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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Oec 8, 1 959 Medford. IBUNB "Everyone a Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune'' Published Dnil except Saturday by BiJJU'lU' PRINTING CO 33 Kurth r'ii St PbSP 2-8141 ROEtHT W RtTHL Editor HERB GRE AdvertiMre Manager GEPALD LATHM Businesi MgT ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Mitor EAPL B AJJAMS City Editor HARftY i.HIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JVWETT Soorts Editor Ol.IVE STAR: 'HER Women Editor DALg ERiCTCSC'N Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper EnteretT a wnnd class matter al MedforH Orecrm under Ac of Marrf. 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION. RATES Bt Ma In Advance Copy 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 vear S15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 moa 8 00 Dail ant Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $430 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Paint Eagle Point Jarksonville. Hold RiB Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Taln and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year S18 00 uaiiy anrt suncy I mo 1.3U Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance OfflciM Paper of City f Medford Official Papei ol Jackson County United Presf International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLrfSAY CO INC Of fices in Nevi York. Chicago De troit San F'anrlsco Los Angelea Seattle. Portland St. Louis. Al lan a Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL. EDITORIAL gay Iasc5t," Flight ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Wail Tribune 10, 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. Reply to a Critic More than a week ago, we received an anony mous letter. There's nothing particularly unusual about this. But in the case of this particular letter, there were several unusual aspects. First, it was neatly typewritten, and composed obviously by someone of education and intelligence. Second, while it was of a critical nature, it did not descend to the level of spite and invective one expects from the. usual type of anonymous letter. . Third, because of these, and because of its contents, it stayed out of the wastebasket, the usual quick end for unsigned communications. THE letter criticized the Mail Tribune for print ing the series of articles written by Medford School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield con cerning his recent trip' to Russia, and criticized Mayfield, for "copying the party line," and dis seminating it in this countiy under the guise of his own experiences. Now let it be understood that neither public officials nor newspapers are immune from crit icism. We would hope, however, that it would be better-founded than that of our unnamed corres pondent, who was way off -base on several counts. Dennis the Menace 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1949 (Thursday) Record shipments of holi day gift fruits to all parts of world, being loaded on trains this week. Champion hereford bull sells for $925 at Cal-Oregon Hereford association show here. ' ' -. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1939 (Friday) U.S. protests Great Britain's blockade of Germany. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Traf fic lights will be rigged up at Sixth, st. and Central ave. within 10 days, and are ex pected to slow up the catapult ing down the first i named thoroughfare." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1929 (Sunday) First rains since last May fall throughout county, with snow in the hills. County jail prisoners em ployed in removing tin-cans and rubbish from sides of county roads. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 8. 1919 (Monday) Jackson county gets $8,658 as share of timber sales. Two carloads of valley hogs shipped to Portland. 50 YEARS AGO v '' Dec. 8, 1909 (Wednesday) Audience packs Medford opera house to see "King Do do;" an excellent perform ance. ' First car load of apples ever to be shipped out of Jackson ville, go to London. T What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior! seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. " 1. Is a chimpanzee a mon key? 2. In aeronautics, what does the symbol e.g. indicate? 3. What is the name of the Communist Party's world leader? 4. What two bodies of water are connected by the Erie Canal? . 5. How many wives did Henry VIII of England have? 6. What was the name of the colony before it was named New York? 7. What is the "Father of Waters"? 8. Is pure tin subject to -rusting? 9. What is another name for the flower called Bache lor's Button? 10. How do pythons kill their prey? - Answers: 1. No (Anthropoid ape). 2. Cenier of gravity. 3, Nikita S. Khrushchev. '4. Lake Erie and Hudson River. 5. Six. 6. New Netherland. 7. Mississippi River. 8. No. 9. Cornflower. 