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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.Jford, Or. Tuesday, Nev. 24, 19S9 MEDFORDtWTRIBUKI "Everyone Is Southern Oregon - Reads The Mall Tribune- published Utily except Saturday by MJJiFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North fir St Ph SP 2-S141 ROBI.RT W RUHL Editor. HERB GREV Advert Manager GEPALD LATHAM Business Ugt ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Kditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARfHER Women's Editor DALE EKICKSQN Circulation Mr An Indeoendent - Newspaper Entered as sewid class matter at Medforrt Orecon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES E; Mil i In Advand! Copy lOe. Dall- and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday fl mos 8.01. Dailv and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Cold Rill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dairy and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1M Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City ! Medfor4 Official Paper ol jaesson tmnir United Press International run Leased wire " MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU of qgruLA iiua A J.tArHnM RnrpPnttlw WEST HOLID A V CO.. INC. Of Jm. VnrV China en De- 4W4 Can IPranrHtPA IxM AnffflW Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At- ianra. Vancouver b fif NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITOIIAI 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 Ka. 24. 1949 (Friday) Ninety-nine .die in traffic Thanksgiving day. Medford Teachers associa tion will present "Our Town" ,at Medford high auditorium. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1939 (Friday) Medford is not challenged In its claim to state football championship. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Doc tors report quite a number have ragged coughs. There is nothing worse than a flu germ, with a hole in the seat of its plants." 30YEARSAGO Nov. 24. 1929 (Saturday) Klamath Falls defeats Med ford, first time in history, 7 to 0. Hoover will increase public works to ease unemployment 40 YEARS AGO Nor. 24, 1919 (Sunday) Franklin D. Roosevelt men tioned as possible vice-presidential candidate for next year. , There is trouble getting Jackson county census tak ers for next year. 50 YEARS AGO Not. 24. 1909 (Wednesday) Ex-congressman from Ore gon on trial for conspiracy to obtain government funds. Willamette river still ris ing; $50,000 damage done al ready. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or tan correct is superior; eve or eight is excellent; five m six is good. 1. Which of the earth's continents has the largest population? 2. More than half of the fresh water of the world is collected in what connected bodies of water? 3. What river was the scene of a famous military crossing, led by George Wash ington, during the Revolu tionary War? 4. The 31st president of the U.S. was born at West Branch, Iowa, in 1874; who was he? 5: Who wrote "Thanatop sis?" 6. In what war did Gen eral Winfield Scott gain fame? 7. Before what council, called in 1521, was Martin Luther tried for heretical teachings? 8. What artificial water way was begun by the French and completed by the U.S.? 9. In what century did Columbus discover America? 10. Who led the first air raid on Japan in World War n? Answers: I. Asia. 2. The U.S. Great Lakes. 3. The Delaware. 4. Herbert Hoover. 5. - William Cullen Bryant. 6. War with Mexico. 7. The Diet of Worms. 8. Panama Canal. 9. 151h Century. 10. James H. Dooliltle. RICE IN EYE GROWS Fnkuoka, Japan-(DPD-A doc tor here reported today he had removed from the eye of Uhekichi Seki, 71, a grain of rice that got stuck and took root. He said the root had grown to a length of about third of an inch in 10 days. New Installation1 t Oregon's newest military installation is nearly ready for business. It is a far ciy from the infan try training type of establishment such as Camp White was during the war. It is, however, located on the site of another wartime troop-training camp Camp Adair, be tween Corvallis and Albany. But there is a dif ference. The "new" Adair is an electronic instal lation, manned by highly trained specialists. . It is, among other things, a "SAGE" unit SAGE meaning Semi-Automatic Ground Envi ronment. A CTUALLY, it is a part of America's wide- spread air warning and defense organization, known as NORAD or North American Air De fense Command. ' . Adair Air Force Station has several purposes. The SAGE portion will receive data from a number of sources concerning weather, aircraft in flight, and the location and status of defense weapons, and then automatically calculate de fense measures. It is a "system," rather than sinrie-Duroose unit. -, Also, nearby, a Bomarc missile base is being constructed, where aimed ground-to-air missiles will be kept in readiness . A DAIR thus becomes armed forces installations (all of them Air Force) in the state. The others are Kingsley Air Force base at Klamath squadron at Portland Air base. Other stations include a new Navy facility near Coos Bay, and a smaller Navy station at Tongue Point, near Astona. There are also a number of radar stations, manned and automatic, scattered over the state. The latter are also a billion-dollar electronic tem, which is designed attack by planes. How missile age remains to be seen. b. A. Loyalty Oath