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MAIL TltfUNE, Madford, Or. TJnirsoay. Oct. t, 19S9 "Every oo as Southern Oregon ". Rttdi Tha Mail Tribune" PublUhed Dnilj except Saturday by fcCDFOHD PHIOTTNG CO S3 North ft St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBI.3T W RUHL. Editor HERB G - Advertising Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JB. Managing Kditor CARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT ' Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women'! Editot PALE ERICKSQN Circulation Mar vCo Indeoenden Newspaper Entered at, second class matter at MedforH Orecon under Act of March 3. 1897 (SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br M a ti In Advance Coot lOe. Da 11- and Sunday 1 year $19 00 Daily and Sunday mot a.ot 0 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.29 Sunday Only One year $4 JO By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Centra Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Taient and on motor routes Dail? and Sunday 1 year (18 00 jjauy anno suqpay 1 mo 1-50 Carrier ana Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cair In Ad vance Official Paper ef City ef Medfore Official Papet ol Jaeason' County United Press International fun Leased Wire " MEMBEU OK AUDIT" BTTKEAU Of CIRCULATION . .XfverHsinf Representative: WEST HOLXDAY CO, INC Of flees in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis. Al lan' vanerover B.C. NIWSPAPIR UILISHERS -ASSOCIATION y ATI O MAI E0ITORIAI ASfcbCUTlfolN 57 kJ & Flight ro time hMedfogJ and Jastuon County rHistcKy from the filea of, The lol TWhurS 10. 20. 30. 40 " ' M rg 50 years jg 9 10 YEJrRS AGO o Oct. 8. 1949 (Saturday) n Jackson county schools are cooperating In the drive to rjiise fundsjf or the tirst Mercy Flfimis air ambulance. Ashland police begin oper ating their rtew radio net, and apprehended some young van dals in the first half hour. tS YEARS AGO OcO 8. 1939 (Sunday) Famous contralto Marion Anderson is booked to sing In the Holly theater here next March.;,? 0 From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "The wet weather has caused gals wearing toeless shoes, to wall . aa cross puaaies on ineir neeis. 90 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1929 (Tuesday) An inch of rain has fallen In the county in the past two days, causing farmers to re joice and deer to quail. Ladies of the Phoenix Thimble club fill a Christmas box for a lodge home in Call fornia. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 8, 1919 (Wednesday) The College Women's club will1 meet with Mrs. Frank Newman Saturday. Word is received that Presi dent Wilson's health continues to improve. 10 YEAS AGO Oct. 8. 1909 (Friday) A new sewer district 6n Medford's east side is con templated. A Southern Pacific freight agent9 bemoans the fact that that none of Medford's fam ous fruit is vailable in Med ford. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct " eaerleM tavaacar eight is excellent; five 01 six s good. - 1. How many strings has a violin? 2. Which State of the U.S. ranks first in cattle raising? 3. What is a Scotsman's tar tan? 4. How many petals are there on a buttercup? 5. Does the minute hand on a watch move three times, six times, or twelve times faster than the hour hand? 6. Petween what city in California and what city in Missouri was the i-ony-tx rtress inaugurated in 1860? 7. Gratiano is a character to which of Shakespeare s Iavs?o ' '. J 8. In' what Southern city was tkt Confederate States of America formed? 9. If yo are a Ihespian, what is vour nrofession? 10. Is the capital of Austra lia Sydney,": Melbourne, or Panhena? Answers: 1. Four. 2. Texas, a. The laid identifying his dan. 4. Five. 5. Twelve times faster. 6. Sacramento ai and Si. Joseph. Mo. 7. "The Merchant of Venice. 8. mow ejomery. Ala. 9. Actor. 10. Canberra. mrvv wntlf ELSEWHERE a Haul Minn. -flJPD- Mort ii " 1 nnn workers idled b3T the steel strike have left Min nesota's iron? range 10 work elsewhere, state offi cials salcb today. Iron range firms have recorded a 60 per . cent decline in bus- Is Peace Dangerous? Do Americans generally really want peace? Do they want an end to the "cold war"? The answer is, "Of course they do!'' And yet . The dislocations which would result if "peace broke out" would be tremendous in this country. More than half the federaj budget goes to de fense purposes. Much employment, both of capi tal and labor, is based on this expenditure. It is, in fact, one of the cornerstones of our present economy. TTHIS viewpoint was presented in a recent letter to the New York Times by a professor of .i ! 