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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Nov. 2, 1959 r MEDFORDetWTRIBUNB "Everyone a, Southern Oregon ... . Reads The Mail Tribune" , Published Ml except Saturday by M.1J)F4W PRINTING CO 83 Worth fll St Pb SP 2-6141 ROBtm W RUHL Editor ,HXRB SRE Advertiirix.c Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Up ERIC W ALLEN JR. - Managing 'alitor EAPL H ADA MS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor - RICHAHD JKWETT Sports Editor JDLIVE ST ARCHER Women s Editoi PALg ERICKSQN Circulation Ms? I An Independent Newspaper Entered mt sewmd class matter al Med for Oregon under Ac of i Marrt 3 1897 f SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai . 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Federal and city officials confer In regards to proposed installation of an instrument landing system here. J 20 YEARS AGO Not. 2. 1939 (Thursday) p. Raymond Reter returns i from Washington, D. C. where he testified for Pacific coast I winter pear growers before f the committee of reciprocity jj information on the proposed trade agreement with Argen j tine. k From Arthur Perry ' "Ye jt Smudge Pot":, column: ."An Americanization school will teach aliens how to take or 31 ders from women. It is hoped S the women have better luck -than the average policeman." i 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 2. 1929 (Saturday) President Hoover's Armis- tice Day speech to be broad cast. " ! Another booze auto caught . in the Siskiyous. 40 YEARS AGO ? Nov. 2. 1919 (Sunday) f Medford merchants desig nate Nov. 11-14 as Victory nm roffulations for Med- ford school teachers issued by Superintendent jjavenpon. 50 YEARS AGO w l. 1909 (Tuesday) f Forestry service in Medford engaged in making a detailed imap of the Crater National fnrscf One-half block at Central ave. and Eighth st., now hous ing " bakery and DiacKsmun "shop, sold for $8,700. Svhal's Your I.Q.? !Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is eelleni; five - six is good. : 1. "Galloping Dominoes" is (another name for which popu lar gambling-game? 2. Included Jesus, how tniany attended the Last Sup Jper? I - 3. In contract bridge, which fare the minor suits? j. k - 4 The kettle drum, casta inets, glockenspiel, and xylo phone are all-examples of iwhat type of instruments? jj 5. Which is the hardest of all: jewels? . 6. Would you say that it Swas 8, 10, or 20 years ago ithat the U. S. formally rec- jognized the Franco govern- Snent of Spain? - ' 7. Certain birds, known as jailor birds,, actually stitch Jde'aves together to support and Shide their nests; true or false? 8. In the British peerage, Jwhat is the title of the wife Hot an earl? ; 9 In the verses "Casey at fthe ! Bat; " did Casey hit a home run, or strike out? 10 Wound from firearms or fireworks can cause tetanus; what is the common name? i Answers: l.,Die. 2. Thir- laen. 3. Clubs 8nd .diamonds- Percussion. 5., Diamond. 6. 1 . - i True. 8. Countess. ;4 The Dunes Park There has been a lot of hair-milliner over the - - proposal to establish a on the Oregon coast. It is to be noped tnat tne revised nlan nrenared bv Senator Neubererer and now under consideration . receive careful and, in sideration. The bill as redrafted goes veiy far to meet objections that were raised when the first pro posals were received. To answer the fear that local taxing districts would be stripped of their tax base, the revised bill provides for payments in lieu of taxes for 25 years; also, the school,. district could claim reimbursement under the laws to ease the bur dens incurred by federal impact. . TO THE fear of dispossession of families in their homes, the bill grants them not only life tenure but they can deed or will their property to their children, which surely is as long as family sentiment needs to be regarded. To the fear that water stored in the dunes might not be available for industrial uses, the bill allows tapping such reservoirs under protective conditions imposed by the secretary of the in terior. Also, hunting of wild fowl is permitted, but not of upland birds and animals. About the only criticism left unmet is the pos sible loss of unknown mineral wealth in the dunes, but progress surely can't be stopped be cause of factors unknown. THE revised plan adopts recommendations of the Reedsport community and the Douglas County Park Board in extending south of Reeds port to include the dunes in that area ; also Tah kenich lake and Umpqua Lighthouse P a r k, all very desirable features. It would authorize ex change of the Crown Zellerbach tree farm for equivalent value from the bureau of land manage ment. The item-by-item objections have been pretty well met. The issue thus comes up to the major question of whether we want a National Seashore Park in Oregon or not. f . Ifwe don't want it, and a few at Florence are vociferous in proclaiming their opposition, then we can easily let it go and some other state will get it. If we do. then we should close ranks and make known our welcome for the project. THE