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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. . - Monday, Oct. 12, 1959 "Everyone ta Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dtil except Saturday by M3JJKOAD PRINTING CO 33 North fix St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBIHT W RTJHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR. . . Managing editor -EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETt Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editoi DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Estered as second class matter al Median Oreeon under Act of a Mareh 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mai I In Advance Copy 10c. DaU" and Sunday I year $13 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.0(. Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and cm motor routes O Dally and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Casr in Advance Official Paper of City a Medford Official Paper et jaenson county United Pres. International Full Leased Wire - MEMBEH OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST -HOLIDAY CO, INC. Of flees In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASlcSATlfb Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from tha files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1949 (Wednesday) The effect of removing the rent ceiling in Medford is va ried, according to observers, but no tenants are reported to be raising the roof about increased rates. Sheriff Howard Gault an nounces that this year for the first time property tax bills will be mailed out to Jackson bounty residents. , 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1939 (Thursday) Medford corporation, plans to keep its sawmill operating this winter until Jan.. 1. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The continued warm weather ag gravates the Older Girls, who want cool and snappy weath er, so they can see what sis ters hawe new fur coats." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1929 (Saturday) - Sam Newman of Table Rock .produces the first batch oi sorghum molasses. The Rogue river fish issue flares anew. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1919 (Sunday) A caravan of Portland busi ness men visits the city and valley. T. E. Daniels, laid up for mm time rv an accident dur ing a hunting trip, is up again -and should soon be arouna. . , 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1909 (Tuesday) The citv of Medford cannot appeal Judge Hanna's ruling in the Hanley: case until ne renders it in writing. ' Some 15.000 acres of fruit trees are to be planted in the Medford area this winter. Vhafs Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven or eraht is excellent; five et six is good. 1. How many stars comprise the Big Dipper? 2. Does a hemiplegjc pa tient have one-half, one-quarter, or one-third of his body paralyzed? 3. On what , continent are rjvemies found? 4. For what do the initials A.S.C. stand, following the name of a person in a motion- Dicture credit line? 5 Is Warsaw the capital of Czechoslovakia, Poland, or Yueoslavia' 6. Who -was assassinated March 15. 44 B.C.? 7. In American History, who was Gerommo? 8. What is the name for the fiesh of calves? 9. What government agency has jurisdiction over issuance of Ml radio licenses? ' 10. Is Manila, in the Philip pines, north or south of the equator? Answers: 1. Seven. 2. Half. 3. Africa. 4. American Society at CinemalooraDhers. 5. Po land. 6. Julius Caesar. 7. Anaehe Indian Chief. 8. Veal, S. Federal Communications Commission. 10. North. TJTsrrrss PLANS Rome - flJPD - Monsignor Paul Yu Pin, exuea artu bishop of Nanking, China, ar rived here from New York Sunday to discuss with Vati can officials plans for a Cath olic university on Formosa. 11 Soaking Americans for Drugs The investigation into prices of antibiotics, the so-called "wonder drugs," which the Federal Trade Commission carried out in the past three years, made it quite amount of work' remained to be done. Though six leading pharmaceutical houses were indicted for maintining "arbitrary, tive and rigid prices," pending, the FTC hardly more than, scratched the surface. Accordinly, the Senate Antitrust and Monop oly Subcommittee headed by, Senator Kefauver of Tennessee has for the past five months been gathering information on the basis of which it expects to start public hearings in November. Already it is armed with some startling com parisons of drug prices in the United States and abroad which the State Department has gather ed at its request TTHESE comparisons show that "consumer costs of drugs in this country are, on the average, far in excess of the cost of similar drugs in other nations, even though, the same manufacturer is involved," Senator Smathers of Florida told the Senate. A dozen aspirin tablets which cost 12 cents in England cost 25 cents in America. The manu facturer who sells 100 for $2.63 in Venezuela charges $4.88 in this country. An American-made antibiotic that costs $3.50 in this country sells in the Soviet Union for 45 -cents. . THUS, in Senator Smathers words, "The Amer- ican people, fortunate in having the most advanced medicines and