10. By constric tion or squeezing. INSIDE INTERESTS Aizu, Japan (HPD Patrons of a sightseeing bus company here apparently devote their attention to other attractions while taking in the tourist sights. A company spokesman said 28 of the company's girl guides plan to be married this month, most of them to former customers. LIE (OR SHE) should at least have awaited the completion of the series of articles to see whether they parrot the "party line" all the vay through or not. (For instance, see Dr. May field's final article today, in which he sums up his impressions, and expresses his conclusions.) He (or she) should realize that, even if we close our eyes and wish hard, the Russians are not simply going to vanish. The U.b.b.R. exists, and is a hard fact in today's world. The more we know about the Russians (through the eyes of intelligent and competent observers), the bet ter-equipped we will be to deal with the threa thev pose. He (or she) should be able to discriminate between the printed material which Dr. Mayfield received during his visit, which he quoted as examples of information provided to him, and his own conclusions, obtained through personal con tact and observation. TTHE type of thinking which went into the anonymous letter is the kind of thinking which wcfuld, carried to an extreme, deny us the use o: an intelligence service in wartime. It is the type of thinking which tends to be lieve that, everything in America is good (over looking our many . and obvious faults) ; tha' everything in Russia is bad and dangerous (over looking: the fact that Russian science has pu them ahead in the race toward space), and would deny us the benefit of any comparison. ' This is the complacent, head-in-the-sand type of thinking which could lead this nation' com placently to destruction. ' It is a disservice to Leonard Mayfield, a sin cere, competent and dedicated public official, and .no credit to the unknown writer. h.A. i . : ! Communications Lettera tc the Editor must bear 'he name and address ol the writes although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use ot a pen name m initial fur publica tion it pemissible The Mail Triimne reserves the right to ed-' all letters with an eye to cianucannn ana condensation Letters submitted (or publica tion must not exceed 400 words Matter of Fact te.i cmsov&zio fVAGS! I THOUGHT YA SAJO lOU HAD A Qi3 FUVDLBI Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE This Change is Good One of the lesser preoccupations which has been discussed in this space from time to time is the change, the flux which this nation and this society is undergoing. The change is at every level of life, at every level of human activity. And it seems to occur ever more rapidly, not less. The most readily evident signs ot this change are in physical, tangible things-ythe new cars, appliances and conveniences which have come to be such an integral part ot the American scene But there is change, too, at a somewhat less- noticed (but potentially a more important) level the level of cultural standards and activities; in the life of the mind and spirit. ' . CORROBORATION of this comes in the form of an article in (of all places) the pages of the Publishers' Auxiliary, a weekly newspaper for newspapermen. It cites nine points, as follows: 1. There are 5,000 community theaters in the Unit ed States more theaters than radio or TV stations. - 2. Over 700 opera producing groups seven times as many as 15 years ago. 3. 1,100 symphony orchestras twice as many as only 10 years ago. 4. Over 1,000,000 copies of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" have been sold in recent years alone. 5. An estimated 28,000,000 people play musical in struments twice as many as 20 years ago. 6. Shakespeare has never been more popular. 7. Americans now spend more money each year attend concerts than to watch professional baseball. 8. The magazine "American Heritage," which is a hard-cover, no-advertising medium devoted to Ameri can life and culture, . started with a circulation of 60,000 and now totals more than 300,000 per issue. 9. Book stores have been running away with sales on "art in the home," including sculptured pieces and reproductions of classic works, while department stores generally have been asleep at the switch. T'HE article was making the point that retailers oV-nlrI tolra o now Innlr or trioiv orlirovticinnr onrl sales in view of this "cultural expansion." ' Our point is a bit less subtle than that. It is merely that change is one of the few constants in the life of today, and that change is not necessarily bad. - Books, music, art these are things which are part of pur cultural heritage, and things which end to lift mankind toward the attainment of a full, meaningful and rounded life. And that is all to the good. E.A. . - - -f Williams. White PANAMA Washington - In the Latin- American sea of troubles now confronting the United States, the most dan gerous of all the roiled wa ters lie in Panama. For mixed reasons - for some of which w e ourselves are no doubt to blame - the Panamania n s are not satisfied with our con duct of the 10-mile-wide Canal Zone within their country. They want more of the canal's proceeds, an money. And they want more "face." Specifi cally, they wish to fly the Panamanian flag in the zone, which belongs to the United States. The refusal of such permis sion by the American gov ernor of the Canal Zone, Gen. W. E. Potter, can be easily ridiculed as some sort of "brass hat" decision. But its reasons are neither petty nor trivial. What is really involv ed here is no disrespect for the Panamanian flag. It is a question of resisting the thin edge of a wedge. For if the Panamanian flag can freely fly today on what is, after all, United States soil, the lawful sovereignty of the United States over the Canal Zone can be the easier challenged tomorrow. IIE are in the zone