1 -i. tt 3 TT :r J T T i. pniiosopny at narvaru university luimeu xvuucil P. Wolff. Because of its challenging thesis, we reprint it nere m iun : "While the cries of 'rubbish,' 'nonsense and 'old hat' still linger in the air after Premier Khrushchev's speech at the United Nations, I should like to use your columns to put a question to anyone who cares to answer. ;' "The question, simply, is this: Does the United States wish to disarm, even with the guarantees, in spection plans and observation teams , which Russia has thus far refused to allow? Of course we wish to disarm, you will say, but I wonder. - "What Senator or Representative from New Eng land would announce himself in favor of the imme diate cancellation of all military electronic contracts? How would the powerful aircraft industry greet a pro posal to discontinue the production of all warplanes and missiles? How many Congressmen would watch with equanimity as two million soldiers, jailors and airmen were released to flood the job market? i "How would the Pentagon react to the prospect of closing down West Point, Annapolis and the newly created Air Force Academy, pensioning off the officer corps, and sending home the Chiefs of Staff? Just how great would be the rejoicing as community after community, industry after industry, saw itself deprived ,of the contracts, installations, subsidies, which have meant economic life or death for the past twenty years? . "Marx, as Mr. Khrushchev never tires of remind ing us, taught that capitalism could only thrive, on ' the profits of war. We take equal pleasure in repeat ing, over and over, that our form of capitalism has evolved past a reliance on imperial expansion. "But Marx was no fool, and- were he alive today he would no doubt amend his dictum to read: capital ism thrives only on the preparation for war, whether .that war is fought or not. Can we so confidentely ; deny this charge? I wonder." " " PROFESSOR Wolff has At present, and for the worry is academic, for ment tomorrow or the next day: or next year. But. with the apparent lessening of tensions, with the seeming mutual agreement that nuclear war is unthinkable, it is not outside the realm of possibility that before the coming decade has gone, there will be some agreements as to disarmament. And, if there are, this prepared for it A SUBCOMMITTEE of the Senate foreign rei "lations committee is planning to look into this matter of-dislocations which might result from disarmament. This other committees of Congress could well devote some time to it, too. Actually, the prospect tially reducing the $40 defense purposes is a challenge to America. Think what could be spending were eased! Taxes could be reduced, providing more money for consumers to dustry to put more into research and development and creation of new products. The nation could put in comparison to the defense budget, but vast in comparison to present spending) into the con servation and development of natural resources. Local governments,' including school districts, could increase their.tax overall taxes are reduced. Highways, dams, waterways, power projects, these could all be built of what can now be done. "'x ' IT IS virtually, inevitable that there would be o diffirMilf. rwrinrl nf rparliiist.mp.nt. But it C VA-.-V-WiW . - " should not be anything with its vast resources, The St Louis sr prospect of peace should not be alarming. It comments: "The overall economy should withstand peace and take advantage of it to expand. An article . . . from The Magazine of Wall Street notes that a smaller federal budget and tax cuts would reduce inflationary pressure and invigorate private investment and con sumer spending. Some of those defense dollars cer tainly could be well spent on a vast backlog of needed public projects. In studying these prospects, the (Con gressional) inquiry ought to help revive the old-fashioned idea that the United States can thrive on peace." If it can't, Marx was right. And we think he was wrong as wrong as Nikita Khrushchev is today. E.A. Lucky Governor Mark O. Hatfield is a lucky young man." Successful, college teacher, state legislator, secretary of state and governor, in that order, before he was 40; married to a beautiful and channing wife; father of a lovely baby girl what more could bless him? Well the hunting season this year opened on schedule. If it had been ss dry as previous years, he might have had to postpone it, as did previous governors, thus upsetting a large seg ment of the electorate. Now if it just rains in late September each year, between now and Hatfield's next election campaign . E. A. a point. foreseeable future, the their will be no disarma country had better be i 4 r : is as it should be, but of ending or substan billion annual outlay for done if this, load of ' "." spend; permitting in sums of money (tiny income at the same time at a rate far in excess . j with which this nation, could not. cope. Post-Dispatch agrees that the 1 -a .1 1 Tl Dennis the Menace 'I guess m votirMB? me to work 'eour ojosur? Matter of Fact SUMMIT PROSPECTS Washington As the State Department has publicly ad mitted, all planning for the future at the summit is be ing put off un til after the British elec tions. Then, and only then, will a time and place be chosen. Nonetheless, the chances Joseph Alsop are good that the summit meeting will be held soon. President Eisen hower, fo- one thing, is anx ious to get the rally on the heights over with before the next session of Congress. Thus the outlook is for a gathering in late November or early De cember, most probably in Ge neva because of Gen. de Gaulle's objections to any dis cussion of European problems outside Europe. r The further outlook, in the opinion of the highest Ameri can authorities, is for a subi sequent meeting of the For eign Ministers or their depu ties, to negotiate about Ber lin and other rgent matters on the basis of