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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, Dec 3, 1959 Medford35Tribuhb "Everyone tt Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published D-ti except Saturday by MlJDFOrtP PRINTING CO 33 North tli St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GRE AdvertWr Manager CEPAL.D LATHAM Busines Up ERIC W ALLEN JR. . Managing f-rlitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM Teleg Editor RICHARD JKWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women a Editor DALE ERJCKSON Circulation May An IndeDendent Newspaper Entereo as sevnd class matter mt Medforrt Orecon under Ae of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B-7 Mat'. In Advance Copy 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 tear $15 00 Daily and Sunday fl mot S.01 Dailv nr Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only one year mjo Bv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Earle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shad? Cove Roguo Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year 118 00 Daily anri SunCav 1 mo 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance 6Tflel! Papr of City if MedTSril Official paper QI J season lonnty United Pres InternatlnnaJ FuD Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU1 OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San F'anrisco Los Angeles Seattle, Portland St Louis. Al lan' Vancctfvei B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Thi rAail Tribune 10, 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1949 (Saturday) Medford opens basketball season with a 31 to 25 win Snrinefield hish. The nation's best blood lines in hereford cattle will be here next week' at the Cal Oregon Hereford association show and sale. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1939 (Sunday) County pays $245 in No vember for bounty on coyotes and bobcats. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The new post office is coming along fine, though it doesn't look like it. Neither did the courthouse, built by the same contractor, until he got through." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1929 (Tuesday) City dog pond ordered to move outside city limits. Income tax reduction vot ed by Congress on recom mendation of President Hoov er. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1919 (Wednesday) Jackson count to. get $180, 000 for roads next year. -Valley hit by cold wave with no relief in sight. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 3. 1909 (Friday) John D. Rockefeller gives $1 million to stamp out hook worm. If weather holds paving on West Main st. will be com pleted in two weeks. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five ef six is good. 1. What heavyweight box er' won the world's champion ship in Sydney, Australia, and lost it later in Havana, Cuba? 2. Is a condiment a kind of w'agon, seasoning, or a kind of paint coloring? 3. "Constitution State" is the nickname of which New England State? 4. What Strait, named for a famous navigator, is at the southern t'.p of South Amer ica? ." " 5. Wha. did the initials W.P-A. stand for? 6. Is the Isle of Wight off the north, or south, coast of England? 7. Who is called "The Lib erator" in South America? 8. In what part of the world is the Yangtze river? 9 Do men and women have the same number of ribs? 10. What group of islands has been called "the cross roads of the Pacific"? Answers: 1. Jack Johnson. 2. Seasoning. 3. Connecticut. 4. Strait of Magellan. 5. Works Progress Administration. 6. South. 7. Simon Bolivar. 8. China. 9. Yes. 10. Hawaiian Islands. More injuries are suffered by Americans 15 through 24 years old than any other age group. For every 100 per sons in that bracket, there were 33 injuries during a re cent" year, according to the Health Insurance Institute. NATIONAL E0ITORIAI "Time 9 and the Congressman ' We have long wished that Time magazine would stop calling itself a "news" magazine. It would be a lot more honest if it admitted it is a journal of news A"ND opinion. We read it; have for years. It is probably the most expertly-written, slickest and most enter taining of the weekly publications purporting to bring the news. But each time we pick it up we fall auto matically into a defensive frame of mind, attemp ting to equip ourself to sort fact from fiction, news from necromancy, and information from self-elected ominpotence. .. "NE story in the Nov. 30 issue starts-out this way: ; "There will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whoop ing Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucus cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumb ling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes. A splendid example of this rara avis is Charles Orlando Porter, 40, Democratic Congressman from Oregon's Fourth District, who re turned last week from a fact-finding flight through the islands along the Asian littoral, a flight that cre ated more embarrassement and consternation than a plague of gooney birds." Does it read well? It does. Is it amusing? It is. Is it slick and expert? It is. ' Is it an impartial and factually-accurate news story? It is not. TIME makes no bones about larding its editor's opinions into stories all the way through the magazine. This is both necessary and proper in those sections which deal, for instance, with book and motion picture reviews (although most other publications, with a higher sense of moral obli gation, will plainly indicate these constitute opinion, and usally will tell whose opinion). Also, there is much to be said for background ing news of the day, for