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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MaeJfore!, Or. Wednetday, Dec. 2, 1959 "Everyone a Southern Oregon Reads The MaiJ Tribune Published Dnilv except Saturday by MJ.DFOVtn PRINTING CO 33 North r'lr St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBtHT W RUHL Editor HERB GRE Adverttsinie Manager GEP-ALD LATHAM Business. Mgi EPIC W ALLEN JR. Managing traitor EAP1 H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JKWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Women's Edttnt DALE ERICKSQN Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Cnterea s second class matter at . MedforH Oreeon under Ac of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai in Advance Copy 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year fISOO Daily and Sunday 6 mos 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point. Eirlt Point Jacksonville. Gold Rill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 year f 18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo . 1 -50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Officio! Papr of City f Medford Official Papei ol Jackson Connty United Press International PuD Leased Wire MEMBER OFA UDTT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC Of fices in Npv. YorkChleago. De troit San F-ancisco Los Angeles Seattle, Portland St Louis, At lani Vancouvei B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1949 (Friday) Fifteen thousand persons jam streets to see Medford's first city-wide Christmas opening. Gen. Owight D. Eisenhower Is a sure bet to be among top three contenders for 1952 Re publican presidential nomina tion. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1939 (Saturday) Russian incendiary bombs set Helsinki afire. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot' column: "Rain is needed to make the farm ers rejoice, help duck hunt ing, and the flu epidemic, and let autoists know their wind shield swipers have been swiped." 30 YEARS AGO Dec 2, 1929 (Monday) Weather bureau reports last month was Medford's driest November in history. Henry Ford raises wages to $7.00 per day minimum. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1919 (Tuesday) Rumor says many Medford schoolteachers will be mar ried during Christmas holi days. Will Rogers in "Almost a Husband" at the Liberty. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1909 (Thursday) Medford Cornice pears sell ing in London at $3.36 a half box. General manager of Crater Lake Lumber company loses briefcase full of important papers in Kalamazoo, Mich. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or etyhf is excellent; five ot six is good- 1. Is Morocco located in the northern, or southern part of Africa? 2. What is the only bird that has eyes that look' straight ahead? 3. What is a samovar? ; 4. A blanket of snow keeps the soil warm; true or false? 5. What relationship are the children of first cousins? . 6. Does saccharin have any food value? 7. Is the Tropic of Cancer in the northern or southern hemisphere? . 8. Is cerebellum the name of aneels. a Dart of the brain, or a period of peace after a war 9. Which Amendment to tne Constitution limits a President to serving not more than two terms? 10. Insert the missing name: ' the Moocher." Answers: 1. Northern. 2. The owl. 3. Waterheating ves sell used to make tea. 4. True. 5: Second cousins. 6. No. 7. Northern. 8. Part of the brain. 9. - XXII ..Amendment. . 10. Minnie. - DANGEROUS SPORT . Iowa City, Iowa-UPD-Two University of Iowa law stu dents, Tasso Coin and James L. Chopokus, face an eviction threat today becaue they al legedly banged up the furni .ture in their apartment by hitting golf balls around. Disaster in Government The date is Monday, Jan. 9, 1961. The scene is the house of representatives at the state Capitol in Salem. The members of the legislature are as sembled in joint session to hear the governor's message. On the rostrum are the governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, the chief justice of the supreme court. Other members of the supreme court, and most of the high appointive officials of the state, including the superintendent of state police, di rector of civil defense, and commanding general of the Oregon National Guard, are in attendance. CUDDENLY, out of the sky, a disabled Air Force bomber, with live bombs aboard, plunges into the west end of the Capitol. Or, an "enemy" missile destroys the Capitol. Or (as in Roseburg), a dynamite-laden truck explodes on State street, collapsing the house wing of the statehouse. The government of the state is wiped out. What happens then? THIS grisly picture may not be worth worrying about, but it poses a definite problem in to day's hazardous age. One need think only of Rose burg, or Texas City, or Hiroshima to conclude that it is within the realm of possibility. Justice William C. Perry, of the state supreme court, is concerned about this problem, particular ly the atomic bomb hazard. Such an event, he points out, would destroy civil government in the state. There would be no leadership with authority to act. The federal gov ernment, to be sure, could move in to provide law and order. But civil authority would cease, and could only be restored through an election. , DUT there would be no one to call an election, no one to tell the state police what action to take, no centralized direction of the court sys tem, no one to tell state departments