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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. .. Monday, 0t. 19, 1959 MEDFORDtWTRIBUNB "Iveryone m Southern OrtfoB Reads The Mall Tribune Published Dtll? except Saturday by MJJ3FOilP PRINTING CO 33 North fii St Pb SP 2-6141 ROBtSr W RUHL Editor HERB GR Advertirtnn Manafar ttPJOJJ LATHAM Business Ugt ERIC W LLN JR. Managing "alitor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Taleg Editor RICHARD JEV.ETT SporU Editor OLIVE STARS "HER Women Edltot DALE ERiCKSCN Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a aeonnd class matter ai Medfor Orecon under Act ox March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a ( -. in Advance Copy 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mo 8 0C Daily and Sunday 3 mos 423 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Med ford ' Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. 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The Medford city council recommends rejecting bids for a proposed addition to the public library. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1939 (Thursday) Bert Lowry protests to the Medford city council the ex istence of the city garbage dump off South Pacific high way east of the Bear Creek orchards plant. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sur rounded as they are by Quick triggered bird hunters, farm ers are more cautious than usual about stooping over around the barn." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1929 (Saturday) New homes are rising in the Table Rock district. The Sams Valley Grange goes on record approving the Williams Creek cut-off road. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1919 (Sunday) Medford elopers return from California happy and wedded, and are forgiven. A local jeweler reports he sold $5,000 worth of diamonds to valley residents last week. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1909 (Tuesday) M. F. Hanley will let the city of Medford cross his land to lay a water system pipeline after all. The Medford Hardware store reports the sale of 15, 840 trout flies this season. 'Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five et sis is good. 1. On what island is the city of Palermo? 2. Do Brussels sprouts grow singly or in clumps on one stem? 3. Canasta is a Spanish dance with castanets; true or false? 4. Complete this familiar phrase with the name of an animal: 'The eager ." 5. An object weighing 10 pounds wUl faU at a rate ten times as great as an object weighing one pound; true or false? 6. Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States? 7. In which city is the Metropolitan Museum of Art? 8. If you wanted to use a ketch, would you make salad dressing, go sailing, or play cricket with it? 9. How many men were on a dead man's chest? , 10. What was George Wash ington's middle name? Answers: 1. Sicily. 2. In clumps on one stem. 3. False. (Card - game) 4. Beaver. 5. False. 6. John Jay. 7.. New York City. 8. Go sailing. 9. Fifteen. 10. He had none. EX-COMPTROLLER DIES Orange, N.J- (DPD - Frank J. Murray, 75, former New Jer sey state- - comptroller r -died Saturday. Government Aid At Its Best Many boys and girls to pay society for their crimes will go to jail many more times. They will because they haven't a chance to overcome their environments. They can be punished and they can be preached to by law enforcement officers they still won't beat the an environment that is morality and the squalor of the tenements. For them there is nobody who cares, nobody to love them. These are the children Sen. Hubert Hum phrey is thinking of when government establish a Corps. And it is precisely has these children m mind that the Youth Con servation Corps faces opposition. Critics declare it is not the federal government's responsibility to rehabilitate juvenile TO THIS we react violently. The Youth Con- serration Corps fits exactly our concept of government aid. This is the government doing for citizens what they are unable to do for them selves. This is government aid at its best. We not only think it is something the fed deral government should do. We are convinced that it would be successful. We have only to look at the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, born in depression days men, to know that the Youth Conservation Corps would save thousands of as they, are trapped in can t beat the rap. ' WE HAVE talked with young men who came , to the west from big cities of the east as CCC enlistees. They have told us that had not the CCC opportunity been riven them they al most certainly would have been criminals. They escaped from their environments and became useful citizens. The cost to the taxpayers? Measure the fi nancial load placed upon pursues a life of crime 1 -XT il ft mm a loum c-onservauon oorps job mat win make him a