new instruc tions agreed on at the summit. ;' ' MAYBE Nikita S. Khru shchev's novel amiability will produce - different out come. Yet a glance at the time table forecast by the American policy makers is enough to show that the pol icy makers do not think the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meet- ins; at Camp David, created the conditions for a miracle at the summit. There is the same meaning in the policy makers' insis tence on the great importance of Khrushchev's promise that there would be "no fixed time limit" on future talks about Berlin. Relief because talking can go on indefinitely implias belief that the talks may have to be very protracted to at tain a result. According to one authoritative official fore caster, the Berlin problem is quite likely to remain unset tled for another year and more - which should have interesting effects on the 1960 election. Meanwhile, however, it be gins to be possible to define with some confidence the new American negotiating posi tion. A subtle but more im portant change of position be gan long before the Camp David talks. It rff ers the main hope of achievement at the summit and thereafter. In brief, the former American negotiating position was dark ly haunted by the ghost of the "liberation" policy. The pol icy itself was always a politi cal fake. It was quietly buried a few months after the Eisen hower administration took office, when the great oppor tunity of the East German ris ing in June 1953, was nerv ously rejected. But the ghost of this, dead fake long remain ed a powerful specter, pre venting any gesture that seemed to imply even " de facto recognition of the post war status quo in Eastern Europe. THIS ' GHOST, it seems, - is now being" laid by the President himself. We ; are now preparing for a kind of informal recognition of s tat as quo, " including even unpro testing acce tance of a separ ate Soviet, peace treaty with East Germany. But certain conditions" must be fulfilled before the President will take this step, The main condition to be fulfilled is guaranteeing tha integrity and continuing free dom of West Berlin. On this point, the President is ada mant. Meanwhile, there is a violent conflict of evidence u to Khrushchev's williB- Bv Joseph Alsop ness to fulfill the President's great condition. On the one hand, it is now known that when he was in this country, Khrushchev was Very free in his promises of guarantees of West Berlin's future. At moments, he al most seemed to ask the Presi dent to write his own ticket on this point. . On the other , hand, Khru shchev was also rougher with the President than most people suppose. And the So viet protocol submitted at Geneva also contained a series of concealed fish-hooks that could have been spotted by an infant, such as a grandilo quent promise that the raw material needs of West Bei lin's industry would be "sup plied by the Eastern bloc." rFHE GREAT question, then, A is whether Khrushchev be lieved that it is possible for the West "to recognize the status quo," as he is always demanding, while the West continues to protect free Ber lin. It is a pretty rough ques tion, too. For all Khrushchev's agitation about "recognizing the status quo" is really agi tation to stabilize the situa tion in Eastern Europe. And anyone can see that it is at least doubtful whether East Germany catt ever be stabi lized, as long as Berlin re mains as a window looking out on freedom. Pending the answer to the great question, however, it must also be said that the new, fact - facing trend of American policy is all to toe good. The. peoples enchained by Communist imperialism are not going to be "liber ated" by American oratory, or by American military ef fort. Their liberation, if it comes, will come by their own efforts, and because of the strong internal forces of change within the Soviet sys tem. ; We may pray they will be liberated; but we can stiU ne gotiate with the Soviets with out false claims to do what we do . .ot mean to do. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS Naples, Italy -flJFD- Sixty American Fulbright scholar ship students arrived in Na ples Wednesday night aboara the U. S. liner Independence. They ire part of more than 100 Americans who will study in Italian universities during the current academic year. EX-PUBLISHER DIES Monrovia, Calif. -(UPD- Fu neral services for former Michigan newspaper publish er Lews W. Smith will be conducted here Friday. Smith died Monday night at his home here. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A PUZZLED LADY entered asked, "Where do I go for "A low handicap?" repeated - "That's right," nodded the lady. "It's to be a surprise for his birthday. He always says that he'd rather have that .than anything world!" else in the ."Since J married," a brokerage clerk confided learned how to meet ex- penses. My wue intro duces them to me." Two sorority sisters were confiding all over double nut sundeas. "How did you like the bridge party those Delta Sigs threw Tuesday - night?" giggled one. "It was wonderful," said the ether, "but then those evil-minded campus policemen came and looked under the bridge!" 