for a " sole purpose: to operate a canal, or, more properly, an open international highway. We cannot accept any change in our treaty arrangements with the Republic of Panama which would in any way in terfere with our operation of the canal. For one thing, a large part of the world commerce of South America must pass through the canal. For an other thing, United States in dustry is dependent upon the continued smooth flow of shipping, as is free world trade generally. For a third thing, any sustained interrup tion in the canal's operation could become a strategic - and not merely an economic danger. For this could have chaotic effects on the whole economic underpinning, and thus the military stability, of the Western Hemisphere. There has been no "break' with the Panamanian govern ment and will not be. We do not suspect that government of wishing to drive us from the canal or even to impede its efficient functioning. ITTHAT, then, is. causing all ' the difficulty? The an swers may thus be given-on highly responsible authority: 1. In Panama, as in too many other places in Latin America, pulling the Yankee eagle's tail feathers is increas ingly popular. The "gringo is less loved by the public- and often understandably so, And politicians in Panama are like politicians everywhere They respond to the crowd': dislikes - particularly when popular dissatisfactions can be turned outward against the foreigners" instead of toward the ins at home. 2. A tiny Communist min ority in Panama, ridiculously unimportant in itself, is nev ertheless in position to help foster anti-United States feel ing. And, of course, it is do ing so. 3. Nassers Egypt, through the Egyptian Embassy in Pan ama, is happily making all the trouble it can for the United States. The Egyptians' motive is obscure. One would have thought they could have been satisfied with the endless row they have made over another vital canal, the Suez. THUS one thing only can be said with certainty about the whole Panamanian situa tion: It will not be cured by the appointment by President Eisenhower of a whole series of amiable and vague semi-of ficial commissions. Sooner or later, the Administration simply must undertake a gen eral bettering of our relation ships all over Pan America This cannot be done through "goodwill" approaches. It must come through official and down-to-earth diplomacy, a diplomacy able to speak fi nally - and toughly, too, wherever that is the only way out - for the United States government itself. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Drummond Reports (Walter Lippman is again traveling abroad. Roseoe Drumond reports from Washington in his absence.) WHY MR. K. WAS TOUCHY Washington - It is now be coming clear why premier Khrushchev was so inordi nately touchy about the "cap tive nations" resolution which Congress passed on the eve of Vice President Nixon's trip to Russia earlier this year. You will recall that Mr. K talked about it on every occa sion, as if he couldn't get it off his mind. Why was Mr. Khrushchev so sensitive over an expression of opinion by Congress which simply said that we did not accept Soviet domination of the nations of Eastern Europe as unalter able? The answer is beginning to come out at the Hungarian Communist Party Congress in Budapest. It adds up to one conclusion: that the Kremlin has been genuinely worried about the stability of the Hun garian Communist regime which it was able to save three years ago only with So viet troops and tanks. WHAT emerges from the Party Congress in Buda pest is this: Thirty-six months after the Hungarian revolution, the So viet forces still must occupy Hungary to keep its unpopu lar and unwanted regime in power. And the Hungarian Communist leader, Janos Ka dar, with Mr. Khrushchev lis tening attentively, - "assures" the Hungarian people that Russian troops would remain in Hungary as long as needed. And why are they needed? Mr. Kadar could not bring himself to speak the truth. He blandly explained that they were needed to deal with threats from outside Hungary, but Mr: K. did not stoop to these little dishonesties. He said frankly that "external forces" - like those of West ern "imperialists" - "do not constitute any danger to the Communist camp" because, he added "our strength is great er than theirs." If external forces, from which Mr. K. says there is no longer any danger, do not require Soviet occupation of Hungary, then it must be in ternal forces which require it. And that is frankly the fact. Soviet military intervention in Hungary continues un abated. It is so visible in every aspect of the nation's life to day that Hungary can only be described as a Soviet mili tary protectorate and, know ing how poorly he himself stands with the Hungarian people, Kadar made it clear it would remain so for the in definite future. ALL of this is a pertinent backdrop to the U. N. de bate on Hungary. Hungary is a proper and vital matter for the U. N. for three reasons: (1) for the sake of Hungary Time, Quizzes, Et Al To the Editor: Apparently, a person assailed throughout the day with various news media, advertising, quiz shows, political promises and their like sits securely on a throne made insecure by mis representation. Certainly, Time magazine attempts to detour its follow ers with the subtle and clever methods you describe. But then, so do The Saturday Eve ning Post, Look, ' and other periodicals