useful citizen. It is understandable that Sen. Humphrey's Youth Conservation Corps has so much support in the Congress. It is difficult to understand why the administration gives it no support. Pendle ton East-Oregonian. School Tether Silly The Portland School service for all the state in seeking a court test of an attorney general's rising that school district :unds cannot be spent on travel outside the state. -It is difficult to believe that legislators ever had the intent so to limit school officials. For it is deny school boards the bers, administrators or study and conference. HE attorney general's opinion is advisory only. But school boards over the state have not been inclined to take enrinsr it. members would become personally liable. The logical step is by the Portland district, a court ruling on the law. If the courts disagree eral, the way will be clear for a resumption of the practice of permitting travel that in the judg ment of the school board is worth the cost to the district. If the courts uphold the ruling, the Jaw must be changed to rive school boards discretion ary authority to spend geographic limit. : All Oregonians would be the losers if the state's public schools should be forced, by a sense of false economy, to shut off direct communica tions with educators of other states and countries. Portland Oregonian. 'Phone Soliciting Being solicited by telephone may be quite irksome to a householder, but the Council needs to go slow in enacting it. The telephone is an important instrument in business, and its use saves time both for the solicitor and often for the one solicited. A whole sale produce house may have a special shipment of fruits or vegetables or a special price for an offering. He can reach 50 or a hundred retailers in less time than a salesman can go by car to ten or a dozen. Parties are served at both ends of the line. Newspaper ad solicitors may call to find out if a prospective advertiser will have copy that day, making contact in a way convenient for both parties. Security salesmen use the phone to acquaint their customers T7ith new offerings of desirable bonds or stocks. And what about the PTA committee soliciting food for a school sale? Telephone solicitation can be abused; but after all the party called has the privilege to say No, and the indisputable right to hang up the receiver. Writing an ordinance that will separate the good sheep from the bad goats in telephone solicitation will tax the ingenuity, of the city at torney, that is .certain. Oregon Statesman, Salem. who have gone to jail and social workers and rap. They can't overcome a mixture of poverty, im he asks that the federal Youth Conservation because Sen. Humphrey delinquents. to create jobs for young young men who so long big city environments society by a man who against the cost of giving 1.1 t 1 J.1 L ill Board will perform a the movement of local patently ridiculous to A V authority to send mem teachers on missions 01 the risk that, by chal- that to be undertaken a friendly suit to obtain with the attorney gen funds on travel, without an ordinance prohibiting Dennis the Menace J" I-II isu YANM MX A COUPLE KOIW3 Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON'S 'EXPOSURE Washington Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon's cam paign for next year's' Repub lican nomina tion has enter- ea a new phase of de liberate risk taxing, going beyond the mere search for delegate strength at the GOP con William S. White Nixon is a vention, curious mixture as a politician. Basically, he is a slide-rule man who de pends not on hunches but on the dull technology of the pro fession. But he is also capable of acting as an icy-handed gambler once his slide -rule methods have informed him that the odds of a preferred course are not impossibly long.. Thus, he has now set out upon a policy of sustained "public exposure" of his per sonality a term coined by his associates. He is conscious ly pushing his luck, as the un doubted present front-runner, in an attempt to sew up the nomination long before the convention meets. TTIS aim is to destroy the one thing he fears in the developing challenge of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. This is the tag "Nixon can't win." In going out to meet this danger more than halfway, moreover, the Vice President is coolly picking the areas where he is assumed to be least popular. His theory is that if you are going to put on a demonstration you might as well make it a good one. This was the real motive of his recent trip to more-or-less Democratic Texas. There, he sought out not merely the Re publican organization leaders who are already safely "aU the way for Dick." He also put himself upon the most open public view that could be ar ranged in the time available to him. It has long been assumed among politicians that while President