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MAIL TRIBUNI, Medfera', Or. Friday, Oct. 23, 1959 Mdford$2Tribune "Everyone lit Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune"' published Dil. except Saturday by 33 North rtj St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBI.Hr W RUHL. Editor HERB GRE'V Advertising Manager oxi 'AJLD latham Busmen Mer EKIC W ILUN JR. Managing .Mor EAfrl. 0 ADAMS, aty Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor ORICHAHD JUWETf Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women Edltol DALE RiCKSN Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered a seonnd class matter art Medfor Oreeon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a t i in Advance Copy 10c Dail" and Sunday year f IS 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos 8.01 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 429 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 CarrieT and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cast- in Advance Offfcia! Paper of City f Medford Official Papet of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION "Advertisina Representative: - WEST HOLIDAY CO., . INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At- lan a Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th9 files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1949 (Sunday) Central Point city officials urge voters to turn out in force for the sewerage bond issue election. Donations for the first Mercy Flights air ambulance now total $1,038. . i i ..-.i - 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1939 (Monday) Zane Grey, who once fished and praised the Rogue river, dies at his home in California. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There is. a demand for a change in the Oregon game laws. The present quota of 17 hunters for every Chinese pheasant needs revision." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 23, 1929 (Wednesday) The local apple harvest is expected to end shortly. The state water board dis approves of a bond issue for the Rogue River Valley Irri gation district. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1919 (Thursday) Snow falls on the foothills, and rain on the valley floor. A grand jury recommends the construction of a new Jacklon county -courthouse. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 23. 1909 (Saturday) The Sherman, Clay and company music house opens with a large crowd attending its premiere musicale. J. R. Allen says no right of way has yet been secured to bring the P and E railroad into Medford. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior! seven or eKjht is excellent; five of sis is good. 1. Does the Mississippi Riv er have its source in Missis sippi, Minnesota, Illinois, or Ohio? 2. In geometry, a pentagon is a polygon having four, five, six, or seven sides? 3. Was- the Capitol, or the White House, the first Federal building to be erected in Washington, D. C? 4. In England, who presides over the House of Lords? 5. What famous city was captured by soldiers hidden in. a wooden horse? 6. Supply the missing word in "The Sidewalks of ." ? 7. Which would you say quacks the louder; a duck or 8. Who was nick named "The Little Corporal?" 9. Did the Treaty of Ghent end the Revolutionary, Mexi can or War of 1812? 10. A young cow that has not had a calf is called a ? Answers: 1. Minnesota. 2. Five. 3. The White House. 4. Lord Chancellor. 5. Troy. 6. New York. 7. A drake doe. not quack. 8. Napoleon. 9. War of 1812. 10. Heifer. - EDlTORAIDES - New York-TCTO- JohnM. Moorhead, 61, assistant news and make-up editor of the ;NeVYork Daily -News, died Thursday. Change for Counties Gov. Mark Hatfield the other day suggested that there are too many (36) counties in this state, and that the services which counties pro vide too often overlap or duplicate those offered by other agencies of government. It would be interesting to know where the governor got this idea which has considerable merit, despite the fact that it would be violently fought if ever brought before the legislature. It may sound new to some people. But it wasn't too many years the same proposal was put forth by 'one Kichard L. Neuberger, who now, as United States Sena tor, is one of Mark Hatfield's chief political antagonists.- .. OOUNTY government is a much-discussed sub V ject these days. Only this year, the state of Connecticut abol ished counties entirely. In other states there is active talk about re ducing the number of counties, and making them larger. (With quicker transportation and com munication, this would hardly constitute a hard ship.' It is now easier to travel from, say, Lake view to Klamath Falls, than it once was from Shady Cove to Medford.) Administrative savings could ensue, also, as single agencies would serve larger areas, eliminating duplication. But most discussion has centered upon county reorganization and "home rule." ' ' : : TPHE tide of public thinking and public opinion " on public matters moves slowly which is probably just as well. But in the case of county government, the tide of public opinion is moving. There has long been dissatisfaction with coun ty government, which was designed for a type of society we no longer have. It once was democratic and responsive j today it is unwieldy and unman ageable, with no clear lines of authority and responsibility. . This dissatisfaction, in more and more thinking on the subject, which in turn resulted, last year, in a constitutional amendment being approved by the voters which will permit counties to gain a certain autonomy, the ability to legislate on the righrto determine ments shall take. . . : ..' IT IS up to the counties themselves to take the inifiotura in onV o Tsir.i1ii'ii The Association of cided to work out a "model" county charter, for use by the various counties if and when they de cide to go ahead on a reorganization. This should be of great benefit to thinking through the desirable.