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MATL TWBUWI, M.iforJ, Or. Tuesday, Dec 1, 1959 T.vTjonm ta Southern Oregon Rad Tht tflmil Tribune" Published DtiW except Saturday by VP.DFOilD PRrNTTNG CO 33 North til St Pb SP jj-141 ROBiPT W RCHL. Editor HERB GRZ Avertite Manager GEPALD LATHAM Buiines MgT ERIC W LLES JH. Managing Hilitor EARL B ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHAHD jrWETT Sport! Editor? OUVE STAR:-HZR Women Ed Hot DALE ERiCKSt'N Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered aennnd elan matter el MedfoT'' Oreeon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES gr Mil in Advance Copy lOe. Dall- and Sunday 1 rear $13 00 Daily and Sunday moa 801 Dail and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year 420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aahland Central Point. Eagle Point Jackaomrill. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talnt and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 rear $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 no 1-50 Carrier and Dealer cop 10c All Term Cash In Advance Official Paper of City f Medford O'flelal Papei of Jackiun County United Prew International -Fun Leased Wire " iHMBEl"OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO, INC Of fice in Nev. York. Chicago. De ' trolt. San Francisco, hot Angele Seattle, Portland St. Loula. At lanta. Vancouver BC 0" NEWSPAPEI k PUBLISH! ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ego. 10 YEARS AGO Dec 1, 1949 (Thursday) John W. Taylor will open drutr store at . historic old Marble Corner in Jackson ville. i San Francisco 49ers, after nulline first strike in pro-foot ball history, decide to play anyway. ... 20 YEARS AGO . ' . Dec 1. 1939 (Friday) v District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York formally enters campaign for Republi can presidential nomination. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Couple of old-fashioned kids learning to smoke cigarettes, set fire to the barn instead of smacking a phone pole with ths family auto." . ""' .... 30 YEARS AGO 3Dec 1. 1929 (Friday) Old Dollarhide stage station in Siskiyous destroyed by fire Drive re-opened for railroad to Crescent City. 40 YEARS AGO Dec 1, 1919 (Monday) Local dairies adopt . rule that no milk will be delivered unless customer leaves empty bottles on porch. .Good highway is urged for Crater Lake to boost tourist travel. SO YEARS AGO ' Dec. 1, 1909 (Wednesday) An average of 75 letters day are pouring into the Com mercial club, inquiring about apple opportunities in Rogue valley. Former Medford city re corder owes city $115.88 for shortages, council decides. What's Your I.Q.? Nina av ten ttmd 1 luaerioff seven or eight it excellent; five r SIX is good. 1. What are adult male seals called? 2. What insect is the par ticular enemy of cotton? 3. Which President of the United States was nicknamed "The Great Engineer"? 4. What was the name of the Scottish economist, author of "Wealth of Nations"? 5. What three little animals lost their mittens? 6. "Pelican State" is a nick name for which State of the Union? 7. Would you say that Co lumbus, Akron, or Youngs town is the industrial center of the nation's rubber indus try? 8. Correct the following: "The aviator saw the lake while flying." 9. Which disciple baptised Jesus? 10. Is a mauser a spotted dog, a magazine rifle, or an undertaker? Answers: 1. Built. 2. Boll weevil. 3. Herbert Hoover. 4. Adam Smith. 5. Kittens. 6. Louisiana. 7, Akron. 8. "The aviator, while flying, saw the lake." 9. None. (John the Bap tist was not a disciple.) 10. Magazine rifle. DUKE ENDS VISIT Marham. England-UPD-The Duke of Edinburgh returned to England Monday from a six-day visit to the new Af rican Republic of Ghana. - I S2 Medford s Champions To the athletes under his supervision, a form er Medford coach stressed this: "There's just a small difference between a competitor and a champion Desire!" That the Medford and St. Mary's High school football teams possessed this all-important qual ity was evidenced time and again on the gridiron through the fall. The trait stands out, also, in the season's end results. For the Black Tornado and the Crusader aggregations reaped for this town and area unnrecedented laurels with Ore gon diadems in their respective classes, A-l and B. A SCANNING of Oregon School Activities as sociation records discloses that not before in the athletic histoiy of the state have schools from the same city captured state championships in the same sport in the same year. State titles are not new to Medford high but, after the frustrations in the 15 years since the last one in football, 1959 is indeed a banner season. '. . For St. Mary's this has been its greatest year in sports. Its grid co-championship and its mantle last spring in track are its first state honors in athletics. ' THE achievement of these two teams has brought to Medford and the Rogue valley much fame and recognition. Their success has come through three long hard months of work. It takes diligent application in practice to pro duce the teamwork and finesse which makes a winner. For their efforts, for the entertainment they've provided, and for the distinction they've brought to Medford, the football athletes of both schools richly deserve high praise and much congratula tion