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eihri. Or. 4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Nov. 13, 1959 MedfordJTbibuiib "Everyone IE Southern Orecoa Reads fhe Mai Tribune Published D-il except Saturday bf M'JJMOT- PRINTING CO 33 Nortr- fh St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTHL Editor HERB jRE AOvertiii: Manaces CEP-ALD LATHAM Business Hjp ERIC W ALLEN IB. Managing Aiat EAf-L H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CUIPMAN Telef Editor RICHAKO 1VV ETT SporU Editor Ol IVE STARCHES Women a Editm DALE ERICKS'N Circulation Mar . An Independent Newspaper Entereo svikJ elasa matter at Medfor Ctrm under Ac of . Marh 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Ma . in Advance Copy 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 vear $15 00 Daily and Sunday moa aot Dail an Sunday 3 moa 4.25 Sunday Only One vear $430 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eijjli Point Jarknonvilla Hold Hill Phoems Shady Cove Rofu Riv er Tal'oit and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 vear $18 00 Dailv and Burnley 1 mo 1J0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms CtaY ip Advance Officii! Papr f,,Ctt f Medfor Official Papet b Jaesson County United Pre International , rtiD Leased Wire SreMB THbf AUDIT BUREAU or cim uLaiiua WEST HOLtDAV CO INC Of rices in Nev. York Chtraco De troit San ranr!seo Los Anales Seattle Portland St Louis. At lan'a Vancrwei BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITOBIAI 1. Flight 'o Time Medford and, Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 13. 1949 (Sunday) The first local model air plane speed contest since last spring scheduled today by Medford Prop Nuts. First post-war city-wide sales prdmotion event spon sored by Medford merchants scheduled Dec. 1. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1939 (Monday) " P. G. Deuber will climb to the top of Mt. Pitt today and flash Morse code signals by mirror. ' From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Governor of .Washington has announces! he'll smoke no more cigarettes because citi zens in his state spend more money on cigarettes than they do on butter." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1929 (Wednesday) State Horticultural meeting opens today with speakers urging 'more publicity for pears. : " ' ' More than $5,000 .raised in Community Chest campaign here. ', - , 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 13. 1919 (Thursday) Two men injured when struck by auto, operated by drunk drivers on South River side ave Enid Bennett stars at the Liberty theater in "The Virtu ous Thief." 50 YEARS AGO . Nov. 13, 1909 (Sunday) v Medford . leads United States in the number and quality of cash registers in city per capita population. It is gratifying that South ern Pacific will erect a new depot, but something should also be done about the dingy warehouses and long lines of freight cars strung through the middle of the city. Vhal's Yoar I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; frv t six is good. V 1. Name the four qualities of taste sensations. 2. Is nectarine a variety of plum, or peach? 3. Ascension Day is 20, 30, or 40, days after Easter? 4. Neapolitan would denote a native of which city? 5. Is there a law requiring a .Supreme Court Justice to be native born? 6. Complete the pr-orb, "Spare the rod and . 7. When an adult a full set of teeth are tr e 14, 15, or 16 in each jaw? 8. If you wanted to have permanent flowering plants, would you use annuals, or perennials? 9. Why is a horseshoe nailed over a door open end up? 10. Does the Bill of Rights of the VS. Constitution con tain 6, 8 or 10 amendments?. Answers: 1. Sweet, sour, tall, aad bttler. . Variety of peach. 3. 40 days. 4. Naples. Italy. 5. No. 6 ". . $Pil child. 7. Sixteen. 8. Pew niak. 9. To keep ! from running out. 10. Ten. Cranberry Farce -' "The great cranberry farce of 1959" is how a friend of ours referred to the flurry over the fact that traces of a weed-killer, known to be a cause of cancer when applied in heavy doses to rats, have been found in recent cranberry crops. The flurry has had some destructive conse quences. It has, and will, hurt growers of this crop, many of whom operate small acreages in Oregon, along the coast and in the Willamette valley. .. , It has scared a few people. It has caused some markets to remove the berries from their shelves. ' TTHE cranbeny incident was almost a comedy of errors, with one government agency going in one direction, another in another, and the growers, the public and the retailers being caught in the middle. If cranberries were a diet staple, eaten five or six or seven times a week like bread or pota toes and if the weed-killer were shown to be an active cause of cancer. in humans, even in minute amounts, then there might' be cause for mild alarm. As ifis, the chemical is not known as a human cancer-cause. It has caused cancer in rats ONLY when applied in heavy, repeated doses over the life of the test animal. Its concentrations in the "contaminated" cranberries were infinitesimal: And who eats cranberries more than once "or twice a year anyway? "yilERE is mounting evidence that cigarettes are a million times more potent as a cause of cancer than the will-o'-the-wisp suspicions the "contaminated" cranberries. But cigarette sales continue to. climb. There is mounting evidence that air pollu tion, including automobile exhausts, is also a leading cause of cancer. ' .