- . ' County reorganization lightly, nor in toorgreat haste. It should be thor oughly thought through. But changes must be be made into effective, ble, units of government. With the population growth of the past few years, and with that still to come, it is urgent that changes be made. E.A. One Proposal In Benton county, been widespread discussion of the county prob lem, stimulated m large part by Bob Ingalls of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, one of a number of editors in the state who inadequacies of county today. . . The other day his newspaper pnnted an out line of a plan of county government suggested by one of its readers, T. J. Starker, a college pro fessor and forester, who also has served on many voluntary governmental boards and commissions. The plan, proposed for "kicking around pur poses only, calls for a county board of governors of seven men, elected from representative sec tions of the county, and serving without pay; THE governors would hire an executive officer, trrlirt in 1111-1 nrrvnlrl Via ioe,rsiS,noiTln "Prvi Tiitnnn" all other necessary personnel. He would serve at the pleasure of the governors. Only six other major county employees are called for by this plan. They are : . 1. Tax officer (combining duties of present assessor, and the tax collection responsibilities of sheriff). 2. Fiscal officer (to assume duties of present treasurer and some of those of present county clerk). . 3. Agriculture officer. 4. Health and Welfare officer (to handle juvenile matters, welfare, civil defense, health, and coroner's duties). 5. Surveyor (including duties of engineer and roadmaster). 6. Legal officer (to handle law enforcement). PRESUMABLY the judiciaiy, which is a state function, would remain as is, including the quasi-judicial position of district attorney, who also is a state, rather than county, official. Starker estimates that, of Benton county's cur rent budget of some $1,100,000, almost $100,000 annually would be saved. There are a few holes in this outline which need plugging. And it will bring opposition if it ever is seri ously proposed. . But it does present one logical, and responsi ble, proposal for eliminating the present cumber some edifice of county government. E.A. . ago that almost exactly over the years, resulted their own problems, and what form their govern Oregon Counties has de the local committee in changes which may be is not a step to be taken made if counties are to responsive and responsi among others, there has are concerned with the government as it exists Dennis the Menace J CMr Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification 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 cae. Switch Engine Danger To the Editor, and Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public: Do you know that today you start to live under the shadow of death in so far as the railroad grade crossings are concerned? You may face death because the railroad no longer cares enough about the public to keep a fireman on the railroad engines. Let us suppose you are coming down the highway or street in your car and fail to see the engine or train and crash into the side of the train. There is no fireman on that side to ob serve the crash and the engi neer is too busy on his side and can't see you., .All they care about is that they have saved a . fireman's wages at the expense ox the publiCi How, many of you have . had ' close - calls down town at the railroad crossing, and perhaps have had your life saved when some alert fireman sounded, the emer gency? Do you and your chil dren want to take your life in your hands when you ap proach the engine from what used to be the fireman s side, and there is no one there to see, or care, if you accidently overshoot the crossing? The railroad company calls a fire man "feather-bedding" be cause he is there as a safety measure to protect your life. If this is so then let us cut out all police and ambulance serv ice. Let us lay off all city firemen because they are only needed when there is a fire! Do you know, what the rail road would say if you had an accident with a 1 train,- and there -was no one on the fire man's side of: the engine to see it? They would ' say "That's tough, old boy, but what do you want us to do? You shouldn't have been there! If you had been some where else, you wouldn't have gotten hit." And if you want ed to sue them, they have re tained high - priced lawyers that are out of the price range of the average man. Do you think the railroad cares about you? All they care about is money and to heck with the public. Do you know that these switch engines that continu ally rumble back and forth across the crossings down town are not using the air brakes on the cars they are pulling? The air brakes on the cars are not even connected to the engine, so that in the event of an. emergency (may be you are stuck .on a cross ing) all that there would be to stop with would be the en gine brakes alone. This in creases the distance, required to stop by several hundred per cent. Maybe they hit you! Who cares? They have saved paying the crew extra money to connect up the air brakes, and the public again is the loser! 