now, and strong R.D.J. . Food-Chemical In commenting recently about the great cran berry farce of 1959 we made two points: 1. That the to-do was greatly overdone, and resulted from a lack of coordination between gov ernmental agencies charged with responsibility for the national health, 2. That, despite this, if more attention were, as danger to the nation's health from chemicals used as weeaicides, pesticides, herbicides and food ad' ditives a field too much neglected. "UR wish (No. 2) apparently is to be granted. w A United Press International story from Washington the other day reported : . "The agriculture department's research policy com . mittee has urged immediate expansion of government research on pesticides. "The advisory group's recommendation came on the heels of the nationwide scare involving a chemical resi due in cranberries ... "The research policy group , . . made no reference to the cranberry episode in its report. But it said there were major problems in the use of fertilizers, pesti cides, hormones, antibiotics, feed additives, plant growth regulators, and drugs. "The committee said modern farming needs these . chemicals and without them, farmers couldn't supply . consumers with enough food and fiber to maintain this country's high standard of living., "Agriculture department scientists told the com . mittee they're already at work on several new ap . proaches to the problem of fighting animal and plant pests." . THIS is good news. in 111.10 aica, iuuvciii iiao uccji muuniing over a period of years over the indiscriminate use of chemicals, which do so much to improve the quality and quantity of crops, too, but the effect either bad, or unknown. Mankind's success in life-form on this planet resulted, first, in his abili ty to adapt to his environment, and second, his ability to change his environment to suit him. But let us be sure that off in the meantime either with, nuclear weap ons, radioactive fallout, or by poisons in his food supplies. E.A. Four More On November 11 last columns that the whooping crane population of 29, which had returned to tie Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, left five of the nearly extinct birds 'unreported. Now, thanks to the National Wildlife Feder ation, we can report that to 33, including two babies. Ihis means that four finally made the dangerous flight south in safety, and that the flock is gradually ever so grad ually increasing. Only one member is missing and presumed dead. THE whooping crane, tallest bird native to the . North American continent, has been waging a struggle against extintion for the past two decades. This fall's news, indicating- the flock is one (1) larger than it was this brighter hope that the birds may, indeed, survive. lhe birds are big, beautiful, slow, vulnerable o. enemies (including humans with guns) and slow at reproducing. Its still touch-and-go cranes. E.A. support in the future. Study Needed and it would all be worth it a result, focused on the the pear crop, and other of which on humans is becoming the dominant he doesn t kill himself Cranes it was reported in these the count has gone up of the missing adults sprine. lends a faintlv with the whooping v Dennis the Menace r i is mwi rA AttO HE NOT ONLY REFUSED TO SINS, BUT HE TOLD MS IF I. WANTED MUSIC. I COULD BUY" A fAffOl' ; Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name ana' address of the writer, althouqh under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The 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 Championship Game To the Editor: What a won derful state championship game! If you couldn't attend you missed one of the best games this year. I felt such pride when our team came trotting on the field. You could feel the vitality of our team like static electricity, and they played a great game under difficult circumstances. The sportsmanship sh'own was wonderful. Medford's band, majorettes and pep group were really spectacular . with red uni forms, black belts and White trim. Everyone watching could certainly see why they are invited, to play at the out of state games. Half time they displayed real precision in the different formations, such as the lighted star, Santa's sleigh and to me the very prettiest, the lighted Christ mas tree with the brass sec tion forming the top of the tree. If you could describe the complete group, from players to pep groups, in a few words it would be "Snap-Crackle-Pop." Only one thing dampened our spirits and we still don't understand how it could hap pen, especially in a high school game, but the referees seemed definitely biased to us and a great majority of the spectators. Several people who were impartial and only com' ing to see a great game re marked on this and left with a great respect for our Med ford boys, who displayed such sportsmanship in spite of this. For details ask any person who attended the game. Also the reserve tickets in Medford were sold out before we could obtain ours so we took our chances on buying ours at the game. At 6:15 pjn, we bought them at the stadi um and they were excellent seats, halfway -up and right on the 50 yard line, numbers 1-2-3 in from the end. The same thing happened to the people behind us. I heard peo ple passing by to go far to the side and almost to the top re mark about the rickets sent