- But what do we do, about it except start slow-moving "surveys," wring our hands, and deplore our cruel fate? Doesn't it make this look a little silly? : v DUT, if viewed in perspective, it may result in "some good as well. For instance, it does focus attention on the fact that in recent years many chemicals have been added to the foods we eat, not all of them beneficial. Some, in fact, may be harmful, or neither for no one knows. - The increasing use of pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and all the other . . . icides may not inevitably lead to race homicide, but it certainly is a cause for caution, and for a vastly increased amount of research to prevent harmful chemicals from being used indiscriminately un the foods we eat. rfc. A. Significant Project While on the unpleasant subject of cancer, it is interesting to note that the people of Jack son county are being called upon to do something about it beyond hand-wringing and gifts. One thousand families are to be asked to assist in a monumental, signed to determine, if possible, what effect en vironment and personal habits may have on cancer incidence. The families ; chosen will have at least one member aged 45 years or more, and will be from all parts of the county. , HPHIS county-wide effort "will be part of the state . project, involving some 17,000 families, which in turn is part of the national program in 22 states. Up to a million people will participate. . . This tremendous "sample" of the population, questioned carefully about living conditions, diet, sleep, exercise, occupation, family relations, phy sical complaints, personal health history, family health history, and other pertinent 'matters, should provide data never before available. While the research project is under the spon sorship of the American Cancer society, its im portance is not limited to that disease, and can give Valuable information about heart ailments, tuberculosis, and others. -'.. " 'THE program should not be much of a burden on anyone, if all cooperate readily. Leaders will enroll 100 researchers and each of these will contact 10 families, a total of 1,000. ' The families will fill out the four-page ques tionnaires which will be completely confidential. That is the first phase of the program. But it will .continue for six years, with the volunteer researchers maintaining contact with the cooperating families... Each two years they will be asked to fill out brief supplementary questionnaires covering illnesses. Causes of death will be obtained and recorded. TTHE initial questions will reveal such things as occupational hazards related to cancer, famil ial tendencies toward the disease, relationship of cancer and other illnesses, childbirth factors in cancer, relationships of diet, food and beverages to the disease, and cancer's relation to cigarettes, air pollution, living standards, and so on. An analysis of these, in turn, is expected to be helpful in yielding clues as to causes and con tributing factors in the disease, to determination of the earliest signs and symptoms, and, even tually, to the prevention of cancer, by removing responsible factors, plus' early detection to permit early and successful treatment. In our view, this is one of the most interesting and significant projects in the cancer field ever to be undertaken. E.A. flap about cranberries may be beneficial or ..v.. nation-wide project de Dennis the Menace I J' I JUST WANTED TO TELL SOU AVy. HN J fcjfcV DLfcttfcy 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 Ludicrous Contrast T6 the Editor: I suppose I should be more approving than I am of the current warn ings from the government on the possible contamination of cranberries with a probable cancer-producing agent. For several years, I have been concerned about many things that happen to our food sup ply, to increase its saleability, from the sprays on crops and animals, to food colors, bleaches in flour, preserva tives and chemical flavorings to say nothing of various de naturing processes. We should be grateful that a start is being made-but it seems to me that most people who forego their cranberries in the coming holiday season are straining at gnats so to speak., Those who are can-cer-prone-if they smoke will probably die of cancer of the lungs several hundred years before cancer : from cran berries can lay them low. All this concern about the harmful effects, of a residue on the bright red berries com ing from a government that has until recently sought to justify the contamination of our .atmosphere with- radi activity seems to this cynic just a wee bit ludicrous. Our culture and society are full of irrational aspects which only make sense when viewed from the point of view of "Economic Determinism." In other words, we act as we do because in bur competi tive society, the most power ful motivation is personal economic gain. Only a cooper ative economic system can af ford to place human welfare on a high priority. Only then, it will be practical to do unto others as we would be done by. ' . . , One small bouquet m clos ing. Of the many papers, I see from time to time, I feel your editorial page is perhaps the most intelligent. Clark F. Hull, 1577 Benton dr., Redding, Calif. Majority Rights- N To the Editor: I live in Ash land and we are proud the ed itor of our paper is willing to stand out in protecting the rights of the majority against a few. The Shakespearean theater is the result of many and is the symbol of the fin est in entertainment, to