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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Nov. 10. 1959 "Everyone tc Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune'' Published Dh11 except Saturday by mjjdforp printing co 83 North Fb St Pb SP 2-6141 HOBiP.I W RUTH. "Editor KERB 5RE AiOvertisltg Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Mgt ERIC W AULXN JR. Managing "alitor tAhL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAH Telef Editt RICHAKO jwm Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Edit DALE ERiCKSQN Clreulstlon Ms? An Independent Newspaper Entered sernnd class matter al ' Medfow' Oreeon under Ac of March S 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES fcr Mai v In Advance Codv 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8 00 Dailv ant Sunday 3 mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year $450 stv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. 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Northwest Medford was blacked out for several hours last night due to mechanical witch trouble. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 10, 1939 (Friday) A new road from the north west will be constructed to the, Oregon Caves national monument. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "War news indicates a Norwegian ship in the North Sea can get in the road of a U-boat tor pedo, as often as an American citizen in China used to get in sulted by a Japanese sentry." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 10, 1929 (Sunday) Medford to play Ashland . high tomorrow in big game of the year. Wall Street takes another drop and pessimism of people increases. 40 YEARS AGO ' Not. 10. 1919 (Monday) City ready for its first cele bration of Armistice day to morrow. Sunny and chilly weather comes to valley. SO YEARS AGO Not. 10, 1909 (Wednesday) Residents of North Medford are planning to have a bridge built at the foot of Jackson st, across Bear creek. Assistant superintendent of the railway mail service in Medford looking over the pos sibility of making a more ef fective postal system here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five es sis is food. 1. A pint is th, i8th, or l16th of a gallon? 2. What is the English trans lation of the Latin phrase "Anno Domini"? 3. What is the three-letter word for a wooden tray or trough in which a laborer car ries mortar or brick? 4. Berkshire is a breed of horses, cattle, or swine? 5. The human stomach has a capacity of about 5, 10, or 15 pints? 6. "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawy er" are well known characterizations cre ated by which American au thor? 7. Does water contract, or expand, upon freezing? 8. Oak Ridge, the "atomic city," is located in which one of these states - Georgia, New Mexico, or Tennessee? 9. German U - boats were battleships, cruisers, or sub marines? 10. A specialist in rhino plasty would most likely per form plastic surgery on the hand, foot, or nose? Answerst 1. Vsth. 2. In the year of our Lord. 3. Hod. 4. Swine. 5.' 5 pints. 6. Mark Twain. (Samuel L. Clemens.") 7. Expand. 8. Tennessee. 9. Submarines. 10. Nose. Purity The television networks particularly 'CBS are on a purity kick, now, in the wake of the quiz "scandals." Everything is to be just as it'is, with no mis representation. No recorded applause ancUaugh ter, even, in some of the taped showb which are filmed without audiences. Well, if we're to go to this extent (and we are inclined to approve such a plan), how about the practice of turning the cameras away when a football player is "shaken up" (as the announcers euphemistically put it) during play? ISN'T this part of the game? And isn't it some- times a crucial part, as in the USC-Cal game of a week ago, when charges were made of deliberate-roughing up? And aren't the TV fans entitled to know that it is, essentially, a rough game and that injuries are an almost inevitable part of it? The same questions apply to fights which oc casionally break out among players on the field. We understand the national league rules require that they not be televised. Maybe the nice-nelly business of turning the cameras away is a concession to the squeamish. But it also tends to misrepresent football as it is played. E.A. Iron . We mentioned here the other day the ex traordinary amount of energy which a successful politician must possess. We are now in receipt of a detailed itinerary of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's visit to the west coast this week. It bears out, in spades, our con tention. Only an iron man could stand up under a schedule like this. The Oregon portion, onlv, follows i FRIDAY ' 11:50 p.m. Arrive Eugene airport. SATURDAY 12:05 a.m. (!) Arrive Eugene hotel. 