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MAIL TRIBUNE, Me-jfore", Or. Wednesday, Oct. 7, 19S9 "Everyone n Southern Orecoa) - OReada The Mall Tribane" tublihgd Dtll cccept Saturday by 83 Noatt tU St Ph SP 8-6141 - HIRB GREY Advertising Manatrar 'CWIALD LATHAM I ERIC W ALLEN JR. Masai-nag Mrur EARL U ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telef Editor ' RT-JHARD JKWETt Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women'! Edites DALE ERICKSON Circulation MX An IcdeDendent Newspaper Cfrteree) as second class matter a oieoxorn ureeon unaer jics March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES . R Mai I In Advance. Codv Me. DaU-r and Sunday 1 year $154)0 Daily and Sunday t moa. lilt Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4..2S Sunday Only One year $4.30 ' R? Carrier Ta Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoents Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily ana suncay i mo. i.a Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All Terms caslt tn Advance Official Paper ef City f Med ford Official Paper ol jaeasxra coniy United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Aifvertisine Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta Vancouver B.C. O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAl EDITOtlAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the Tiles of The NAail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 1949 (Friday) An eager Medford young ster hops into the city' spank ing new swimming pool and splashes happily about until warned by employees that the three feet of water in it is just there for testing pur poses. Snow dusts the hills rim ming the valley, including Roxy Ann, while a half inch of rain washes down Medford itself. 20 YEARS AGO - -Oct. 7, 1939 (Saturday) Thespians are urged to try for 'Noel Coward's "Hay Fever" as E. H. Hedrick's community theater- project gets rolling. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "Fletch Fish, the boom-day tenor of Phoenix, has gone and laid himself liable to th social rowdyism known as a shiv aree." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 7, 192S (Monday) A New York dock strike halts shipments of Rogue Valley nears. ; Medford's mayor proclaims next week as Fire Prevention week. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1919 (Tuesday) American . Legion plans a big 'Armistice' Day parade here Nov. 11. - : The federal court term is now under way here. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 7. 1909 (Thursday) - Medford Commercial club lays plans for its annual High Jinks musicale. The Ashland fair is report ed to be well worth a visit fo that nether end of the valley. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or te correct is seven or eight is excellent; five ee tis is good. 1. Irs an old song, whose "throat is like the swan"? O 26 What country did Napol- eon call "a nation of shop keepers"? "3. Whom did the spider in vite into her parlor? ;4. One U.S. Vice-President resigned that office to become a Senator from South Caro lina; who was he? 5. In the Biblical story, when Lot's wife looked back, what happened to her? t 6. Did the U.S. acquire the American Virgin Islands from Spain; Denmark, or The Neth erlands? ' - -" 7. The army of what U.S. General defeated the Mexicans- at Buena Vista in 1847? ; 8. The practice of polygamy was once an article of religion of the Shaker the Quakers, or the Mormcs? 9. What r a baby frog call ed? S 10. In vvnat city is there a famous section known as "the Left Bank"? Answers: 1. Annie Laurie's. 2. England. 3. The fly. 4. John C. Calhoun. 5. She turn ed to salt. 6. Denmark. 7. Gen. Zackaxy Taylor. 8. The Mormons. 9. A tadpole. 10. Paris, France. ,4 Is Re-Thinking Needed? What is the purpose of the new Oregon Cor rectional Institution? This is a question which is receiving, some serious attention these days, and is the center of a controversy among members of the legisla ture and the board of control. . About the only thing upon which all parties concerned are agreed is the idea that it is de signed to rehabilitate first offenders. At this point agreement ceases. JUDGING by appearances, the board of con trol believes that the correctional institution should be a maximum security prison, surrounded not by one tall wire fence, but two so as to give guards time to shoot, or recapture, a pris oner if in an escape attempt he gets over, tne first fence. ; Legislators, conversely, seem to think that the idea of the correctional institution is to re ceive prisoners who have a good chance for rehabilitation, that it