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MAIL TRIBUNE, MadfofJ, Or. Thursday, Dac. 17, 1959 "Everyone m Southern Oregon Reads The Mai Tribune" Published Dnilv except Saturday by MJJiFOrtn PRINTING CO 33 North fli St Ph SP 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GRE AdvertMn Managa GEHA1-D LATHAM Business Mg? UHIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Urtitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD J'WETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR:-HEB Women s Editor PALE ERjCKSON Clreuiation May An Independent Newspaper Sntereo a& secmiri elass matter 1 Mad for' Oreron under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES y M a I In Advance Copy 10c. Dall- and Sunday 1 vear $15 00 nail? and Sundsv & mos B.OC Dail and Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Oniy One year S4.20 y Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point E a 1 1 Point Ja?konv1tle. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv. er Taln and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Daily ano bunoay 1 mo isv Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All Terms Cash In Advance SfMeM Paper of City f Medford Official Pap ol Jackson County United Pres International Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of fices In Nev. York Chicago. De troit. San Pranrlsco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At Ian a Vancouver BC. NEWSPAMR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAl Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Th Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dae. 18, 1949 (Saturday) Oregon state dedicates new basketball coliseum by defeat ing Utah cagers 53-41. Local woman goes to New York to edit national religious publication, The Methodist Woman. 20 YEARS AGO Pec. 18, 1939 (Sunday) Medford taxi driver faints fter hitting boy on bicycle; boy not hurt. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This is the week when accident re ports read: "The driver of the wrecked car could not see the approaching auto, due to the Christmas tree on the front fender and hood." 30 YEARS AGO Dee. 18, 1929 (Tuesday) . Canning at Bagley Canning company in Ashland reaches 2,000 tons this season. Dry agent grabs carload of Christmas liquor bound for Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 18. 1919 (Thursday) City threatened withi wood famine, as country roads are impassable. Predicted end of world fails to materialize; amazement ex pressed by thousands. . 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 17. 1909 (Friday) Zelaya resigns as Nicarag uan president; U.S. mayask to punish him. Prospect had record 18 in ches of rain in November. . What's Your I.Q.? Nina Of ten correct it superior: even or eight is excellent; five at lis is good. 1. Is the fetlock of a horse on its head, back, or foot? 2. Is the capital of C h i 1 e Concepcion, Valparaiso, or Santiago? 3. What is the principal ag ricultural crop of Egypt? 4. What are cats' setae? 5. Does the Constitution of the U.S. stipulate the number of members of the President's Cabinet? 6. How many zeros added after the figure "1" represent a quintillion? 7. Which animal sleeps sus pended upside down? 8. What is the name for the side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite the right angle? . 9. Which State of the Union was principally developed by the Mormons? 10. On what date in 1946 did the Philippine Republic become ah independent na tion? Answers: 1. Foot. 2. Santia go. 3. Cotton.' 4. Whiskers. 5. No. 6. Eighteen, 7. The Sloth. 8. Hypotenuse. 9. Utah. 10. July 4, 1946. SENTENC RAPIST New "V .-flIPD-Thomas De vine, 3C. a Negro convicted of raping a white Belgian war bride, was sentenced Wednes day to 60 to 100 years in prison. Queens County Judge Edward Thompson described Devine as "a wild animal." Thompson sentenced James Jones, 20, also convicted of the December, 1958, rape, to 25 to 50 years. Listeners and Readers Two things the TV quiz scandals et al, and the flurry of letters locally concerning radio .mu sic programming prove that there is intense lo cal interest in the broadcasting industry, and its impact on citizens generally. ' Ignored m this (and quite properly so, it seems to us) is the newspaper industry. It is older, and its products are more taken for granted than are the air-born media. IE MAY BE forgiven if we draw a moral. " It will be noted forum to discuss radio music, letter-writers turned to the newspaper. Here their words are set down for all to see. They can be read and re-read, and referred to. That is one advantage newspapers have over both radio and television. I he broadcast media are far faster in getting news to listeners. But in most cases4it is treated in brief, and its spoken word is impermanent. THERE IS ONE other difference. " No one knows exactly how many people listen to any one of the five valley radio stations, or watches the one TV station. Surveys, polls and questionnaires can give a general idea only of the number of sets tuned in. But even these do not measure accurately the lis teners and viewers, who may be away from their sets, or listening with "one ear" or watching with "one eye." And the number varies widely from hour to hour. Here again the newspaper has an advantage. It KNOWS how many copies it prints, and how many subscribers it has. SINCE EACH subscriber pays to receive the pa per, it is demonstrable that it is WANTED. And the Mail Tribune, along with thousands of other newspapers, is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), an independent