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4 MAIL JtBUMI, M.dfnl,,. Tuesday, Oct. 13. 1959 - MEDFORUSWTRIBWa "Everyone Southern Oregon ReacU Ihe Mall Tribune . Published Dtll? except Saturday by MJJDFOKP PRINTING CO 33 North eu St Pb SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB 3RE Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business star ERIC W H4IEN JR. Managing "alitor EARL. B ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor ; RICHARD JWWETT Sports Editor OLTVB ST ARCHER Women Editoi DALE ERIOfSC) Circulation Mar An Independent Newspaper Entered a sennd cbss matter at Medfor' Orecon under Act of MarcTi S 1897 -SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Wm t -in Advance Copy 10c Da 11- and Sunday I year $15 00 Daily nd Sunday 6 mos 8.01 O Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only Cjfie year $420 By Carrier Ir Advance MedTord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill -Phoenl Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes a Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 rwuiy and Sunday l too i-su Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Af) Terms Cash In Advance Offleto Aper of City of Medford Official Papei ot Jacsiun County United Pres International Full Leased Wire MJMBEB OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO . INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De a trolt. San Kanrisco. Los Angeles w Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lan ancnver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION MATIONAL E0ITORIAI Flight 'o Time Medford and JacksoTi County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1949 (Thursday) The first fall frost is noted in ame areas of the valley. Central Point calls an elec tion Octo 25 on a $100,000 bond issue for sewer improve ments. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1939 (Friday) Retail merchants in Med ford establish a parking lot between Main and Sixth sts. facing Fir st. for the use of shoppers and business people. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot"0 column: "Sam Richardson celebrates the birthday that makes him old enough to vote this week. It is hoped he does it right, at least the first time." ; 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1929 (Sunday) Hob Deuel is installed as American Legion commander. Russian trans-Paeific fliers may drop in at Medford air port. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 13. 1919 (Monday) A cannery in Talent is mak ing apple juice. A Table Rock hen lays a monster egg. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 13, 1909 (Wednesday) Another compromise afc- O tempt will be made in the city of Medford's hassle with M. F. Hanley over the right of way for a gravity water line across Haaley's ranch. Gold Hill Recorder Harvey tangles with a yellowjacket and shows up at council meet ing with his left eye about puffed shut. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five e six is good. 1. In the average human being, one ieg is longer and stronger than the other; true or false? 2. With vhat man in Ameri man political life do you as sociate a brown derby? 3. "White Plague" is a term applied to leprosy, tubercu losis. or malaria? 4. Which President of the United States had three Vice Presidents? 5. Pierre is the State capital of which State? 6. Are sugar beets and sug ar cane both grown in tne TTnited States? 7. SuddIv the line which recedes "Whence all but him all fled." 8. In what city was W. M. Tweed a political boss? 9. Correct the following: "He spoke to my wife and myself about gomg. 10. Is euthanasia a new wonder drug, a form of am nesia, or a mercy killing of an incurable nerson? Answers: 1. True. 2. Alfred E. Smith. 3. Tuberculosis. 4. Franklin D. Rooievelt. 5. S8uth - Dakota. 6. Yes. , 7. "The boy stood on the burn ing deck." 8. New York City. 9. "He spoke to my wife and me . . ." 10. Mercy killing. More than 16,973,000 acres, or 89 per cent of the total area of Maine, are forest lands. The state also has 2,465 lakes and ponds. Twice, in recent years, municipal parking has Medford people. Twice, they voted it down. Both times this newspaper supported the proposal. It is now becoming evident that we were wrong, and that the majority of the voters was right. At least that is what we are coming to be lieve in noting the apparent success of the "Park & Shop" plan put into effect by the downtown merchants. rjON McNEIL, the chamber of commerce man ager here, and Bill Barr, the dynamic spark plug of the nationwide Park & Shop movement, both are exceedingly encouraged by the record of the Park & Shop plan in Medford so far. , A story in this paper last Sunday detailed now the plan is working: some 6,000 "shopping hours' financed by merchants, creation of 975 parldng spaces, with more planned, 71 merchants and professional people now participating com pared to the 34 at the start of the program, plans being laid for a "Hide & Shop" program of bus transportation. And all this is being done by the merchants themselves, and not out of tax revenues. 