putting it in context, for explaining its significance, and for giving, as sociated information which makes the news more meaningful. THIS is known as interpretive reporting and it is a valuable, though sometimes difficult, practice in news presentation. In doing this, it is often necessaiy to inject the opinion or belief of the writer. This is per missible, too when the writer is clearly identi fied, and when his bona fides are known. This Time does not do. Rather, its stories are written anonymously by a .staff of editors in the Time-Life Building in Rockefeller Center in New York, and they read as though they came straight from the typewriter of an All Knowing, All Seeing, All Wise' Provi dence, who writes The Word and expects the hoi polloi to accept it as infallible Holy Writ. THIS is irritating enough, to a fairly know Irt rl inro o Vila riiQflor But when this Holy Writ is a compound of facts, fancy and prejudice; when loaded words take the place of straightforward nouns and verbs; when sarcasm and ridicule are regularly employed ;, when pertinent facts are purposely and deliberately omitted; when quotations are given -out of context; when events are distorted then it becomes insufferable. Of all these shoddy practices Time magazine is guilty. And, when it attempts to masquerade as a news magazine, it degrades a good word and prostitutes a high calling. DUT back to Charlie Porter. Even his enemies will admit he has a certain" brilliance and quick intelligence, and untiring energy. Even his friends will admit he sometimes speaks too quickly, winding up, with foot in mouth; sometimes makes snap decisions which are not based entirely on all the facts available; sometimes alienates people by his trenchant wit' and forthright approach. A balanced and impartial opinion might rate him as aiming high and in good faith, and not infrequently falling flat on his face through lack of self-discipline, and a willingness to turn aside serious matters with a wisecrack. And he some times lets a congressman's natural desire for pub licity warp his judgment. BUT these assessments of his doings? Not in our old-fashioned book, they don t. And in thus writiner a slanted, biased, mis leading account of Porter's trip to the Orient (however amusing it may be to his political de tractors), Time has once again shown itself to be i ai a r 1: it a a scao on me nose ui American journalism. ej.a.. No fcis s es Little noticed in the furore over contaminated cranberries was the intelligence that some brands of lipstick contain ingredients which, over a period of years, could lead to cancer. . . If this alarms women, we have no particular complaint. But if it were sad state romance would e Bert Kissinger says the weather the first three days of December may forecast the weather for December, January and February. Gosh, we hope not! E.A. are opinion. to alarm men what a be in. E. A. Dennis the Menace . 6UT I'D LIKE TO fWW WV )OU WON'T SIT WITH DENNIS. . I SE...UM-HUH...I $ee..MH-HUU...lGB ...W-HUH... Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name ano address of the writer although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initia tor 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 1ha ca Children Cried To the Editor: Many of the children returning from the much-anticipated visit with jolly old Santa were crying. Next- year could we have a Santa who could spare a "Ho, Ho, Ho" for the kids? Our son was not disappoint ed. He was delighted to have dust and leaves blown all over him. Mothers and dads took time to get the children down there. Could Santa spare a little more time next year? (Mrs.) Doris Wood, 517 J St., Medford. Tumbleweed Christmas To the Editor: Everett Ack lin, yours in Monday's Trib une hit me right in memory's garden. :You don't know tumble weeds as our little family did about 50 years ago. We were snowbound in the middle of a section near Campbell, S. D., and Christmas was only 10 days away. The twins were six and Opal 11 months younger. Their father, still weak from influenza, and I had just shot oiir best horse because he got his leg broken. Something had to be done. I nearly cracked my face just trying to look happy. I placed a tub in the corner and we began "stacking" a tumbleweed Christmas tree wide at the bottom and taper ing to a slender tip, graced by a gold star made from tobacco foil. A flock of birds made by me (brown paper) cut out and colored blue by the young sters, perched among the branches. We strung pop corn, and fashioned flowers from some old red crepe paper, and draped 'among the branches - well, you'd be sur prised! I sprinkled the tree with melted snow-water, then tossed some flour on it. Money was scarce, but I made mittens for each (from an old red sweater), bonnets, caps, doll's clothing with but tons, and a box of colored cards and magazine pictures, flour paste and books made of squares of starched sheeting were lovely gifts. All three learned to read from those cloth books. Their father and the girl who - cut and pasted the pictures, passed away long ago; the others are scattered, and I am happy again with my Medford friends. , But I'll never forget our evening prayer beside that tumbleweed tree. Friday noon is potluck lunch time at the Fifty Plus club, Fifth and Oakdale. If I don't bring a dish, I'll have to pay 50 cents. So will you. Alexander's Hawaiian band will be there, too. Pearl Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Labor Dilemma To the Editor: Through the M.T. and other publications I have followed with great in terest thoughts, theories and recommendations regard ing the steel industry dispute and the effect of such dead locks