Eisenhower twice broke heavily into the erst while "solid South," Mr. Nixon would have a hard time repeating. TVflR. Eisenhower was a spe "l cial case. He was a fa mous general. And Texas has an old martial tradition which likes rather than dislikes the so-called "brass." Mr. Eisen hower was born in Texas, though the White House al ill Try and Stop Me : By BENNETT CERF FRANK BROOKHAUSER claims he has a neighbor in Philadelphia named Hubert B. WOLFESCHLEGELSTE INHAUSENBERGERDORFF. Mr. W. (heaven forbid that we have to repeat in full!) is, logically enough, a typesetter, having real ized, no doubt, that no body else could ever get his name into print cor rectly. ... "My wife needs help bad ly," a visibly shaken hus band told an analyst. "She's forever working her head off for the children: cook ing their meals, making their beds, buying them toys, blowing up balloons for them ..." "W h a t' s wrong with that?" interrupted the analyst. "Lots of women sacrifice them selves for their children" "You miss the point," the husband assured him. "We don't have any children." Marcel Pagnol, French playwright, refuses point Wank to go up in a plane. "But the boat trip to America is so much slower," protests his producer. "Why do 3-ou prefer it?" "Because," an swers Pagnol patiently, "I know how to swim." 1959, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. ' 'FORE BREAKFAST? S. WHITE ways stresses his "boyhood home" in good old Republican Kansas. And Mr. Eisenhower is certainly not the eager, all out Republican partisan Mr. Nixon makes no bones about being. To come out of the Texas sortie at least relatively hap py, as the Vice President did, is reckoned in the Nixon camp to have been a con siderable victory for the new technique of "public expo sure." It now probably will be tried again in Florida and, be yond that, possibly in Tennes see. What is happening is this: Nixon no longer needs to fend off Rockefeller as an out right delegate-hunter so much as he needs to take out in surance against the chant "Nixon can't win." His notion is this: if he can show that he is well received in any state - including states where nobody could claim he had any initial advantage -it cannot then be argued that he carries apy built-in handi cap as against the Democratic opposition. A GAIN, as in so many other aspects of his campaign, he is being remarkably fore handed. He is avoiding, or at tempting to avoid, one by one the mistakes that cost the late Senator Robert A. Taft the nomination in 1952. If one could reach into the most private recess of the Vice Presidential mind he would find no real Nixon hope of being able to carry a state like Texas in 1960 un less the Democrats should nominate an extreme liberal. But one would also find an acute Nixon awareness that any competitor looks much better on a playing field not obviously set up for him than on one where he would be favored to win anyhow. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Retreat of Guards Draws Disapproval London (DPD For pos-' sibly the first time, a loud Bronx cheer was flung through the gates of Bucking ham palace Sunday. It came from the lips of three girls, all apparently teen-agers and obviously Americans, who did not approve of the retreat of the palace guards behind the palace gates. PICTURE COUNSEL DIES Danbury, Conn. (DPD - Wil- . lard S. McKay, 64, former vice president and general counsel of Universal Pictures Co., Inc., died Saturday. w m i -art Foreign Notebook: Macmillan, Communists, Purge, Tto- PHTT. NFWSnM t w-s , i, By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Inside Britain: British Prime Minister Mac millan, his cabinet reorgani zation completed, now plans to devote him self primarily to foreign af fairs in com ing months. He has not dropped h i s idea of mak ing summit meet ings a regular part Of ; -world Hi. plomacy-" a continuous chain of summits," he once called it. Meanwhile, what happens fan ncvinm Communications ?nh,0!l!, m"St bear name ana' ddress of th wrttar although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia: JtPU h,Ca,0n ,s.lrmii'e. The Mail Tribune reserves the right te k i6? W,. 