'THIS 'last was one of the objections raised to the program by leaders of the opposition to municipal parking. They said at' the time they had no objection to off-street parking as such, so long as it was financed by the merchants (and, indirectly, by those using the parking spaces). But they did object to the use of the city's credit for initial financing, and to its administration by the city as such. So, they were right, we were wrong, and "pri vate enterprise'' is showing that it is capable of doing the job which, before, few seemed to think could be done. E. A. Black Eye for Hunters More people are killed by automobile acci dents than are killed by gunfire during hunting seasons. We've always thought that one reason for this is the fact that everyone thinks of a rule as a weapon, and treat it with respect, but few think of a car as a weapon. But this year, we re inclined to wonder. What gets into some people when they feel a high powered rifle, or a shotgun, in their hands? What makes ordinarily law-abiding men violate both the laws of the state and the laws of common sense when it comes to weapons? 1I4EN who usually respect the property of others, go merrily trespassing, leaving. gates open and terrorizing people and livestock. Houses, signs, barns targets. "Hunters ' (and we a true hunter is a sportsman) fire from roads and across roads, spotlight limits, violate licensing and tagging laws de signed for the protection of their own sport, and generally act like irresponsible juveniles. 9 CTATE police in this worst season in memory as far as hunting and shooting violations are concerned. And the advertisement printed sports page, notifying are not welcome on certain properties, is a direct outgrowth of such offensive behavior. Ana an tnis aespite repeated warnings, nay, pleas, from police authorities and. sportsmen's organizations. Ked Hat Days, observed during the hunt ing season, is a measure designed by true sports men -in an attempt to direct public disapproval at acts of vandalism, irresponsibility and crun inality on the part of some hunters. , COR real sportsmen danger to the sport who won t use his head If anything can rouse mand, stricter laws, it of men with guns. They aren't giving a cheap thrill with a weapon. But they will assur edly bring an end to and honest sport. And most cases of this nature, ity of the hunters who eye. E. A. . ' ' ' - -: - , . - . Who s Killing the Dunes? Despite all the clamor and dispute about the proposed Oregon Dunes National Seashore, one thine: is becoming; more This is, that if there never is a great National Park area on the Oregon coast, it will be the fault of Gov. Mark Hatfield. The' governor has hemmed and hawed. But he has never made his has subscribed to an adverse committee recom rendation, then said open. . Os West is remembered as the governor who saved Oregon's beaches for the people. Will Hatfield be remembered as the governor who did the state out of a National Seashore? We'd not want to be remembered that way if we were in Jus shoes. h.A. the matter of off-street been put to a vote of and fence-posts become use quotation marks, for their quarry, exceed bag m - , . area declare this is the in recent days on our prospective hunters they know that the greatest they love lies in the jerk and abide by the rules up public opinion to de is such asinine behavior themselves anything but hunting as a respectable the sad thing is, as in that it is a small minor give all of them a black and more evident. position really clear. He faintly the "door is still Dennis the (3ee. HoweaHE fix onions if ihbmws ya svo?' Washington Report By WILLIAM PRO-WATCHING 1 Washington Some fellows are construction-watchers, or sidewalk superintendents. Some fellows are bird watchers, star ing always through then glasses for the sight of the long- billed watyoucallem. Neither hob- Wtm2 " stitutional nor even against the law, not yet at any rate. But, to one fel low, both leave something to be desired. One bulldozer in action, after all, is pretty much like another. And one good, long look at a single purple-spotted pheasant is, for him, quit enought in the way of pheasant-peering. For this one fellow, the fel low who writes this column, is a professional - watcner. Here, surely, is