1 . (Name on File) Ashland, Ore. Liked Coverage To the Editor: The House of Delegates of the Oregon State Medical Society at its 1959 annual session held in Medford, Sept. 22-25, adopted the following resolution com mending the Medford Mail Tribune and the other news media of Jackson county and the state for their excellent cooperation during the So ciety's annual session: BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oregon State Medical Society express its appreciation to the Medford Mail Tribune and the other newspapers of the state for their excellent reporting of the events of this session, also to commend the wire services and the Medford ra dio and television stations. You will be interested in PEACH THE U&fTl4 knowing that the news cover age of the Society's 1959 an nual session was far superior, both in quantity and, quality, to many of our previous an nual sessions. We wish to commend you and your staff for their excellent reporting and for their fine cooperation with the members of the so ciety's staff in the selection and preparation of appropri ate releases both during and prior to the session. Oregon State Medical Society Merle Pennington, M.D. Secretary-Treasurer Portland 5, Ore. More Definitions To the Editor: Re: Question No. 4 in October 11th "What's Your I.Q.", and the Editor'! Note in answer to William B Clegg's letter. Nine presidents of the Uni ted States affirmed their be lief in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and held the Catholic faith as handed down by the Apostles The New Century diction ary capitalizes Catholic when it is "noting or pertaining to the Western Church: also, no ting or pertaining to the Church of Rome (often Ko man Catholic'): also, among Anglicans, noting or pertain ing to the Christian body neia to represent the ancient un divided Christian church com prising the Anglican Church, along with the Roman Cath olic Church and the 'Greek Church." .. My Webster's -dictionary al so lists Catholic as "pertain ing to or designating any of various churches r claiming aDostolic succession, as the churches of the Anglican Com munion." . Throughout Web ster's dictionary, whenever the Roman, Communion is referred to, it is always clear ly labelled "Roman Catholic", and never just ' Catholic... The seeming paradox in be ing both Catholic and Protes tant. ADostolic and Keiormea is explained in more detail at our Inquirers class, , wnicn meets each Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. The Rev. Duane S. Alvord Assistant to the Rector St. Mark's Episcopal Church Medford. Go To The Root To the Editor: Either con fusion of thought, or the lack of information could lead to an editorial such as your guest from the northeastern part pi the state presents in the Mail Tribune Monday, Oct. 19, 1959. (Pendleton East-Oregon-ian. supporting a Youth Con servation Corps.-Ed.) Environmental i n f 1 u ence plays a great part in the de velopment o f delinquents; but when you group these de linquents together in the Youth Conservation Corps you ignore a singularity im nnrtant daneer. Yon have not changed the environment, only moved it, togetner witn the delinauents, to another place. .Remember the most important factor of environ ment is contact with other people. Continued association of delinquents with delin quents in what would otner wise be a wholesome atmos phere, is far from guarantee ing rehabilitation of these de linquents. Indeed, the whole question of the problem is being beg ged. The editor argues the big city slums are the largest supplier of delinquents. This is agreeable; but . does your guest editor believe solely in rehabilitating 18 year old de linquents? Should he not be much more concerned with improving the environment, Speech Contest Winners Noted Dave Foote, Crater Future Farmers of America chapter member, will compete in the area Soil Conservation dis trict public speaking contest in Grants Pass, Monday, Oct. 26, according to C. W. Jensen, chairman of the Rogue Soil Conservation district. Foote won the district con test Wednesday at Hedrick Junior High school. Speakers from Curry, Jackson, Jose phine and Douglas counties may compete in the contest, Jensen said. Dave Redmond, also of Crater FFA chapter in Cen tral Point,' was second, and Leon Small, Phoenix, third. The contestants spoke on pas ture or range conservation. The winner of the south west area contest will go to the state contest in Salem Nov. 5 during the annual