8 Vi6W t0 cIarifieati" and condensation. Letters 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 cat. Toastmistresses To the Editor: The public relations dinner of the Med f o r d Toastmistress club Wednesday, Oct. 14, proved a success with almost as many visitors as members present. The Toastmistress club which aims in rlevelrm srwial poise as well as speaking and leadership ability in women, is txrnwinff. There are onlv ten vacancies at the present time for new members. When the club has reached the maxi mum allowable membership, applicants will have to remain on a waning list lor a vacancy or lintill there are sufficient members to form another club. Prospective members are evnected to attend at least two meetings of the club before their applications are given consideration. . Are there local women in terested in this valuable train- in tr who have not contacted the club? If so, they should call Mrs. Elmer Ness, SPnng 3-4308. (Mrs.) Ellen A. Lynner Medford Dislikes Commercial To the Editor: There is a firm in Medford, one of a chain of manv throughout the country, that sponsors a radio advertisement in wmcn a laoy entering a parking lot is told by the attendent to "put it right over there." In doing so, the lady subjects the at tendant to a smoke cloud, making it difficult for him to breathe andor see. He asks her, "Where did you go, la dy?" to which she replies, "I'm still here, I don't know why my car smokes so much." He says, "Maybe it's your muffler," etc., etc. I, for one, object to such misleading advertisements. I'm certain the firm which sponsors the ad knows it is misleading also, or that they know very little about an in ternal combustion engine. Any person who knows any thing about a gasoline engine Knows mat tne mumer nas no effect whatsoever on ex haust smoke. If they wish to advertise their mufflers they should emphasize the noise reducing factor. I hereby call on the above mentioned firm to cease and desist from such misleading advertising. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star rt. Butte Falls, Ore. Re Basic Rule To the Editor: Your inter esting editorial regarding the Basic Rule and speed limits was reprinted in the Rose burg News-Review. As you state, the Basic Rule has been a good law. Under its provisions many hundreds of drivers have been arrested and have paid fines for its violation. Many cities now have signs at their city limits "Speed checked by Radar". And many a driver has been caught and paid his fine, even though the radar provision was attacked in court, (and upheld as legal). But no law is a good law which breeds disrespect for itself or other laws. When this happens, it is time to repeal the law or amend it. No law is a good law which penalizes one person, or one branch of society but lets another go scotfree. When a driver flaunts any FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth h&v suffered real embarrassment because their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at lust the wrong time. Do not live In fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH, the alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath) . Get FAS TEETH at any bug counter. no wto Britain's defeated La bor Party remains a ques tion. Reds on the March: West Germany's outlawed Communist Party is expected to start a large-scale propa ganda . drive for readmission to the federal republic's list of legal political parties. Wen informed West German intel ligence sources said the Com munists decided on the drive at this time because of the world situation created by Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's visit to the United States. To be used in the propaganda drive are pam phlets smuggled over . the border from East Germany and the East German press and radio. First move: A 50- law, and then, by virtue of his position in society gets off on a technicality, it is time for a change. Such a case is that of State Senator Groen ing, arrested for driving at 65 miles per hour in a 45 mile zone. He found a judge who was able to free him without penalty on a point which could just as well have freed thousands of other Oregon drivers who have paid their fines. Disrespect of law is bred by just such cases. The next step is contempt of law, which can lead only to anarchy. There fortunately, is a rem edy. Either amend the basic rule by plugging these tech nical loopholes, or go to a flat speed limit, and. enforce it. Either way would be prefer able to the present, and you may be certain that most violators from now hence forth will try to avail them selves of the technicality that lets a state senator go free. Glen Wellman, Chairman Roseburg Highway Lifesavers 1086 N.E. Walnut st Roseburg, Ore. Commander Can't Visit To the Editor: World War I and n and Korean veterans will find the following letter informative and interesting. It is from the National Head quarters of the American Le gion: "In the absence of National Commander McKneally, I am taking the liberty of reply ing to your letter of October 12. "If time would permit, I am certain that Commander Mc Kneally would be happy to travel to Camp White during his visit to Oregon this month. However, he has a very heavy schedule during his visit in to give the . FINEST FUNERAL SERVICE LOWEST POSSIBLE COST to the families we serve The PERL FUNERAL HOME is a funeral organization and is in no way connected with the cemetery business. Their belief is that each family they serve should have the choice of the final resting place for their loved ones. Complete funeral services