should not be a "maximum security" prison, and that tight custody should go On the face of the this distance, it would argument is the better TPHE matter of the fence isn't one of principle A and theory only, either. Cost estimates for it range upward to $150,000 which is a lot of fence, although it is a drop in the bucket in the overall state budget. Last week the state posed of members of interim spending authority of funds appropri ated to it for emergency ture, turned down a request for money to build tne fence. The board, is now ure to provide the facilities needed by the insti tution if it is to operate as planned. But where is the "emergency"? And still unexplained is the need for a second fence for an institution which nominally is for first offenders with a good chance for rehabilitation. If they are apt to go over the first fence, let alone the second, should they be there at all? - v l .'.'.'''..-. THE correctional institution has one cell section set aside for maximum security cases. Surely this should suffice. If not, shouldn't the same amount of money have been spent' expanding the existing penitentiary, rather than building an entirely new, separate, expensive institution? . This all seems to add point to the desireability of -a- state correctional authority, perhaps sim ilar to that in California, which administers all penal institutions. ; i With such- an authority, prisoners could be sentenced to certain terms, but the authority would determine in what institution, with what degree of security, and with what chances for education and rehabilitation, , the sentences should be served. IT HAS been said (by ,the Oregon Statesman) .there has never been an institution in this state "which was studied with as many informed persons as the correctional institution."., v This may well be true. But was it studied in light of the state's overall penal needs, in con nection with youth work camps, MacLaren school for bovs. Hillcrest schools for pnrls. the neTiifn- tiary itself, and the state board of parole? and V 1 A proDauon: Mavbe some more thinking is needed. E. Clear Glancing through the Roseburg News-Review the other day, we came across a Page 1 headline which said, "S.P. To Keep Tracks Clear." The first paragraph said: :- "The Southern Pacific Co. and Roseburg city officials reached an agreement Monday night - - whereby railroad tracks win be kept clear dur- 'i ing traffic rush hours." ... , , . .,s The rush hours were, defined as 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. IXTE'RE jealous of Roseburg. yy It must, of course, be acknowledged that the situation in Roseburg (chiefly; lumber) is. differ ent than in Medford. where fruit napkin o- h cluster along the tracks downtown ran crossings. But it does seem, somehow, that a thoughtful approach to the nroblem mie-ht pome 11T1 nrifri o similar solution. As it is, dav after dav. We have seen hoaro rush hour traffic held up for as much as 5 or 10 minutes at a time, by switching cars, backing automobiles up for blocks on the main east-west thoroughfares. - ; IT MAY not be wholly germane to this discus- sion, but it was interesting to note that loot spring, when switching iic m -Koseourg lor about 20 minutes, the train master was given a "ticket," and the S.P. paid a u ime m municipal The ideal situation, over- or under-passes at each major crossing a project of extreme expense. Lackincr this, though . can't the S P at. least let rush hour traffic through without delay? E.A. s prisoners needing such to the state penitentiary. evidence at hand, and at appear that the second of the two. emergency board, com the legislature who have purposes by the legisla being criticized for fail as much care and by ..... careful and informed A. Track just south of the busiest ; held up crosstown traf- court f or "overparlong." of course, would he fnr Dennis the Menace SEE MX KBtO TALK W&OeH HS rWT ' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initiai for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letter! 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 case. I Not THAT Kind of Club To the Editor: Two ladies came to the door of the Fifty Plu.: meeting. I heard one say "Where is aU that lovely mu sic coming from?"' T h e n- "Huh, the Fifty Plus club. I wouldn't be found dead there!" The poor soul doesn't know what she is missing. . Reminded me of another time I asked a friend to come to the Fifty Plus, club with me. She replied, "I am sorry, but I don't drink." I was flabbergasted, until she explained, "I know what a club is." She named a doz en drinking houses. Then I knew for most of the tav erns saloons c all their places "dubs." They are so mistaken. The Fifty Plus club meets every Friday noon at St Mark's Guild : hall. NX. corner of Fifth and Oakdale, Medford. - Nothing goes on in that haU that would displease our Savior if He were here in the flesh. We do have clean fun. - Pent-up griefs, lost ones, sickness and troubles need to be shared with friends. Every Fifty Plusser is friendly and wants to help others. 