8:50 ajn. Leave hotel. 8:55 ajn. Arrive University of Oregon campus for press conference. 9:30 ajn. Radio and TV interviews. 10:00 a.m.-Convocation of Students, Faculty and Public. 10:05 a.m. Governor speaks, questions and an swers follow. 11 a.m. Attend luncheon on campus. ' 12 noon Leave for airport. , 12:25 pjn. Depart airport for Corvallis airport. 12:55 pjn. Depart Corvallis airport by bus for Oregon State .college stadium for OSC-Stanford foot ball game. 1:15 p.m. Arrive at stadium. 1:30 p.m. Game kickoff. , ' ' 4 p.m. Attend reception, OSC campus. 4:45 pjn. Leave for Salem. 5:30 pjn.-Arrive Marion hotel, Salem. 6:20 pjn. Depart hotel for Willamette University. 6:30 p.m. Attend dinner, Willamette University. 8 pjn. Arrive WU auditorium for address by governor. SUNDAY 7 ajn. Depart hotel for airport. r 7:15 a.m. Depart airport for Seattle. THIS is just a sample, in one state. His trip starts at 9:30 "p.m. Wednesday in New York, and concludes Mondav at 11 a.m. with a talk in Buf falo, NX, and also includes Los Angeles, San t-i . .1 n r rancisco ana cseatue. Thus he has 4 days of steady handshaking, making speeches, traveling, eating the meat mashed potatoes-and-peas of political meals, catching naps and relaxation when and where he can always under pressure, always expect ed to perform at his best, always expected to be pleasant and friendly and on top of things. ; How do they stand it? E.A. Cigarette Law In the past week or so, several under-18 youngsters in this area have been arrested on a charge of illegal possession of cigarettes, taken to court, and fined the statutory $5. Last week the city council passed a new cig arette ordinance, which conforms with the state law. As long as this law is on the state statute books, it should be enforced, axid the city's rules should conform. Granted it may be difficult to enforce. But we are informed that a good place to start would be the lobby of the Craterian theater on Friday and Saturday evenings, particularly at the intermission betwen films. E.A. Baseless Feai Col. W. L. Winegar, Portland division chief of the Army engineers, sees no reason why con struction of Agate dam should, "from an en gineering standpoint," hinder later appropria tions for other works in the Rogue basin project. Since the entire Rogue Basin project was, in effect, given preliminary Congressional author ization when the Talent division of the Rogue project was authorized, there is no reason why other segments cannot be added as plans are com pleted and recommendations made in the same manner as has been done in the Willamette Basin project." . . . m Fear that Agate a solid, feasible and bene ficial project now nearly ready for presentation to Congress would imperil other portions of the Rogue project, is, we repeat, a paper tiger. E.A. Kick Men Dennis the Menace Matter of Fact b Joseph aisoP A SAMPAN-BORNE STORY Hongkong At dawn on Sept. 3, a lealcy sampan made - safe landfall in, Hongkong waters, after a breathl ess, . all night sea t voyage along the heavily patroll e d coast of Com munist China. The little craft came from Chung Jm-ph Aisnp Shan, one of the richer coastal farming dis tricts, from a place I shall call the Wide River . village. It brought a veteran farmer -let us christen him Lao Mok -his grown son, and four neigh bors of the same clan. I found Lao Mok and some of the others, and I got their story, with - the help of an invaluable partner - reporter, Richard Wu of the "Hong kong Standard." We tracked down Lao Mok in an old clothes shop, where he now thinks himself rich on a salary of 12V6 American dollars a month plus a pallet to sleep on and three rice meals a day provided by his boss. T AO MOK . is ,a wiry, pleas ant faced Chinese who looks older than his age. He told his story quietly, in a matter of fact tone, with an occasional Chinese flash of humor or irony. You may find this story hard to credit, but bear in mind that it was in pendently confirmed. It is ter rible, unadorned, and full of meaning. ' Lao Mok was born 45 years ago in Wide River village; and from that time until he slip ped at dusk into the sampan, he hardly left this big farm ing community strag g 1 i n g along a fertile river bank. His father' was a landless share cropper; and when Lao Mok married at the age of 27, he too rented a few acres from one of the village landlords. It was a hard life "in the old times"; for Lao Mok paid landlord Li half of his fields' two annual crops of rice. But he had a