long view.. confirms the judgment of the sponsors of the park. It will give coordinated administration of unique scenic and recreational areas. Its identification as a national park will give it wide publicity and thus attract many more visitors than in its present parcelling among state, federal and private agencies. We are aware of the mounting demand for recreational areas and facilities. .This' tract is readily accessible, year-round, on a coast where the population is growing and whose resources are uniquely adapted to serve recreationistsv A seashore park would be ari inexhaustible natural resource, serving generations into the re mote future. .... -' TRUE, the beaches and some of the lands are dedicated to public use now, but here we would have an extensive area lending itself to rest, recreation, nature study, enjoyment of scen ery all under a single administration dedicated solely to park, management. Since Sen. Neuberger has gone far to meet the objections raised by the State Natural Re sources Board, I trust that that body will give his new plan its endorsement and that Governor Hat field will follow with his. Gov. Charles A. Sprague in the Oregon Statesman, Salem. - So Far, No Farther Chancellor John R. Richards' admonitory statement should be given emphasis in consider tion of the State Board of Higher Education's decision to grant Oregon State College the au thority to award liberal arts degrees. The statement, described as a "consensus" of the board, so strongly underscored Oregon State's traditional mission that some early reports of the board's action indicated falsely that the OSC re--st in liberal aits had been rejected. This is not true. As explained by Chancellor Richards: "This authorizes the degrees requested. But the curricula must be of a general nature. They may give a general degree in the social studies, as an example, but they may not pive highly specialized degrees. The . board has ruled that out for the future." ,--- - ,; . ' THE "consensus" statement bore down on these points: That Oregon State should concentrate attention, as it has in the past on the "natural and exact" sciences ; that a "strong minor" of 27 hours in science must be prescribed for liberal arts majors; that the Corvallis school should ex pand no further in the humanities and social sci ences (except in the 'degree required for the gen eral studies program) ; and that the State System would not be justified in duplicating the Uni versity of Oregon's liberal arts program 40 miles away at Oregon State College. This emphasis, although it is predominantly negative, is well-placed. The danger in the board's action lies more in. the;future than in the present. . DRESIDENT A. L. Strand of OSC has pointed out that the college will not need new staff or facilities to qualify its students for the request ed general studies degrees. It is possible, how ever, that he has underestimated the ultimate - i. National Seashore Park by state officials will . 1 1 the end iavoraoie con Dennis the Menace .m-. f4- fJS, 0ENN($! ALL I OF THAT SILLY CG7WUCK; Washington Report By WILLIAM CASTRO'S CUBA Washington Fidel Castro of Cuba is putting the United States government into an in creasingly un co m f ortable position. This bearded mouse is ' not merely annoy ing the Yan kee lion. He is also causing serious anxi ety about the already far from stable area of the Ca ribbean. His may be only a tin-pot demonstration of hostility against us; but it can have unpleasant echoes. Responsible men in our government hope Castro can be dealt with impersonally and in a collective way through the Organization of American States. We have no wish to be forced to take steps alone that would permit him to bellow still louder about United States "imperial ism." So, Washington will try its best to channel his alleged discontents into the . Inter American Peace Committee's jurisdiction. We are perfect ly wiUing to submit to the verdict of that Pan American agency as to whether we are mistreating Cuba or wheth er Cuba is becoming a com mon nuisance in the Pan American, world. rpHE big question is: WU1 -- Castro himself accept the referee? The he is acting like a dic tator is surprising only to one group, since he is a dictator and always was. These are the misty-eyed reformers who only a few weeks ago were howling hosannas to Fidel Castro as a latter-day Abra ham Lincoln. Theyv sprang glady and automatically to his side. They did so because they see all public affairs, foreign or domestic, with great sim- Orson Welles Tells Of Quiz Show Offer Paris - ttiPD - Orson Welles said Saturday he was offered as much as $170,000 to star as a genius on a fixed TV quiz show three years ago. He said when he told acquaintances about the offer "they just laughed" it off as nothing to get upset about. The actor, in Paris to make a film for Darryl Zanuck, said that when he declined the proposition a "notable egg head" took his place. He did not further identify the per son nor would he name the producer who he said pro posed "the fix." He also re fused to mention