a view end lessley arresting and needless ly changing. For the proper study of the pros is the proper study of mankind. Life in all its forms of the tiros is the proper study of mankind. Life in all its forms is lived more fully, and considerably more gracefully, among the pros. - THESE, indeed, are a band of brothers, a good com pany of men. No matter how diverse their fields of profes sionalism basebaU or poli tics or whatnot they are the world's true kinf oik and com rades. And recent days have brought before the eyes a rich panorama of the pro in action. In the World Series any qual ified professional watcher could easily find several au thentic members of the spe cies. There was, for example, Nelson Fox of the Chicago White Sox. This sturdy, un terrified, immensely able lit tle second baseman illustrated the first and greatest of the qualities of the pro: he never, never gave up. He kept cooly hitting that ball, whether his team was two runs ahead or eight runs behind. There were Duke Snider and Gil Hodges and Carl Fur illo of the Los Angeles Dodg ers. They had been big men in the old, old days back when the Dodgers were based in Brooklyn. They now showed that they had triumphantly surmounted the obstacles of advancing age and of a rough transplanting, in the evening of their careers, clear across the continent. . rpHEY exhibited another -J- onalitv of the nrnr a whnl- Iy untheatrical efficiency. Tl X " Again, there was the mas Try and Sy BENNETT CERF-- LYRICIST IRA GERSHWIN once was importuned by a I Wall Street customers man to take a big position in art improved mining stock. 'It doesn't look safe to me," de murred Gershwin. 'Ira," the Wall Street man as sured him earnestly, "you'll make so much money on this stock, you'll go broke!" -,". ' The fellow who used to dream up names for new Pullman cars must have witched his activities this year to chorus girls and models. Popping up in Broadway agencies recent ly have been such lovely creatures as Berths Cay Suit, Eyeful Tower, - Zsa Zsa Ginsberg, and Tutu Divine. .'" A Detroit man noticed road sign on the island of Nantucket that read," "2 miles to Nobadeer Field." "Why is that field named Kobadeer?" he asked his driver. "The Indians named it," the driver explained. "Nobadeer is Indian for airport." C 1959, by Bennett Celt, Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate. Menace S. WHITE sive Early Wynn, the Chicago pitcher who so steadfastly faced his responsibility for the ultimate defeat of the White' Sox. Wynn, the most- winning pitcher in baseball when the series opened, be came in that severe test about the most-losing pitcher of all. What did he do, in mani festing the third great qual ity of the pro? Why, he stood up like a man and offered no alibi at all, though surely a small one would have been humanly understandable. "I goofed it up good." That is what he said. And, finaUy, there was the nolitical pro, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain, As it turned out, he was a win ning, rather than a losing pro, But, before the votes had been counted and his Conservative party had returned to power. many men and many circum stances had pressed him very hard. His back had looked to be against the wall. Our own White House, for one, did this old friend no good by issuing an oddly petulant statement plainly suggesting that per haps he had phomed up- the issue of the summit meeting. (Maybe this was done because Macmillan had been tactless enough to intimate that it was he who had really brought about negotiations with. the Russians as indeed he had). rPHE non-pro under such -- cruel and unexpected pres sures would have screamed against his opposition" and against fate. The non-pro would have driven himself and his associates into unwise and thus unprofessional extremes. But old pro Mac millan tried to do and did do what the Dodger veterans did so "well: when he found him self unable to hit safely to one field he turned calmly about and hit soundly to an other field. To paraphrase, it is not what game you are in that counts, it is how you play the game. (Copyright. 