pig and a few chick ens; he grew his own vege tables; and he had his little house and a few sticks of fur niture, y "Even after the landlord's share and the rice we sold to buy cloth," said Lao Mok, "we had still rice enough and such like for poor people like us. Why, every day we would have bean " curd, or a little fish, or sometimes meat, and once a month we would kill a chicken for a feast. And there was always oil for the vegetables too!" ' CHINA'S long disintegra tion, and the Nationalists, and the Japanese, and a great World War, had all failed to make much change in Lao Mok's immemorial little world. But change began 10 years ago when a Communist cadre appeared in Wide River village and told the people about the "victory of the revo lution." After that the slogan, "Land to the Peasants," was carried into effect. Three of the local landlords, unloved men, were publicly executed after much commotion. And everything went on as before for a while. The share of land given to Lao Mok and ' his wife was rather less than he had pre viously farmed. But after pay ing taxes and giving a little rice under the table to the former landowner's family (as was only proper between neighbors) Lao Mok was just a little better off after land reform. The next stage, when he and five of his neighbors were grouped in a mutual aid team, was not bad either. They built a small reservoir to gether, which made watering the fields a bit easier. Alto gether, there was nothing to complain about at first except tit 'Don't ser gore iu have we whoie family ana vsxb in just a sect the Communist village-leader's distressing fondness for calling meetings and giving lectures. "The first big trouble," said Lao Mok, with i a wry grin, "was the collectivization, which we hoped would make us all rich." HERE HE WAS speaking of the final collectivization in 1955. What he meant by "trouble" was a drop in his little family's rice - income from about 700 catties (or 770 pounds) per year down to 500 catties per year. Besides the loss of rice, there were acute shortages of cooking oil, meat, and fish. But they kept their pig, their chickens, and their plot of vegetables. So they "still managed somehow" al though they sold a few posses ions to get food iiwl957. Then came the "big meet ing," said Lao Mok dramatic ally. It was in June, 1958, when the leader of their col lective gathered them all to gether and told them how a kind of heaven on earth would be achieved by formation of a rural commune. After that all the land, all the tools, all the animals, and all the people -about 20,000 of them in all were grouped together in the new Wide River commune. The commune began with glowing promises and high hopes. Until the mess hall was built, the rice issue was gener ous; and in the first month in the mess-hall they "ate like the landlords in the old times,"as Lao Mok put it. As long as this land of Cockaigne endured, they hardly minded being asked to work 15 hours a day. . THEY RIGHTLY thought the backyard steel furnace the commune built was a' bad and bothersome joke. They were delighted when the com mune leaders decided not to p u t everyone i n barracks. They had a very low opinion of "Mister Mao's new farming methods," as Lao Mok ironic ally described the famous deep plowing and close1 plant ing system. . But the real bit terness did not well up until the rations were gradually cut to the starvation level. First the mess -hall table was rapidly impoverished. Then, in the winter, dry ra tions began to be handed out, for home cooking. From March onward Lao Mok and his son" were each drawing no more than half a poun I of dry rice a day. Lao Mok's wife, not being a "first category worker," got a little less than half a pound. Furthermore, this was nearly all they got. Meat, fish, bean curd, cooking oil, all were hardly more than dreams of the past. The vege table plot had been commu nized of course; but "some- ! times we ate wild herbs and leaves of trees." TT MADE no difference in the summer, when they were told they could again keep pigs and grow their vege tables. The ration did not rise. The work hours remained about 12 per day, with no rest day in the week. Few war time prison camps, indeed, can have been such grim places as the Wide River com mune this summer. So Lao Mok and many of the other farmers decided they must make a break for freedom, and 20 sampans slip ped down the river in dark ness on the appointed night. Lao Mok thinks two of the others got to Macao. He does not know . what happened to the rest of the little fleet. "We could not - go in a group, for they would have seen us," said