on the future. Over 50 years with and in organized labor has taught that the greatest threat and obstacle to successful and compatible relations between labor management, as in other human relations, are those elements in human na ture which outweigh all' sense of justice, namely, avarice asd self-aggrandizment. By their very existence in the human make up, they render the establishment of a labor court, or other simi lar body to regulate labor management relations, only a I . n-5 partial answer, if any, to the problem of economics. I deplore the thought of such a body, or of such pow- ers being delegated to any small group, without having the same powers over other equally important branches of our economic structure. If for no other reason it would fail if not given com plete power over the related segments, and if endowed with such powers it would, by its being, abolish several tenets of our freedom and un dermine the American way of life as we know it now, and if it succeeds it would create a system of regimentation wherein wages, profits and purchase prices would be set up for all to comply with. This would be forcing upon the American people the very thingwe are taught Commu nism is forcing upon its sub jects, and thereby render the term Americanism meaning less. Laws, rules or regulations to set the conduct of a' court to . adjudge the relations be tween management and labor would be more difficult to formulate and enforce than the code governing a criminal court for the reason that most people are not criminally in clined, whereas the thoughts on management-labor rela tions are more equally divid ed, and most people stand to gain in some manner. In short, the trend so prevalent in America, for each to further his desires and ambi tions, is the prime factor which has given rise to the present impasse and renders unlikely a cure for the ills we are considering. . We have come to the time when labor, production, transportation and merchan dizing can no longer be con sidered sparatel'y, but must be recognized as co-related segments of our economic system. If justice is to be achieved and all branches of society are to be served, each component must fullfill its individual obligations, re ceive its just rewards. Until this is recognized, respected and protected, strife, disruption and chaos will exist or be pending. Where do we go from here? C. R. Burfill 122 Vilas rd. W. Central Point, Ore. Lights and Safety To the Editor: I wal much interested in the recent arti cle in your paper about Chief Champlin's reference to auto mobile headlights. The great majority of mo torists, is very careful and courteous in tilting their lights when passing another car. However I think that the trouble with both the four and two headlight cars is that the motorist doesn't real ize that, with an unloaded car, the lights may be set level, yet when the rear is loaded or there are passen gers in the rear seat, the lights will be quite a way above the level called for by law. On the two headlight cars, when the lights are tilted, there is no doubt that they are down and they do not glare unless out of adjust ment as mentioned above. : The four headlight cars do not have the amount of down ward tilt that the two light cars have. When I tilt my lights (Westinghouse) they not only swing way down but very sharply to the right. When I pass a car the prin cipal thing I am interested in is the right side of the road, yet I still have a clear view of the center line. I expect I have been driv ing with illegal lights for the Khrushchev's Cynical Speech Reminder By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor "We have been inexpres sibly shocked ... I urge in the name of humanity and in the cause of peace that the Soviet Union take sction to withdraw So viet forces from Hungary i m m ediately . . . " Presi dent Eisen hower in a Phil Newsom letter to ' so viet Premier Nikolai Bulgan in, Nov. 4, 1956. "We shall never forego our ideological principles. We are waging and shall wage an Drummond (Walter Lippman is again reports from Washington in his absence.) CATHOLICS AND THE PRESIDENCY Washington - So far the dis cussion of whether an Ameri can President or other elected official who is a Roman Cath olic would have the moral right or the inclination to go against the dictates of his church on public policy is be ing conducted responsibly and fair-mindedly. past nearly 40 years for this reason: I am interested in safety! Here is how I have my lights adjusted. I cover up my right hand light and set the left hand light to shine on the road edge (high beam) about 400 feet down the road, or as far as I can be sure of the center of the beam. Next I cover the left hand light and repeat the per formance focusing the beam about 200 feet down on the side of the. road. NOW, when I put the tilt beam on, both light up tfye side of the road very clearly. I cannot remem ber having another car flash its bright lights at me when I have had ' my lights tilted down. Of course I forget to put them down once in a while as everyone does. When the lights are ad justed as 1 above you have wonderful . visibility- on the side of the road on foggy nights or in a snow storm. Now I see some cars are coming out with lights that dim for passing. This is what we had back in the early days. Must we progress back ward just to sell the gullible public something different? Why not put six lights on cars? They would sure sell! Safety first. (Name on file) Rogue River, Ore. Music To the Editor: We do not wish to enter into any radio program controversy, involv ing the kind of music heard over the local ' stations. But like the old adage says, vari ety is the spice of life. Even a philosopher admits a change is good, even from a phonograph record. One time in "the old days" we heard a philosopher say, "poor people had poor ways." Of course he made the re mark without malice toward anyone. At that particular time and date it fit the occa sion, when music was made on cornstock and cigar box fiddles by the younger set having a yearning for music. Getting back to the subject of modern music, I think ev eryone has his special talents regarding his taste for all forms of music, be it one vari ety or the entire gamut. For one, I would vote for a change, even though music by any other name may sound just as superb. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford, Ore. Visit the Schools To the Editor: The "turn about" visit of Medford busi nessmen to our schools re cently, as the second phase of Business-Education day, found a regrettably small number of business men able to make the date. I say "regretably" as my own opinion, because my trip to the Griffin Creek school re stored my faith in our educa tional system in the grades. I feel, perhaps, that I was especially privileged to be as signed such a "model" school as Griffin Creek, where the brilliance and remarkable nersonalitv of Principal Myr- na Frink has been an influ ence over the years. I was so impressed by the experience of visiting the classes and eating in the lunch room with both teachers and pupils, that I urge every busi nessman to start clearing his calendar right how for next vpars' onnortiinitv tn examine at first hand our education system in Medford. Thank vou. Mrs. Frink. and the wonderful teachers at Griffin Creek school, for a memorable day. Win Marks, Radio Station KBOY ... Medford. of Communist Aims implaccable struggle for the Marxist-Leninist ideology, for the triumph of the ideals of Communism." S o v i e t Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev be fore the Communist Party Congress in Budapest, Dec. 1, 1959. When Eisenhower wrote his letter to Bulganin, up to 200. 000 Soviet troops with 1,600 to 4,000 tanks were laying waste to Budapest and resist ance centers throughout Hun gary where a desperate peo ple cut off from all outside aid were fighting a losing battle for freedom. Makes Cynical Statement Three years later in the city where the bloodletting by Soviet troops left more than Reports traveling abroad.' Roseoe Drumond This is, a notable improve ment over the kind of public debate and innuendo which marked the Al Smith cam paign for the Presidency in 1928. Then, instead of honest and thoughtful discussion, there was a spate of emotional hos tility to the Democratic nom inee, who, like Sen. John F. Kennedy, was a Roman Cath olic, and there were also charges that any raising of the position of the Catholic church on aspects of public affairs was, per se, proof of bigotry against the Catholic religion. - Many of us will recall the whispering campaign which suggested that the very elec tion of Al Smith would mean that the Pope could shortly be expected to move his head quarters to the United States. That was poppycock for one reason ampng many, since the Pope is both the spiritual head of the church and tem poral head of Vatican City. His Holiness would hardly abandon the headquarters where the church and state are one, as in Vatican City, and move it to a nation whose constitution requires separa tion of church and state. On the other hand it was never fair to raise the cry of bigotry against those who honestly questioned how strongly an American Catholic official would consider him self bound by the authorita tive stand of his church on public policy. fTiHE climate of public debate in this area has obviously improved greatly since the un fairness and irrelevancies of the Al Smith campaign. The evidence of this improved cli mate, which should be wel comed, is the calm and ger mane discussion which has followed the recent statement by the governing hierarchy of the Catholic church in the United States opposing the use of U. S. public funds to promote artificial birth con trol anywhere in the world. This statement conforms to the church's conviction that any use of artificial birth pre vention is a sin against di vine law. While it is true that no U. S. funds are now being used for this purpose, the subject has been considered, particularly with reference to countries whose explosive birth rates are outrunning anything which they or we are trying to do to improve their economic plight. Following this statement by the Catholic bishops, the Right Rev. James A. Pike, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of San Francisco, replied that Catholic policy would "con demn rapidly. increasing mil lions of people in less fortun ate parts of the world to star vation, bondage, misery, and despair," and then raised the question whether the Catholic church statement was "bind ing on Roman Catholic candi dates for public office." For the answer reporters naturally went to Senator Kennedy first. The Senator's answer was: That as a Catholic he is personally opposed to arti ficial birth control. That "it would be a mis take for the United States to attempt to advocate the limi tation of the population of under-developed countries." That, if he were President and an agency of the Execu tive branch advocated or Con gress passed a law recom mending that foreign aid be related to the willingness of a country to keep its popula tion within the range of its resources, he would base his decision on what he deemed to be the interests of the Unit ed States. - GOV. EDMUND P. BROWN of California, running as a "favorite son" candidate for the Democratic nomintion, was