the name of the network or the show. But he said the producer was one of those involved in the hearings of the House special committee investiga ting the quiz shows. ' William S. White faculty pressure for specialized degrees, which are the logical next step. The general studies program did not work at Portland State College because the faculty would not tolerate mediocrity and dilettantism it invited. The same admirable academic forces will be at work at OSC to con vert general studies degrees into specialized de grees, as in history or languages. By assenting to the OSC request, the board has made it a degree more difficult to say "no" to the next request for a relaxation of allocation controls. But its firm statement delivered by Dr. Richards makes it unlikely that such a request will come soon from Oregon State College. Portland Oregonian. -Si WAtfTTO VOtSGBT S. WHITE plicity. Every politician is either a translucent ("liberal") angel or the blackest of ("re actionary") devils. Naturally, they did not wait t6 see whether even on Fidel Cas tro's halo there might bi a bit of tarnish. ' For Castro's predecessor, Fulgencio Batista, was a very bad man, as they reasoned and correctly so, as far as that goes." Castro was fighting this very bad man. Thus, Cas tro was obviously a very good man. (True, there was the in convenient fact that his firing squads were killing people quite as dead as Batista's had done but these, of ' course, were bad people.) rpHE reformers were entitled J- under the guarantees to free speech to take up this extraordinary view. Still, it retlly is a pity they did, in evitable though it was. For much uninformed opinion was created, in this hemisphere and everywhere, that the good young Castro had brought only "democracy" where the bad Batista had worked such ill. All this, however, serious ly hampered the United States in dealing realistically and factually with the Castro problem. And the big build up, now helps him to insult the United States in compara tive safety and with an im pertinence of distortion that is very able propaganda. The fact is that his regime could not survive six months if the United States reaUy retaliated. Cuba's economy rests on the United States. As a good friend of Latin America, Sen. George Smath ers of Florida, points out, Cuba would not last long if we went elsewhere for sugar. 1UT, of course, we do not contemplate sanctions against ' Castro. Nor do our leaders lie awake in fear that Latin America will explode because of him. Nor do they accept the second of the two extreme opinions of Castro that perhaps he is some pow erful force for international communism." , How, then, is he actually seen by those in our govern ment who must work out this sticky little problem? First, he is one of the world's ir responsibles, the fellows who are agents not of communism but only of ineptitude and dis order. Second, he has picked the United States to attack because he needs a - foreign devil to beat at to divert at tention from happenings in Cuba itself. While he is still in control, his revolution is faltering here and there. Some patri otic Cubans orginally driven to him by Batista's long ex cesses are , beginning to part company with Castro. This is his business and his alone. We are not "anti-Castro." We against one thing only: we are . opposed to chaotic gov ernment anywhere in the Caribbean because we want peace and order to prevail there. (Copyright, 1959, by United . Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Foreign Notebook: Warsaw Pact; Vice In Frankfurt; French Cloak-and-Dagger BY PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: New Soviet Overtures? West German intelligence officials will not be surprised if the Russians offer to scrap their Warsaw pact agreement as part of their world dis armament campaign. The Truman Seen Ready To Prevent Choice Of Adlai Stevenson By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD The political word is that Former President Harry S. Truman still is hurt, angry and and ready to try again to prevent nom ination of Adlai E. Ste v e n s o n for president. This should surpr i s e no Lyie c wiisoo one. It is a fact that Stevenson in 1952 was Truman's hand-picked Democratic nominee for the presidency. That proved to be the beginning of the end of a beautiful friendship. Four years later, Truman was back at a Democratic na tional convention to lead the campaign to prevent Steven son's renomination. Truman stated his objections simply, asserting that Stevenson did not have what it took to win an election. : Harriman in 1956 Well, maybe, Truman said on second thought, Stevenson might win if he had the right kind of help, help from Tru man, for example. The former president's man in 1956 was Averell Harriman, a no-questions-asked Truman Fair Deal er. It is reasonable to believe that Truman has another such in tow for 1960, Harriman having been knocked out in his gubernatorial contest with Nelson A. Rockefeller. In tow for 1960 probably is Sen. Stuart Symington who fits the Fair Deal pattern. He