to Medford being very inferior. Is this possible, or were they only disgruntled remarks? I'd like some comment from others who attended the game. Just for the record I lived in Portland and went to grade school and high school there, so I'm not trying to cast shadows on Portland, only for future games played there I'd like to know the facts. Mrs. W. W. Brawn 507 Kenwood Medford Not Just Noise - To the Editor: Thank you, Mr. McCabe, for bringing up the subject of radio music. For a long time I've been de bating whether or not to write the local stations a mad letter for apparently considering all housewives capable of enjoy ing onlv the lowest type of music. At least I presume the daytime programs are direct ed mostly to housewives, and rock n' roll with other cheap forms of popular music are about all I can find. However, I hit on an idea which announcers seem to ap preciate. They played some thing I liked the other day, so I called the station and told them how much I enjoyed it. It may get us nowhere, as E.A. says, but at least it s the posi tive approach. As for taste, I agree with Mr. Editor that no one can dic tate for all. Personally, I could enjoy some -of Mr. McCabe's country music, and a lot of semi-classical. However, when it comes to rock 'n' roll and much of the popular music, I find it impossible to be toler ant of others' tastes and just switch off the radio. I, too, Maii Tribune reserves the right tc inu cae. would like to see the results of a poll. This is why I'd like to hear the main sound of radio changed: Why grieve as a na tion over the divorce rate, and then teach our young people to sing about illicit love? Teenagers have a tough enough time finding the right road out of the modern maze without feeding their minds with more confusion. Ask their teachers who struggle daily to develop in them habits of right thinking carefulness, punctuality, and diligence, if let-loose-and-do- what-you-feel-like music is helping them in their uphill job. Music is for relaxation and recreation, yes, but lets' make it re-creation and not WRECKreation. Let's make the voice of our nation (the predominance of what we put out on radio and TV) say and sing what we really believe and not just be the noise of our frustrations. - Louise Rea -1340 Ross Lane Medford. Physical Limitations . To the Editor: In the "Strange As It Seems" depart ment of Sunday's "Tribune" I noticed the item concerning tests conducted by the depart ment of space medicine, wherein cats subjected to a condition of weightlessness lose their postural righting re flex. As can be readily determin ed by simple analysis of the properties of all flesh, we find it to be composed of the same elements that are found in the earth, which nourish, repair and sustain it. In practice we also find the forces of gravity, radiation, extremes of atmospheric pres sure, heat and cold also affect the animal body, and though limits of these to which the body can adjust are not clear ly defined, each individual body has its limit of tolerance The record states that the Creator formed man "Of the dust of the ground," and again, that he should "Have domin ion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." These are positive statements concerning man's physical composition and dominion. Man's dominion is clearly defined; his ambitions are not. Perhaps the most striking ex ample of man's ambition, and how his Creator dealt with i.t, can be found in the first nine verses of chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis, to quote in part: "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ..." There is no point in moral izing; even if . there were I would not be qualified. But let us reason on these things and not be unduly disappointed when our most sftnbitious ef fort to date (namely space travel) fails, simply by reason of our physical limitations. Howard O. Work Star Route, Selma, Ore. 'Payola' Counsel Sets Conference New' York-IUPD-Robert W. Lishman. ehief counsel of the House subcommittee investi gating "payola," planned to confer here today with staff investigators. A subcommittee spokesman said Lishman probably would return to Washington tonight-. The subcommittee staff and the New York district at tonorney's office both are in vestieatinff "Davola " the tprm used to describe direct or in direct payments to disc jock eys and others who plug cer tain songs and records. Matter of Fact By Joseph AIsop ABOVE THE CLOUDS-DWELLERS Washington-In ancient Ja pan, the Emperor and his courtiers were sometimes call ed the "Above the clouds dwellers", to d e note their high remote ness from the . coarse r e ali i ties of every n.. flk Pnrase nicely U ' Jr.. XJ describes the Joi.ph Aisop well-meaning, intelligent and often quite highly placed persons who ad vocate a new American ap proach to Communist fchina at this time. This much, at least, needs, to be said as a kind of final footnote to the long bout of inquiry across the Pacific .which this reporter has just completed. It needs to be said, particularly, because of the signs that some leading Demo crats, such as Adlai Stevenson and even the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas, are tending towards open advo cacy of a new approach to Communist China. At the b'ehest of Senator Fulbright for instance, a San Francisco public