less responsive. He de clined to go beyond the view that the U. S. ought not to try 20,000 Hungarians dead, Khrushchev announces .that the Communist Party is "now successfully accomplishing the tasks of socialist recon struction." A more cynical statement scarcely can be imagined, especially as it must fall on the ears of families of the vic tims and of Hungarians sunk in apathy after failure of their convulsive and courage ous grasp at freedom. For in Hungary today there can be no love of the So viet Union, nor for the Com munist minority which rules only with the aid of 60,000 to 80,000 Soviet troops who still remain. Khrushchev's speech to Hungarians could only mean that for them there could be no hope. For the world leaders who now are expected to meet with Khrushchev at the sum mit next spring, it was notice served once again that even a comprise will have a Com munist price tag and that Communist aims remain as they have been domination not only of Hungary but of the world as well. History's Course Unchanged World shock at Soviet bru tality, as expressed by Eisen hower's letter to Bulganin, had its echo in the United Nations. A United Nations investi gating team indicted Russia in the most biting and bitter re port ever made against a U.N. member. But it failed to change the course of history and reports reaching both London and Washington continue to tell of Communist execution of freedom fighters. . k Under ,-sponsorship of the United States, the U.N. is scheduled again to discuss Hungary's plight, over objec tions of the Communist bloc, This discussion, too, is un likely to change materially the course of history. But at least it can spotlight for the Communist' leadership the fact that the cold war thaw and the "Camp David Spirit" have not blinded the free world to the crimes of "social ist reconstruction." Kansan Buries Roses With Other Flowers Howard, Kan-Edward East wood dislikes roses, and the sight of them rambling near the town railroad station an noyed him. .So, on his way back to work each day, Eastwood would sprinkle a packet of seeds among the roses. Last summer, townspeople couldn't see the roses for dahlias, petunias, snapdrag ons, poppies and a variety of other flowers. to impose birth control on other nations, which is not the point at issue. Undoubtedly this subject, in its broadest aspects, will be with us for some time. What I am seeking to say is that the caliber of discussion wlfich is taking place is a far cry from 1928. There is, as there should be, no animus in the discussion. And it should also be recognized that it is fair and pertinent that voters should weigh the moral-temporal policies of any church and the extent to which they might likely influence its ad herents who are seeking pub lic office. (Copyright 1959 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) vp: n it 1 i'S 111 ! v Rises above all other qualities haket jMjoduavu aam tnm th CounhouM FtANK MOtOAN . HMOU9 SNOOMASS, FUfCIAl MKCTOtS DAY OR MGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 Jin the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: An estimate that fresh wa ter can be produced from sea water at a cost of 42 cents per thousand gallons in a nu c 1 e a r-powered conversion plant has been made public by the Interior department. The plant would have a caDa- city of 50 million gallons per day. This cost figure (estimated by the Fluor Corp., of Whit- tier, cjalif.) is by far the low est to result so far from re search sponsored bv the de partment's office of saline wa ter. Current costs are in ex cess of a dollar per thousand gallons. The Fluor Corp. said the es timated cost of 42 cents is suf ficiently low to make such a proposal a potentially impor tant source of supplemental water for many areas of the: world. TN THIS year when it looks like it just can't rain in the State of Jefferson that sounds interesting. But- Before going off the deep end, let's do a little figuring. In this part of the world we figure irrigation water in terms of acre feet. An acre foot is an acre of water a foot deep. Without getting into ex act decimal points, there are about 325,800 gallons in an acre foot. At 42 cents per thousand gallons, an acre foot of water would cost about $136. In the Klamath country the average duty of water, taking all of our crops into consideration, is somewhere in the neighborhood of three acre feet. Present cost of water In this area is ' somewhere around $1.50 an acre foot, or $4.50 for enough water to irrigate an average acre for a crop year. At $136, three acre feet of wa ter would cost $408. CO.- U You see Irrigation water derived by nuclear conversion from sea water isn't just around the corner. STILL -There is hope. The first pound of plastic to come out of the research chemist's test tubes cost sever al hundred dollars - presum ably several THOUSAND dol lars if all the costs were in cluded and loaded onto just one pound. Now plastic is so cheap that it is being used for this,' that and the other purpose in a wide range of industries. When Wilbur and Orville Wright got the first rudimen tary puddle-jumper off the ground for a few seconds, no one could have imagined the huge jet liners of today. CO- 3 Let's hold our faith in1 the future. Maybe the West; don't dry up and blow away " even if J. Pluvius decides to stay on strike. Trucker's Nof Happy In Present Position Chicago, IU-This sign was spotted on the back of a truck which passed through here,, apparently on a long distance haul: Crime doesn't pay. . . Neither does trucking. We Give GREEN STAMPS ELLIS MARKET 820 Crater Lake Avenue - ' , . , :S . X ,; . ,. . ' ;- - 3 - .: - '. - i' iiiliiiiiiiiii