whaj; to do. Justice Peny believes that the continuity of government must not be left to chance, and sug gests that the constitution be amended to pro vide for such a contingency. The last legislature passed a measure, which will be voted on by the people in next year's election, which would authorize the legislature to provide for such continuity. It allows the seat of state government to be moved in an emergen cy, for one thing And also it says : " "The legislative assembly, in order to insure con tinuity of state and local government operations in periods df disaster resulting from' enemy attack, shall provide" forf prompt and temporary succession ' to ' powers and duties of elected public offices, and may provide for temporary succession to the powers and duties of appointed public offices, the incumbents of which may become unavailable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of such offices." THIS is all to the good, arid we shall vote for it next November. We wish, however, it was broadened to in clude natural and accidental disasters, rather than limited to enemy action. For, as ROseburg and Texas City show, today's hazards are not limited to warfare. In any event, we can certainly agree with Justice Peny when he says : "If we would be vigilant, let us now set our house in order and make as secure as is humanly possible the preservation of our present form of government under atomic attack.'' E.A. New Pilot Requirement The Federal Aviation Agency's recent ruling that all pilots must have instrument training is an important and comprehensive one, but not quite as drastic as the first press stories hinted. A. press release from the FAA arrived by mail yesterday, and detailed the new regulation. It does not require that all pilots hold instru ment ratings, as we understood at first, 'but it does require that all pilots, commercial and pri vate alike, have training in instrument flying. yHE important paragraph of the release said: "Private pilots will be required to have dual in struction in the basic control of the aircraft in attitude control simulating the loss of visual reference during flight. In addition, both commercial and private pilots must be familiar with and demonstrate the use of ra dio for communications and navigation in cross-country flying. The new regulations do not affect pilots who al ready meet 'the new requirements." The new regulation gives pilots until next March 16 to comply. IF the regulation seems a bit drastic to casual "Sunday fliers," the FAA makes a good case for it. ' During 1958, for instance, private pilots were involved m a total of 272 major accidents, in which 345 pilots and passengers were killed and 155 seriously injured. Of these accidents, 120, or 44 per cent, resulted from inability to cope with emergencies, and 125, or 46 per cent, resulted from fundamental weaknesses in pilot judgment or technique. Considering the thousands of private aircraft now in 'use, the number of accidents does not seem excessive at least in comparison to the number of automobile accidents. m . It might even be a good idea to require strict er rules governing the qualifications of those li censed to drive care on today's busy highways, which are far more dangerous than tne' air lanes. E.A. . Dennis the Menace Waea this teSfUNNYl' Oregon Man Reports Slanting of Story on (Editor's note: Forrest Amsden, executive editor and associate publisher of the Coos Bay World, is now on leave of absence in Wash ington, D. C, on a study award. While there, he writes occasionally for his newspaper. The following article, reprinted from the World, concerns a recent Time magazine article con cerning Charles O. Porter, congressman from this dis trict.) By FORREST AMSDEN Washington, D. C. - Rep. Charlie Porter was energeti cally whacking his typewriter keyboard, wearing a thought-J In the Day's News By FRANK From Havana: Anti-American vandals in the Havana suburb of Jaruco broke into a church the other night and destroyed 60 sacks bf flour SENT FROM THE UNITED STATES FOR' THE RELIEF OF CUBA'S POOR. HMMMMMMMMM. I'd say that's a prime ex ample of cutting off your nose to spite your face. T7ROM StiUwater, Oklahoma: A Deadly carbon monoxide gas, coupled with mass hys teria, felled about 300 high school students-most of them girls-and affected another 700 students , and adults during a choral festival at Oklahoma State University. Officials said the poisonous gas fumes were sucked into the building through fresh air vents. The gas fumes came from numerous buses parked around the huge field house. The motors of the buses were left running. Fortunately, there were no fatalities. The only effects of the gas were temporary un consciousness, nausea and cramps. MODERN life is full of haz ards. But Life has always had its hazards. Great-Great-Grandfa ther didn't have to worry about carbon monoxide gas fumes from the exhausts of internal combustion motors, but every time he stepped out of his cabin in the clearing in the forest he ran the risk of getting an arrow in his ribs from a lurking savage. If there had been any cran berries in his day, Neander thal man could have eaten them with his turkey (if there had been any turkeys then) without fear of poisonous residue from chemical weed killers. And if Neanderthal woman had wished to bright Try and Stop Me : By BENNETT CERF TWO BLACK - LEATHER -JACKETEERS found them selves in a museum of modern art probably to get out of the rain and stopped short in front of a Jackson Pollock abstraction. One lad .grabbed the other's arm in a panic and urged, "Let's get out of here quick before they say we did it!" Alan King tells about one of those pint-sized foreign sports cars that stalled for SO minutes and created a two-mile-long traffic block before mechanics discov ered why it wouldn't budge. It was stuck on a piece of chewing gum. a A brave little old lady routed a stickup artist recently. She yanked the revolver out of his hand and chided, "For shame, you big lug! Instead of attack ing a defenseless old lady, why aren't you out robbing a big bank?" C 1359. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kuur Features Syadiaia.' ful and angry frown, when this writer blundered into his office late the other after noon. Spectacles alternately thumped down on his nose and shoved high on his thin ning dome, the Oregon con gressman was composing two letters. A short time before, it ap peared, Time magazine's gut ting story about Porter's Far East trip had landed on Por ter's desk. He was under standably perturbed. On read ing the "news" magazine's contribution to objective jour nalism, anyone in a position of judgment would likewise be perturbed, we allowed. JENKINS en up her lips she would have had no fear of chemicals. She'd have used berries from the nearby bushes. CJTILL Life even then had its hazards. If Neanderthal man or Ne anderthal woman or Neander thal children strayed beyond the protection of the fire be fore the cave door, there was always, the hazard of the prowling sabretooth tiger. CO Let's not go out and jump in the lake just because it seems to us that modern life is getting too risky. Selma Postmistress Elected to Office Mrs. Frances Burr, Selma postmistress, was elected president of the Jackson-Josephine county chapters of the National association of Post master at a meeting at the Dardenelle's in Gold Hill re cently. Heston Grieve, Prospect, was elected vice president. Francis Petrie, Rogue River was president last year. The two county groups re cently voted to consolidate in to one organization. Meetings are held four times each year with election of officers dur ing the fall meeting. Reports from Josephine county director, Harold Pres- tel, and Jackson county dir ector, Mrs. Marie Furry, were made, and other business in cluded plans for the forthcom ing mid-winter conference at Salem. The group will meet again in February. Senate Payroll Reveals Big Assortment Of Titles But Who Gets Out the Mail? By FRANK ELEAZER Washington -OJPD - The Sen ate finally has opened its pay rolls to public inspection, and J the wonder of i it all is, who gets out all those millions of letters the sen ators an nually com mit to the mails? From the way the Sen- Frank Eleazer ate s oo pri vate postmen have been sweating you would expect to find every senator's office crammed with typists and stenographers. The published payrolls dis close these offices . to be crowded, all right, but mostly by administrative assistants at salaries up to $16,299.96 a year, and, at lesser pay, per sonal secretaries, legislative assistants, receptionists, and executive assistants. on Time's Porter The anger furrow on Por ter's brow flattened out as he wrote his letter and discussed the facts of the situation. Dis tortion of their activities by the press is, after all, not un common to most men in posi tion's like Charlie O.'s, espe cially if they are as energetic as Porter. Can Cause Damage Even so, it causes a shock. It can also damage a po litical future-at least it is so designed, although one won ders if anyone, these days, puts much credit in Henry Lute's "news" magazine. It once had quite a vogue, being often quoted as an "au thority" for this or that. But after often being caught with its objectivity down when Mr. Luce's pet projects are con cerned - and he has a million or so of them it's not claim ant to much respect in our present time. Or so it seems from this angle of view. But people still read it- a lot of people. And even if readers know it is loaded, cleverly loaded, its effort at image making is likely to have some effect, especially on a longtime basis. Letter To Luce . Porter's two compositions, it turned out, were a short "letter to the editor" of the "news" magazine, pointing out the more glaring distor tions and errors of the story ("I wonder if they'll print it all," Porter wondered of this letter), and a second, longer epistle to the great man him self, outlining his trip, the events that Porter says ac tually occurred, and wonder ing just how Luce's staff could have come up with such a yel low masterpiece in yght of the facts. Well, Porter is far from this first to run afoul of Luce's sometimes eccentric ideas of policy. This incident is so ob vious that there are few - ex cept the politico - emotionally blind - who won't recognize it. Luce is an affectionado of China and has been much honored by old Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Ma dam. Porter on the other hand has long maintained that Chiang is no longer useful to the U.S.'s Asian policy and is in fact a detriment, and that sooner or later, preferably sooner,- America will have to come to realistic eriDS-with the People's Republic of Chi na, distasteful as that may be. Don't Read Time This infuriates Luce and his well-paid lackeys. "Get this upstart congressman," one can almost hear the order fired to a writer in the thickly-carpeted office of a sub-editor! That he is far from the first (nor is another favorite Ore gon target - Wayne Morse) to feel Luce's skillful wrath, is small consolation to Porter. But one must find consola tion in such incidents, and dis cussion allowed him to find it: "Well, it won't hurt me with the Time-haters," Porter laughed, "and if I can get this letter printed, it won't hurt me with some of the others. And the people I can talk to won't believe it either. Most of the people who support me don't read Time anyway." Even so, it makes a news man - a real one - blanch, this sort of "reporting," a style that would be bad even if it weren't downright untruthful. WONDERS NEVER CEASE Mineola, N.Y.