0 1939, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King FsatoM Syndicate, 4 Communications Letters to the Editor ' most bear the name and address or the write! although under cer tain circumstances tne use of pen name oi initial for publica tion ia permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all -letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not aaxted 400 words Aid for. Orphans To the Editor: RecenUy, I came across the story, in a Christian magazine, of a Ko rean orphan boy, Jo Yong Ee. When he was only 3 years old he lost both his mother and father. For three years Jo had been begging food and he was living in a hole in the side of a hill. Nobody would care for him because he was. a hunchback. Slowly ne was starving to death. When a missionary found him, he was so near death that a missionary doctor said he would have lived onlv a few days longer. Malnutrition ana exposure to the severest weather had so weakened his body he finally contracted tu berculosis. He is. being cared for now in a home for others like him. Each day he receiv es cnristian love and,: most important, he is learning about Jesus. His life has meaning and purpose now. In the article they asked for a sponsor for this child or one like him. For only $8 a month-just 26 pennies a day -you or your Sunday school class, B i b 1 e class, or club group could, for one year, help brine Christ to this child and train him to .be a Chris tian leader in Korea. Right now they need sponsors for 300 new orphans. Each one is waiting to have an American "Daddy and Mommie." I was struck by the thought that if war should ever come to this country and my chil dren were left alone-I would surely want someone to care for them in such a way. If anyone is interested in sponsoring one of these or phans, they may write for more information to: Everett Swanson Evangelis tic Assn. 4848 North Leonard Dr. Chicago 31, 111. - Are you willing to help? Barbara A. Miller 1527 Bryant st. Medford, Ore. Replies to Criticism To the Editor: The "Mail Tri bune's Sept. 27 editorial, "Cart Before the Horse," has come to my attention. We cannot agree with your insistence that release of this Committee's proposed testi mony, in opposition to present legislation which would cre ate an additional unit of the National Parks system on the Oregon coast between Flor ence and Reedsport, is prema ture..,For many months, since introduction of this legisla tion, its sponsor has presented nothing but the rosiest sort of picture as to the future de velopment of the Florence- Reedsport area under the aus pices of the National Park service. The park service, itself, has at several public meetings given an outline of its pro posed plans for development of the area. Since this matter has been under study by our committee for many months, and since this information has been made available to us, we have naturally assumed that the proponents' position has been well aired. However, the National Park service has not made avail able its total plans for the area, and its proposal has not been approved by the Secre tary of the Interior. Thus, it would appear that the spon sor of the legislation was in deed premature in his intro duction of a bill in the ab sence of documentary evi dence that such legislation was desirable to either Ore gon or the United States. , Your inference that the members of the Committee on Natural Resources, in taking action to oppose this legisla tion, were prompted by politi cal motivations is unfortu nate. Only two members of a sporting goods store and a low handicap?" the clerk; ' VffiM on Red Chinese Apparently Not Going Along With K's 'Peace' Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The Chinese Reds lost little time in demonstrating they are not wholly in accord with Soviet Pre mier Nikita K h rushchev's current peace campaign. Khrushchev vgave it the "nard sell" in Peiping. This is not the time, he Phil N'ewinm Said, to "test the stability of the capitalist system by force." At another point he told his Communist Chinese allies: the committee are directly re sponsible to the governor: the others to independent boards and commissions. The testi mony which we are present ing at the hearings on toe sea shore proposal will indicate direct opposition from several of these agencies on quite val id grounds. Yet, you indicate that the forest service has the only valid reason for oppos ing the proposal. la. order that you may more objectively explore our posi tion we are enclosing here with copy of testimony pre sented at the congressional hearings. Reference thereto will indicate that both the committee and the governor support the principle of sea shore preservation, and retain an open mind on this . entire subject as it applies to Ore gon. In the meantime we would hope that those who have crit icized our action in opposing existing legislation could be equally open-minded. Dan P. Allen Executive Secretary Oregon Committee on Natural Resources, Salem, Ore. . Service Important To the Editor: Recently the downtown merchants of Med ford have been trying to at tract customers with a new plan, for parking and many sales. There is an added in ducement to customers which may well become significant and, certainly, is being ne glected. This inducement is SERVICE. I recently went shopping in our lovely new shopping cen ter on East Jackson for a child's