drugs in the world, share alike the doubtful distinction of paying the world's highest premium for these basic human necessities." Certainly it costs less sale in the country of its ship it to distant parts discrimination to the disadvantage of United State consumers, would seem therefore to make exactly the opposite of sense. St. Louis Post- Dispatch. . : A Single Word "Tell us in a single important thing in American civilization." This-was the task posed for educator Max Lerner . by - a Polish journalist in Warsaw last year. A dozen responses ran through Dr. Lerner's head. Liberty .. . . Equality . . . Democracy . . . Tolerance ... but none of them seemed exactly right. Finally, thinking self say, "Access. ' "We have heard of the Polish writer, "but never of American access. What is that?" "Our Delcaration of Lerner, "says that men are born free and equal. Actually we know they are born very unequal, for they have unequal potentials. But we believe all youngsters should have equal access to op portunities to develop what potentials they have. In this sense, access is the key to our society." Oregon Labor Press. . : ' ' ' Comments on L.A. Writers The Associated Press reports from Chicago that Pitcher Early Wynn of the White Sox has complained of "bush league reporting" by Los Angeles sports writers, who abused the Sox for their poor fielding in the World Series games in Los Angeles. Los Angeles sports writers are a weird band of chauvinists, with a code of ethics of their own which ignores . normal journalistic regard for facts. We up in the Pacific Northwest have had our own bitter experience with these strange char actors, for whom nothing but the superlative best will do. '. pACIFIC Coast conference football wasn't good enough for them, so they did their utmost to wreck the PCC. Minor league baseball wasn't good enough for them, so they panned it. Now they are learning that big league teams can make errors, too, and they can't seem to stand it. : Associated Press was guilty of some "bush league reporting" too in its tale of Wynn's out burst. It said he "let off steam about west coast newspapermen." Obviously he was aiming only at the L. A. writers, and the AP's statement that he aimed at "west coast newspapermen", is a slur on all newspapermen outside the L.A. fraternity. Astorian Budget. Fine Autumn The sumac leaves have turned red whether frosted or not, the locust is preparing for winter by letting its leaves yellow and fall ; days, though sunny and warm, seem a quiet preparation and not a promise of production. It is a fine, slow autumn, giving the earth and its plants and ani mals time to get ready for snow and . cold. Sherman County Journal, Moro. ' clear tnat an immense artificial, noncompeti in a case which is still tablets of Vitamin B-12 to deliver a drug for origin than it does to of the world.. The price . word what is the most hard, Lerner heard him American success," said Independence," replied Dennis the Menace 'torgfuy maw, QAiin vAaostzi Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington The proper Bostonian who is our Secre tary of State is now showing to- t h e Red Chinese quite as much , steel beneath his knitted New England Yan k e e glove as ever did his suppo s e d 1 y tougher prede- ppccnr .Tnhn Williams. " " ' White Foster Dulles. Indeed, Secretary Christian Archibald H e r t e r has de veloped a "Herter policy" to ward the China Communists that goes beyond anything at tempted in the old "rigid" days of the late Mr. Dulles. And in the process he has truly turned the tables on Nikita Khrushchev, the ton boss of Communists every where. The greatest difficulty ever faced by the United States in the . cold war has lain in a single fact. We are' the un doubted leaders of the West ern alliance, in power and prestige. But we are a free people dealing with other free peoples. We have never been able to force them to dance to our tune, even had we wanted to do so. ' KHRUSHCHEV has exploit ed this relative weakness numberless times. Heretofore, he .has been able to pipe the tune for? the countless, face less millions of Communists everywhere, including those in China, i Or at any rate he has claimed such a power and has used this claim to suggest that the West in a pinch has no real leadership able to say yea or nay. and make it stick. Now, however, it is Chris tian Herter who is makirig Nikita Khrushchev sweat, rather than the other way round. Herter has proclaimed the doctrine that since Khrushchev has always said the Soviet Union is the in fallible head of the worldwide Communist show, Khrushchev must now accept the respon sibility .for curbing his ag gressive junior partners in Communist China. There is, of course, always a temptation in the West to grasp at thin straws. But this time it really does look that we have got hold of a first rate stick. For Khrushchev either must restrain the Chi nese Communists or publicly advertise an immense crack in the theoretically massive monolith of international com munism. " " Try and Stop Me -By BENNETT CERF- DEAN MARTIN, whose career has been more meteoric than ever since he shed Jerry Lewis as a partner, is fond of pretending that he drinks more and oftener than