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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Nov. 23, 1959 MedfordWTribunb "Everyone ts Southern Oregon Published Dll except Saturday b7 33 North fto 8t Ph SP Z-8141 ' - . w-r ilVJ till EfUJIWI GEPALD LATHVM Business Mfr ERIC W ALLKN TR f M ana rim Miter EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OUVB STARC'HER Women s Editoi DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr Entered semnd elan matter at nuoni irvFon anaer act ec March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dail- and Sunday 1 vear IIS 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos 8.01. Daily and Sunday 3 mos ' 425 aunaay uniy one year S4.20 Bv furrier- In AHhm MaAlnrA Ashland Central Point Eagle i-oint. Jacksonville. 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From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Thanks for the Rose Bowl dreams of old Oregon and Oregon" State. They were nice while they lasted." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 23, 1929 (Sunday) Gold Beach in path of for est fire on lower Rogue. Theater building at Sixth ' and Holly sts. to be built this winter. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 23. 1919 (Monday) Medford Legion adopts reso lution favoring . return of death penalty in this state. Labor plans to form new political party, at meeting in Chicago. 50 YEARS AGO Nov. 23, 1909 (Tuesday) High water ruins valley ir rigation system; Ament dam , on Rogue is certain to go. Oregon almost entirely cut off from outside .world be ; cause of storms. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior? seven or eight b excellent; five et sis is good. 1. Did Lacrosse originate with the Vikings, French Ca nadians or North American Indians?, . . 2. Is a gambit used in hock tv badminton, or chess? - 3. What European . nation 1 has a famous military organi zation called the Foreign Le- crlnn? - 4 According to the "Old Testament story, what beauti ful woman was chosen by Ahasuerus to be his wife? ? what Norse voyager dis- ' covered a land be called Vin- land? .. . 6. Who was the first Chris tian emperor? ; 7. Did goldfish originate In Chile, China, or Spain? 8. Correct the following: "Neither of the boys nor John are going to go." 9 For what weather pheno menon is the Grand Banks noted? 10. The moon always re mains at the same distance from the earth; true or false? Answers: 1. Indians. 2. Chess. 3. France. 4. Esther. 5. Leif Ericson. 6. Conslaniine. 7. China."!. Neixber of the boys nor John it . . " 9. Fog. ' 10. False. Washington State Group Names Officers Yakima, Wash. (UPD - Ernest Sorenson of Chehalis was elected president of the Wash ington State Dairy Founda tion at a convention here Fri- dsy He succeeded Walter Ull rich of Okanogan. Norman Tolleshaugh of Longview was named vice president. - Challenge People of this country have been surprised at the degree of dishonesty which existed in TV quiz contests. It was a shock to learn that some of the heroes of the quiz hot boxes were only acting when they seemed to grope so painfully for answers already provided m secrecy. The revelations cast a shadow over the val idity of TV advertising. like champions, but they detest deception; es sentially, they respect When, they have been standably become suspicious and may even hold suspect some person or the up-and-up. " "IXITH the TV industry examining itself, and trvinsr to crawl out of the present embar rassing situation with as m mignt De a good time lor otner ousinesses serv inc t.he niihlir in talcs a look at themselves. Take the American j 1 - j 11 in inis instance ine newspapers 01 tne nation, vv e think it would he nrnner and fittino- for resDon- sible persons in this great service industry to take a close look at it and make certain that it is not permitting moral weaklings tq prostitute its noble purposes in our democratic system. MEWSPAPERS must ' News columns must be kept clear 01 editori alizing. Stories that should be published must ap pear in print, and must never be bought off. Edi torial support on the editorial page never should be for sale. Authors should be far above holding out a grimy hand for a reward following for overlooking that which should be revealed. Sports writers should be professionally virtuous. All these things must to measure up to its continue to enjoy the which it should exercise. WE THINK there is no room of smug satis faction at the discomfiture of the TV business.- We. rather think it would be an excellent time for some organization to take a good hard look into the situation, and . we suggest such an inquiry as a logical and American Society of Newspaper Editors to tackle. A vpnal. Vpnt and cowardlv nress can't be tolerated in this nation. to disaster. And one of 1 l :l: -r 4.1. ana uppuituiiiucs ui uie examine itself and police sary. Bend Bulletin. 