organization which certifies circulation claims. (It was founded, incidentally, in 1913, as a self policing agency to resolve conflicting circulation claims the same type of unverified claims which radio and TV stations now make.) As a result, the Mail Tribune KNOWS that it was wanted in 17,121 homes during the month of November, and the ABC can prove it. Since newspapers are read by an average of four people, the Mail Tribune offers news, com ment, entertainment and advertising to a po tential regular readership of 68,484 persons in southern Oregon and northern California. No other medium in this area can make that statement. E.A. Living Memorials We've always had the idea that the best me morial is one which is "living," which keeps pro ducing benefits for future generations while hon oring those gone before. This idea or prejudice colore our thinking when considering the proposal of the Veterans Allied Council that a memorial to war dead be erected in the new Jackson Street Park. The idea of honoring our war dead is excel lent. But we would prefer to see it done in a more constructive way than through statuary or a cold reproduction of a tomb. THERE are dozens of ideas to draw from, both ... extravagent and modest. San Francisco has its War Memorial Opera House. It also has the Coit Tower, a memorial to San Francisco's firemen, which, rising up from Telegraph hill, has furnished inspiration and beauty to generations of residents and tourists. The little town of Drain in northern Douglas county, in a magnificient spirit of community en deavor, built a memorial swimming pool. A UDITORIUMS, stadiums, ball parks and other "places of public assembly, recreation and use throughout the nation are dedicated to the mem ories of America's war dead. And how better could they be honored than through a memorial which keeps on "living" in a useful and productive manner. On an even smaller scale, the veterans might wish to consider a wading pool at the new park. We knew several men who gave their lives in World War II who would have been delighted to know they would be honored in the future by providing wholesome fun for children. E.A. Mighty Poor Pay Some lines of work pay better than others. The president of General Motors, for instance, has a pay check that runs into a fat six figures, plus certain stock options and other incentives. It can also be said that he earns eveiy cent of it as far as the company is concerned. The same is time of top-flight executives of other big films. They produce, and they are well-rewarded ; they fall down on the job, and out they go. ZITHER salaries and wages come down the scale Vto a rather modest figure. But. the poorest-paid laborer of the lot, the way we figure it on the basis of inf ormation from Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner, is the burglar. Assume that he "works" an average of eight hours a day, including the time spent in prison. Total the amount he "earns" in his profession. And his "average earnings" come out to 15 cents per hour. There must better ways to make a living. E.A. that, in seeking a public Dennis the Menace (il7 raw. s Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although Under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to 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 case. Two Stations Praised To the Editor: I have been reading the letters and editor ials concerning the music we receive on radio. I want to add my praise for the choice music we get. I par ticularly like the good selec tions of Mr. Ekberg of station KYJC. Also KMED has had some very lovely music today. My wife and I don't go for Rock and Roll. We like good smooth listening, classical, semi-classical and popular (not jazz) music. We used to listen to the two newer stations but that music became too much R 'n' R, and too many com mercials between selections. Now we stay with KMED and KYJC and certainly enjoy the variety we get. We just wanted to get our two cents' worth in. We just returned from a trip to southern . California and did not find any stations on the trip with the consist ently good music we get here. Our thanks and praises to KMED and KYJC. V. L. Moon, 4459 Colver Rd., Medford. Bouquet To the Editor: As time is the essence and I will be un able to speak to you person ally, I would like to have a small portion of your com munications column to write "Ye Editor." First I think you are very broadminded to pub lish all the communications, regardless of where the chips fall. Of course I realize there are always some who want to crit icize no matter what the' sub ject. As for me I would like to hand you a bouquet for your editorials for the last two weeks, beginning with your editorial on the Food for Peace program initiated by the only 1960 presidential as pirant to date, i.e. Sen. Hu bert Humphrey of Minnesota. And he did this before Ike came out for it a few days ago, which in a way will help to lower those costly food surpluses. If he is on thi Ore gon ballot, he should be re membered at that time. A regular subscriber, (Name on file). Medford Origin of the DAV To the Editor: Just 40 years ago this Christmas Day, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a disabled veteran of World War I, Judge Robert S. Marx, invit ed 100 fellow disabled vet erans to a grand Christmas party. This party was not one that you would expect to see, or dinarily. The dinner was served and a good time en joyed by all present, but the enjoyment was more by way of the pleasure of each other's company, and in reminiscence of the The Argonne, St. Mi- hiel, Belleau