raincoat. The sales per son was apathetic, but, of course, the modern customer is used to that. I was told that the item was not in stock, but that a shipment would arrive soon. I asked the person to take my name and phone number so that I might be in formed of such an arrival! This person laughed and said that since they were such a big store my name would un doubtedly be misplaced. I lived in New York for two years and ' never heard this at Macy's or Gimble's. There are battles being fought in every city and town in this country between the urban and suburban mer chants. Convenience and bar gain prices are not the only weapons. Service s of the ut most importance today be cause of the bewildering num ber and variety of goods and the consequent chance of making the wrong choice. The downtown merchants need to examine carefully the quality of service they are providing; e.g.,' is the sign stll in the gift store-"Please do not ask us to gift wrap"? Thank you for printing my letter. I hope that before long we can stop hearing at par ties, etc., that one must go to San Francisco or Portland to shop. Surely, Medford should be able to accommodate its own. Mrs. Jacqueline King 128 Valley View dr. Medford. tHC WALSH- en COURTESY FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS AND 'We . . . must do everything possible to preclude war as a means for settling outstanding questions. But scarcely were toe words out of his mouth be fore Marshal Lin Pao, Red China's new defense minister, rose beneath a canopy of low- flying jet fighters and bomb ers to announce, "we will def initely liberate Taiwan and other islands." In Lin's audience was Ho Chi Minn, whose Commu nist satellite Vietnamese state continued its radio blasts against the United States and the little pro-Western Indo- AEC Chairman To Tour Soviet Posts Washington -flIPD- Chairman John A. McCone of the Atom ic Energy Commission leaves today for a 10-day tour of Russian non-military atomic installations as part of an ex change arranged , during So viet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's U. S. visit. Prof. Vasily S. Emelyanov of the Soviet -Atomic Energy Organization will make a sim ilar tour of U. S. nuclear fa cilities, probably in Novem ber. The two countries also will exchange data on the peaceful uses of atomic en ergy. Two Arrested on Game Violations Donald Lee Swank, 28, of 908 Fairmount st., Medford, was cited yesterday by state police on charges of hunting with prohibited methods. Swank is charged with shooting grouse in the Dead Indian rd. area. Keith Elliott Condit, 41, 1516 Anabelle st.,' Grants Pass, was cited to appear in Ashland justice of the peace court for failure to tag a deer properly.. He was arrested yesterday on Highway 234 by game law enforcement of ficers. 0 Aat trsM FRANK MOR0AN - HA OU DAY OH NIGHT '. .vJ' rff! o& shim ""Ssfe . , 'jW - .o mi- vi3f a; A- nafiei viMtuam. va ' Chinese state of Laos. Throughout, the Chinese had no criticism but little praise for the hopeful eom- munique which concluded the President Eisenhower - Khru shchev talks at Camp David. For the better part of the following four days longer than the Khrushchev-Eisen hower meeting Khrushchev and Chinese Red Jeadar MaOj Tse-tung conferred in secret. On Sunday, Khrushchev left Peiping for the Soviet Si berian port of Vladivostok. There was no communique, 0 no announced results of the long: secret sessions. Just the usual Communist platitudes of friendship. Khrushchev Remains Silent o In Vladivostok, Khru shchev's silence continued a state unusual, indeed, far him. It may be considered cer tain that Khrushchev asked Mao not to rock the interna tional boat at this time in his new dealings with the United States. There had been some indication that Khrushchev would ask the Chinese, as a gesture of new international goodwill, to release five Americans now held in Chi nese jails. There was no sign that either had met with affirmf tive action. ' e ' Not any of this may be tak en as a weakening of the St-viet-Red Chinese axis. At tht moment, each is too imgortn to tne otner. . . . - Chinese Lag Behind - Chinese reluctance to p q along totally with Khru shchev's plans may. hive th er reasons, too. Communist China s devel opment as a Communist stata, ana industrially, is xar Denino- -Russia. While -Russia now seeks to fix its satellite boundaries og i: : xl T AT a une running uiruugn vie middle of Europe, China is o seeking aggressively to ex pand. , . " ' a Further, the United Stales must remain Red China's No. 1 hate. o The United States bars the Communist way to the Que moys, the Matsus and fisaUjg to Formosa. The U. S. blocks the way to Laos and to all of southeast Asia. The JJ: f. stood as a barrier in Korda. - o 0o5 m make a tree Marts efforts, at best, era) . insigni ficant in com parisou ... o o TO BE OF SERVICE ; ... is man's gfeatest earthly responsibility. lbs CswlhauM SNOOOOASS, RJMRAL DRfCTCM Xt& PHONE SP 2-4030 Be at home October 13 and 14 It's time for the Annual Light Bulb Sale by Crater Lions Club of Medford Proceeds go for work of Crater Lions SIGHT AND BUND programs. Bulbs are packaged, contain two 60's, two 75's, two 1 00's and two 150 watt bulbs for $2.00. 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