is one of the Democrats given a 100 per cent good voting record by the left wing or ganization, Americans for Democratic Action. Stevenson, of course, firm ly disavows any desire for an other presidential nomination. The political pros believe, however, that he is likely to be tapped unless the 1960 con vention can name some other Democrat on an early ballot. Stevenson would be a magic name with which to break a deadlock. Praise Goes Flat Truman would be in there pitching for Stevenson now as in 1952 if Stevenson had been more considerate of his great and good friend after that first nomination. Truman made it all clear in the second volume of his memoirs. There are paragraphs of unqualified praise for Stevenson in that book. Those paragraphs are, in effect, a defense of Truman Washington Silent On Claims in Book Washington - (UPD - The White House firmly slammed the door Saturday on any comment about a British gen eral's sharp criticism of Pres ident Eisenhower's World War II military leadership. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said there "never is going to be any comment" about the claims made - in the second volume of the memoirs of British Field Marshal, Lord Alanbrooke. . Alanbrooke, chief of the British general staff during the war, said Eisenhower was on the golf course when the Germans launched the "Bat tle of the Bulge." Hagerty was asked if the President had read the book. He bluntly told reporters he did not know and was not go ing to make any attempt to find out. The President in the past has shrugged off post-war criticisms of his actions su preme allied commander in Europe during World War II. 'Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do (sis taeUl iiop, lUp or wobbl When you talk, eat. laugh or sneeze? Don't ba annofed and embarrassed DJ such handicaps. IASTEETH. an alkaline (non-acid) powder to sprin kle on your platet. keeps falsa teeth more flimsy set. Gives renfldrnt feed ing of security and added enmfors. No gummv. gooey, pasty tvrte or feel ing Get ASXEgXB today It Mf Warsaw pact is the Com munist bloc European count erpart of NATO. The Ger mans say Soviet military ex perts have told Premier Ni kita Khrushchev that the move would have excellent propaganda value and at the same time would not be harm ful to Soviet military stra tegy. If this is true, the Soviet for handpicking Stevenson in 1952 to succeed him in the White House. . The praise goes flat, how ever under pressure of sub sequent paragraphs of which these two are examples: "But, Stevenson's attitude (in 1952) toward the president he hoped to succeed was a mystery to me for some time," Truman wrote. "And, I be lieve Stevenson made several mistakes . . . whether this was due to the urgings of his ad visers or bad information or perhaps to the contagion of other good citizens as a result of reading the anti-Democra-tic press, I do not know. Fired Chairman . . "The first mistake he made was to fire the chairman of the Democratic National Com mittee (Frank E. McKinney of Indiana, whom Truman had put in that job) and to move his campaign headquarters to Springfield, III., giving the im pression that he was seeking to disassociate himself from the administration in Wash ington and, perhaps, from me. How Stevenson hoped he could persuade the American people to maintain the Demo cratic party in power while seeming to disown powerful elements of it, I do not know." There was . more, all evi dence that Truman felt that Stevenson was brushing off the Truman administration as unclean, Truman' didn't like that and, as he once said of himself, "The old man never stops midway in a fight." 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 initial 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 ca. Disclaims Fault To the Editor: The follow ing is in answer to the letter in last Wednesday's paper by J. Hierd of Eureka, Calif.: Dear Mr. Hierd: First of all I would like to say that I am deeply ashamed of some of the actions that went on at the game Friday, Oct. 23, 1959. I for one tried to be as courteous as possible to the members of the Eureka High school. I am a student at Medford High, and therefore it hurts my pride to see it run down in any way. You said something in your letter about "a group of boys and girls, aged 10-14" that were using obscene language. I should think it is very ob vious that they do not attend the High school and there fore I should think that it's not responsible for their ac tions. Then you also mentioned something about the seats you were given. I don't fully un derstand about that, but I'm sure I can send an apology from the entire staff and stu dent body for the misunder standing which seems to have so highly inconvenienced you on that matter. ' I believe also you mention ed a tire being slashed and air being let out of others. It seems that there were some California or closely affiliated men seen near the parked California cars, ' who were breaking beer bottles on the cars. So it cannot be determ ined who was to blame for that. V PERL Funeral Home FRIENDLY