meeting of the Oregon State Association of Soil Conserva tion districts Jensen said. The area winner is given a trip to the state contest as his prize from the soil conservation district which he represents. Ed Griggs is chapter adviser and coach for the Crater con testants, and Jack Dube for those from Phoenix. Contest judges were Dr. Elmo Stevenson, Southern Oregon college president; De Vere Taylor, Medford High school speech instructor and Jerome McDougall, Hedrick Junior High school speech instructor. and the rehabilitation of the children aged 1 year through 18 years? Improve the en vironment of all those living in these delinquent producing farms. Start with improving the opportunity for social bet terment for these families. These slums house a vast num ber of human beings, repre sentative of our population; continue to deny them a rea sonable opportunity to better themselves, and we will open further the wound in the al ready weakened heart of our nation. . When one has a serious problem, is it not most wise to go to the source of the trouble? Go then, to the source of these problems; eliminate the filth, the slime, the utter poverty, the im morality - pr oducing environ ment so degrading1 to human dignity. . It is only in the wholesome peace, counsel, and discipline of the family, that this or any nation can hope for a life blood supply of model, loyal and useful citizens. The State cannot produce these citizens when they take the children at birth; and they stand in an even more impossible position when they take them after 18 years of immoral groundwork has been completed... These citizens will come only from the family. Robert J. Howard ;: 828B West 14th st. Medford. Lack of Spirit , To the Editor: Medford, in contrast to Ashland, has lost its "public spirit." There are few people in Medford who don't like to be entertained, but they hesitate to join in anything unless it is guaran teed they will get their mon ey's worth. . Our high school plays are attended by a smattering of parents and close friends, all school activities are the same way, with the exception of football games, but those are cut and dried with the surety of interest. Our little theater group, the Footlighters, has come close in Heath several times, but for a few diehards . who have nursed it from birth. Our ro ntons anri tiarades are pitiful affairs, the .parades usually ranking second to boutnern Pacific. 1 . With the ' holiday seasons coming up will our houses be rier-orated and our doors open and the spirit properly loh,-otoH? Nnt 111CP1V. DUI tUWK'M.M. - - ml I j there will be a prize for the i best yard decor, so no douot there will be an interest tnere. Medford Deople play their cards too close to their chests. No one knows for sure what is going on. An example of ;his was the smorgasbord :nonsored bv a local food store. I was told none of the oaor food salesmen was aware the schools were sending the children over by tne bus lpaa. None of these men live in Medford and I think their vol- untarv interes in our town s net Droiect to send the band to San Francisco should be greatly commended. The point heine. the luncheon didn't cost Medford a dime, the money all came from out of town, the object being to raise money. This was to be the satisfatcion, not a fuU stom ach. Next time mavbe we'll loos en up and let some one know what is going on. Edith Smith 710 Pennsylvania ave. Medford Washington Report By WILLIAM OLD UNCLE HARRY Washington - The spry and increasingly loved old boy used to be famous for his eag- er readiness Si. - - i. iu get i ii i u any kind of fight, or even to start one. But this same old boy is fast - and quite " deliber ately becom ing the kindly, understanding and sage Uncle Harry of all, repeat all, the Democratic party. The mellowing of Harry S. Truman may become the best secret weapon the Democrats can have in the 1960 Presi dential struggle. For the for mer President is lifting him self above all intraparty fac tionalism for a single and su preme purpose. This to lick, not some wrong-headed Dem ocratic group, but rather the Republican opposition. Since he himself left the White House, of course, this has been his unsleeping ambi tion. But this time, in con trast to the past, his planning is more practical and so more likely actually to succeed. From this correspondent's di rect knowledge of Mr. Tru man's general objectives, and also from recent public oc currences, this may be put down for a fact: THE former President has a new awareness of the real sources of probable Re Si WUUsm S. WhiU , De Gaulle's Opposition To Summit Conference Softens By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the week: Presi dent Charles de Gaulle of France. The place: Paris. . The quote: "The French government considers that the opening of a summit confer ence could be ' envisaged in the course of the coming spring." ' It was a short communique, running not more than . 