Wood, the Lost Battallion incident, etc., than by dancing and other capers that would take a whole and healthy body. The percentage of guests present that was able to both walk and see was very small. In fact nearly, all of them were in wheelchairs, or car ried the white can of the sightless. . From this gathering came the inspiration to form a permanent organization to help the wounded and dis abled veteran. Shortly after ward Judge Marx met with 200 vocational trainees, also disabled veterans, at the Ohio Mechanical Institute. The vet erans who had taken part in these two gatherings, after discussing their problems and giving them earnest thought, resolved that an organization with a single purpose should be formed, to help the wound ed and disabled veteran solve his problems. Chapters sprang up all over the nation. At first they kept in touch by correspondence, then sent delegates to a cau cus in Cincinnati. Thus 1960 is the 40th anniversary of the DAV. The first national con vention was held in 1921, electing Judge Marx the first national commander. From that small gathering, the DAV has grown to a national membership of more than 200,000. From the time of its incep tion, the DAV has filled a great need in the lives and welfare of aU disabled vet erans. Service to disabled veterans, by disabled veter ans who fully understand the problems, prompted DAV's founding, and that same sin gle purpose keeps the organi zation's flag still flying high. Here is a brief statistical summary of accomplishments in Oregon covering the last 10 year period. Claimants contacted, 31,357; folders re viewed, 26,131; appearances before rating board, 12,892; compensation increases ob tained, 792; non-service pen sions, 828; death benefits ob tained 430; total monetary benefits obtained $933,996.15. Eleven per cent of this amount was obtained through the Medford DAV service of ficer. Pat Graham, Department Historian and Publicity Chairman Disabled American Veterans, Medford. Now It's TV Programs To the Editor: First, I wish to express gratitude for giv ing us the opportunity to ex press ourselves in this column. There is no accounting for the power of the "press" as well as the "voice" of the people. And now that we have ac complished such an improve ment in the radio programs, I wonder if we shouldn't give some serious thought and ef fort toward another situation here, that most decidedly could use a great improve ment, that of the local TV pro grams? It's getting just about as bad as it can possibly get, and it's high time we give some consideration and con cern for what our children like and need. Or are their wants less im portant than ours? (A question we had better seriously con sider before answering.) A stranger would think this valley is populated with "il literates" and "hoodlums," judging from the offerings on the station. It's rather insult ing, considering this area con tains as much culture, and mostly homes of decent Chris tian people, with many fine children. Undoubtedly the problem will be much more difficult, with the "take it or leave it" attitude of this one station. However, there are ways, and the "people's voice" will be heard and heeded, if we care enough to try. As an example of this bad management, Saturday eve nings were for a while of great interest to the children, who are always home and watch ing TV at those hours. And this is about what they have to listen to: "bowling" for an hour (very boring to children), then "Small World," then an hour-long 20-year-old "melo drama," punctuated with a few hundred ads, followed by a couple of "crime" pictures, , Today and Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann OUR IRANIAN PROBLEM II In my last article, I describ ed some of the disturbing questions which beset our policy in Iran. We are con ducting what is in essence a fl holding oper ation to en able the Shah's gov ernment t o remain politi cally aligned with the anti- Soviet alliance. The Soviet Union's reply is two-pronged. On the one hand, it is under mining the Shah's govern ment by propaganda and by subversive infiltration. On the other hand, it is tempting the Iranian government to adopt a policy on the Egyptian model, which is to take aid from both sides and to align itself with neither. There is no way of telling when, if ever; there will be a showdown between the Sov iet policy and ours,. We do know, however, that in the next eight or nine months the Iranian government will have exhausted its reserves of for eign exchange. If a financial crisis is to be averted, outside emergency help will, it would appear, have to be given. Ev en with this, there will have to be some stringency in place of a rather lush expen diture of public funds. No one, not even the secret ser vices, can surely foresee or measure the possible conse quences of financial trouble. Political developments are hard to foresee in a country where the nation is not surely consolidated behind the gov ernment and where the pow er of the government depends, as it does in Iraq next door, on the inner politics of the army. It would be imprudent, therefore, to be complacent about the. prospects. Our gov ernment needs to examine the problem closely and with fresh eyes, and not be content to repeat the singsong of the old policy. T WOULD begin our reexam- ination with a hypothesis which though it is not yet proved, will, when it has been studied and debated, probably turn out to be sound. It is: except as a temporary emer gency program, our present bilateral relationship with Ir an is undesirable and in the long run unworkable. We