iuence, but I've never read a line by him. Td like to , see the animal I'm supposed to be aping. Cedric the Chicken-hearted, twelfth century feudal baron, roamed the English countryside, chopping up dragons, peasants, knights, serfs (oh, no!), and oafs. The motto engraved on Ms sword scab bard, sad to relate, was: "Half an oaf is better than one." 019 by Bennett Cert Distribated by Kinr Itotarei Syndfcate. Practicin. WUy?1 Alsop dition to the Camp David com munique. By then, it was so late that the Eisenhower- Khrushchev party came down from the mountains at eighty miles an hour. ".NCE in Washington, the " State Department mem bers of the party discovered that a false assumption had been made at Camp David. It had been expected that Khru shchev would give the prom ised confirmation to the Presi dent in his Moscow speech: but it was suddenly noted that the Khrushchev speech in Moscow would actually be de livered before the President's press conference had conven ed. Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter therefore asked Soviet Foreign Minister An drei Gromyko to make sure that Khrushchev kept his promise to the President in a secondary public statement be fore he left Moscow for Pe king. v If this agreement between Eisenhower and Khrushchev really proves enduring (and the "if is very big indeed), then the President has at least made one , big gain at Camp David. Negotiations with no fixed time limit clearly mean negotiations with no more ultimatums, and no more brutal threats of Soviet uni lateral action at Berlin. AN THE other hand, the President's gain is plain ly ' balanced by a gain for Khrushchev. The President had quietly abandoned his former insistence on "prior justification' for a summit conference, in the form of proof of "progress" towards an acceptable agreement 4 on ueriin. . At the President's press con ference, it seemed that Khru shchev had made even ereat- er gains. The President, who has been much more ill and weary than most people sup pose, really seemed to have added Neville Chamberlain'; umbrella to Stanley Baldwin'; defense budget. The White House and the State Denarfc. ment therefore had to swing into action after the press con ference was over, explaining that the President had no in tentions of sacrificing any of tne west Berliners" rights, or any of the Western rights in Berlin. To judge this point, howev er, it is wise to wait for the summit meeting which now seems inevitable. Even after fullest allowances are made for the effects of the Presi dent's cold and his weariness, it certainly sounded as though he were the one who was showing "give" on the Berlin issue. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. The official title of Britain's Conservative Party is the Na tional Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. Stop Mo Communications Prospectors' Luck To the Editor: Not aU the gold pockets and stringers have been traced up and found in southwest Oregon. As the hills aui mountains continue to erode away, new discoveries will be made by the alert prospector. A young man we knew from childhood who graduat ed from a mining school, up on being questioned why he did not .- follow a - mining career, prompUy replied, that it was the most uncertain vo cation in his chosen field. In short, all mineral prospecting is in . the same category as taking a gambler's chance. But aU the lucky ones as weU as . the unlucky are being fascinated somehow in their lifetime to take uncertain chances of fortune. It is a recorded fact, strange as it seems, most all mineral discoveries of imp ortance have : been found accidently. Both patience and persever ance are required for the ad venturer so inclined. -Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford. Y'AU. Come To The Editor: The Med ford Fifty Plus club wiU meet Friday, Oct. 2, .at 12 noon, sharp, at the St. Mark's Epis copal Guild hall on the north east corner of Fifth and Oak dale. Music by the Alexander's Hawaiian Band, games, sing ing and other entertainment. ' Ladies will please bring pot luck lunch: The male element will help dipose of it. Friendly members of the Fifty Plus club: welcome vis itors from 50 to 150 years young; so don't sit alone and mope; enjoy" life's autumn. Nothing is so - bad that it couldn't be worse; could have been winter already. So eat and be merry (we don't drink) for tomorrow-er-we begin to look forward to next Friday's meeting. Come on in, the cof fee's fine. Pearl Spackman, Club Reporter, Box 33, Jacksonville, Ore. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Women in the news: Typhoon Vera and Hurri cane Grade. Vera has done her do. In the Japanese Islands, she has killed 1.132 nersons. left 1.475 missing, injured 4,668 and de stroyed the homes of almost a million more. She is the third wofst of her kind in history. Hurricane Grade is a tem peramental character. She threw a tantrurri several days ago, and then .calmed down, Now she's off on a real "bend er, whirling like a buzz saw out of control and racmg to ward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas - and getting deadlier by the moment. II7HAT does it all mean? ' I wouldn't know. But on this terrestrial baU a lot of men have too much power. It's bad business. Maybe old Mother Nature is staging a demonstration to prove that she too has a lot of power and when she chooses to mis use it it's AWFUL. QUESTION: Why do they name ber serk hurricanes for women? Again I wouldn't know. But I suspect some cynical misogynist started it. If so, he was wrong. There is plen ty of evidence to the contrary. Sir Walter Scott's lines from Marmion, for example: "O woman! In our hours of ease, "Uncertain, coy and hard to please, "And variable as the shade "By . the 1 i g h t quivering aspen made; "When pain and anguish wring the brow, "A ministering angel thou!" -. rpHERE'S Madame Khru- -a. shchev - who seems to have made a terrific hit with everyone who came in con tact with her. The Washing ton reporters describe her as sweet and kindly - with her official hostesses, Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, wife of the U.S. ambassador to the UJJ., and Mrs. Llewyllen Thompson, wife of the American assis tant secretary of state. AND , . With the help around Blair House, which is the American guest house for distinguished foreign visitors. It is related by the correspondents - that she would often put a friend ly hand on the arm of the Blair House housekeeper and invite her to sit and watch television or chat with her in a between - appointments re laxed moment. No one who saw her on TV could fail to be favorably impressed by her kindly, motherly face. And also she had the basic, thoughtful courtesy to LEARN OUR LANGUAGE before coming to visit us. Five-Year Finding Way to Meeting Table By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The five-year Algerian War, written in the blood of French settlers, soldiers and rebel Al gerians alike, is not finding it easy to find its way to the pen and ink of the conference table. French - President Charles de Gaulle's offer of self-deter mination for Alegria within four years after peace prob ably is as far as any French politician dare go. To readers outside France, the reply of the Algerian reb els to his offer seemed mild, especially so in view of the savage attack against De Gaulle.delivered in the United Nations by a representative of the Arabian people, the delegate from Saudi Arabia. But it is apparent that, de spite the restraint demon strated both by De Gaulle's offer and by the rebel reply, much blood stul wul flow be fore the billion-dollar-a-year Algerian revolt is settled. There apears to be Today & Tomorrow By Walter ROUND ONE The first round being con cluded, one can say, I think, that the President's initiative has prospered. His -'main pur pose in pro posing the ex change of vis its was to re open the clog ged and frozen channels o f d i p 1 o m atic o n m m uniea- Lippmann tion between the Western alliance and the Soviet Union. This he has done, and this is the meaning and the significance of the conversations at Camp David. There are to be exchanges through normal diplomatic channels. When our allies have been consulted about the place, the time, and the agen da, there will be a Foreign Ministers' meeting and a sum mit meeting. There are. to be continuing multi-lateral nego tiations about nuclear testing and about disarmament. There are to be bi-lateral negotia tions about cultural exchang es and also about a settlement of the lend-lease debts. And beyond aU these, . there is to be in the spring a visit by the President and his family to the Soviet Union. . . This much Is on the record How far there was a meeting of minds off the record on the specific; issues, we do not now know. But Mr. K. in his press conference on Sunday implied that there had. been more understandings than the official communique reveals. This is in a way confirmed by the fact that the President has aereed to an elaborate and extended series of negotia tions, something he would not have done had tne taiss at Camp David become irrecon cilably deadlocked. I can see now that I had failed to realize how mighty are the compulsions which are working on both the President and on Mr. K. They are com pulsions to find ways by which, as - the communique said, "all outstanding inter national questions" can "be settled not by the application of force but by peaceful means through negotiations." For neither of the heads of gov ernments is there, to use the memorable sentence spoken by Mr. Eisenhower some years ago, "any alternative to peace." ; , THE SOURCE of these com pulsions is the race of arm aments. As between the U. S. S. R. and the U. S. A. there exists a balance of power in the sense that any war, how ever "limited" it might be when it began, would threat en to become a total war. Each of the two governments is able to inflict intolerable and un acceptable losses upon the oth er's country, and neither could "win" a war which caused such widespread, such long lasting, and such irreparable devastation. Although the bal ance of power may fluctuate, there is at present no prospect whatever of the kind of scientific- breakthrough which would give one or the other of the governments a safe and re liable supremacy. This exerts a mighty com pulsion upon them to respect the status quo, whether it be that of the Western presence in West Berlin or that of the Soviet presence in Eastern Eu rope. The agreement to open up a series of