1959. by Unit ed Feautre Syndicate, Inc.) Washington FFA Youth Wins Test Kansas City,-Mo. -UPD- Phil Rousseau, Franklin, Wash., Monday night won the Future Farmers of America national public speaking contest and the $250 award that goes with it. "Food for Our Nation" was the topic of his 10-minute ad dress. Tonight, the National Star Farmer of America will be named. Ahnnt 1ft nnn FFA members from all over the United States are in Kansas City for tne convention. Stop Me In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower sets in motion the Taft-Hartley law machinery to end the steel strike for 80 days. Did he do right? Or did he do wrong? rpo THOSE of us who neither own steel stocks nor be long to unions concerned in the strike, it appears that a settlement would be better for everybody. The employees now out of work would start getting paychecks aHain. The steel mills would start mak ing steel again. Steel would again become available to those who use steel as a raw material and they would start making their products again. lhese products would again be available in good supply for the merchants to sell and their customers to buy. The steel companies would go on paying dividends to their stockholders who, by the way, outnumber the work ers in the steel industry (for eacn steel worker there are roughly one and a quarter owners of steel stocks.) ' But the unions concerned in the strike can't see it that way. They say the President has intervened on the side of the steel operators - which, they say, is wrong. O IS RIGHT? Who is wrong? What should be done about it? - .. IN AN EFFORT to answer tlnaea Jill Aef-inmn Ta4- icia ima gine a neighborhood rowf Two or more families are fighting with each other over some situation that concerns them acutely but doesn't con cern the rest of us much. The ruckus goes on and on. It makes life miserable for the whole neighborhood. What shall the rest of us do? Shall we stand by and take it- ad infinitum? Or shall we GO TO LAW? rTHE CHANCES are that -- when we get so fed up with the row that we can't take it any longer we'll go to law. The law will then pro ceed to adjudicate the rights that are involved our right to live our lives undisturbed by somebody else's quarrel and the right of the '"ruckus raisers to go on with their ruckus. In the end, the law will de cide it on the basis of the greatest good to the greatest number following the Amer ican principle that the rights of each individual or group of individuals are LIMITED BY THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. That's the American way. TlfHAT ABOUT the numbers ' involved? Let's put it this way: . It is generally stated that about 500,000 steel workers are out on strike. Using the ratio of one and a quarter to one, that would mean about 625,000 owners of steel stocks - or a total of 1,125,000. Mul tiplying that by four (assulff ing that each worker and each stockholder have three de pendents) gives us a total of four and a half million per sons directly concerned in the steel strike. The rest of us number about 170 MILLION. That's where the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number comes in. Attorney General Due Minor Surgery Washington (DPD Attorney General William P. Rogers en ters the Walter Reed Army Medical Center today for an operation to remove a small growth from his vocal cords. Rogers, who was in his of fice Monday, said he probably would be in the hospital only overnight. He said he felt fine, A Justice department spokesman said the operation was local, and not serious. Rogers was scheduled to con valesce at home for two or three weeks. The spokesman said home convalescence was called for because Rogers would not be able to talk. 1 Deputy Attorney General Lawrence E. Walsh will serve as head of the Justice depart ment until Rogers returns. Portland Polio Cases Reach 35 for Year Portland (UPD Portland's 1959 polio toll has increased to 35 with three more cases last week, according to the City Health Bureau. In 1958 at this time Port land had only five polio cases reported. BUY DRINKING WATER Frankfurst, Germany UPD The drought that has parched Germany for 10 weeks has de pleted water resources to such an extent that m a-n y north German villagers are buying drinking water for 5 to 20 cents a bucket, it was reported today. . British Conservatives7 Win Suits Russian Summit Aims By PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign Editor It is a quirk of the times that the Soviet Union, having long since taken credit for al most everything from inven tion of the bi cycle to the steamboat, now also is taking partial credit for the Conservative election vic tory in Brit ain. Moscow Ra dio shed not Phil Newsom a tear for the defeat suffered by British - Socialists, and seemingly -wasted not , a sec ond thought on the fact that Communist candidates fared even less well than they did in 1955. - . ' If the Soviet Communists seem to be changing their choice of political bed-fellows, it may be traced to the tremendous pressure Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is building up for a summit con ference. Had Summit Plank Prime Minister Harold Mac millan took as a plank in his campaign platform the -fact that it was he who first made the . trip to