1 . i ' Our Weakest Link It's get-out-and-get-under season again. Snow and ice for the first time this year are reported on Eastern and Central Oregon highways, and American ingenuity again has failed. . , Each year with the advent of car chain season we commemorate this amazing failure, expecting that each year will be the last. ' . . The car chain in its invented 50 years ago. been a few feeble attempts to make a chain you can install safely and surely in less than 10 min utes. All have fizzled. CNOW tires have come onto the market and the limited slip differential now is optional equip ment on some cars. But neither gimmick, or both together, equals the traction of chains. Light weight rear-engine cars snow or ice. Without chains they, too, are like toboggans on the downslope. At this time-of year cerned about this technological breakthrough than about whose rocket has the most thrust. Come to think of it, haven't invented the self - Capital Journal, Salem ; There's A ...--Nobody has greater sos who produce and distribute obscene literature. But we want to be sure the right procedure is fol lowed to put them out of felt some apprehension land s Mayor Terry Schrunk had asked the Parent-Teacher organizations of his city to lead a campaign against obscene books and magazines. Having been the founder of one PTA organ ization and a member of several others we have the highest regard for their aims and accomplish ments. But, well meaning as 'most PTA members are, we see some danger in saying to all the PTA members of Portland, "Sic 'em !" Might there not be some injustices done if a large number of peo ple' moved in on the newstands and book stores looking for obscene literature? THERE are passages in some of the world's greatest literature that some could consider obscene. But there is a veiy great difference be tween what we find in that great literature and what we see in some stuff that is deliberately obscene from start to finish, deliberately written that way to attract a certain type of reader. Are all PTA members prepared to recognize the dif ference? We fear not. If the PTA's are going to undertake this asr signment the greatest caution must be exercised. People who know literature must make the final determination. We cannot risk wholesale book burning. Fundamental freedoms are involved here. To weaken them would do all of us as much harm as the vile creatures who produce obscene literature are doing Pendleton EasUOregonian. to the Press The American people honesty and integrity. fooled once, they under activity that is strictly on few scars as possible, it . 1 1 press, meaning narrowly v - i. 11T be operated honestly. of newspaper columns a favorable mention, or be done if the press is great responsibility, and privilege of leadership proper thing lor the For it could be a prelude the first responsibilities it-t pivots ia tu watu xuscu, itself as may be neces present hateful form was Since then there have y are fine going uphill on we re much more con how come the Russians installing auto chain? ; Difference contempt for the so-and- business. That s why we upon reading that Port I Dennis the Menace 'Mi'say Noma over there. Drummond (Walter Lippman is aaain reports from Washington in his absence.) THE CONTEST FOR KEEPS Washington - If we take it, as nearly everyone seems to agree, that. Mr. Khrushchev does not want war and does not intend to give up his goal of a Communist - dominated world, what does he want and how does he propose to get it? These are two of the ques tions we will need to answer if we are going to enter vig orously, not concede by de fault, the kind of contest-for- keeps for which Mr. K.i with rambunctious confidence, has land down the challenge. , Mr. Khrushchev says he wants two things: (a) ."peace ful co-existence and (b) non interference in the internal affairs of other nations." We can begin by under- standing that he doesn't want the second of these two things - except for us. He doesn't believe in Cc-nununist non-interference in the internal , af fairs of other nations. He showed what he meant by "non-intereference" in Hun gary three years ago and re cently he showed that he ex pects other Communist coun tries to interfere in internal affairs when Moscow opposed the United Nations' indulging even in a mild debate on Red China's little . interference in Tibet. - Adlai Stevenson and Wal ter Lippmann, who have tried to pin down Mr. Khrushchev on this point, found that with the Kremlin, "non-interference" is a one-way commit ment. They found that in real ity what he wants is for us to let the Soviets alone to run the Communist world and for us- not to interfere with the Communists when they stir things up in the non-Commu nist world. So it is wise to assume that Soviet talk about non-interf er- ence is eye-wash. - AS TO THE other objective, Mr. Khrushchev undoubt edly wants to avoid war. On this point he is revising the 'immutable laws" of the sci ence" of Marxism-a revision ist, no less. He is saying that, contrary to Lenin, a war be tween the "democratic capi talist" states and Communist Russia is no longer "inevita ble." As Prof. Louis J. Halle has pointed out, if such a war is no ' longer inevitable; it never was "inevitable." So the inevitability of war" is one of the Marxist-Leninist, falla cies. If Mr. K. finds Lenin wrong on this proposition, he may, in due course, find him wrong on others. There is every reason why Try and 7- -y BENNkjTT CERF" LUCIUS BEEBE, most elegant of authors, thinks current ! literary parties are tame and utterly lacking in imagina tion. "I remember the wingding we had for an early book of mine years ago, sighs Lucius. "Jt was in a real dive, crawling with at mosphere. Famous litera ry lights mingled with the dive's regular habi tues. Then, at midnight, the