Again The decision of nrestisious Yale and Harvard Universities tn withdraw loan program, brings into the news agam the so called "student loyalty oath." Tn re ieptin o- the nro visions of the lovaltv oath - y x Harvard and Yale are i,i .i - l least nine oiner impuiianb vui smaiiei ; cuneges Protests have been filed by many others. Why should the colleges and universities ob ject to a loyalty oath? THE oath itself doesn't of -Mfcf ci in official this a number of people ist, Frank Jenkins) have see nothing wrong with It requires that no person may participate m the federal student loan "Has executed and filed with the commission er (of education) an affidavit that he does not believe in, and is not a member of, and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the U. S. government by force or violence or by illegal or unconstitutional metnoas. WHAT'S so wrong with that? TVnaiQ o vn twn til in ore wrntior The first is that it is who DID belong to the communist party, or any other similarly dedicated, would have no scruples at all about perjuring himself by signing the oath. The second, and, from the colleges and um versities' standpoint, more objectionable, reason, is that it is both discriminatory and insulting, Consider that alone of federal funds alone among welfare re cipients, farm subsidy sioners, social security recipients, and many oth ers the student is required to sign such' an oath They would have no affirmative oath, similar holders take. As a matter But, would you, for instance, in making appli cation for a iob, swear that you had never beaten a dog to death, and never will? Particularly if you were the only applicant required to so swear ; Chances are jou d be insulted. .: IT IS these reasons the takiner. and the discriminatory feature which motivate some students respected colleges and come under the loan program. As the president of Reed college stated about the oath, this "singling out teachers and students as people not to be trusted gets under my skin." The last session of Congress killed a bill to repeal the loyalty oath provision, and chances for subsequent changes appear slim. So chances are colleges, and some students, will continue to. re fuse to participate in the loan program. E.A. Call the Tornado As Oregon State College's football team con tinued to outrun, outpass, erally, outplay the U niversity , of Oregon team last Saturday, one Medford football fan in the stands (a rooter for both the Ducks and the Black Tornado team, which attended the game) was heard to. mutter: - - . - 'Fer gosh sakes, let's put in Medford." Couldn t have been any worse, and might have been a lot better. E.A. around the clock. one of the three principal Falls, and the interceptor part of the U. S.'s multi- warning and defense sys to protect us from aerial effective it will be in a from the federal student - t following the lead of at a i l n n seem too objectionable rrlnnpo and Vippansp nf (including our column written saying they can it. program unless he: utterly useless. Anyone of all the beneficiaries recipients, veterans pen objection to signing an to tne ones that oiiice- of fact, they do. futility of such oath- and a large number of universities, to refuse to outmaneuver and, gen take the Ducks out and Dennis the Menace 'DAM W,DM$! i didn't KJNU Or IAW'T Drummond Reports (Walter Liptman is again traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) DEMAND FOR BETTER TV Washington - There is in creasing evidence of massive public dissatisfaction with the quality of TV programs. If the networks fail to rec ognize and to respond to this demand, or if they turn their heads away in the hope that it will soon go away, they will, I think, be making a grave mistake. Either the networks are going to cut down on some of the murder and mayhem and give the literate public a few more literate programs dur ing prime viewing time or something is going to happen. That something will almost certainly be some degree of government - subsidized pro grams which can only be avoided if the networks real ize that television, whose channels belong to the pub lic, cannot continue to devote itself so overwhelmingly to degrading public taste. I have reason to believe that public dissatisfaction with TV programming is widespread and cuts deep. As every columnist will testify, it is not easy to get an aroused public, and .usually the ma jority of letters want to scalp us for our opinions. What I have to report is that no issue in years has so provoked the letter-writers as the television mess. The letters are almost unanimously in protest. "DECENTLY this column sug- gested that readers might like to do something, besides fume in secret, to warn the networks that they are on trial as never before. We proposed that all who wished to deliver a collective warning to the in dustry join an hour of TV silence at 10 p.m. Tuesday evening, Nov. 17. No effort was made to organize this one- hour blackout or to stimulate it beyond offering the sug gestion once. There were no follow-up columns, no addi tional appeals. Here is what happened: 1-On a night which, in the East and Mid-west, was cold and would, therefore, likely produce more viewing, there was a considerable decline in viewing compared with the previous Tuesday evening 10 o'clock viewing hour. The "Washington Post and. Times Herald" reported that sets in use in New York