1 have reason to know. That lovely music men tioned was rendered by Alex ander's fine Hawaiian band, and. no person has ; been "found dead" at our meetings. In fict, those who were ill when the club was organized in April, 1958, aU revived and today are as merry as happy youngsters. . i Don't take my word. Come in and get acquainted. .' . v Pearl Spackman ; Box 33 Jacksonville. Join Objection - To the, Editor: This is to commend The Rev. Le Roy Nidever for his "letter of ob jection" in - Sunday's paper. He wrote concerning a theatre ad for Sept. 30, 1959. As parents, we too object to such ads in a newspaper, any newspaper, but especially where it is the one daily pa per read by so many folks in this area. It is our considered opinion that the editor and whoever paid for that ad, and then- like, are more of a threat to the future of our. young peo ple than Mr. Khrushchev and all his communist comrades. , Mr. and Mrs. George Guthrie Route 2, Box 220 Central Point, Ore. Lot and Peace To the Editor: Isn't the in crease in juvenile delinquen cy largely due to progressive education 'and thinking? It has- unbridled the "Devil" that is born in aU of us. It en couraged selfishness, self worship and ego. It destroyed the .sense of brotherhood and cooperation. It did not teach playing the game and facing fair competition. It did not prepare young people for life after graduation. It left them afraid and frustrated. So what? "We need to teach morals' and ' social . relations as weU as the three R's, sci ence and art. We must teach our- children to overcome their weaknesses, how to live with them, and not indulge in self-pity. Children need to be made conscious of the per fectly natural state of love. If we aUowed ourselves to love one another as God has commanded, there would be little evil. We would try to protect and defend instead of hurt and destroy. "Love" is not a religion but a basic truth of life. "Love" is also a need in life and lack of it prompts most of our crimes. "Love" could do much to overcome disease as most of it comes from emotional up sets. "Love" could bring peace to the world. The world needs to culti vate its natural instinct to love, so it can accept love and return love. Only then can we live in peace and happi ness. v Frances Ray Ralston, Wash. Sen. Morse on Pensions To the Editor: Jackson county veterans of World War I will be glad, I. fell certain, to -read the contents of the following letter wnicn I . re ceived from Senator Morse: "Thank you so much- for your comments upon my work for a reasonable pension program for veterans of World War I. . You may be sure that it wiT always be my purpose here in the Senate to deserve your continuing con fidence and support. "I voted for the pension bill, H.R. 7650, on final pass age because it contains many desirable provisions for wid ows of World War II and Korean veterans. It also en ables veterans presently on the pension rolls to continue under the present program in stead of switching to the new law according to their own choice. Therefore, H.R. 7650 will only affect veterans com ing under the pension rolls in the future. "As I indicated, I shaU con tinue my efforts to improve the pension program as it af fects World War I veterans, and I am most appreciative of your support of these ef forts." David Frisch -P. O. Box 292 Camp White, Ore., Mrs. Khrushchev's Clothes To the Editor: I have been reading many comments about Mrs. Khrushchev's attire at The big reception. I am won dering, had Mrs. ,K. come over here with trunk loads of clothes, if she would have made a better impression. Mrs. K. is a grandmother, and her type of a person has long since lost interest in clothes. Her life has been so full of a number of things, some very sad (they lost an aviator son in War H), some things were very productive. She taught Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF CPEAKING OF the past U. Tuewell noted. "It is a Presidency that the processes corrupt, boss - managed and infiltrated with venal arts, have never deposit ed a man in the White House who was wholly unworthy." During the Taft ad ministration, the White House staff suddenly be came convinced that ghosts of departed Presi dents still were roaming about the premises. Things reached a point where President Taft had to forbid any men tion of ghosts though he admitted privately he liked to hear about them himself! Some years later, Margaret Truman picked up the story about Lincoln's shade being about, and she and a couple of schoolmates slept one night in the unused Lincoln room, hoping for heaven knows what. Her father toyed with the idea of hiring a ghost for the occasion but, wary of unfav orable publicity, thought better of it. Qi 1559. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Supre Union Shop, Outlaw By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-rtlPD - Stand by for some big labor news from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Loo per case, which originated in l Georgia, final ly is up tnere for decision. Right behind it and on the way is anoth er labor case which origin ated in North .vie c. Wilson warouna. A decision against organized labor indirectly would invali date union shop contracts in all federal jurisdictions. The Looper case, was brought in Georgia against 15 standard raliroad. labor organizations. The AFL-CIO News a year ago explained the situation like this: "Two cases (Georgia and North Carolina) now moving up through the lower courts are expected to provide the test whether union shop agree ments can in effect be invali dated by exempting from their requirements any em aaaaaaaaaaamaakXfaaaaaSV 'Undecided Vo ter' Is Thursday's British Election By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor That popular character, "the undecided voter," is the kev fiauri; in Great Britain's general elec tions Thurs day. It could well be a far reaching j de cision. British pop ularity polls now place Prime Minis- Pnu Newsom ter xi a r o i a Macmillan's Conservatives and Hugh GaitskeU's Labor ites in a dead-heat for the voters' affections. Key is the 5M- million to 6 million vot ers, out of a total of some 28 million, who still have not made up their minds, .. To help them make up their minds, British .voters have been treated to these defini tions: By the Conse rvatlves speaking of Laborite propos als to up pensions and at the same time cut taxes: "Desper social science and English in school as a young woman. This trip, accompanying her husband and family, was one of the highlights of her life. I am quoting remarks and a poem from "The Reporter's Notes," Oct. 1, Reporter Mag azine: Judgment "It would be difficult to find clothes comparable to hers in the waiting room of a New York employment agen cy for domestic help . . ." (Dorothy KilgaUen, in N.Y. Journal American). "The poor Khrushcheva did not measure up- , "Her gowns were grisly and her hair a mess; "What matter if a woman loves her home, "Her man and children, if she cannot dress? "The poor Khrushcheva learned to speak our tongue, "She smiled as mothers do, and listened well; "Her features said her life was hard and long, "Her body spoke more than her words could teU. "Pity not her tut ladies of the press "Who rate a people by the ; way they dress." Charity R. Sander, 408 Oak Grove rd., Medford. S. Presidents, historian Rex remarkable comment on the of party politics, so often me Court Ruling Could Invalidate ployee who disagrees with the union's legislative goals or po litical philosophies. "Six Southern Railway em ployees (the Looper case), aid ed by employer groups, said they disagree with the legis lative and political activities of their unions and therefore should not have to support these activities with then dues money. Similar Case Pending -"A similar case is pending before the North Carolina Su preme Court on appeal from a lower court ruling that em ployees under a railroad un ion shop contract could only be required to pay dues in such amount as the unions could prove in court were 'reasonably necessary and re lated to . collective bargain ing'." The AFL-CIO News said that these test cases applied only to union shop agree ments -negotiated under the Railway Labor Act, but that "the principles involved gen erally are agreed to apply to all union contracts." " These legal challenges to the methods by which big ate measures by desperate men." Real Issues Present By the Laborites, speaking of the Conservatives: "A party of the past, a party of jingoism and international anarchy, the party of out-of-date colonial ism, the party of Cyprus and Suez ... the party of priv ilege, the party of the snobs and the servile and the stuffed shirt." Back of aU the verbiage, however, were real issues, both domestic and foreign. Astronaut Life Problems Studied Washington -flJPD- The Fed eral Space Agency is gradual ly stepping up research on how to keep astronauts alive for long periods in the near vacuum of space. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration this week announced award of a $90,000 contract to the Atom ic Energy commission and Universtiy of California for "studies of biological life-sup port systems in an interplan etary environment." .Last summer it awarded a $60,000 contract to the Uni versity of Minnesota lor re search on a life-support sys tem using plants, probably al gae, to generate oxygen for space travelers. Altogether, NASA is now spending about $450,000 on research to find out how the special conditions of space, such as radiation and weight lessness, affect living organ isms. Norblad To Support Nixon Stayton -UPD- Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) came out strongly for Vice President Richard Nixon as Republican nominee for President today, "I don't think he'll have any trouble getting the nomi nation," Norblad said. Earlier, both Secretary of State Howell Appling and State Treasurer Sig Unander had indicated Nixon was their choice. Gov. Mark Hatfield has said only that he will support the party's nominee in Oregon. Nixon and Norblad were freshmen congressmen togeth er and are close friends. Norblad, at his home here for the Congressional recess, said he considered Hatfield a possible candidate for the vice presidential nomination, but added: "Geography is against him." DELINQUENTS BEAT BOY New York - (DM - Two boys aged 13 and 15 were booked as juvenile delinquents Tues day night for allegedly beat ing a 16-year-old Puerto Rican boy with . a baseball bat on Manhattan's lower East Side. The injured boy, Arturo San tiago, was taken to Columbus Hospital with a fractured right shoulder. His condition was described as good. New Many Wear FALSE TEETH With LittI Worry Eat. talk, laugh or aneeze without. fear of Insecure falsa teeth dropping. tupping or woDBUng. fasteeth holds Dlates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doess t causa nausea. It's alkaline (non-aad). Cheeks "plate odor" (denture breath) . Get FASTSETH at any drug counter. Political Monies labor finances its political ac tivities are likely to hit hard er against the union shop con cept than did the right-to-work effort in the 1958 con gressional election. This ef fort to outlaw the union shop by constitutional amendment in several states was a spec tacular flop. y - , Election Spending Ulegal The Corrupt Practices Act forbids any union organiza tion to contribute or to spend in connection with any fed eral elective process. This prohibition has been substan tially nullified by a Supreme Court ruling that unions may, however, spend for political education. That ruling led to the establishment of well heeled COPE, the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Edu cation. ... . , ... The hub of the Looper and North Carolina cases is wheth er organized labor gets all of its political education mon ey from voluntary contribu tors or, instead, dips into dues and assessment funds. That is a big question, and it is sub ject to a big dispute. Key 1 n Generally speaking, it is next to impossible today for any major power to bring about a reversal or even quick changes in foreign policy, re gardless of what party may win an election. International agreements, treaties or what not are too far-reaching for that. . i But even minor changes may lead to friction. Between the United States and Britain over the years, numerous understandings have been built up. They cov er the world. Oppose Bases The - Labor Party dislikes the idea of U.S. atomic bases in Britain but has said it will carry out original commit ments, it lavors tne idea of a disengagement of forces in Europe . (strongly opposed by the U.S.), and smiles upon the poiisn uapacKi Plan for an atom-free belt through cen tral Europe. Labor also would favor leaving the atomic arms race entirely to the U.S. and the Soviet Union, while the rest of the world stood aside. Labor, much more so than the Conservatives, could be expected to be critical of U. S. decisions as they arose in moments of crisis. Any of these differences could lead to a strain. Internally, the Laborites have said i hey will nationalize the steel industry, cut sales taxes and increase pensions. Chinese Win Deportation Case Washington 03PD A federal judge has ruled that the Unit ed States cannot deport two Chinese aliens to Nationalist held Formosa because it is not a sovereign country. utner court decisions pre vent deportations to Red China, and lawyers said the new