300 words. But it summed up in writing, offi c i a 1 1 y , the French view toward the summit ses sion so ar dently desired by British Prime Minis ter Harold Macmil lan . v , i Phil Ns-wsom ana somewnai less ardently desired by Presi dent Eisenhower. From the beginning, de Gaulle has been at worst op posed, at best unenthusiastic about the proposed confer- S. WHITE publican strength and of prob able Democratic weakness in 1960. These are, simply, the greater operating unity among the Republicans and the ten dency of the advanced liberal Democrats to spend all their time fighting other Democrats who prefer winning elections to winning idological argu ments. A Truman Missouri mind, once made up, is not lightly changed. And Mr. Truman has made up his Missouri mind that these advanced lib erals are not going to be al lowed to tear up his party if he can help it. - He has already fired off several warning rockets, and there will be others. He has told off Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler for us ing his office to separate Dem ocratic sheep from Democrat ic goats instead of trying to round up all and sundry who might be willing to vote Dem ocratic next year. He has made it plain that HST will have no part of a plan of the advanced liberals to provoke the Southerners to bolt or, for that matter, deliberately to drive them from the na tional convention. HE HAS observed - perhaps somewhat cryptically, to outsiders, but plainly to in siders - that "Johnny-come- lately" liberals will not dom inate that convention. And he has now made a powerfully friendly call down in Texas on the party Con gressional leaders at whom the advanced liberals have been so tirelessly sniping This does not mean necessar ily that Mr. Truman is going ence which would bring to gether the United States, Brit ain, France and the Soviet Un ion in the first of a series of high level conferences which would establish the founda tion of world peace. -Reflects Problems De Gaulle's early lukewarm reception of the idea and fin ally his outright rejection of a summit session before the end of the year reflected both his own personality and oth er problems he faces at home, which to him are much more pressing'. ' ' ' In fact, personal roles among Eisenhower, Macmil lan, de Gaulle and Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev have weighed heavily in the decis ion whether at some time in the months ahead they would meet together at a conference table. But none more so than de Gaulle. De Gaulle, as a man of des tiny who believes his own story must be wound inextri cably with that of, France, must base part of his decision about a summit on pride. ' You Are Cordially invited to view our new, modern facilities at an Open House SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 snd SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 Hours: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Conger Morris HILLCREST CHAPEL and HILLCREST MEMORIAL PARK Drive past new Rogue Valley Memorial Hospital turn South on North Phoenix Road to back the other leader. Speaker of the House Sam Ray burn, for permanent chairman of the convention. - It does mean, however; that Mr. Truman has served this notice: the Truman sun- port wil go at length to some candidate from within the truly professional wing of the party. It will not an to the doctrinaire liberal wing. As of now the Truman backins undoubtedly would center on to Sen. Stuart Symineton.a fellow Missourian. If Syming ton shows inability to win the nomination, that backine will move elsewhere. "Elsewhere." though a large term, is not a limitless one. "Elsewhere", cannot be stretched, so wide as to cover the kind of Dem-. ocratic aspirant who is madly loved only by such as Amer icans for Democratic Action. MR. TRUMAN, is short, rlnesn't nnnt - TWnin. cratic convention character ized only by the splendid fight, fight, fight" rhetoric of the ideological Democratic semi-pros who never carried any election anywhere. a He is not the first, or the last, combat veteran to dis cover a sad fact of life: these professionally liberal chaps, though no doubt of enormouj value intellectually, are not very useful in assault actions. Like the zone of the interior officers back in Paris in the late war, they simply hate the enemy to pieces. But the line fellows, in pol itics as in war, must be so busy setting up the mortars and cleaning the machine guns that they have no time to hate the enemy. They just want to kill him, not for per sonal reasons but because that happens to be their job: (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate. Ine.) c True, he is hard pressed tor a settlement of the Algerian Revolt and he still has to ex plode ah atomic device, to bring France into the. atomic club. But along with those con siderations, there also is the fact that de Gaulle alone among the big Western three has had no visit from Khrush chev and no opportunity at private exchange - of views with the Soviet leader. This becomes a matter of prestige to de Gaulle, a man - whose pride has been a matter of frustration, to his allies since World War II. Macmillan, Eisenhower .and, Khrushchev all favor a sum mit meeting as "early as pos sible," possibly -in: December. They also have their persqnal reasons. Eisenhower is said to be hopeful of acting. while the "Camp David Spirit" still ex ists. This was the hopeful spirit generated at Eisenhow er's Camp David retreat dur ing Khrushchev's U.S. visit 9