dropped 4.5 per cent and that the average decline in viewing in seven cities - Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Wash ington, and Baltimore - was 4.9 per cent. 2-The number of letters which I received from read ers on this one column was at least 15 times greater ahan usual, and while I ordinarily get a healthy proportion of reader dissent, these letters ran 15-to-l in favor of this hour of protest and warning to the networks. Many wrote letters appeal ing for better television. Some said they were quite willing to go further, that they would be prepared to turn off their sets indefinitely if it would help. Personally, I like the idea of Marya Mannes in the "Reporter" magazine who, under the title "Don't Turn It Off," held that discriminating viewers can help somewhat to get better programs by care fully pre-examinging what is being offered in a given week, selecting the best and giving these their viewing support. I THINK it is a good thing that the heat of investiga tion of TV practices is not go ing to let up for quite a while. The Interstate Commerce Commission is going to con duct a public investigation of TV and radio commercials. Rather tardily, the Federal Communications ' Commission - H mean i ms cousam WAT has decided to investigate its own powers to see if it might have enough authority to do something more to protect the public interest in allocating TV channels. It just might, you know. Wouldn't it be sur prised - and perhaps a little dismayed-if it found it did have the authority! A practical and useful step is being urged by Ernest K. Lindley of "Newsweek" who suggest a Presidential com mittee of distinguished citi zens to take a new look at the whole question of how to use TV and radio more in the pub lic interest and to consider whether the experience of the past 10 years suggests changes in the ground rules. If the President doesn't act, Congress could well take the initiative. This would be an ideal way for the Committee on Legislative Oversight to repair a legislative oversight. - (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a pen name 01 initial for publica tion is pe-missible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Tumbleberries To the Editor: Several peo ple have asked me to write a letter to the Tribune about cranberries. Some people ain't funny, they're kwazy. There ain't nothin' I know less about, and I know less about more things than any body. ' I hope they don't expect too much. After all, cranberries ain't monkeys. All I know about cranberries is they raise cranberries and turkeys about the same time. . The only canberries I ever seen was sittin' beside a stuffed turkey. My grandparents left Be- ment, 111., and settled on ; a small homestead in the sand hills of northeastern Colora do, near the town of Jules burg. They arrived a few years after the railroad was completed. Their first house was made of sod with sod floors, at least some of them -were. The soil was very rich, but they could n't raise cranberries, they didn't have enough water. They couldn't raise potatoes, not enough sunshine, so they raised tumbleweeds on the kitchen floor. My uncles had to hoe the kitchen floor every Saturday to get- the tumble- weeds and thistles. I'm an ex pert on tumbleweeds, but I don't know much 'about cran berries. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Tourism Seen as Biggest Cash Source . Portland -UPD- Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr., told the Oregon Roadside council that tourism some day might be Oregon's biggest source of income. He said that in 1959 the tourist industry brought about $176 million to the state, rep resenting nearly $100 in cir culation for every Oregon resident. Appling said tourism is en tering an era of "explosive expansion" and sighted trends toward increased incomes and vacation times of American families. PLANT OFFICER DIES Washington (DPD - Funeral services wui be neid here today for R. Edwin Joyce Jr., 62, vice president of Na tional Distillers Chemical Corp., who died in New York Saturday. Matter of Fact v Joseph AImb PROFIT IN HORROR? Hong Kong-In this city and in Macao, one glimpses through the bamboo curtain all the hun dreds of mil lions of Chi nese peasants coldly con demned by their own gov ernment tn a JS-. ltfe consider- aDiy .worse than the life 4ospn jusop hi a cnam gang. The glimpse has the quality of a nightmare. But this thing that is going on in China is not a night mare. It cannot be banished by the kindly, rescuing light. It is a real political process, perhaps the deepest and most important political process in this decade of history. And in trying to assess this, process and its meaning, it is above all necessary not to be be dazzled by horror, so to say- Horrors, it must be remem bered, are not always unprof itable. Only three years ago, by order of Nikita S. Khrush chev, the streets of Budapest ran with the blood of Hun gary's best and bravest youths; and that horror quite success fully served the Kremlin's purpose. The question, there fore, has to be asked whether the horror in China may not make sense, as the blood bath in Budapest made sense, by the peculiar standards of its organizers. THE answer comes in two parts, I believe. On the one hand," it must be noted that some recent episodes in China simply do not make sense. They even give a hint of paranoia in high