Moscow to. see Khrushchev during the Ber lin crisis, and the claim that it was he who instituted the thaw leading to Khrushchev's U.S. visit. , Noted the Moscow Radio: "It was driven home to the British voters that . the Con servatives had the greatest de sire and a special knack for Communications Letters' to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writej although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of s pen name n initial for publica tion is pe'-missible The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edi all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words More on Dunes .... To the Editor: I was inter ested in your long editorial of Oct. 4 in which you supported the establishment of the pro posed Oregon Dunes National Seashore south of Florence. Much of your editorial was a matter of opinion, but your statements regarding the Western Lane Taxpayers As sociation were supposed to be factual. We take exception to two statements: We are not well - financed. Our contributions have come from individuals, the largest being a donation of $100. Our secretary, Howard Ragan, a respected motel owner, re ports that during the past six months we have spent exactly $690.25," not much more than $100 a month. This took care of postage, telephone and tele gram charges, secretarial help and traveling expenses. The association, you , state, is composed of a group of real estate men and property own ers, thereby . giving the . im pression that their motiva tions are primarily mercen ary. One real estate man has been interested but so far as I know has not been too ac-. tive in our campaign, i Finally, let me quote from Senator Neuberger. At the conclusion of the hearings in Eugene he said, "The opposi tion of the Western Lane Tax payers Association has been imaginative and effective. If I had been in the Florence area I would have been a member of the Western Lane Taxpayers Association." We take this to mean he thought we were right in objecting to the creation of the seashore. John S. Parker Committee on Information Western Lane Taxpayers Ass'n Box 1033 Florence, Ore. Newsboys and Oldsters To the Editor: Isn't it won derful that next Saturday is to be Newspaperboy day? As we haven't a paper that day, shouldn't we watch for our boy Friday and give him a few words of appreciation, or some little gift to show him that he hasn't been getting up early, going to school, hurry ing home to deliver our paper, then doing his home work -all unnoticed. That young businessman is worthy of no tice. Also we musn't forget the oldsters. The Fifty Plus club should be getting .their white elephants ready for their rum mage sale, and let's pin the prices on our articles, huh? The members should be fig uring out how to look their "worstest" at a Halloween party. You'll hear more about both projects at the usual meeting at 12:30 p.m. next Friday, Oct. 16, at Fifth and Oakdale. Pearl Spackman Box 33 . . .. Jacksonville, Ore. u-Sf IklU OeJ dealing with the Soviets." It added: "Nor must it be forgotten that Macmillan and these oth er Conservative leaders have lately been advocating .the early calling of a summit con ference.", ' . No matter how much the masters of Communism may detest the capitalistic roots of Britain's Conservative govern ment, itwas obvious that at this time, the Kremlin be lieved the Conservatives' re election to their advantage. Macmillan has been the West's strongest advocate of a summit conference in the quest for world peace. Had Matter of Fact THE FRIENDLY GUY San Francisco t As he' says himself, Gov. Pat Brown of California is "a; very friendly guy," amiable and not easily annoyed. But in a reany ; long, iranK i talk with him, you discover i that there is one thought - which visibly annoys him every time it forms in his Jns-ph Alsnp mma. "In this country," he says bitterly, "the news moves from east to west. So nobody outside of California has ever heard of Pat Brown. And if nobody's ever heard of you, how the hell do you become a serious Presidential candi date?" . ; , Or again, half an hour later, he declares, at once grimly and wistfully: "If I were the Democratic governor of a big state in the East, With my vic tory in the last election and my record since I've been in office, I'd be a leading Demo cratic candidate for the Presi dency this minute!" Or again, yet another hour later, he remarks sadly: "If only I could change places with Nelson Rockefeller!" . . - rNE cannot blame the gov ernor for being unable to brush this particular crumb out of his mental bed. He is right. If he were the governor of a big Eastern or mid-Western state, the more enthusias tic supporters of Senators Kennedy