are held at the PERL FUNERAL HOME with Dignity, reverence and thorough understanding of your needs. PERL Funeral Home FREE Parking Space Adjacent to Mortuary Hear your favorite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford. Aswan year-old man threw several hundred leaflets demanding readmission of the Communist Party into a Bundestag,' West German lower house of Par liament, sitting. , Purge? Reliable sources in Vienna. a western listening post for events inside the Soviet Un ion and its satellites, expect announcement of a purge in the Moldabian Soviet Repub lic. D. G. Ktatsh, second sec retary of the Moldavian Com munist Party, already has come out with self-criticism of mistakes committed in con nection with ideological party worK. An unknown number of journalists and officials of cultural institutes are said to have been relieved from duty . West German-Egyptian deal: west Germany f inallv is on th verge of signing an agree ment to nrovide tart of the financing of Egypt's Aswan uam project not alreadv cov ered by Soviet aid. The deal almost collapsed twice be cause Bonn suspected the Egyptians of wooing the Com munist East Germans. But now it looks as if the project to tame the waters of the Nile will be financed, at least in part, by West Germany. Alienation Suit Filed in Court Alvin R. Hedsres. Merlfnrri chiropractor and naturopath, has been named defendant in a $50,000 suit for alienation of affections filed by Grant R. Day of Old Stage rd., Cen tral Point. The suit alleges that Hedges, who operates the Hedges Health institute at 339 South Central ave., alienated the af fections of Day's wife, Wal lena E. Day, and that on Aug. 8 of this year Hedges "en ticed" Day's wife from him without his consent. . Day and his wife were mar ried Sept. 6, 1936, according to tne complaint. Day is asking $25,000 gen eral damages and $25,000 pu nitive damages. He is repre sented by Robert Dickey, Med ford lawyer, Portland and could not pos sibly get away long enough to visit Southern Oregon." Signed by E. A. Blackmore. National Adjutant, American Legion. David Frisch P. O. Box 292 Camp White, Ore. Word of Thanks To the Editor: A word of thanks to I. A. Mirick and all responsible for bringing those gifted musicians of the U.S. Marine Band to Medford. Judging from the tremendous ovation these versatile young men received from a thrilled audience, I'm sure many join me in hoping they return. Jean K. Edson (Mrs. J.A.) 108 Geneva st. Medford I PERL FUNERAL HOME has ONE single purpose: FRIENDLY, In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Up in Vancouver (B. C.) yesterday, Dr. Norman Mac Kenzie, president of the Uni versity of British Columbia warned that Canada is in danger of "becoming a na tion of hewers of wood and drawers of water for the United States." In his annual address to students, he said it is a mat ter of vital and personal con cern to every Canadian to STOP a flow of Canadian scholastic talent across "the border - a flow that has been increasing in momentum. The way to stop the flow, he said, is to find ways and means to ensure that the best and' ablest of young Canadians find opportunities for them selves in Canada. He added: "We rely to such an extent on the United States and its people for so many things and in such a variety of fields that there may be little place for the able and bril liant young Canadian, par ticularly in the fields of sci ence and technology, to find uses for his talents in his own country." pARDON me, sir, but I'm A afraid you are permitting yourself to become the vic tim of an inferiority com. plex - and, if so, you are risk ing the grave danger of PASSING IT ON to the bril liant young minds of your country. That would be catastrophic. TAOWN here in what in Canada is often spoken of as "The States," one seems to sense at times the faint be ginnings of an opposite type of inferiority complex. One hears talk of EXHAUSTION of our natural resources coupled often with the en vious crack that CANADA HAS EVERYTHING; we've lived ours up. The implication is that the FUTURE lies in Canada. T ET me offer a word of ad- "vice - to Canadians and Americans alike: Get rid of your inferiority complexes. Take off your dark glasses. Quit worrying about the future. TTERE in the United States and Canada - which are lumped together under the broad, general geographic term of North America - we have a fantastically IM MENSE body of natural re sources. We have a way of life that inspires men to DO THEIR BEST - because IF they do their best and IF they have what it -takes they will be REWARDED for what they do. We have plenty of bright mands. When bright minds are coupled with ample op portunities, the possibilities are LIMITLESS. "Tho n:A DnVen Bucket" was written by poet-publisher Samuel Woodworth in 1817. HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