say nothing of the cost of $275, 000, an achievement of which any city would be proud. I will wager, if Mrs. Miller Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A STALWART GENTLEMAN with a stunning blonde gaz ing adoringly into his eyes drew attention at Sardi's East one evening. "He's a western industrialist," explained Vin cent Sardi, "who is work ing on his second million. She's working on his first" , Accused by Critic Paul Nathan of being a ghoul, horror-story author Robert Bloch replied, "Not at all, I have the heart of a small boy. I keep iti in a jar on my desk." - , - . Max Lief, who refers to himself as a "Juvenal de linquent," submits tM -, ' ' : '.' limerick: "X fallow they called Aloysius Of his wife and a gent got suspysius, i And as quick as a wink Found the two by the sink : But they only were doing the dysius. , O by Seo&ctt Cert. Siitributed by Kin features Syndicate I limn wi -iifi i i I'M SORRY 1 OCT SO 7A AFT&Z AIL. the and Mrs. Seavey, both of Tal ent, had a new living room set and some neighbor kid de liberately sprayed it with paint, there would be some name calling, and loud. Mrs. Headlee made a good point in her letter a few days after HaUcrween. To stop child delinquency, we must start with the parents. My thanks to the editor of the Ashland paper for stand ing out for what is for the good of all and helping the police to curb delinquency. Mae Davis Route 1, Ashland, Ore. Confusing N To the Editor: This cran berry furor has me a bit con fused. Maybe someone can tell me why there is such a rush to take , the cranberries off the market when none of the grocers to my knowledge has 'taken the cigarettes off his shelves. The danger there has been proven, and the cranberry scare is so far only an investigation. Personally, I wouldn't take a " chance on either one of them, but you'll have to ad mit the, inconsistency is a bit confusing! . Puzzled '; (Name on file) Medford Drive Success 'Tto the Editor: The Young Christian Workers wish to thank the many who helped to make our salad dressing drive a big success. Two families will receive baskets for Thanksgiving be cause' of your generous sup port of this project. Again we . thank you and wish y ou : a very happy Thanksgiving Day to you all. Miss Kathryn Oppelt President of the Cardijn ' Section Y.C.W. Crime and Punishment To the Editor: This is an answer to Mrs. Seavey and Mrs. Miner of Talent, on the subject of name use of the juveniles involved in the de structive acts at the Shakes pearean theater. It is my un derstanding that paint was used to write obscene words, etc., on walls of the building, which is not just destructive mischief, but shows more the character of those who did it. This is not the ordinary Hal loween prank. There is a type of child that is apt to do this sort of thing at any time of the year, if they think they If-lS Editorial Comment REVISE THAT MENU Looking forward to a boun teous Thanksgiving dinner? Look again, if you're jumpy about cranberries. When you cross cranberries off the list, cross off that stuf fing bread, too. It's treated with preservatives which, the food faddists say, louse up your innards. Cross off those mashed po tatoes. They come from seed that has been dipped in chem icals which, in a different form, are used to kill flies. Cross off those sweet pota toes. If their seed hasn't been dipped in near - fly spray, they've probably been irri gated with polluted water, Pumpkin pie is all right, except for the crust. Preserva tive again. But scratch apple pie. Arsenic in the spray. What about the main dish? Scratch it, too. Old Tom may have been treated for both lice and fungus disease by dip ping in - a grand mixture of toxic brews. . Don't substitute a capon. It's been shot fuU of hormones that give mice cancer of the endocrines. Throw out all the rest of the goodies, too. They've eith er been washed or cooked in chlorinated water, unless they were shipped in from one of the dozen areas of the state where they were processed in fluoridated water. Just sit down and have a delicious big multiple vitamin tablet, if you don't mind the side effects of all that nico tinic and ascorbic acid.-Capi-tal Journal, Salem. IT'S A FACTl The USSR has budgeted 96.1 billion rubles for military expenditures in 1960-and" 102 billion rubles for education. In the United States we are spending about 15 billion dol lars for education - and 45 billion dollars for defense. Eugene-Register-Guard can- get away with it, or don't happen to get caught. After 13 years as a school bus driver and raising a fam ily of three children, I have some knowledge of the think ing habits of children in this age group. They take their punishment with a variety , of attitudes, and the things they do are looked at with as many differ ent views, Dotn oy aauiis ana other children. Some see as the only crime the fact that they were caught. Others, with ' the proper punishment, can be made to see the light and they get straightened out. If they are let off with easy punishment the first few tim es, they are made a big shot in the eyes of a certain percent age of the other children. In correcting children when they get out of line, I find that a punishment that really jars them the first time has a real and lasting effect. Other boys that I have con tinually had trouble with on the school bus, but .who were given very light correction by those in authority, have gone into larger things until finally they have to serve time in a state penitentiary. . I