police joined us. It seems we had engaged a strip teaser "whose only garb consisted of two copies of my book, fore and aft. Ah, those were the days of real book promotion!1' .. ;" f Latest caper of those two : . . visitors from outer space was visit to loan association. The boys were trying to promote their fare back home. "Too much, they Were told, "for the kind of security you're prepared to put up." - "Okay, then," proposed one of the visitors. "How's for lending us enough to get to Cape Canaveral?" Q 19'?t "V Bcpn?tt Cerf, Pistributed by Kins Features Syndicate Ail fOURoe W. ' Reports traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond we should take up Mr. Khru shchev on the substance of what he is proposing as long as we are not misled by term inology. "Peaceful co - exis tence" isn't going to be en tirely peaceful; that is, it isn't going to be comfortable or co operative or painless. And it isn't aimed, as we would see it, at "co-existence." A more accurate phrase of what Mr. Khrushchev is talking about is " victory for Communism without war." That is a sane contest-for-keeps if the Soviets are will ing to conduct it on some agreed ground rules without the pervasive peril of war. It could cut back the arms race to the advantage of both sides, if the Soviets want it enough to accept meaningful inspec tion. THE contest-for-keeps with Communism will be eco nomic and political. It is use ful, therefore, to have the stark warnings from the re ports of the Committee for Economic Development and from the testimony of AUen Dulles of the Central Intelli gence Agency that it is entire ly possible for the Soviet Un ion to catch up with the U. S in industrial capacity in the next ten years. But it is important that we do not fix our minds on the wrong end of the problem The danger is not primarily what the Soviets can do. It is wha we could fail to do. The danger is not primarily the size of the Soviet economy, or its growth rate. We wiU not lose by what they do but only by what we could fail to do, What will count is how we manage ana direct our re sources to meet the challenge We can welcome the prospect of a better life for the Russian people. This is why Secretary Her ter is saying that "we must realize that the fateful com petition with Communism has placed a first claim on the energy and interests of all of us." And we ourselves and oth ers will need to realize that this is not primarily a contest between the National Associa tion of Manufacturers and the planners in the Kremlin but between Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx-between free dom and abundance on one side and regimentation and abundance on the other. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc Stop Me Foreign Notebook: Anglo-German Talks; Irked Tunisians; Summit Date By PHI LNEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Change In The Weather? West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to' London thawed Anglo - Ger man' relations after a year of coolness. But British officials are keeping their fingers crossed. They recall that in the past, Adenauer has left Britain professing to be well pleased, only to be overcome by renewed suspicions of Britain after he got home to Bonn. Washington Report By WILLIAM DELICATE CAMPAIGN New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller is running an aU-or-nothing political campaign of an exceed ingly strange kind. The thing is as delicate as reaching for a moonbeam in a darkened room. Of course, Roc kefeller "whit"8" wants very much to be the 1960 Republic an Presidential nominee. And, of course, he knows there is only one way to seize this prize tp wrest it away from Vice-President Richard Nix on. - ,,.,.... . But through the nature of the problem can be so simply stated, the approach to the problem is one of profound complications. Nixon is, after all, a big part of a Republic an administration which Rockefeller himself once serv ed. Nixon is top associate to a President, Mr. Eisenhower, whom Rockefeller respects, both for his office and as head of the Republican party. AND , Rockefeller himself, make no mistake about it, is an authentic Republican. He is no Old Guardist, true. But he is also not one of those hyphenated Republicans who are really only concealed Democrats. There is a fairly "liberal" glint in Rockefeller's eye, yes. But he is not nearly so "lib eral" as to be prepared to assist the Democrats by rend: ing the GOP in an election year with ill-timed attacks on Nixon. This is one of the reasons the Governor has decided that he personally, at any rate, will not participate in the chant, "Nixon can't win." It is also one of the reasons Rockefeller is not already try ing to force absolutely lear cut divisions on issues with Nixon. He doesn't want to make issues simply for the sake of talking. Nor can he actually afford to make them if he must make them at the expense of flatly denouncing the Eisenhower Administra tion itself of which Nixon is, as yet at least, an insepar able part. ALL the same, Rockefeller's support of the Administra tion is pot, and in conviction cannot be, total and uncritical, lake the present supreme question of cold war policy, Rockefeller is not in favor of "inflexibility." Nor is he op posed to all efforts to nego tiate with the Russians. But, in this correspondent's