Lao Mok. "And the man who knew the sea in our sampan chose to steer for Hongkong, though it was fur ther. We were the lucky ones. Now all I, worry about is Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Maii 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 ce. Veterans Day To the Editor: On this Wed nesday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m., a parade will march down the streets of Medford, and of many other cities throughout the nation, to commemorate an event of some 41 years Drummond Reports Roscoe Drummond reports en the Washington teen in the ab sence of Walter Lippminn. FOR A SILENT PROTEST Washington-Are you, per sonally, willing to do some thing to make sure that de ceit and dishonesty are ban ished from the television screen in your home? I believe that something useful and dramatic can be done by the public-and this, if it is to have any effect, means you, not somebody else. I believe that, something dramatic and forceful can be done by the millions of TV viewers to bring home to the sponsors, to the networks, to the producers, to the writers, to the performers, that we mean business, that we aren't fooling, that unless this awful sordid, squalid mess of rigged shows is totally cleaned up or cleaned out, something painful is going to happen. A RE WE individual and un organized viewers abso lutely helpless to register a collective protest and a col lective demand? . What can be done? This can be done: ' Why don't a few million viewers - all who want to raise their voice to say that it isn't going to be enough to pretty up the edges of the TV screen-pick a date and a prime time of adult program ming and all at once observe an hour of television silence? Any date, any evening time would do it, but viewers who want to join in such an hour of silence, an hour of warn ing, would need to pick it far enough ahead so that they could act simultaneously. Therefore, why not the fol lowing: The date - Tuesday night, Nov. 17. The time - 10 p.m. local standard time. The place - Your living room, and at this hour, Tues day night, Nov. 17, at 10 p.m., if you are looking at televis ion, you can join with other Viewers across the country in simultaneously clicking off the dial; and if you are riot looking at television, you re frain from doing so between 10 and 11 p.m. HAVE NO doubt that the networks-a n d sponsors would watch and measure -such a demonstration very sensitively. I don't even know what programs are scheduled ,for Tuesday evening, Nov. 17, but since 10 o'clock, E.S.T., would be 9 p.m. in the Mid West, the hour of silence and the hour of warning would be aimed at no single pro gram. The latest testimony re leased by the House Investi gating Committee shows that even the little tots, the fam ous "Quiz Kids" of some years ago, was a rigged per formance, and that 11-year-old Patty Duke was enlisted to engage in the fake ques-tion-and-answer on the "$64, 000 Challenge." and then sternly cautioned that she must not tell the truth about the rigging. NO WONDER the President' of the United States has said that television "has done an awful thing to the Ameri can people." You can telephone your disgust to. your local station. You can write a letter to your newspaper. You can tel egraph your Congressman. But the only way you can register a monumental pro test which says: Clean house or else, is for several million TV viewers to act together simultaneously. Wouldn't an hour of tel evision silence which would be an hour of warning - on Tuesday evening, Nov. 17, at 10 p.m. local standard time, do it? (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. whether my wife gets the money I send her." Such is Lao Mok's story - a standard and characteristic story of one of the thousands of Chinese peasant - refugees who have fled from the re gime that "liberated them from the feudal past." (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc.. ago, the signing of Ihe armis tice that ended hostilities of the first World Fracas. I've been wondering how many of us remember the ex act date of the signing of the Korean armistice. Even those who have the best reasons for remembering are a little hazy. The date was July 27, 1953. I know because I have just looked it up. And looking back just 14 years, we can remember the end of another war. Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Sicily, Nor mandy, Guadalcanal, etc: All of us remember these two conflicts only too well, because of what they have meant to our nation and to our people. Looking back still further, we can remember when the dads and uncles of the World War II G.I.s and their young er brothers of Korean con flict, came home from their little chore. Changing of name of this day from Armistice Day to Veterans' Day, while fitting and proper, still does not alter the fact that IT IS the anni versary of the armistice agree ment that ended the shellack ing of the Kaiser's men. With all the later military actions of our nation, World War I veterans have become the almost forgotten men, since they are not quite old enough to be revered as vet erans of wars previous to theirs, and too old to be con sidered equally with those of later wars. But this is one day of the year on which the old boys who wore the choke bore pants and the wrapped O.D. leggings, like to trot out the images of the Kaiser, Von Hindenburg and the Crown Prince, for reminiscence, even though we do have to get back into some obscure corner away from the louder noise and faster action of the re hashers of the later Donney brooks. Pat Graham Service Officer Post No. 8, Disabled American Veterans 175 Jeanette st. Medford. TV Ads To the Editor: Rigged TV shows, mislead ing ads;' Enough of this nonsense we have had. "Three out of four physic ians say ..." Fail utterly in tries to sway. Advertisements on diet pills Give me no reducing thrills. Some promise new hair orf your head, You could wait for this un til you're dead. . Chewing gums ads do make me sore, And I could name so many more. Honesty's best, so we've been told Ads should observe this adage of old. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. . Objects to. Name Use To the Editor: The night of Halloween something shameful happened in Ash land, Oregon. Two days later something much more shame ful happened in Ashland. The first event was destructive mischief. The second was the destructive display of names, addresses and character- of young boys on the front page of the Ashland daily news paper. In my. estimation the writer and editor of that article and newspaper are more guilty than the young boys. The mis chief has been repaired (by the boys and their parents), but who can repair the dam age done to the personal feel ings of those parents and their children when they are so publicity displayed? I am proud that the Med ford paper has higher stand ards about their publishing. You Ashland people should do something about this prob lem. Perhaps some day it will be your child's name publicly displayed. As a parent I feel it is my duty to punish my children, and not the police force by use of a jail cell. Our county has a detention home, yet Ash land police prefer . to put juveniles behind bars in their own jail. For shame, Ashland! Most people who read the mischief " articles probably sighed or gasped, not think- Husbands! Wives! Get PeD. Vim: Feel Younger Thousands of couples are weak, worn- out tired, exnaustea Decause ouuy lacks iron and Vitamin Bi. For a younger feeling after 40, try Ostrex Tonic Tablets. Contain iron and high-potency dose Vitamin Bi for quick, new younger pep. vim. "Get acquainted"' size 69f. All druggists. Washington Report By WILLIAM MODERATION Washington - History now records the '30s as a period of political extremism nearly all r" "" ww,' over t n e world. These years brought Fascism in Italy, Naziism i n Germany, i m p e r ialist militarism in Japan, the bloody purges Willism S. TT Whiu Union. Even in the United States, it was a time of political ex perimentation - though hard ly of that wild "socialism" which Old Guardists liked to attribute to Roosevelt's New Deal. But the '50s now draw to ing it could happen to their children. Parents, it could happen to anyone's children. My children are still too young to have been put into this Halloween night situation. I hope and pray they never get themselves into a similar situation. But if they do wrong, I believe I should be the .first to know about it. You may publish my name if I'm a delinquent parent, but please let my children grow up. Mrs. R. E. Miller Route 1, Box 329 Talent, Ore. She's Ashamed i To the Editor I for one am ashamed to think we sit back and let a newspaper (The Ash land Daily Tidings) publish the names and addresses of children in stories of juvenile delinquents For instance, this Halloween thing of painting on . the Shakespearean Theater, was it so much a t greater- crime then other things that were done? Destructive yes, but the boys and parents repaired the damaees and the boys were given a 15-day sentence, two of those days in a jau ceu, not the detention home we as taxpayers built for the young, but a jail cell at the Ashland city jail. These boys aren't the van dals some believe them to be. One boy .we