which present Call On" type stories as fac tual. I shall not lead you into an advertising or quiz show parallel, which you must agree is obvious. Someone once did a fanci ful set of. headlines which represented the manner three metropolitan news papers would lead off their respective articles on a quaint lurid ax murder. The city was Chicago but you are free to substitute any city you wish. They were, substantially: 1) Sex Degenerate Hacks Nude 2) Lovers' Rendevous Ends in Death 3) Communist Bludg eons Comrade The slant of any reporting following these headlines is obvious. Newsweek and U. S. News are probably more accurate in their reporting but are not as entertaining as Time. Here we find the bone in the fillet. The followers of Time, quiz shows, advertising (if there be such people) and the gamut of "informative" matter that drums on our senses each day should realize that if he is being entertained, a bit of skepticism is not out of order, Too many people of late seem shocked by what their edu cation should have led them to suspect. (Name on File) Medford. Radio Worthless To the Editor: This is my first letter to the editor. I would like to say that the radio in our home sits silent and useless. I would like to know what commercials buy sponsors if stations babble and play junk that people can't listen to. The music is sickening, the news is worthless. Thank goodness we have good newspapers. Robert H. Cook -153 Sixth st., Ashland, Ore. Good Music To the Editor: We have found ourselves drawn into the music controversy now be ing discussed in "Communi cations." Like several other recent writers, we wonder why the noisy type of music (rock and roll) is so popular with the radio stations, not only here in the valley but MR. Wll itself and the rights of the Hungarian people to be free and independent; (2) because the Soviet re pression of Hungary is not an isolated incident, it is a pat tern of Communist policy. The forerunner was the Soviet suppression of the East Ger man uprising in 1953. The pattern was followed again in the use of the Chinese Ken Army to drown the uprising of the people of Tibet; (3) only as we keep Hungary clearly in mind can we see what Mr. Khrushchev means when he says he favors "non interference in the interal af fairs of other countries." The presence of Soviet troops in Hungary must be part of that "non-interfer ence." KHRUSHCHEV is at his bluntest best in ex plaining to the Budapest Con gress that Moscow s armed in tervention in 1956 was com parable to armed intervention by Tsar Nicholas I to put down the Hungarian uprising in 1848 which was aimed at free ing Hungary from the feudal control of the Austrian em peror. If the editors of "Pravda" will go back over their own pages they will find that the time was when the Soviet Communists berated the 1848 intervention as a reactionary aggression against the Hun garian peoples' efforts to throw off the yoke of imperi alism. It seems to me that Mr. K's comparison is absolutely ac curate, that he and Tsar Nich olas I did exactly the same thing for the same purpose under the same circum stances. But is this what the Krem lin means when he says it wants "non interference in the internal affairs of other coun tries?" I guess it is. (c) 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. THE TRANSPORTABLE ICBM Washington - On the basis of all the available evidence, the American analysts now 3 assume that v i me soviet m- , s tercontinental 1 ballistic mis- gmJ siles and their .1" MMWUl J5 aua J are transport 3 able. On its face, this may not look like an es pecially crave or significant piece of news. In reality, however, this news is considerably more disturb ing than all the reports of all the Soviet successes in space laid end to end and multiplied by two. The reasons for being disturbed are easily under stood, when our own immo bile ICBM weapons system is compared with the presumed osDh Mstip also in most other communi ties. Rather than criticize, how ever, we would like to point out that some of these other communities (larger than ours, of course) have radio sta tions that pride themselves in playing what they describe as good music. The best example I know is station KABL in San Fran cisco, 960 on the dial, and re ferred to as "Cable" in the oay area, we became ac quainted with this station over the Thanksgiving day week end through relatives, and listened to it almost con tinuously while in the area, The music on "Cable" is of the type that can be listened to all day without being "shook up" by a blast of rock and roll. It resembles the music piped into some of our most enterprising businesses, which apparently is being re ceived graciously by many people. "Cable" has plenty of commercials, but they blend into the general program without giving the urge of wanting to turn it off. Another similar station is KXA in Seattle which can be enjoyed by the residents of the Puget Sound area. For those of us who like this type of music it is unfortunate that we cannot get good reception of these stations. We wonder what reaction a local station would get by somewhat fol lowing the example of Cable". Would a favorable poll encourage one of the sta tions to try a "test run"? Mrs. J. L. Tengesdal 1216 West Eighth st. - Medford. Social Security To the Editor: An article in your paper Sunday regarded a Social Security tax increase, starting with the year of 