firm impression, the Governor is as close to some of the views of former President Truman and former , Secretary of State Dean Acheson as to those of Mr. Eisenhower. That is, Rockefeller is afraid of negotiations unless they are based on a rising rather than a falling Amer ican power in this world. And it is obvious he feels. Amer ican leadership today is not a very challenging one specifically that it is not of fering too much of freshness and vigor either in world or domestic policy. : Rockefeller certainly would like- and in due time prob ably wiU try to provoke a high debate with Nixon over cold war policy. He is, how ever, a man with a marked sense of responsibility under lying that famous grlrt the detached observer concedes him this. He has no wish to shoot from the hip in such an area. AND Rockefeller's people feel, with some justifica tion, that Nixon has thus far not offered much opportunity for a stand-up-and-be-counted Do FALSE TEETH Reek, Slide or Slip? f AS I'll 1 H. sa Improved powder to pe sprinkled oa upper or lower plates, holds false teeth more firmly in place. Do not slide, slip or rock. No gummy eooey. pasty taste or feeling, FAS TEETH Is alkaline (non-aeld) Does aot sour. Cheeks "plate odor" (den. Pure breath). Oet FBTEETH et vat arua counter. Also on the British diplo matic front: The British gov ernment is quietiy optimistic that diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic, broken off three years ago during the Suez crisis, will be restored again soon. Latest target date is Jan. 1. Irked Tunisians j v Tunisians are a bit irked that President Eisenhower's talks with President Habib Bourguiba came almost as an after-thought and that Bour guiba will have to sail out to the cruiser Des Moines to meet him. American quarters S. WHITE discussion between the two aspirants on war and peace issues. . The Vice-President, it is re called, had much to do with opening the way for the Ei- sennower - luirusncnev ex changes but later rather po i n t e d 1 y removed him self from them. This kind of classic political maneuver, is surely no crime. But it does make it a little difficult on an opponent to find and fix just where the other feUow stands. Nixon cannot fairly be call ed a politician who will take no risks. But Rockefeller needs a campaign of very plain speaking, indeed. What he has said so far certainly does not come up to such a definition. His statements to date mostly have been brilli ant generalities. But this is the fault not of himself but of his situation. In the end he must force ; Nixon into a clear national dialogue and this far it is not easy to force any front runner. (Copyright 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Poisons i ' To the Editor: Cranberries are recommended by herb alists to be of benefit to can cer, especially skin cancer. O.K.-"he who laughs last laughs best." Most of us know that pen icillin is derived from molds. Probably some of us remem ber that great grandmas used to save scraps of bread in a stone jar and let them mold to use for poultices for wounds, boils, etc. I wonder how they knew. I have had plenty of acquaintances with bread and milk, poultices in the past. But nowdays we must run to the doctor with every min or ailment to be treated in the modern way; just as the foods must have the modern treatment, even though it is sometimes fatal. Perhaps most of you re member when a few years ago here, some little boys were playing with some spray cans. One little fellow spilled the parathion on, his overalls. And he was dead before sundown. And people in every state that use it are still dying from it alone, not to mention deaths from many other sprays that kill animal and bird life as well as people. A person could not be harmed for life just by eat ing a certain thing . a few meals of each year. There aren't many of our foods that we eat these days but what are an accumulative poison, slow but sure. Wheat is stored for years before it is milled. And it has to be treated to keep it from spoiling. ' Poultry and stock are treated with drugs now to hasten them to market. And these drugs are poison to people. Packaged foods have been treated to keep them un til sold. AU of these things could very well cause cancer and many other ailments that there is no known cure for. Why do- we have . to use deadly sprays on a little tiny weeny bug, strong enough to kill people? I have poured coal-oil on a two-inch-long beetle and it died right on the spot. Also a covering of salt on PERL Funeral Home Ms, FRIENDLY HOMELIKE in Tunjs, however, point out that since Bourguiba and Eisenhower will be together only two hours, the time will be better spent in quiet ship board talks than in gala ceremonials ashore. , : More On Summit Latest Paris estimates on the date of the East-West sum mit is the latter half of April, just after President Charles de Gaulle visits England. The argument: Soviet Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev wants the summit as soon as possible after his trip, to France the latter half of March. A late April meeting, however, might not give De Gaulle time to get in his projected trip to the United States be forehand. . a slug or snail will disolve it completely. , So go ahead and eat your cranberries and afterward when you light up your cig arette remember that-the to bacco