and Humphrey would still not be for him The group that will wait and hope for Adlai Stevenson un til the last trump sounds, would still be waiting and hoping. But ' Brown would be a leading contender all the same. Most of the kind of peo ple formed up behind Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri and many: others besides would would instead be form ing up behind Governor Brown. . His brilliant victory in 195&Y his excellent administrative and legislative record at Sac ramento, ought to attract widespread support. Yet they have not. But when one tries to answer the question about whether Brown can ever over come this unjust handicap, one also has to note that Brown himself bears some of the political phenomenon he complains about. A S California politics has just begun to be intermit tently watched by the nation, so too California politics are extremely inward looking and preoccupied with local issues. By the same token Brown can discouse impressively for half an hour on end on the state's complex water problem, which he is so effectively try ing to solve. But ask Brown how the Democrats ought to meet what the Republicans call the peace issue, and he looks vaguely towards the ceiling and pious in Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan aVi Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. the victory scales been re versed, it had been assumed the British foreign mirlistrj would be taken over by fhm fiery Aneurin Bevarf, a Social- ist whose thinking might no, mally be considered closer to Moscow's own. Actually, it was this, plus Bevan's frequent anti-American blasts, which would make him a liability to Khru shchev's summit hopes. ' A British government whose thinking did not parallel Washingtin's own might well be a factor in hardening U. S. ' caution toward a summit meeting into outright opposi tion. That, Khrushchev did not want. Bv Joseph AIsop ly replies: "We must try to contince the people that we can bettes consummate the good begin- ning that was made when Khrushchev was here." Then show him the horrifying f jg ures of the oncoming missile gap, and inquire whether these do not also have some bearing on the "peace issue." And his eyes flash in the prfc- -tised platform way, and h soundingly declares: "America will never tolerate being sec ond best. We should regain tha o lead at all costs." The truth seems to be, in short, that the California erra- ernor is a most astute politi cian and a distinctly able mn who has given a lot of thought0 to California s problems but has few settled ideas about national problems. As a re sult, as he remarked, he is just a good governor and a friendly guy, a good average guy, who may be pretty hard to picture as President of Vie United States." THESE are the reasons why the Brown Presidential candidacy had not got off the ground. The failure is not for want of trying. Brown sent two henchmen through the Western states to drum up support a month or so ago. He then tried to rally West ern Democratic governors around himself in order to give the Brown candidacy a kind of minimal regional sta ture. Even this logical , first attempt ended in complete frustration. In these circumstances, it ;i, i - i , j - i i. 1 1 wui ue iiara to taice me Brown candidacy really seTi- uuaijr luucsa mi Diowu cma achieve the kind of self transformation that Harry . Truman achieved after qnte ing the White House. Bro will at once be taken seriously if he ever manages to 1qp$ ready for "this President thing," as he calls it. Remee bering Truman, one ctnnotcq elude the possibility. - 0 As to the ViCe Preifle4f. the other contenders Vhe 9S hoping to win Brown ft promises of segond pltcV. pecially Senator Symingtaeare seem to be due for t ail appointment. Brown genuian ly does not seem to veafc b leave the governorshif Jfcf the Vice Presidency. Hi tie twice solemnly promitf fl tj California Democratic leifier the last time only a fortnijh ago, that he will make ng dM& to get the Vice Presidency. And if Bj-own attempted t 1 : U J 1 1 1 J . 1 T"l A T-l mane auui a ucai, 11c cuuiu xiuv deliver his own delegation. Yet even if Pat Brown hiff not much hope at present tern the first place, and even if he does not want the seconfe place, he at least "wants t to a. factor," as he frankly atl mits. With the big California delegation at his back, ke ought to be a major factor. And if one can judge ran on the basis of three hours talk, he will be a sane and decent factor too. (c) 1959 New, York Herald Tribune Inc. ,Only a Quarttjrbc Can direct the team from the field. But when you TEAAA up with us on a dividend fjaying insurance contract you'll git much more than a QUARTtg BACK. Bill Fish