believe the Ashland police and paper are correct in what they did, and I also believe it would be the correct thing to do in most cases. Letting the names and addresses come out, is feared by these chil dren as much or more than a jail sentence where their name is withheld. I have heard boys over 18 years old refuse to let younger ones bring liquor into their cars be cause the older boys, if caught, would have their names printed in the newspa per. They feel the disgrace of the situation more when this happens. Consequently, I be lieve if the names were print ed and the sentence the first time is heavy enough to go on record, it's going to make them stop and think and to see that society disapproves and will not baby them and shield them for acts that do not deserve it. Carroll E. Stevenson, Route 1, Box 519 Central Point, Ore. Tobacco Advertisements ' To the Editor: Well, the teenagers of this area are being arrested and fined for being in possession of tobacco. So who sponsors a program on TV that is primarily a teenage show? None other than a to bacco company. Maybe the residents of Med ford and the TV station could be a little more selective about their sponsors for pro grams aimed at teenage audi ences. " At any rate, let's be sure our young people are not being urged to buy tobacco and then -re arrested for havr ing it in their possession. . :I for one will not let my children watch at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The TV station is being in formerd of my feelings also. Mrs. H. M. Cox ,, ... 2816 Corey rd. Central Point, Ore. Tunisia's First Election Is Landmark; Western Ties Firm By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Pres ident Habib Bourguiba of Tu nisia. The place: Tunis. The quote: "I feel very moved in accomplishing this gesture (casting his ballot in Tunisia's first general elec tion), which signifies that the Tunisian has today a dignity which reflects our national sovereignty and provides more respect for the individ ual man." No one was surprised when Bourguiba and his Neo Des tour (New Independence) par ty w o n the election and Bourguiba re turned to the job he has held since Tu nisia's inde pendence was proclaimed in 1957. His on ly organized etui Newsom opposition came from the Communists In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS ' Let's talk of big things to day. This MIGHT be one of them: PRESIDENT De Gaulle of France, a strange and mys tical character, announces this morning that Mr. K will visit France oh March 15 of the upcoming new year. He adds that France hopes Mr. K will "remain until the end of March if he so wishes." For the first time he gives Russia credit for tryingi to ease tension in such troubled spots of the world as Laos, In dia and Central America. He concludes: "The person ality of Nikita Khrushchev, OVERALL LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLES, has de termined the new conditions." HOW come? Let's be realistic. Mr. K scratched De Gaulle's back by agreeing to come to France, thus recognizing France as still one of the world's great and powerful nations. That feeds Monsieur De Gaulle's nationalistic ego. So Monsieur De Gaulle pats Mr. K on the back by recog nizing him publicly as one of the. world's GREAT leaders. SILLY? No, it's sensible. You win few friends with harsh words. You win many friends with mild words. If the nations are to be able to get along in a reasonable ap proximation of peace, their LEADERS must be able to get along in a reasonable ap proximation of peace. VITHY does . Monsieur De " Gaulle think Mr. K mieht be in the mood for peaceful co-existence? He gave two reasons this morning: 1. Russia, he said, has not been .successful in winning over the countries of Eastern Europe. He added: "There is NO doubt that if the popula tions of these countries could express themselves freely they would reject communist control with an enormous ma jority." 2. The Soviet Union and the West are now on EQUAL terms of strength and Moscow recognizes that another world war would mean general anni hilation. , QUESTION: Can the rest of the world get along with Rus sia? For an answer we can turn to history. For a ouar- ter of a millennium, the rest of the world HAS got along with Russia - in one ' way and another. AND- fl Ever since Peter the Great Russia has been po tentially as grave a menace as she is today. More than half a century ago, no less a pundit than Rudyard Kipling, in his The Truce of the Bear, warned: "Make ye no truce with Adam-zad- "The Bear that walks like a Man!" NOW HE KNOWS : Trenton, N. J. -(UPD- Mel- vin Tumin, a Princeton Uni versity professor, was sworn in Thursday as Mercer coun-1 ty coroner. The job carries no salary and the coroner's duties were abolished in 1938. Tumin said he ran for coroner in this month's elec tion because "I wanted to find put if ; the office, is an office' or not." I We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central - . - and they scarcely counted. But it must indeed have been a moving moment . for Bourguiba, who spent nearly half of his 55 years in ' exile or in and out of French pris ons, and who today is credit ed more than any other with Tunisian independence. Is Friend of West In the midst of, turbulent nationalism among both the Arabs and the Africans, Bour guiba has stood as a firm friend of the West. President G a m a 1 Abdel Nasser of Egypt once accused him of being one of the last agents of imperialism among Arab leaders. To this, Bourguiba