relations firm, Conlon Associates, was somewhat oddly assigned to review our Asian policy. The just-published Conlon Associ ates report does not go the Whole hog. There is no call for recognition of the Chinese Communists and their admis sion to the United Nations, but the report proposes a policy of "exploration and negotiation" as the next best ON THE SPOT, meanwhile, the best opinion is now just about unanimous that the circumstances could not be less favorable for any change at all in the American policy towards the Chinese Com munists. "Among the very large group of extremely able Englishmen and Americans who study Communist China from the. vantage point of Hong Kong, there are many who disapproved of .the Amer ican China policy when it was adopted. Among the English business leaders in Hong Kong, several even played a leading role in persuading London to recognize -the Peking government without waiting for Washington. Bv no means all these men who disapproved of our China policy when it was adopted have been converted to the view that it . was the right Dolicv in the first instance Quite a number still feel that it would have been better for the United States to extend de facto recognition to Peking 10 years ago. But all of these men, or at least au oi mem known to this reporter be lieve that nothing will be gained, and a great deal will he lost, bv anv softening of the American attitude towards the Chinese Communists at this- time. fTHE REASON for this opin- A ion is quite simple. The Chinese Communists have now entered a phase of build ine ferocious Stalinism, all their energies are now con centrated on building mui tarv - industrial power on a foundation of their peoples misery while this grim experi ment wholly preoccupies them, there is nothing to be done with them. In particular, there is no -way at all to ne gotiate with them, about the problem of the Formosa Strait or any other outstanding prob lem. ' In their . present mood, at once neurotically suspicious and paranoiacally arrogant, the mastesr of Peking would at once greet the smallest feeler from Washington as. a sign of weakness and admis sion of defeat. The risks that the advocates of a new ap proach desire to minimize would in fact be increased. For if they thought they de- teciea signs oi wwiuirai m h e American government, Mae Tse-tung and his col leagues would only be em boldened to commit further aggressive acts. The idea that these ruthless men. in their present mood, can be molified or tamed by 'exploration and negotiation, or by American recognition, or by an invitation to join the U.N., is on a par with a scheme for taming a hungry tiger by putting a baby in the case with it. By the same token, this kind of misguided ttemDt to tame or mollify the masters of Peking win not merelv do positive harm in Peking. It will also convey an impression of American weakness and retreat to all the millions of Asians who now fear the Chinese Com munists, including even the Indians who go on prating in th ie opposite sense. w HILE CHINA'S agony con tinues, in short, no new How Much Longer NATO Can Be Held Together is Questioned By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor How much longer can NATO be held together? Tt's a real Question, and one that President Eisen h o w e r must ponder in the coming d a y s aS he moves along the route of of his 11-na-tion good will tour toward a western s u m- Phii Kewsom mit meeting in Paris on Dec. 19. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, put together in the Spring of 1949 as the backbone of Western defenses against Communist expan sion, is getting tattered. Last week, a powerful newspaper voice in Britain, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, said editorially "Britain would be well ad vised to move out of NATO altogether." On a different note, but pointing up current NATO difficulties in fulfilling its assigned task, . was a state ment by French Air Force Gen. Jean Valluy, NATO commander in central Eur ope. In event of Soviet attack, he said, NATO would find its Belgian and Dutch troops "unusable" and its French forces all in Algeria. Drummond (Walter Lippmin is again reports from Washington in his Washington - The anxious question in the minds of many Republican leaders' to day is whether Vice President Nixon and Gov. Rockefeller can escape getting into a devi sive, lacerating, mutually be littling, personal battle. Part of the answer and it is reassuring - is that neither of the two principals, if I am correctly informed, wish or intend to get into a disparag ing, name-calling campaign designed to undercut each other's stature. The other part of the an swer - and it is far from re assuring - is that already some of the active supporters of each are trying to foment a feud between Nixon and Rockefeller and to goad them into hitting the other below the belt. . There are two good reasbns why the Vice President and the Governor themselves draw away from any such tactics. One is that on the ba sis of their intimate associa tion during the first Eisen hower term, they developed a high regard and esteem for each other. RockefeUer was often a "minority" adviser in the Whie House staff but he found Nixon on his side more often than any other member of the Cabinet. But apart from considerable admiration for each