HOMELIKE military planners are only recognizing what the West long has suspected that so far as the Soviets . are con cerned, the satellite armies could not be trusted and might even hamper Soviet maneuv erability. Campaign Against Sin ; Police are conducting an all-out campaign against vice in Frankfurt, known as West Germany's most sinful city. Targets are the railroad sta tion were unregistered prosti tutes loiter, all night bars and cabarets which flaunt "lewd" advertisements of strip tease shows. The campaign was trig gered by recent morals scan dals, the latest of which was in Cologne and involved a dis trict judge, a doctor, two salesman and 10 teen-age girls. Cloak-and-Dagger President Charles de GauUe himself is said to be pressing the investigation into France's newest political drama. It in volves the reported attempt ed assassination of Leftist Sen. Francois Mitterrand. Mitter rand claims a machine gun attack on his car was engine ered by elerr.ents opposing de Gaulle's offer of self-determination for Algeria. But former French Party Deputy Robert Pesquet charges that Mitterrand engineered the whole thing himself to try to , force a government clamp down on Rightwing elements opposing the de Gaulle plan. The French courts also have indicated they suspect Mit terrand has not told the whole truth and are asking that his parliamentary immunity be lifted. De Gaulle is said to be demanding a complete in vestigation, letting the chips fall where they may. Protocol The men who will deter mine where and how visiting royalty shall be seated at the 1960 Olympic games in Rome, have a new worry. They know about Pope John's XXIII delight in breaking with tradition and they are taking up seriously the pos sibility he might want to see some of the games. Royal vis itors from Britain, Greece, Belgium, Sweden and Nor way will be seated in a spec ial enclosure. But would a THEN! To add insult to in jury so to speak, you seemed to have pinned it all on the football players! I think that it's fairly obvious that the football players were in full uniform and out on the field during the entire game, and therefore it would have been impossible for them to have been solely, if at all, to blame for the damage done. I'm sure Medford will ad mit she's a long ways from perfect, but we hesitate to admit something which was obviously not all, if any, of our fault. Evalyn Pleyer, 2955 Table Rock Rd., Medford. No Kidding! To the Editor: Pearl Spackman, I still have my peeve, . There are no jokes left up my sleeve. Dinner placed upon the plate Lights down down low and then we wait: Ernie Bilko We've seen it three times One, two, three, I've count ed ten times. I've no Fifty Plus Club to go to yet, Behind my ears, they say I'm still wet. Too bad you can't invite younger folk, I'd like to join, and that's no joke. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. "10 ATMOSPHERE separate throne have to be erected for Pope John? There is no precedent to go by. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Financial note in the news: Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion, No. 2 steel producer in the nation, reported a loss of $38,926,913 for the third quar ter of this year (the months of July, August and Septem ber.) However- For the first nine months of 1959 Bethlehem earned $84,231,916 (in spite of the loss in the third quarter.) WOW! You say. What a WAD! How can anybody be al lowed to make that much money! WAIT a minute. Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion has about 165,000 stock holders (owners.) If its 84 mil lion dollars of earnings in the first three quarters of this year were divided up equally among its 165,000 owners, each owner would get about $500. Put that way, it sounds less awful. LET'S take a look at Big Steel-U. S. Steel Corpora tion, the giant of the indus try. In spite of a loss of 31 mil lion dollars in the third quar ter, TJ. S. Steel reports earn ings of 223 MILLION DOL LARS in the first nine months of 1959. That makes Bethle hem look like a piker. But- U. S. Steel has about 331, 000 stockholders (owners.) In the 223 million dollars it earned in the first nine months of 1959 were divided up equally among its 331,000 owners, each owner would get about $675. ANOTHER interesting point: Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion has approximately as many owners as employees. At the last report available as this is written, it had 164, 859 employees and 164,796 owners-or one employee for each stockholder. U. S. Steel Corporation at the last available report had 223,490 employees and 331, 229 owners or one and a half owners for each em ployee. MODERN business is big and getting bigger. . But it is big in a different sort of way. Only a few gen erations ago, Big Business was owned by a 'few Big Individ uals. Now Big Business is owned by tens of thousands of common, ordinary individuals who have invested their sav ings in its securities. That is what is coming to be called people's capitalism. 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