replied bluntly that his ties were with the West and would re main so. While espousing the cause of independence for neighbor ing Algeria, he, has at the same time retained close ties with France and is looked up on as one of the soothing in fluences in North Africa. The slight, fir m-jawed Washington Report By WILLIAM GOLD RUSH . Washington - The '59ers in search of political nuggets are working California's lodes in in the spirit of the '49ers who poured in just a hundred years ago in search of gold. This is the new mountain of hope to nearly all of Williams. "e1 years White Presiden t f a 1 aspirants. For the first time in our history the main thrust of pomicai maneuver is moving from east to west rather than the other way round. Presidential hopefuls are positively stepping on each other's heels going in and out of California. For the Demo crats, Sen. -Stuart Symington of Missouri is currently there. Before'him, it was Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Agents of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota have already cased the state, cast ing their boss's shadow before them... . v-.;, ,. . ' - ' ' rjN THE Republican side, " Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York is now making some careful passes at the California home base of Vice President Nixon. And Presi dent Eisenhower himself, pret ty relaxed though he usually is about such matters, has nevertheless agreed to speak at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles on Jan. 27. The old situation on the eve of any Presidential campaign year was this: politiejians re served their real attention for the East, New York in par ticular. They then turned with diminished concern across the Mississippi River. Finally, perhaps, their interest reach ed the far coast. What is it that has so sharp ly changed the old campaign map? " ; It is not solely California's immense growth, which will make it second only to New York in power at both nation al conventions next year. It is not simply that one of the top figures for .1960, Vice President Nixon, is a Californ- THE REAL reasons are two, one basic and one a hap penstance. First, the West in general (and not only Cali i i t f Wsisrn. 3 j get "We Are Small Enough To Know You, - Large Enough To Give Complete Service" Oregon Finance Co 45 SOUTH CENTRAL Medford's' First personal Finance Company , Established 1928 Our Note Is the Same But You Gef Personal Attention and Your Money Stays at Home Bourguiba was born in the small fishing village of Mon astir, Tunisia, in modest sur roundings in 1904. His school ing was primarily French and he read law and political sci ence at the University of Paris. j' " Formed Party in 1933 He formed his Neo-Destour party in 1933, and five years later began his first tour in a French prison. From then on it was a story of jail; rejail and exile. It was in 1954 that the then-premier of France, Pier re Menaes-France, recognized the inevitable and broueht him to France for negotiation - on a home-rule plan. The climax came three years later. Next month this conserva tive revolutionary meets President Eisenhower aboard a U.S. cruiser in the Mediter ranean. It is a gesture by Eis enhower to a man recognized as a power in Africa - last continent of the infinite front iers. S. WHITE fornia) is becoming a rising force in all public affairs. The old total dominance of the East is fast disappearing. The second reason applies with special force only to the Democrats, though it indirect ly affects the Republicans, too. This is that according to information from half a dozen Democratic pros of different factions-Gov. Edmund Brown will not ' really control the California delegation to the Democratic National Conven tion. Normally a strong gov ernor is undoubted boss, able to deliver his whole delega tion, to himself or to another, to the end. The word here, however, is that Brown cannot and will not even try to do this. The delegation , will be formally pro-Brown for the . President ial nomination as a favorite son. But private agreements already made have a contrary meaning. The net of these arrangements is that Cali fornia's block of convention votes will be up for grabs once Brown has been honored by a single token ballot. The "Brown slate" of dele; gates actually will number the strong partisans of several other contenders and "possi bilities" - notably Adlai E. Stevenson and Humhprey and Kennedy Thus a huge prize is hanging there, like a stalk of bananas before a band of hun gry boys. MOREOVER, the seizure by any candidate of a king's share of the California dele gation would have effects go ing far beyond that single fact. New York, so long the tail that wagged the dog at Democratic conventions, is un likely to have any such power this time. The Tammany boss, Carmine DeSapio, has been badly cut up by the revolts of the advanced Democratic liberals in Manhattan. Any notion "of his being' able to hurl the whole New York delegation about at will is a vain notion. Anybody who can get a big share of California's delegation will twice benefit this time by the votes themselves and by the psychological lift they will give him in a convention no longer dominated by the single question: "Yes - but what does New York want? (Copyright, 1959. by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Gene Thomas Says: I "You get extra courtesy ' and friendliness when you i . your loan from an in dependent loan company. 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