other, they also real ize that if they try to cut each other down to size, they are likely to end up convinc ing too many voters that both are undersize for the Presi dency. If there is to be a real Nixon-Rockefeller contest, what each wants is to use it to help make the Republican nomination worth having, that, is, to improve the pros pects of election. ROCKEFELLER has twice shown that he is not dis posed to be pressured into disparagement of Nixon. When a purposeful reporter asked him to comment on the "facts," as the reporter put it, that Nixon had said Rocke feller would not have advo cated resuming nuclear tests if he knew what he was talk ing about, the Governor cor rected the reporter's state ment, pointed out that Nixon had suggesed that Rockefeller did not have all the facts and agreed that, as a Governor, he might not have had all the facts. Rockefeller could easily have been goaded into a feud on that one, but wasn't. He has also strongly dis avowed any "Nixon can't wan" operation. He called such a tactic "immoral," and not borne out by the polls. But quite a few Republi cans, who think they can departure can usefully b e made, except perhaps by Ni- kita S. Khrushchev. No ex ternal influence, except per haps Soviet influence, can af fect the outcome of the gigan tic, cruel and awe-inspiring experiment that is now being made in China. In these circumstances, the only prudent course for the American policymakers is to be patient and watchful until the situation inside China is changed either by the experi ment's failure or by its final success. Doing nothing is sel- I dom preferable to doing some thing, but it is certainly pre ferable in this case. (c) 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. ne said NATO's first line of defense is manned entirely by the Germans and there "would have to be some delay before the arrival of British and American troop rein forcements." Valluy went on lo condemn "the moral disengagement" of certain NATO nations "apart, perhaps from the United States and Canada." NATO's founding corner stone was fear of Communist aggression. And the unity of NATO members has ebbed and flowed with the ebb and flow of th,e .cold war. Now that fear once more has re ceded, NATO's weaknesses become the more apparent. The London Daily Express was expressing common Brit ish resentment at "all the blocking tactics of diploma cy" used by France and West Germany to delay a summit meeting with Russia. Condemns Retreat Praciices Valluy condemned the practices which have forced a steady retreat from the 50 division goal first set up for NATO, the skeletonizing of divisions which are left, and the internal quibbling where by nations refuse to contrib ute either the money or man power which NATO com manders believe are a mini mum for European defense. West Germany will fall 150,000 men short of original target figures. Reports Traveling abroad. Roscoe Drumond absenca.) thereby curry favor with Rockefeller, constantly drop suggestions that the public "hates Nixon," they . pass along banter about the' 1952 "Nixon Fund," and in the Rockefeller entourage on his trek to the Pacific coast you more than once heard dark implications about that "bad actor from Califorrvia." In Oregoa one Knckefeller backer tried to su-t an "ABCD Club" which he glee fully said meant "any body 'cept Dick." A Rockefeller supporter in California im plied to reporters that Nixon was anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-minority. rpHIS kind cf thing is not all one-sided by any means. There are Nixon devo tees who both imply and sometimes say- openly that Rockefeller is not quite bright, that everything about him is "synthetic." ' That word crops up often among pro-Nixon people There are also dark whis pers easily heard across the room - that Rockefeller is plotting to "buy" the nomina-J tion, that Rockefeller is not really a Republican at all, that the "Rockefeller inter ests" are putting people on payrolls like mad for later use in the campaign. What I am reporting is that the short-sighted, ill-ad vised, over-zealous Nixon and Rockefeller supporters are do ing their best to get the two Republican leaders at each other's throat. There are some mixed mo tivations in both camps Rockefeller has got some al lies who are more anti-Nixon than they are pro-Rockefeller and some of Nixon's boosters are more anti-Rockefeller than they are pro-Nixon. These allies can do more harm than good. Nixon and Rockefeller will need to restrain themselves and their supporters if they are to avoid a kind of humili ating battle which could end up making the next Republi can nominee no more than titular leader of the party, (c) '1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan -41 ' F I: I Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. French President Charles de Gaulle has served notice that his land, sea and ail forces are not answerable to NATO in case of emergency. Coupled with the "moral disengagement" of NATO na tions has been mounting dis agreement in the changing concepts of. missile warfare, and the rising hope that in any such war it would be the Unite States and Russia blast ing away at each other with others escaping if they are cautious and lucky. - NATO commanders say It won't be 'that way. 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