places. For instance, the great 1958 campaign to make iron and steel in backyard blast fur naces was more than a little paranoiac. The grandiose ef fort consumed a high propor tion of the Chinese country side's remaining resources in metal and fuel. The diversion of labor seriously diminished summer harvests.; Yet no use able iron or steel was pro duced, as could have been foreseen, and as the Peking government has now publicly admitted. . In the rice growing regions, at least, this still continuing campaign for close planting and deep plowing" is also touched with lunacy. Deep plowing breaks the water-retaining crust that lies about eight inches below the surface of every good rice field. When the crust has been broken, the farmers must water two or three feet of soil, instead of flooding just the top eight inches. Yet many fields have been ruined in this manner, and more fields are still being ruined, by government de cree. -' AGAIN, there is something very strong indeed in the current demand that the Chi nese Communist army return to the guerrilla methods de veloped during the civil war by Mao Tse-tung. They were brilliant methods in their day. But a modern army with mod ern equipment really cannot "march ahead under the Red banner of the general line and Mao Tse-tung's military thinking" tthe slogan pro claimed by the new Minister of Defense, Gen. Lin Piao. In all this, and in other phenom ena like the fantastic deifica tion of Mao, one hears echoes "of Josef Stalin's paranoid last years. Nor is it too surprising. The personal deterioration of aging tyrants is a familiar: historical malady. On the other hand, how ever, the horror in the Chi nese countryside cannot be ad ded to the catalogue of the things that certainly do not make sense. The cause of the horror is remarkably cruel, but perfectly rational. It is the state's decision to take a much larger share of the national income, for investment in the vast state program of indus trialization. Because the state is taking a great deal more, the people have to get on with a great deal less. In like manner, Stalin ruth lessly depressed the Russian living standard by a full 50 per cent, when he launched his, first Five Year Plan. Sta lin's aim was not the mere doctrinaire collectivization of Russian agriculture. His true aim was to get his hands on a larger share of the national income for his industrial in vestments. In order to carry out his program, Stalin final ly had to condemn to death something like 15 million peo ple, or close to 10 per cent of the then population of the Soviet Union. Yet this gigan tic unparalleled human sacri fice produced the desired re- sult-the great industrial pow er of the Soviet Union today.1 STALIN'S book, very obvi ously, is the book the Chi nese Communist government has been studying. By follow ing Stalin's book, the Chinese Communists have already plunged their people into misery without precedent in the misery-checkered past of China". There axe. signs, too, that Lil before long human sacrifices may be offered on a great scale. Something pretty hair- raising must be planned, to cause Peking to issue its latest edict against the exportation of any of its own wholly con trolled newspaper except a single, arid official gazette, "The People's Daily." But this may not mean that "China is coming apart at the seams." It may mean, indeed, that China is going to be military-industrial giant pow er by following Stalin's book. The only real problem, in fact, is whether Stalin's book is applicable in Chinese con ditions. (c) 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. . In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Today's topic: The hazards of modern life. They're multiplying. THERE'S Thanksgiving Day. In the olden, golden days, about the only worry was GETTING THE TURKEY. Then cranberries came along. In order to grow enough cran berries to go around, we had to use chemicals to kill the weeds that choked out the cranberries. Now we have the worry that the chemicals that kill the weeds that choke out the cranberries may give us can cer. And . . . the cranberry industry has got so big that if its markets suffer,1 the na tion's economy may be weak ened. 'THERE'S a new cloud on the horizon as this is written. It has to do with mod ern camping equipment. In the days of old, when we wanted to go camping, we collected a coffee pot and a frying pan, some beans and bacon and a blanket, stuffed them into a packsaek and headed for the hill and the big clean woods. - Now we have to have paved roads and ears. And trailers. The trailers have to be heated, which brings another prob lem. An Eastern firm invent ed a bottled gas heater. About 2,000 of them have been made, sold and installed in trailers in the past year and ta half. And . . . faulty design results in a quick build-up of lethal carbon monoxide in the small trailers in which they are used. s According to the U. S. Pub lic Health Service, .eight deaths have resulted from this cause in Michigan. A HORRIBLE new menace appeared on the horizon a few days ago. ItV known as LIPSTICK HAZARD. The hazard is in the chemicals that make the colors that make rainbows of feminine lips. The manufacturers indi cate that if the regulations prescribed by the authorities are strictly enforced they just don't know how they're going to be able to make lipstick. And the lipstick business