negotiations rests upon the applied assump tion that while diplomacy can not change importantly the status quo, it can make it more acceptable and more vi able. TN BOTH governments the A compulsion to attempt to do this springs from two great considerations. I Algerian War Is Not strengths and weaknesses on both sides. De Gaulle's offer of self de termination preduded any po litical negotiations with the rebel government - in - exile headed by Ferhat Abbas. It did permit military ne gotiations for a cease-fire. Yet in rebel eyes, to prohibit po litical negotiations would be only to deprive them of their arms while leaving all the trumps in French hands.J : The French take the view that the rebels are a minority without the right to speak-for the majority of Algerians, yet the rebels represent the only organized group in Algeria and without , them it would seem impossible to negotiate a political settlement. . . Sahara Not Included . ' De Gaulle's offer made it clear that the vast Sahara would not be included in the deal. But he. did offer a par tition arrangement whereby those of opposing views could be partitioned. The rebels' reply said they never would Lippmann The first consideration, which is widely recognized, is that the cost of armaments, forty billions here and twenty five billions in the Soviet Un ion, is a very heavy mortgage on social and economic devel opment. One of the most in teresting little disdosures made by Mr. K. was his per sonal impatience with the bur dens of his own military es- I tablishment. , Mr. Eisenhower is very con scious indeed of what it means to spend forty billions a year. And undoubtedly he is aware of the fact that after the tax reduction made by his Admin istration, the pressure on the budget from the Pentagon on the one hand, from the civil needs of , our: people on the other, constitute a permanent threat of inflation. Moreover, the pressure on the dollar, which is no joke, comes in some part from our enormous military . expenditures abroad both for our allies and for our selves. One high European au thority estimates them at ten billions annually, which is about half of our gold reserve. But there is a second con sideration which exerts great compulsion -on the heads of governments. It is that if the situation does not get better, it will get much worse. If the race of armaments cannot be brought at least to a standstill, if not to some reduction of armaments, it will mean ihat the international climate is very dangerous. This will mean that both governments must quicken their pace, and spend increasingly larger amounts of money. The race today is a heavy burden. But if we cannot reach a truce in the cold war, the race must become faster and the burden heavier. For the Russians this will mean a slow-down in their develop ment. For us it will mean a new big tax bite taken out of private enterprise and out of private consumption. With these- compulsions working upon them, the Presi dent and Mr. K. have staked so much on these exchanges that they cannot afford to let them fail. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. oom from ANK MORGAN . HMOID DAY OR NIGHT M - SI accept partition of any kind.i This vast desert is compar able in size to the United States, yet it has only about 840,000 inhabitants. Burning and waterless, it is comparable' to the poles in its unfriendliness to man. Yet into this area, the French will next year pour some 260 million dollars. The rewards: Some of . the most important oil fields in the world." By 1965, the French expect petroleum out put to reach 50 million tons' per year through pipelines Lnow being construded. In addition, there is coal and vast applies of iron and nat ural as. There is copper and some explorations have shown signs of uranium. Editorial Comment WHY DID HATFIELD CHANGE HIS MIND? Oregon's Committee on Natural Resources, headed by Gov. Mark Hatfield as chair man, the work of which is. largely performed by an ex ecutive secretary anDointed by the Governor, has voted to oppose the proposal for a na-. tional area in the Flnrenr. Reedsport area. In its only meeting on the subject, the committee heard the Hatfield-appointed execu tive secretary, Dan Allen, former Eugene laundryman, speak against the proposal. No other side was presented,' as far as can be learned. The committee then voted "unani mously" against the idea, when some of its members' were known to favor it. This is not particularly sur prising. One of the heads of the Western Lane Taxpayer's Association was indicating three weeks or so ago that this would happen. " .' ". The Governor, and AUen, he intimated, had - made up their minds, and the presenta tion of evidence which did not go along with their view-: point would be useless. - - Why - did Hatfield change his . mind? - -: : r Not too long ago - after ah hour. long telephone convert, sation -with Senator Richard L. -Neuberger he -said he favored the plan. - - What was the influence on Hatfidd's decision? Although it was made in the name of, of the .Committee on Natural Resources, it must be.recpg nized as the. basic responsi bility of the Govenor. Why did Hatfield change his mind? We'd like, to know. -Bend Bulletin. . , . . 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