are virtually the sole donor coun try. As such we incur too much responsibility, one which we cannot carry out because we are only advisers and cannot control the Iran ian administration. As a re sult, Iran is too dependent on us, too convinced that its des tiny is determined in Wash ington. A way will have to be found of diffusing the respon sibility and of sharing the burden of solving Iran's eco nomic and social problems. There are in Iran too many Americans in too many places. As one meets them, they are quite evidently earnest and h a r dworking, conscientious and deeply interested. In spite of their frigidaires they live difficult and in some ways dangerous lives, and there is among them a missionary zeal. They are in fact the mo dern representatives of the noble American missionary tradition. But, and but. Their persuasive presence imposes upon this country too great a moral responsibility for the destiny of a country which we can influence only a little. An American presence on the ex isting scale should not be treated as permanent. It should become our purpose to diffuse in some kind of inter national agency the responsi bility for doing the very good works which so much need to be done. ALTHOUGH the words here arp m v nwn T fnnnrJ iha idea in the minds of several Iranians who have intimate about as appropriate for chil dren as a burlesque show. Finally, when all the little guys have given up and gone to bed, come their favorite "westerns," for parents to see (if they aren't too tired and bored by then). The "Skelton," "Benny," "Hennessy," "Raw hide," "Oh Susannah," "Mar gie," etc., shows that children like, are either entirely miss ing, or shown too late for chil dren to see. No use writing the manager, he is not interested. -But if each and all of us would "gently unplug" our sets for one month, and refuse to buy sponsors' product, I think probably he just might get interested. I repeat, let's get "interest ed" in our, children's prefer ences as well as their welfare, and do something about this nauseating TV situation. A Parent Mrs. M. Williams 357 Orr dr. Central Point, Ore. Walter Klnpmann U.N. Assembly Meeting Could Mark Turning Point By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The United Nations General Assembly session just con cluded could mark a turning point in the history of that org anization to pre serve world peace. In broad terms, it was an unusually sucessful At Phil Newsom and it marked the emergance of an Afro-Asia group, which henceforth will make It difficult if not im- knowledge of the relationship with America. The presence of so many American advis ers, with their missionary zeal and with their American standards of political integri ty, generates irritation and re sentment. Iran, like many an other underdeveloped coun try, is underdeveloped politi cally. It is a country where, we might say, the payola is pandemic and is a way of life. It is very difficult to get things done without conform ing in some degree to the cus toms of the country. All this is no doubt a contributing cause to the polite but quite evident disenchantment with America. The position of being virtu ally the sole donor and bene factor and protector is one in which it is impossible to sat isfy the expectations of the re cipient. It would be much better for all concerned if aid to Iran were multilateral. From what I have seen I have become convinced that all would benefit in the long run if we began to channel a larg er part of our technical assist ance through the United Na tions. We ought also to press forward as rapidly as possi ble the plans for an Interna tional Development associ ation which would be associa ted with the stony-faced, im personal, nonpolitical, anti septic, and indispensable in stitution of the World bank. I realize that this cannot be done overnight. But it is, I am convinced, the direction in which we ought to be moving, and probably not only in Iran but in other undeveloped countries as well. 1ITE COME now to the prob- " lem of Iranian security. In yesterday's article I point ed out the reasons why this is essentially an internal prob lem - why specifically it is the problem of the stability and durability of the Shah's gov ernment. The notion that the way to make Iran secure is to build a Maginot line to hold back a Russian invasion until we can arrive to defend Iranian territory, is obsolete and, it is in fact nonsense. No serious person believes it. It is sym bolic talk designed to justify our asking Congress to appro priate money for aid to the Shah's government. For if the Russians meant to attack Iran, they would jump right over the Iranian army, using their missiles and their airborne troops. And if Russia did at tack in this way, the last thing we would want to do is to join battle on the ground in Iran itself. We would fight. But we would do our fighting in some more accessible place. The principal purpose of our support of Iran is not to prepare for a world war, but to uphold the Shah's govern ment which is aligned with us. For reasons which I have been indicating in these arti cles, we cannot be certain that our policy will work for the indefinite future. There is much that is fragile and pre carious in the whole situation, and we must prepare ourselv es for the uncertainties of the future. What we must do is to prepare in our minds a pol icy upon which we can, if ne cessary, fall back. I am not suggesting that we change our policy. But I do suggest that we should be thinking about an acceptable alternative to it. THERE IS in principle no doubt what the alterna