was sprayed several times with arsenic. " Mary E. Atkins . , 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford, Ore. Only Illusion ' To the Editor:' I liked the skeptical tone of your editor ial comment (Nov. 16) on the book "Stranger Than. Sci ence." If an uncritical enthus iasm over something like our Oregon Vortex is a fair sample of the treatment of all his subjects, then the truly mar velous thing about this au thor's effort is his credulity. This seems to be as good an opportunity as I'll ever have to say something I've al ways wanted to about the Ore gon Vortex. To begin with it is not a fake, but, the explanation of fered by the proprietors for what can be observed there are nonsense. There are no su per-normal physical condi tions (gravitational, magnetic or whatever) involved. What is involved is the distortion of perspective caused by the skewed-around semi-collapsed state of the building and some adroit suggestion on the part of the guides. wnen we are in . or near such a building (especially if accompanied by someone teU ing us what we will see) our habits of seeing, ingrained as they are by a lifetime spent in buildings where floors and ceilings are level and walls and corners are upright, play us false. We subconsciously continue to assume that these floors are level, that these walls are uprght and therefore our conscious interpretation of what we see becomes erron eous. A tall man seems short, a tossed ping pong ball seems to fall the wrong way. Photo graphs of these' events don't prove a thing either, because we still have to interpret the contents of the photograph: Really there is nothing that can be observed at the Vortex that has not or cannot be re produced and photographed in any well equipped psychologi cal laboratory devoted to the study of perception. In fact the whole repertoire of the Vortex, plus many well staged extra attractions, could be set up for exhibition to tourists at any location. Jim Selleck 130 Hargadine, Apt'. 4, Ashland, Ore. What, No Payola?l To the Editor: After read ing the current Life magazine article on the subject of rec ord companies paying off disc-jockeys to get them to plug their records, we polled our own announcing staff with the following results: Uncle Rick: "Who, ME?" Rose: "Paypla? A new low fat margarine?" Clemens: "So give me a raise." (He's bluffing.) Buckner: "I confess. Beethoven got to me." Holman: "I'm banned in Boston, but I may floit wit Detroit." Manager's comment: (to the several hundred com panies who send us free rec ords with the hope we will plug them) "Look, fellas, would ya mind punching the holes a little closer to me center?", Win Marks, Mgr. KB0Y AM-FM ' Medford ATMOSPHERE Hinted The French re card with susDicion an Aleerian rebel announcement naming five French-held rebel leaders as a committee to get talks started on restoration of peace m Aleeria. One of the im prisoned men is Mohammed Ben Bella, who is credited with starting the Algerian war in 1954. It would appear the rebels deliberately have placed the French govern ment in the position of hav ing to deal with men serving sentences for "activities de moralizing to the French army and nation." Family Troubles The United States is con cerned about a squabble be tween the Philippines and Nationalist China. It centers around the Philippine desire to deport a small group of convicted Chinese criminals and Formosa's reluctance to accept them. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Weather note: An eight-inch downpour de luges Miami, breaking a 20- year record. That's maldistribution! Here in the State of Jefferson, we NEED MORE RAIN. The state of Florida doesn't. There oughta be a law.' "CIROM Philadelphia: , Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee de nied last night that he refer red to President Eisenhower in Denver last week as a second-rate soldier and states man. During a press conference preceding the annual meeting here of the United World Fed eralists, Mr. Attlee said he was misquoted. HMMmmm. If he WAS misquoted, it was inexcusable. The job of the press is to be accurate. If he WASN'T misquoted, but found he had said the wrong thing and laid the blame on the press, he's just an average politician. TjtRDM Kansas City: A lioness pounced on her trainer during a circus re hearsal here last night, criti cally injuring him. The train er was putting the lions through, their act in prepara tion - for the Shrine Circus when he was attacked. . . He received puncture wounds in the neck, chest and face. TTOW come? Presumably, the lioness just REBELLED AGAINST AUTHORITY. . That explains a lot of things in this often troubled world. TfROM Salem: , Half the cars to be pur chased by the State of Oregon next month (for the use of traveling state employees) will be in the compact sizes. Of the 80 cars to be bid on in December, 41 will be with 106-inch wheelbase. Thought for Mr. T. Payer: The midget cars will cost less to begin with. They will use less gasoline. Their insur ance cost will be lower. And so on. - D'ya reckon the state's car maintenance costs may be lowered thus saving Mr. T. Payer a penny or so? Maybe so. While there's life, there's hope. America's largest SeOing TOILET TANK BALL Noisy running toilets can waste ever 1000 gallons of water a day. 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