-UPD-The Long Island Lighting Co., has ask ed the Public Service Com mission to approve a $1,200, 000 electric rate reduction for its customers. The company said the reduction was made possible because it now js al lowed an accelerated depreci ation rate on equipment. Also, as you already have read, the senators in some cases employ wives, daugh ters, and in-laws, with various appropriate titles. But stenos and typists? Well, one senator listed three cf the few remaining typists to be found in the Sen-, ate office building. But I bet Kidnaping Incident Reveals Contempt By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The Red Chinese kidnaping of an American Marine ser geant in Bombay was more than just an other pin p r i c king at t a c k against the United States. It was another way of showing the Reds' con tempt for In- PhTiNew5om It also seems to have a parallel to Red Chi nese tactics at the time of Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States last summer. At that time it seemed Rus sia's Asia ally deliberately was stepping up its attacks and threats against India's border in an attempt to muddy the Eisenhower - Khrushchev Camp David talks. The Bombay incident, com ing only days before Eisen hower's visit to New Delhi, also seems designed to muddy the talks between Eisenhower and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. An Elaborate Plot It seems entirely probable now that the Red Chinese double-defector who appeared at the U.S. consulate in Bom bay asking asylum and who then changed his mind, was part of an elaborate plot with Communications Letters to the tiditor must bear the name ano' address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia' for publication is permissible. The Maii Tribune reserves the right tc edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the csa. Band Praised To the Editor: Southern Oregon and Medford in partic ular can justly be proud of the fine performance of its Medford High and Saint Mary's High school football teams. Lots of praise has been given both teams in- the pa pers, . but so far they have overlooked a very outstand ing group, I'd also class them as champions, and that is the fine High School band under the direction of I. A. Mirick. The performance the band put on at half time and after the game at Portland was out standing. There was nothing but praise from the spectators where we were seated. They were people from' Portland and surrounding areas. They praised the football team but also said they never saw the equal in a high school band. So let's give a little praise to this group of fine students that have cheered this team ; on to state victory, An admirer, (Name on File), Medford. The Answer To the Editor: Yes, I know how to settle this dispute be tween big steel and labor. It is government ownership. Proof, the Bible reads before you can spoil and destroy a strong man's goods you will have to enter his house first. The government has enter- led the house of labor with the Taft-Hartley law, and will enter deeper as time goes on. And labor will enter the strong man's house, govern ment. Labor will elect men to congress and the senate and supreme court and state offices. Here is Bible proof, the 17th and 18th chapters of Revelation. The 17th chapter and 5th verse refer to money power. Then in the 18th chap ter, think deeply on verse 12. and of brass and iron. Steel is made from iron, or iron is the mother of steel. The smoke that is mentioned is these strikes. Let us go back in the last part of the 19th century, starting in 1890 and 1900. These things that are mentioned are smoke signs. Over 600 banks failed in a year, 80 per cent, American railroads in bankruptcy, the homestead strike, Pullman 'Don't Neglect Slipping FALSE TEETH Do falsa teetfc ejop, slip or wobble hen you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? Don't be annoyed and embarrassed trj such handicaps. 1 ASTEETH. an alkaline (nom-acid) powder to sprta? kle on your plates, keeps talse teetn more firmly set Gives eiMifldent feel ing of security and atfeed en;r?nrs. No rammc. gooey, pasty taste cr loel Ing Get 'ASTCgTatOdH M IBf they dont have time to be lonesome. His other staffers total 29, including a state representative, a research staff assistant, a departmental assistant, a departmental sec retary, a state report and press clerk, a departmental correspondence secretary, an immigration secretary, and a several ramifications. It enabled the Rec7. Chinese to bring their own charges of "kidnaping" against the U.S. on Indian soil. Probably more by luck than planning, it also enabled them to lay hands on the American sergeant assigned to guard him, and then to man-handle him in a way unthinkable in most civilized countries. Since the United States government has a right to ex pect that its