has sales amounting to about 80 million dollars a year, which isn't hay from the standpoint of the economy . Imagine a world without upsticK - mat is, it you can imagine ' such a thing. Faces just as the good Lord made 'em Ugh! v . Back in the earlier days ef aviation, pilots flsw by the seat of their pants. But- After March 18 of the' up coming new year, by order of the Federal Aviation Agency, ALL pilots - private or com mercial must know how to fly the instruments. The reason for the order? There have been too many fatal accidents lately involv ing light planes and amateur pilots. NOW for the cap sheaf: Into a world that is ra pidly worrying itself sick ov er the problem of how to KEEP PEOPLE ALIVE, a new problem has been inject ed - WHAT TO DO IF MORE PEOPLE DON'T DIE. The authorities tell us we are facing an EXPLOSION of population. One of our lead ing crystal ball gazers in the magazine field came up a week or so ago with a predic tion that the way things are going now the time isn't too far distant when there won't be room enough on this ter restrial ball for people to stand on! AH, me! There are times when it all sounds like the incantation of the Three Witches in Macbeth! "Double, double toil and trouble; "Fire burn and cauldron bubble." PRESENTS CREDENTIALS Katmandu, Nepal-DPS-Hen-ry Lee Stebbins, the first U.S. ambassador to the small Hi malayan kingdom of Nepal, will present his credentials to day to King Mahendra. He arrived here by plant Mon day. ' Washington Report By WILLIAM NEW MANAGEMENT . Washington T h a fnrrn long called "Dewey Republi canism- - tne .Eastern-based and relatively liberal party wing that has c ontro lied every nation al convention since 1940 -is under the most definite ly new kind of manage William s. Whits ment. Th olrl boss. Thomas E. Dewey, had enormous skill as a political tactician. He had great administrative ability. But he had a fatal shortcom inff which he could no more help than he could help it that his hair was black, fcitner he never could really like peo ple in the mass, or he never could appear to like tnem in such large numbers. It is earlv to estimate tne new boss, Gov. Nelson Rocke feller, with an equivalent cer tainty. But some tnings al ready can be said with confi rlence (1.1 If not yet the mas ter tactician, Rockefeller has nflw developed into a very creditable one. (2.) He is not far behind Dewey in admin istrative know-how. (3.) And Rockefeller really likes peo nle. nracticallv all of them all the time. Not even a skepti- ca political writer doubts tnis after exposure to the human facts of the case. HERE is a man who returns heamin and bouvant from the most exhausting of en counters with party workers and voters, as in his recent trip to the West Coast. To nearly any other politician it could hardly have been a happy journey. For Rockefel ler was confronted with a for est of Nixon buttons. Their wearer did not boo "Rocky." But they made it all too plain that they were now backing his rival for next ycar'i Pres idential nomination, Vice President Richard Nixon. From such an experience Dewey would have recoiled in gloomy displeasure. Rocke feller, for his part, sees this sortie not as a misfortune but as a positive gain. To adopt so sunny a view undeniably takes a vast optimism. This quality Rockefeller surely has and, entirely rationally or not, it infects all those about him. Are the Rockefeller people downhearted? Not in the least. They argue with real enthu siasm that the mission into California, - Nixon's home state, really has a plus rather than a minus meaning for the future. They don't exactly claim that California will wind up on Rockefeller's side if he .takes the expected de cision to go all-out for the nomination. But they do claim . that Nixon's grip on California looks stronger on the outside than it is on the inside. TaEWEY for years controlled the GOP apparatus in New York with an absolute tough ness that was frankly exhib ited. There never was a mo- men when dislike of him was not strong among Republi cans. But there also never was a moment when respect for his competence and strength was lacking in any GOP group whatever. Rockefeller in first ascend ing to the top had an exactly reverse problem. Practically every Republican liked him. But many Republicans ques tioned his capacity to run the very difficult shop that is New York Republicanism. He PHILIP IN GHANA Accra, Ghana (UM - The Duke of Edinburgh arrived here Monday in his personal plane to begin a state, visit to Ghana. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish bene SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. S. WHITE has now set these doubts at rest. And this, so far as 1960 is concerned, is the big news from New York. Dewey mastered the Re publican organization by tell ing people what to do and no nonsense about it. Rocke feller has mastered it by per suading them .what they should do. He is certainly no abler a leader than was Dewey. But he is in much better position nationally, because he really likes the crowd - and the crowd really likes him. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicates, Inc.) Get a taste of excitement in your glass, too... . smooth as silk in flavor... ' no bite no burn in taste. How can the price be so low? m SMOOTH AS SILK Kessler MS KCSIB tt.. UWKNCEBU8S. 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