know, he has been to our home many times. He is 14, not 15. He is an average 14-year-old, usually polite and 'thoughtful. His folks have worked at raising all their children properly with love and companionship. He has never had a record until now. So now when this child has done something on th sour of the moment, as most young people do, he and his family are being ridiculed by their daily newspaper. Does it help or hinder the child? How can the editor be the judge of that without having met the child or par ents? Had it been your or my child, how would we feel? I have children of my own. I hope and pray they never get into trouble. If they should I also pray I have the first chance to hear about it and not see it splashed on the front page with names and addresses. His antics may be news but his iame doesn't help the story. Mrs. C. V. Seavey Route 1, Box 36 Talent, Ore. Who's Kwaiy? To the Editor: The steel workers lost over one billion dollars in wages. The steel companies lost millions, the Government lost millions in revenue. Workmen laid off, lost millions. Somebody is kwazy besides monkeys. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan 'Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY ' 27 NORTH HOllY ST. S. WHITE the end in a worldwide tri umph for "moderation." Twice moderation sent Dwight Eisenhower to the White House. Recently, mod eration won a smashing vic tory in the re-election of Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government over Labor. Even the present Russia of Nikita Khrushchev could be said to be moderate - rela tive to the Russia of Stalin and Company. . - A ND now ancient Israel has confirmed the vast, quiet movement toward the politi cal center. David Ben-Gur-ion's moderate Mapai party has just been returned with greatly increased strength. . The election exactly followed the new free-world pattern: a progressive voter rejection of both the left and right wing extremists. The Communists have fallen to a new low in Israel. So have the far right ists. Ben-Gurion, one of the world's durable elder states men, has already been 11 years in the prime minister ship. And it appears he is no where near the end of his long road. Even the Arab born minority in Israel - not withstanding the radio efforts of Egypt to enlist them . to communism - are more nearly pro-moderation than before.- Israel's election, according to qualified and impartial diplomatic informants, went off much as did the British election. There was no real foreign policy issue. There was not even a sharp domes tic issue. The point was simply this: . Did the voters approve Ben-Gurion's middle way? The answers was a calm but very general yes. AND this latest success for the political moderates was fed by the one just before it. Ben-Gurion's people in the campaign pointed to Macmil lan's victory. And Macmillan's people themselves earlier had pointed in " his campaign; if rather more quietly, to the victories of moderation in the United States. A good many - particularly in Washington, whose one in dustry is politics - look with alarm or with loud hostility upon "moderation." They be lieve it to be dangerous for the long run because it "blurs the edges" of great issues. They have a point - to a point. One possible - alternative to what they fear, however, is even more risky. This is a politics of such violent draw ing up of the lines as- to amount to a wordy if. blood less civil .war. , . In a perilous world, we could not afford a national disunity reaching this point not even to satisfy the shrill theoreticians that all the "is sues" were at last being fully met, fully unblurred. ANYHOW, no matter "what some of the experts may think, the voters still like moderation all the way to Israel. One of this columnist's correspondents in Chicago il lustrates moderation with this anecdote: A father-in-law had out stayed his welcome and the young couple considered ways to get rid of him. This was their plan: When the soup was served, the husband would cry that it had too much salt," the wife that it had too little. The father-in-law would be - re quired to side with one or the other. Whoever he sided against would then grandly order him from the house. But the old boy crossed them both up. He simply sipped the soup carefully, re flected a moment, and then declared: "Suits me." (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . STORM WARNING! Pirates operating off the Marsh field Coast are warned of Black Tornado due to hit about 8:30 Friday night. Any ideas the Pirates have about making someone walk-the-plank will be Gone with the Wind. Bill Fish ft