1960, which is no doubt very necessary. I have been covered by So cial Security almost 19 years, and during month of June, 1956, I had the misfortune of becoming not only unemploy able but totally and perman ently disabled, and declared so by two of the finest doctors in the state. I have furnished the Social Security Administration with this evidence many times, and have been denied even a tem porary freeze on my earnings, much less the benefits I am entitled to. If some types of pension be ing carried on by industries, life insurance companies or labor unions practiced this same method that I have to face, it would be declared a graft. This is happening and by a department of the gov ernment of the finest country in the world. You call it what you like. Edward R. Stevens 613 Franquette st. Medford. By Joseph Alsep Soviet system. Both the American ICBM already in production, the At las, and the next to be pro duced, the Titan, are design ed to be fired from fixed pads. The launching pads them selves are huge and costly in stallations, which add heavily to the expense of the missile program. The first three At las squadrons will also be "soft" and the next five squadrons will be "semi-soft -meaning that an enemy mis sile falling almost anywhere in the vicinity will destroy one of our missiles or its launching pad. TY DIGGING huge concrete " pits for the launching pads. the squadrons to be activated after mid-1962 will be "hard ened" - meaning that the de struction of any ICBM in these squadrons will cost the ene my a considerable number of ICBM's. "Hardening" is of the ulmost importance, since it multiplies the enemy's min imum requirement of mis siles for a first strike by a factor of much more than ten. But the hardened" squad rons, like the "soft" or "semi soft" squadrons will still have to fire from costly fixed po sitions. Until the solid - fuelled "Minuteman" missile comes into production, the U.S. will have no transportable ICBM. Until a date at least four or five years ahead, therefore, the Kremlin will know just where to find all the nerve centers of American ICBM strength. With this knowl edge, if the Soviets build enough missiles for the job, they can hope to destroy the whole panoply of American ICBMs in a single surprise attack. Government Wins Guatemala Election Guatemala City OIPD Nearly-complete returns from Sun day's congressional election recorded a sweeping victory for the government today, doubling its strength in the national legislature. The electoral court said the official party of National Re demption, overcoming the leftist opposition's early lead, won 20 of the 33 seats at stake in the election. The leftist Revolutionary party took sev en, and the other six were di vided two, two and two among lesser parties. The court said the returns not yet in "will have no ap preciable effect on the result." TN CONTRAST, if the Soviet -ICBMs and their launching pads are indeed transportable, the planners in the Pentagon can never know precisely where they are. Like our own ICBMs, to be sure, the Soviet model now in production is thought to be liquid-fuelled (although there are minority doubts, even about this). . If liquid - fuelled, the Soviet ICBMs can hardly be fired from positions too distant from a rail line. But they can nonetheless be fired from any point where the far-spreading Soviet rail net can carry the special flatcars for the missiles and launching pads, the spec ial tank cars for fuel and the like. The first rule of the mis sile balance is that you can not attempt a first strike, un less you can be sure that your first strike will cripple or pre vent the other side's .counter- strike. Otherwise, your first strike is simply the first stage in a suicide pact. Equally, you cannot hope to cripple or pre vent the other side's counter- strike, if you do not know where the other side's strik ing power is emplaced. If the Pentagon planners only know that the Soviet ICBMs must be somewhere close to the Soviet rail net, this is not good enough to permit a first strike Hence the assumption that the Soviet ICBMs are trans portable puts a much darked color on a picture that was al ready quite dark enough. To be sure, the President has re peatedly proclaimed, at his press conferences, that a Dem ocratic society can never strike the first blow in an H bomb war. Thus it is tempt ing to argue that the trans portability of Soviet ICBMs hardly matters. YET it does matter, and quite enormously, for two reasons. On the one hand, a trans portable ICBM is harder to build and, by any imaginable test, operationally superior to an ICBM that must be fired from a fixed launching pad. Thus the assumed transport ability of the Soviet missiles! further emphasizes the Soviet lead in missile development. On the other hand, there is all the difference in the world between the President telling Khrushchev and Company, that they are immune to sur prise attack by the West's nu clear power; and Khrushchev and Company knowing they are immune to surprise at tacks because their own nu clear power is beyond the West's reach. All the President's assur ances could never eliminate a lingering-deterrent doubt. But if this doubt is automatic ally eliminated by the char acter of the Soviet ICBMs, the West's deterrent will be ser iously weakened, both strate gically and politically. (Copyright 1959. 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