his friend Joe E. Lewis. He expressly orders M. C's at night clubs to in troduce him as, - "And here's our star straight from the bar Dean Mar tin." In his introductory remark he'll include lines like, 'Tm not drinking anymore. On the other hand, I'm not drinking any less," or "I drink moderately. In fact, I've got two cases of Moder ately in my dressing room this minute." The fact of the matter, however, is that this heavy drink ing bit is all an act Martin, bis wife, and bis seven children are today a conservative, church-going, publicity-shy group of typical suburbanites. -. The usual worried wife consulted the psychiatrist you've met ' In stories like this before. "My poor husband think's he's a mink," she reported, "and you can charge as much as you like to cure him, because he sheds a lot." Q 1359. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by may features Syadictta. S. WHITE AND, ironically, the man who found the stick and now brandishes it with such vigor is the man who was widely reckoned to be a far less hardy type than was Mr. Dulles. Within a few days ex plicitly, at 12:15 p.m. on Oc tober 22 - Secretary Herter will celebrate his first half year in office. Six months is a short span on which to mea sure ' the effectiveness of a Secretary of State. But it is not too brief a time to make a pretty, good preliminary estimate. ' Inquiry' among the best judges of performance in that office, the men who serve at the Secretary's elbow, sug gests that the President has made no mistake in, Christian Archibald Herter. ' - tierter has made many changes, mostly in emphasis rather than principle, , but in important emphasis, all the same. He has revived the State Department's policy planning board, ' of which Mr. DuUes made very little use. He has delegated far more authority to subordinates m general. He has made of State a happier shop. And on the whole it is a better shop. For no matter how Mr. Dulles may have been admired by many, no one can really do it all really well tf OREOVER, Herter's re- gime has created changes in manner whichare subtle but which are significant; too. Dulles was respected by his Allied associates, but- rarely deeply liked. Herter is both respected and deeply liked, He can say "no" as stoutly as Dulles did, but he also has the happy faculty of saying it without leaving a sting. And though this will surely sound odd, it is nevertheless a piain iaci: nerter is en couraging the President to ac cept his unique Constitutional responsibility for ultimate foreign policy. This Dulles never did. Among those who always hesitated to interrupt or advise John Foster IDulles was Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. This is said not by way of a guess but on com pletely reliable authority. (Copyright, 1959, by . United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TO INSPECT SAC Savannah, Ga. (DPD Brit ain's top military man, Louis Lord Mountbatten, leaves here today for Charleston, S. C., to inspect Strategic Air Command facilities and re ceive an honorary degree at The Citadel. 4 10-ra MABTlW Foreign Notebook Americans on Trial; By PHIL NEWSOM ' UPI Foreign Editor . From . the foreign editor's notebook: Surprise: Russia's sensational moon rocket Lunik IH definitely took Soviet officials abroad by surprise indicating the Kremlin considered it a risky enterprise. The Soviets had no such doubts about the pre vious shot to the moon which was timed to introduce Pre mier Khrushchev's visit to the United States. It was learned in Tokyo , that Russians in Japan had been tipped off in advance to the rocket that hit the moon and were ready to whoop up propaganda when it landed. Eleazer Says Airplane Here To Stay -And Stay and Stay By FRANK ELEAZER Washington-flJPD - Airplanes are wonderful. Big . jet this winter will hurtle sun-lovers ' from Mi ami to New York in 2 hours and 25 minutes, be fore they can fade. This trip takes a hard three days if you drive. ""VJ7 X Frank: Eleaxsr umer jti liners meantime flash from Atlantic to Pacific so fast you can eat lunnch at both ends of the line as weU as en route. By -ir, that kind of travel requires every bit of a week. And take the New York to Washington run. This is a train -ride of 3 hours and 35 minutes. It's a five-hour ex cursion by car. But by plane, I learned the other night, it is possible to cover the course in 6 hours and 13 minutes. That's for those who didnt happen to have any luggage Waiting for the bags to come up of course always takes a few minutes . extra ' The airline folks in New York -were ever so nice on the phone. If I could get to the East Side Air Terminal by 4:50, they would pop me on a bus to the airport and squeeze me onto a nice even ing flight to the capital, with dinner aboard. Physicians In Debate By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -(DPlr- It is the physicians against the poli ticians in' the endless dispute whether the insiders knew FDR was a dy ing man when they put him up to seek and win a fourth term. The latest witness is James Roose- lti. c. whsob velt, Mr. Big's eldest son. Jimmy's book, "Af fectionately, FJD.R.," contrib utes this: . - "The fourth term race in 1944 was father's death war rant. I saw him