nationals will be protected by the nations of whom they are guests, a U.S. protest to India would be in evitable and thus a source of friction. Nehru Remains Cautious Nehru, in his usual cautious way, so far has refused to ac cept the story of either side, and has noted only that there appears to be a conflict. . Indian newspapers, how ever, have not been so re strained. The Times of India said that the manner in which the U.S. Marine was detained and threatened with bodily injury was "nothing less than bla tant violation of Indian sov ereignty." Other Indian comment ex pressed concern that the cold war between the United States and Red China now had been carried within the confines of India. The Communist tactic thus has been successful. strike, the Haymarket mas sacre, and all these strikes and changes of governments are smoke signs. The change of the Russian government to communist, and China, Spain all of these things are smoke. And I be lieve there are many men to day that see the smoke, and the voters will see that the only way to settle the trouble is by ownership and it will only take one election to ac complish, and one day count- ting the votes. But all of these things and changes are like one of our president's use of the words, "Just around the corner," and the U.S. government is the most powerful money govern ment on earth today. When the change comes the other governments will follow us. Marshall H. Waggoner P. O. Box 132 Shady Cove, Ore. More Parking Space Needed in Salem Salem-(UPD-A 100 per cent boost in parking space is need ed in downtown Salem and the project should be pio neered by private rather than public means. Salem officials and busi nessmen heard a report to that effect Tuesday from a San Francisco firm engaged for the last several months in a survey here. The consulting firm is In dustrial Planning Associates. The group said it found park ing conditions in fair shape in outlying sections. But the local downtown zoning system needs to be worked on, it said. WEDDING CHAPEL C. M. Litwiller For that happy occasion, we offeT you beautiful Mountain View Chape. Adequate for your fondest dreams. An ever growing clientele ... and prices are very moderate. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close research and informatioa assistant. House members, whose pay rolls haven't been secret in years, hire nothing but clerks. Senators also used to get by mostly with the assistance of clerks and some still do. But after the Senate had voted this year to let the taxpayers see whom it hired and for how much, some members got to thinking a title of clerk might not appear to the homefolks appropriate for a fellow draw ing maybe $13,000 a year. Senator's Assistant Assisted Anyway, we came up with office managers, research as sistants, plus others. A possible landmark was an "assistant legislative assist ant" listed by one senator. The Senate's operations call for a secretary at $19,249.92, an assistant secretary at $7, 099.32, and an asistant secre tary to the secretary, also at $7,099.32. The sergeant at arms sets also as doorkeeper, which helps make him worth '319, 249.92 yearly. It takes nearly 15 printed pages to list his em ployees, including a wagon master and assistant wagon master, at $5,516.76 and $4, 725.48 respectively. Joe Duke, the sergeant at arms, was unavailable but his office was able to state that the Senate owns no horses or mules. The wagonmasters drive trucks, it was learned. Duke's aides promised to re port later on duties of anoth er employee paid $5,280.68 yearly as "laborer in charge of private passage." Efforts to locate the passage also were underway. Editorial Comment RADIO STATIONS PLEASE NOTICE If rock 'n roll is on the way out (and we could ask for nc finer Christmas present) the nation's long:suffering listen ers may owe a great deal of the thanks to a couple of en terprising radio stations in Seattle and Dayton. These stations, disregarding certain bestseller lists that seemed to indicate an over whelming national preference to the Elvis Presley "scream ing" types of ditties, took the question directly to their au diences. Dayton's WAVI. re ported the results weVe 9 to i again R-and-R and in favor of the classics, the nation nor mally delivers. Seattle's KING, surveying 100,000 homes, discovered that more people hated rock 'n roll than any other than any kind of masic. Even the teen-agers preferred the more civilized tunes to the adenoidal mono tones of the reputed movers and shake's of the younger set. We don't know what sub stance there is to the current suggestions that some of the so-called popular tunes were subsidized onto the airways. We only know that the last time we spun the dial in search of a little background music we found the airways jammed with jungle drums and wheezes. If the dee-jays are row discovering that there are still listeners who think Gershwin, Rodgers, Carmi chael and Porter were fair hands with a melody, we're willing to try it again. Chi cago Sun-Times. Ale-.-- r COME TO "MONEYLAND" rPACIFICni FINANCE' .where you may charge the real thing. ..money! by charge it we mean you way borrow money now and pay r back later AH loans made under the Oregon Industrial Loan Act 16 S. Central Ph. SP 3-5308 Bob Griffith, Manager Open Weekdays: 8 to 5 p.m. Mon days till 8 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m. till Noon. t 0KM ... Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need ui than to need us and not know us."