ruling virtually would halt deportation of Chinese nationalists by this country. Judge Alexander Holtzoff quoted Eli Maurer, the State department's assistant legal adviser for Far Eastern af fairs, as saying that while the United States recognizes the Republic of China's "author ity" over Formosa, the island never has become "a country" under international law. U.S. immigration laws al low a person to be deported only to "a country." The judge ruled in the cas es of Cheng Fu Sheng and Lin Fu Mei, both of San Francis co. They came here in 1952 and 1953 as Chinese National ist Air Force officers for mili tary training. They defected from the Nationalist govern ment and decided to stay. The Immigration Service moved to deport them. i PUBLIC SERVICE C M. Lifwiller Mrs. Litwiller has served as lady assistant, organist and vocalist for many years without added cost to our patrons. A sub stantial saving on every service and is appreciated by the many who call us. LITWILLER : Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel , Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close In a 1956 decision, thje Su preme' Court held that there had been raised before it the question whether the union shop "forces men into ideo logical and political associa- tions which violate their right to freedom of' conscience ... protected by . the bill of rights." -r. , That ! very Question now has been raised before , the court by the Looper case.gA. fair estimate of the situation is that there is a conviction among some members of the court that the use of dues . money for political purposes would render the union shop unconstitutional. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS In the last installment nf this column, we talked about frivolous things - the ligffter side of life. Let's talk today about more serious tbinirs. Change of pace is good for us. ' - "o TODAY'S big story is the latest Russian moonock- ci. .u. ii ewes wnat .Soviet scientists hope it will do. it will establish an oval orbit out in space. This orbit wtti be shaped much like an auto mobile race track, with the moon at one end of itoand the earth at the other. It willttkid around these ends much as a racing automobile skids around the ends of its0oval race track. As it passes around the moon's end of this oval track in space, it will take crude pictures of the back side of the moon, which earthlings have never seen, and flash them back to earth exactly asv your TV flashes to you pic tures of today's world series game. '-. AS THIS is written (about mid-morning Monday) it isn't known whether Russia's Lunik III will'make it around the moon end of its planned orbit, but the Russian scien tists at least have confidence enough that it will make the grade to tell about it and brag a little about it in a re strained sort of way. It could flop. It could skid out of control as a ball swung around your head at the end of a string could do if the string broke - and plunge e off into the depths of space . . . Or . . . it could stall ... turn . . . and plunge back to0 a fiery death in the earth's atmosphere. The Soviet scientists say they should know soon which way it will be. 9 o o A QUESTION: What good is a moon satel lite of the kind that has heeu described for us this mopgr ing? 8. I wouldn't know. I doulb if anyone who reads theags lines today will know. But : If the Russians can create a moon-and-earth-circling Sfeft ellite, such as they are tallp- 'e ing about, THEY CAN DOA LOT OF OTHER THINGS. MAYBE some of these other things might concern our future VERY DIRECTLY. If we are wise, we won'io laugh off the Russians and their space achievements. o WAKE UP 0 RARIN' TO GO Without Nagging BackaRa NowIYoncaagetthefastKliefyrsiKeA from nagging backache. heldaciS aaa muscular acbes and pains that of ten rause restless nights and miserable tireSt-out feelings. When these discomforts come on Britn over-exertion or stress and strain -you want relief want it fasti Another listurbance may be mild bladder irritation following wrong food and drink often set- 2ng up a restless uncomfortable feelinav Doan's Fills work fast in S separate atays : 1. by speedy pain-relieving action to 2ase torment of nagging backache, head aches, muscular acbes and pains. 2. QJ soothing effect on bladder irritation. S. tnr mild diuretic action tending to increase ratput of the 15 miles of kidney tubes. Enjoy a good night's sleep and thc lame happy relief millions have for e9er 0 years. New. lam. siza aavea mnnev- Set Soaa's fills today 1 Mrs. Utwiller 151 'It is better to know us and not need us. than to need us and not know us." G3 O