only twice during that period. Each time I realized with .awful, irre vocable certainty that we were going to lose him. never have been recon ciled to the fact that father's physicians did not flatly for bid him to run, or at least that he curtail his activities more than he did during those last months." Jimmy concedes that the physicians acted in good faith. Gold To the Editor: A rather nov el idea among sheepherders in the early days of the public domain grazing of sheep was the habit of prospecting when not tending the flock. On one such occasion in eastern Ore gon a lone sheepherder was inspecting a freshly made mound of sand and pebbles dugup by a badger. Sure enough, there appeared many tiny grains of bright gold and quartz, later proving to be one of the most famous gold pockets ever found in Baker county, Oregon. Another dis covery was by a lone sheep herder somewhere from 50 to 75 miles south and west of Vale. He was known to have picked . up some very rich nuggets and kept the location a secret even unto his untime ly death. As the story goes, he was the unfortunate vic tim of tick fever, thus ending a: further chapter in the an nals of a hidden treasure. Most likely someone will acci dentally find it again. . Bert Kissinger 320 Boardman st. Medford Gen. Charles de Gaulle and the leaders of the Algerian rebellion will continue indi rect, long-distance contacts on the possibility of a cease fire, but they do not look" for any immediate spectacular de velopments. Neither side in tends to slam the door on the other and both want to end the war. But they do not want to raise false hopes while their positions remain as far apart as they are at present. - : 1 . r ' Turmoil In Turkey:, The lid may blow off any day now on that American servicemen's trial in Izmir, Turkey. Two of three ranking American officers at t h e NATO base who were "re lieved" of their commands for The plane, a two-engine propeller type, would leave La Guardia Field at 5:50, and arrive at Washington National Airport at convenient 7:05. I made it to . the terminal in time, to find out there wasn't really much hurry. The flight, and the connecting bus m, had been set back 40 minutes. Just long enough to relax, read the paper, and dis patch a picture postcard to the office. ' ; By the time we got to "the airport an additional 50 mun utes delay had been posted. Attendants said the plane was late leaving Albany. The weather, they noted, was fog gy. ' Calls Former Roommate This allowed time . for a coke and a call to a feUow I roomed with for awhile at Columbia.. On my investment of a succession of three dimes in the pay phone we hit high spots of the intervening couple of decades and decided to cov er the details some other time. Had I known, we could have covered them then. How ever, his supper was waiting. It turned out mine was too, and would be for quite a while. Airline attendants were helpful. They announced peri odically that my flight hadn't yet reached New. York. A little later they were able to announce periodically that it had, but that on account of the inclement weather' and vs. Politicians on FDR's Health The files relate that just prior to the 1944 election,' "Vice Adm. Ross iT. Mclntire "said here that the , President was in good health . and , without "organic difficulties at all," although underweight. Mcln tire was FRR's physician. FDR's heart man went along with the Admiral . . Mclntire wrote a book after FDR's death in which he said: "The gossipers, -in -fact,' were never further from, the truth than when the declared that the President's 'collapse' was plainly apparent both be fore and during - the cam paign." . - ' "Gossipers" does not do justice to the facts. Jonathan Daniels set out in' "The Man from . Independence," a bi ograph of Harry S. Truman,, that FDR was a dying . man in 1944 and that some of his associates knew it. , . ' Pauley Sparked . Strategy Daniels relates that Edwin W. Pauley sparked the stra tegy to make Truman the 1944: vice president nominee with this slogan: "You are not nom inating a Vice President, butl a President of the United! States." Pauley meant that FDR would not live out his fourth term. Edward J. Flynn, in "You're the Boss," wrote of FDR prior to his fourth nom ination in April, 1944: "He seemed to lack power to make decisions . . .'How ever, once more as in 1940 the group surrounding him were pressing him to under take another campaign." . Flynn had . been FRD's Democratic National Commit tee chairman and must be counted his close and loyal friend. Some books and years later, the story is just about complete. Roosevelt was in no condition during the latter months of his third term to aspire to a fourth. Secretary "Alarmed" FDR's personal secretary, Grace Tully, wrote of being "seriously- alarmed" by the Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel Ul-st-ease because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. an Unproved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get PAS TEETH today at any drug cou&tetv Lunik, De Gaulle; Latin China Views protesting alleged Turkish po lice brutality against enlisted men arrested on currency charges, are coming out to new posts in the United States. There appear to have been mighty efforts to hush the whole thing up but it def initely has affected the mo rale of Americans in Turkey and strained U.S.