tive is. If our present policy of aligning Iran against its big neighbor breaks down, there are two possibilities. Iran can become a satellite of the Soviet Union. Or it can be come an uncommitted and un aligned state in which, as in Egypt and as in India, econ omical and technical aid is taken both from the West and from the Soviet Union. Quite evidently, if the time comes when Iran cannot be held as a Western outpost and client, the independence of Iran and the interests of the West in Iran will best be se cured by a policy of miltary neutrality and of political and economic nonalignment. I was much interested in the opinion of a very exper ienced foreign diplomat with whom I discussed this ques tion. Ideally, he said, the best solution would be neutrality on the Austrian model; that is to say, neutrality with an in- i Wei possible for the Western Na tions to bend the assembly to their will. In general it was a lack lustre session, none of whose 69 items disposed of on the calendar is apt to have any world-shaking effect. The Russians found fre quent cause to mention the amicable meeting between Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Eisenhower and to cite the "Camp David spir it" at such times as when the West brought up the embar rassing -question of continued occupation of Hungary by So viet troops. ' The Russians said such questions violated the Camp David spirit. On the propaganda side, the Russians scored with Khrushchev's appearance be- ternational treaty to which the great powers . subscribe. He warned me, however, that Iran is not Austria, and that neutrality is a highly sophisti cated policy for a country which is in such an early stage of its political development. This was an impressive judgment, and it may well be true. But if the American pol icy of treating Iran as a client state should break down, and since the alternative of Iran as a Soviet satellite is alto gether unacceptable, it may become necessary to experi ment with a middle course, which is that of a neutral, per haps even of a neutralized, state. - WHAT could be done here is a question which no one can answer until he knows whether the Eisenhower ven ture will in fac:. lead to a truce in the Cold War and to some accommodation of our political rivalry with the Sov iet Union. For the time being, however, we can, I think, say that while our policy in Iran is fragile,, and while we must be prepared for surprises, Iran is a secondary theater in the power politics of the globe. The International pressures around Iran are not. now acute. The Soviet Union is bound to keep seeking ways of ousting us as a military presence, much as we would be bound to seek ways to oust the Soviet Union if it had a large military mission in Mex ico. But the Soviet Union knows that our military mis sion in Iran is not a military "base" and that as long as we do not set up missiles in Iran, there is no military threat. Moreover, the resources of Iran, chiefly its oil, are not vitally interesting to the Sov iet Union. With the discovery of oil in French Africa and in Libya, that is to say, west of the Suez canal, the oil of the Middle East is no longer a matter of life and death for Europe. There has been a new turn in world affairs which will affect the European con cern about the Middle East. There are, therefore, grounds for thinking that the j prospects, though they are un certain, are not necessarily too tragic. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Coddling Moths, Grubs Top Oregon Pest List Salem-flJPD-The State De partment of Agriculture said today that coddling moths and I cattle grubs topped the 1959 ! list of the most undesirable ; pests on Oregon farms. Aaou fro FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD DAYOdNlGHT m in History fore the assembly and his gen eralized proposal for total world disarmament in four years. On the debit side for the Communists was their failure to prevent assembly action deploring their actions in Hungary, or a resolution call ing for "respect" for the fund amental rights of the Tibetan people. They failed also to halt a U.N. investigation of charges of Communist aggres sion in Laos. It was felt that the Rus sians gained a point and Unit ed States prestige suffered when the Communists were able to force a compromise di viding the contested security seat council between Poland and Turkey. The resolution sending the disarmament problem to a lu nation committee contained enough of the flavor of the Khrushchev proposal to per mit the Soviets to claim, a tactical victory there also. Passed Resolutions Mild .-. All resolutions passed by the assembly were compara tively mild and lacked the strong terms of such earlier U.N. dictates as when years ago the assembly told Russia to get its troops out of Iran, and Russia did. A number of factors con tribute to the U.N.'s changing complexion. One is the Camp David spirit and the belief, ill-founded or not, that world tensions are relaxing. Another more Important one is the growth of the Afro Asian bloc which next year will gain as four more inde pendent nations emerge in Africa. As the United Nations' mem bership increases, it becomes increasingly difficult for any one group to obtain the two thirds majority necessary for passage of any resolution; This in turn means that only a resolution offensive to no one has much of a chance. He Will Li' e a New Pair of Slippers Men's Tan Elk Moe. Vamp OPERA SLIPPER With s595 Cushion Crepe Sole Buster Brown SHOE STORE lh CourthouM SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR! PHONE SP 2-5030 Just