-Turkish re lations. Someone in Washing ton may have to do a lot of explaining. Props for Formosa: Diplomatic quarters in Tai pei report that Nationalist China quietly has asked the United States to help prop up " Latin American support for Chiang Kai-Shek's govern ment. Cuba broke the once solid Latin endorsement of the other planes that had got their first, it was waiting its turn to come down. As soon as it landed, the man said, it would load for Washington. Well, almost as soon as it landed. First it had to refuel, after so much cir c'ing over New York. Finaly ly they opened the gates, and at first it was great just sit ting down, after all that stand ing around. ! Gets Smile. Meat Pie By 9:02, when we started easing out to the runway, I had experienced sufficient re lief for my feet, and was ready to fly. So was the plane, And, after growling at the end of the strip for 25 min utes while other planes land ed, it did. . ' ; By 20 minutes to 10 the stewardess, a charming girl named Martha, - gave me - a warm smile and a meat pie. I was glad for the smile, and for. the fact my stomach ap parently: hadn't quite closed up shop for the night. . ' It took 1 hour and 15 min utes to fly to Washington, like Martha announced it -would. But again those other planes were there first. We settled onto the runway at 11:03, and pulled up to the ramp late by an even four hours Like I intimated at the start, the airplane' is here to stay. It would - be better though if it didn't sometimes have to stay quite so long in. one place. President's condition. Robert E. Sherwood, a worshipful biographer, relates that "I was shocked by his appear ance." After the election and the Yalta conference, Adm. Ernest J. King noted "serious deterioration" in FDR. Form er Secretary of State Cordell Hull found the President vague and likely to lose the thread of conversation. All of this adds. up to the fact that the voters were de frauded of information they were - entitled to have and defrauded -for- the . political purpose of winning a presi dential election. ? There were rumors, scorn ed as "ugly" during the 1944 campaign, about FDR's health. Democrats beat them down. The White House de nied them. DemOTcatic politi cians who knew the score did not speak up. Reasonable Funerals . (Priced for Everyone) FRANK PERL FREE Parking Spacs Adjacent To Mortuary FRIENDLY. the Taipei government last month on the China member ship question in the United Nations. It abstrained on the vote. Venezuela has threaten ed to support Red China next year. Nationalist officials are showing increasing alarm over trade and cultural ex changes between mainland China and South America. In lhe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Scotland's proudest prod uct became a political issue of sorts the other day in si- tain's national election cam paign when Prime Minister Macmillan won applause from Scottish audiences by telliijg them that if re-elected hej ( hopes to make Scotch whisky cheaper. Politics, you see, is politics -the world over. THE moral? Pay little attention ?b what a politician SAYS. Watch closely wht ha DOES. If what he does fails to jibe with what he says (especially in campaign years write him off your list. TN THESE hectic days, the name of Roger M. Blough, chairman of the U.S. Steel Corporation, is much in the news. Question: How does he pronounce it: Blow-as in "bough?" Blow-as in "though?" Or Bluff-as in "rough?" English pronunciation irs a strange thing. o rpRADE and commerce not - Sales of U.S. poultry arej BOOMING in West Gengany this year. Shipments 61 slaughtered poultry to the West Germans in the first half of 1959 totaled 7.7 -million pounds more than ALL U.S. poultry ; exports sold hv Ger many in ALL OF 1958. o - A thought: .' .Poultry - production" Isn't subsidized under ,l the V. S. farm . program. It stands on its own feet and finds its qprn c markets. SCIENCE note : from Wash ington: . . v. ; . Scientists would rather haVS a genuine, pedigreed piece oft moon rock than a whole reel of TV pictures of the moonfc other side. . .-.J - - o Why? . . . ;: ; The dispatch goes on: "SucSt a moon chunk might well con firm what many scientists be lieve that the earth has of ten been peppered with bits of lunar matter some of which are now on display in natural history museums as METEOR ITES." , That . is ' to . say: Maybe chunks of rock fly off the moon into space and HIT TH3 EARTH. WHY do we want to know? Well ... NATURAL CURIOSITY, for one thing. DON'T be scornful of natu ral curiosity. Benjamin Franklin : like millions of other humans since the world began wondered about light ning. He didn't stop with won dering. During a storm, h sent up a kite with a metCl key attached to it and ELEC TRICITY came down tha string. ' That started the electriftb business which migfrt nv3r have got started if Ben P& lin hadn't got curious.; Hear your fav orite hymns on KMEE every a Sunday, 10:31 a.m., sung b "Tennse Ernie" orl PERIi Funeral Home o Phone 99 2675 LADY AftBNDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE