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Newspaper Page Text4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfoM, Or. Monday, Dee. 28, 1959 MnF0RD4TBIBUHB "ETeryone is Southern Orejron Rcada The Mali Tribune' Published 1M1 reept Saturday by W-DFOrtri PRTNTIMG CO 83 Norm fii St Ph SP 8-S141 ' ROBiHT W BUHL Editor HERB GREY AdvertW". Manager GEIVALD LATHAM Businesa Ugt ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Urtitor EARL B ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JVWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Womm i Editnt DALE ER1CKSQN Circulation Mg An Independent Newspaper Enterea a send elans matter at Medfor"" rtrrrrm under At of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mil ; In Advance Copy 10c Da II- and Sunday 1 ear $13 00 Daily and Sunday moa 01 Dall an Sunday 3 moa 3S Sundar Onlr One year t20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point Eaele Point Ja-kionville. Gold Hill Phoenl Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Taln' and on motor routes Dail7 and Sunday 1 vear$18 00 Daily and Sunosv 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Cfflcle! Paper of City .of Medfnrd Official Papet o Jackson Connty United Pre IntematJonal run Leased Wire . "taEMBCT OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Afvertisin Representative: WEST HOLIPA Y CO INC Of fices m New York. Chicago. De troit 3an evanrtseo. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver BC. 0" NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIA1 Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Marl Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1949 (Wednesday) Bellhop eent to prison for five years after stealing dia mond worth $2,200 from Jack son hotel mail. Governor McKay appoints employment advisory commit tee to counter growing unem ployment in Oregon. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 28, 1939 (Thursday) Finns are reported to be turning tables on Russians and pentrating into latter's terri tory. : From Arthur Perry's 'Ye Smudge Pot" column: "With only three days left in 1939, many citizens are as full of resolutions as a convention of Jackson county Granges." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 28. 1929 (Saturday) City police shoot it out on city streets with two men and a woman accused of torturing an aged junk dealer for his money. . Age limit for participants In Oregon, high school ath letics is set at 20 by state of ficials. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 28. 1919 (Monday) - Wave of Christmas deaths resulting from poison booze Starts nation-wide round up ! of bootleggers. r - Mail Tribune to broadcast report of Oregon --Harvard Rose Bowl game. '50 YEARS AGO . Dec 28. 1909 (Tuesday) Merger of Medford, Grants Pass, and Ashland fruitgrow ers unions to control market ing is under consideration. Laying of track for Pacific and Eastern Railroad between Medford and Eagle Point con tinues as good weather pre vails. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or lis it good. . iium 1. What is the oldest city founded by Europeans In the New World? 2. The names of four of the ! 13 original American colonies begin with the letter N; what are they? 3. Is the edible part of a hen's egg composed of one half, two-thirds, or three-quarters water? 4. Are there 24, 28, 32, or 36 1 gills in one gallon? 5. Who wrote the music of "Old Folks at Home"? 6. What is "barnyard golf?" 7. Who is the chief of the Central Intelligence Agency? 8. Who was the President of the U.S. between the two terms served by Grover Cleve land? 9. State in degrees the sum of the angles of a triangle. 10. What angel announced to Mary that she was to be the Mother of Jesus? Answers: 1. San Domingo. 2. New Hampshire, New York. ' New Jersey, North Carolina. , 3. Three-fourths. 4. Thirty- - two. 5. Stephen Foster. 6. Horseshoe Pitching. 7. Allen W. Dulles. 8. Benjamin Harri son. 9. 180 degrees. 10. The , Angel Gabriel. Hot Pursuit On two consecutive police have chased drivers through the city at high speeds. In both cases one 20, wrecked the cars also put in jeopardy the lives of innocent citizens in their path. The officers, too, were called upon to risk their lives in apprehending these youths who chose to ignore the An objection to these Wherein lies the greater letting speeders go or in engaging in such wild . I N AN individual case and assuming the driver is oiiilt.v of Tinthinrr mnra than a minnr traffic offense the greater harm could come from the wild chase. We'd likely be safer if the speeder If 1 J l1 . were aiiowea 10 escape Rut that's nnlv nnp is the officer to know that the driver is guilty of ii i n vn i t notning more tnan speeding rwnen a driver does not heed a siren, he has a reason. Has he just puljed a stick-up? Is he a "heavy" who is wanted fnr a mainr prime? Whv fines he flee? This the pursuing policeman can not know until alter tne cnase. THO FAIL to pursue a driver who ignores a siren is to abdicate police We dare not, in effect, tell our citizens that anybody who doesn t want to be arrested is free to ignore the police siren. Police pursuit must be regarded by criminals as a certainty, not just a remote possibility. One speeder, left to escape, is of relatively small moment. ' But if all speeders are a breakdown of traffic OR must we regard to outrun the police thousrh thev are usually less driving or speeding, more grave. Because they endanger so many lives, they are, in a manner of speaking, guilty of as sault. By refusing to heed the siren, they are, also in a manner of speaking, guilty of resisting arrest. Far from criticizing the police who chase these punks, the public should appreciate the risk an officer takes in the course of his job. Eugene Register-Guard Attack on Old Laws Efforts in Oregon to limit banking hours and to forbid the selling of used cars on Sunday makes interesting the activity in the east to do away with so-called "blue laws" statutes pro hibiting the sale of some merchandise and the conduct of certain business on Sundays. A leading opponent of New Jersey's blue law is the American Jewish Congress, which is chal lenging the law in federal court, too as a vio lation of religious freedom as guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Jewish Sabbath is on Saturday. CONSTITUTIONALITY of Pennsylvania's re cently stiffened blue laws, dating back to 1794, now upheld by a three-judge federal court, is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. One fargument in the Keystone Jews to observe Sunday n ji same as compelling tnem to recognize unnstian ity. Virginia's Sunday-rest statutes also are under attack in both federal and state courts. , Opponents of blue laws will have to overcome legal precedent to win their cases. Originally de signed to enforce observance of the Christian Sabbath, the statutes have been legally justified also on the basis of the State's power to protect the moral and physical welfare of the commu nity. So ruled the U.S. Court as far back as 1895. AS RECENTLY as 1951, on Sunday was upheld in state court over the defendant's objection that it was both a prefer ence of religion and a denial of religious freedom. It looks as if those restrictive selling laws in precedence tor their ambitions, but any time the government makes such ly invading the field of personal liberty a zone into which they are crowding more and more to the detriment of the welfare of everyone, Anyway, people in uregon should watch with interest the new attempts to do away with these ridiculous .laws. Corvallis Gazette-Times Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF A STORY from Israel concerns rationing that is necessary at times for bread, sugar, coffee and other essentials. Most persons take it in stride, but one fellow suddenly went berserk: Ive been standing in lines now for three weeks," he cried. "Butcher lines. . Baker lines. Milkman lines. Everywhere lines. I'm going to complain to the prime minister." He strode off in a rage, but was back a couple of hours later. "Well," said a friend, "did you see the prime minister?" "Oy," was the answer, "there's really a line!'? On the bar menu of a drive-In: Our special martini: 75c Mad With your suggestions: $1.25. Sign on the window of a taxfcab: Tm lovely. I'm engaged. In a school ne: Drive carefullv. Amt shnrtaera tuh.it. Jft a reducing parlor; Drop ia days recently Eugene the drivers, one 19 and they were driving. They police siren. chases has been voiced. harm, some ask in endangering others by chases? witnout pursuit. si'Hp nf thp cam. Hnw authority. left to escape, we have control. these speeders who seek as minor offenders. Al charged only with reck their offense is really State was that forcing as a day of rest was the , ' ' a New York penal law who want to push these Oregon have plenty of regulations they are real and ahoo tha fau Dennis the Menace fVw'T VWsV AAfttA WP ww f ivrv IWI . I rear WE'fiE JUST GONNA W4TCH TV Washington Report By WILLIAM YEAR OF BISK Washington For nearly the whole field of Democratic Presidential aspirants 1960 brings, with the resumed Con gress, a year of pecu liar risk and danger. Never be fore have so many Sena ators been se rious Dossibil- WWSS- Hies for the nomination. Four of the five contenders sit in the Senate Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Symington ot Missouri. Thus to a degree not seen in History wnai nappens m Congress alone will largely shape the Presidential pros pects of a whole party in a na tional election year. Of the big five aspirants, only Adlai E. Stevenson will not be inti mately connected with the record of this coming session. And even he will not alto gether be apart from it. THE Republicans will be far less affected. Their front runner for the Presidency, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, cannot expect to stay wholly out of the line of fire. On the whole, however, he need not go on record except when and where he chooses. His chief rival, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New YorK, even more fortunate. Al bany is a long way from the national cockpit of Washing ton. The roor old Democratic Senators, however, must run a curious trial by fire. "Hap py New Year, indeed!" they might well be sourly mutter ing. Thev face a conspiracy made not by men but by cir cumstances beginning with the extraordinary happen stance that their party's wealth in Presidential avail- ables is so centered in a single place, the Senate. It is so easy there to make enemies ana alienate neode by having to vote all the time on this or that issue. This must be a short ses sion, since the national con ventions of both parties are to be in July. With this in mind, the Democratic leaders have already laid on an ur gent program for tne open ing of the session, iney in tend to go to bat at once with Mlla rrf fairlv liberal com nlexion Federal aid to school construction, an increase in the minimum wage, and so on , rriHE basic purpose is this: J- to make an initial Con gressional record of construc tive action before facing tne bitterly divisive issue of civil rights which is to be brought up in February. The bulk of Congressional Democrats, Southern and Northern alike, will support school aid and minimum wage rises. So such early achieve ments must be relied upon to give at least a first impres sion of a unified and effective party. Bu even granting all goes according to plan, civil rights from the first moment will unceasingly scowl over the near horizon. And once that contest is reached nothing can save the Democrats from wounding North-South fight ing. Every Senator will have to stand up, over and over, to b' counted. Johnson will be under the heaviest pressure of all." As party leader he will be held ultimately responsi ble, anyhow, for aU that "hap pens in the Senate. ' - ' HIS middle position, how ever,, can hardly satisfy either the extremely pro or TYVJT 1AAMT AMVTUlUfS Vi PAT esa) I V" inUTW IV rn WHILE WE GET WARMED UP' S. WHITE the extremely anti-civil-rights people. Humphrey, as an ad' vanced civil rights man, will have to cut publicly and finally whatever last thin tie he may have with moderate opinion. Kennedy, who will par ticularly need some Southern support at the convention, must make decisions of enor mous difficulty. Symington will be, in a lesser way, in about the same position. Worse yet, there is labor. If the steel strike is resumed upon the expiration on Jan. 26 of the current armistice, Congress will certainly be called upon for new legisla tion. And any Democratic bill really infuriating thei labor leaders will be a very tricky business in an election year, True, neither party can really afford to offend all of big labor in 1960. But the Republicans can far more nearly get away with it, just as they have no real civil rights problem because the South is, at most, a secondary problem to them. ' (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Communications Letters to the Editor must bear riie name and address ot the write! although "nder cer tain .circumstances tne use ot e Sen name m initial for publica on is pemissible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to ed al) letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Another Guess To the Editor: I have been wondering just when you would take "Windy" Pete to task and your editorial doing that was more than welcome. I would like an explanation though. 'You termed his last letter asinine. Now I have fol lowed gardening for years and it's the first time I ever heard fertilizer called by that name. Guess. I am way behind times in that respect but not in how such mud slinging strikes the voters. Anyone who thinks the Ore gon voters are dumbbells and will fall for such tactics has another guess ' coming. All Windy is accomplishing is creating more supporters for Dick so let him rave. Maybe he is getting paid for it from the fund Nixon had to explain when he ran for Vice Presi dent. I have a friend who brags that he has voted the straight Republican ticket for 40 years. Said he would vote for a yellow dog in preference to Lincoln on the Democratic ticket. Well after the, letter and editorial mentioned, he told me he would not only support the Democrats next election but would sell other hard shells to do the same. Claude M. Hall 2860 Hartley lane . Grants Pass, Ore. Kin to King To the Editor: One of the most eccentric travelers and story tellers I ever met was of Australian lineage and claimed to be kin to the Eng lish tea king. Sir Thomas Lip ton. To begin with he claimed to have received his elemen tarv education in - Boston, Mass.. How he emigrated to Oregon is another unrecord ed chaDter: orobably by a slow process of sailing by way of the Horn ol tne . ooum American continent. finne uDon a time he was employed by various Rogue valley corporations in con struction work camps. One time, it was said that inclem ent weather made conditions difficult for outside work and Tetain the crew. "Shorty," as he was nicknamed, was the number ' one story teller around the campfires all win ter. His tales of adventure had a trend for the fantastic, and realistic, yet were not fatalis tic "Shorty" will be remem- Nelson Rockefeller's Withdrawal May Put Richard Nixon on the Defensive By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington -flJPD- Gov. Nel son A. Rockefeller's bomb shell withdrawal from the contest for the Republi can presiden tial nomina tion may put Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon in a bad spot and on the defen sive. "A .i. f onimii l ne cmi- lenging key words in Rocke feller's week end statement were these: "The great majority of those who will control the Republican convention stand opposed to any contest for the presidential nomination." "The great majority of those who will control the Republican convention!!!" In other words, the Republican pros, the Republican grass roots and state machines, the party bosses! The governor said that these-a comparative ly few men and women, at most-have made up their minds that they do not want a contest. And that's that; they want Nixon. The governor did not say Eisenhower Deals With Thorny Problem While on French Visit By PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: THE MAN TO PLEASE: One of the thorniest prob lems President Eisenhower had to deal with in Paris was President Charles de Gaulle's Census Forms Have Many Questions on Va r i e ty of Br FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington - flJPD - Do-it-yourself census forms for I960 have been on public view for several weeks now and the cen sus bureau can't believe Its good luck. Nobody so far has raised any serious squawk. Frank Eleazav Un, a lew congressmen have complain ed that the census taker these days is getting too nosy, want ing to know about our plumb ing (indoors or out); our washing machines (automatic or not); and how we get to work in the morning (many a morning I wonder about that one myself). One lawmaker went so far as to suspect, publicly, that psychiatrists might have tak en over the bureau. By and large, though, the bureau's final decisions on what ques tions to include and leave out in the 18th decennial cen sus have been received with resignation if not outright en thusiasm The bureau doesn't expect enthusiasm. All it asks is that you answer the questions, ranging from your income to your telephone number. Any body who refuses can be fined $100 or sent to jail for 60 days, though the bureau can't recall a case where this ac tually happened. "We persuade 'em," a Japan To Reduce Fish Boat Number Tokyo - (UPD - The Fishery Board today notified fishing firms which operate in the North Pacific that they must cut the number of their sal mon catcher boats by 10 per cent next year. The present salmon catcher fleet has 460 vessels. The board said the reduc tion in the catcher fleet was necessary because of Japan's reduced salmon catch quota in Northern Pacific waters. bered by all who had ever met him, from Mexico to Medford, around 40 years ago. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford, Ore. MLdDX 12" and 2' Mixed Big Double Leads Summer Prices S4H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO Telephone SP 2-2111 that a great majority of the members of the Republican party would prefer that the Vice President be nominated for President without oppo sition! A statement of that kind would have boomed Nixon into the nomination so surely that it scarcely would have been necessary to have a convention. There are elements in the Republican party likely to be resentful and aggressively op posed to the situation now stated by Rockefeller to be a fact within their party -that the grass roots and state pro fessionals oppose a contest for the presidential nomination. If this resentment catches fire there could be a go-for-broke movement to nominate Rockefeller anyway. The gov ernor said his decision was definite and final. Politicians, however, have a certain poet ic license. For good or ill, Rockefel ler's statement tagged Nixon as the handpicked choice of the party pros who even op posed giving any other Repub lican an opportunity to con test the nomination in con vention balloting. Except in the instance of the renomination of a presi dent, that has not been the refusal to permit integration of French forces into NATO. Now, as result of agreement reached between the two, French experts are preparing a plan where the French Air Force at least will "coope rate" with the Allied Integrate Subjects spokesman said of the com parative few who every 10 years can be depended on to balk at some question or other or even to refuse, on religious grounds, to have any part at all of the census. Anyway, it's not as bad as it might be. In 1850 the cen sus '. taker inquired among other things whether each household included any pau pers, idiots, or convicts. There are other grounds to be grateful. After proper deli beration the census experts turned down inquiries on the color of our hair, if any (the cosmetics makers wanted to know); the number and kind of our pets, (for the dog food makers, I think); our height and weight Xthe tailors hoped to engineer better fits); and whether or not we have faith, and if so what kind (a touchy subject on constitutional grounds). Even so, some of the 180 million people the nose-count is expected to turn up are likely to view the inquiry as unduly inquisitive. A basic form will be mail ed to all householders in March, to be filled out and held for the census taker's call early in April. It covers name, age, race, marital sta tus, etc., of all residents. It includes a - similar inquiry about any non-resident who may have stayed overnight on March 31, a question which it is hoped won't ambarrass too many people. Then there's some basic stuff about the house, includ ing whether or not there's a toilet that flushes. At every fourth house will be left an additional two pages of questions on the house and two extra pages for details about each person living therein. That's where we get into where you work and how much, and whether you get there by bus, railroad, car pool, or muleback. Also, how many years schooling you got; how many times you've been married; and (for women) how many babies you've had. To be ready, you also may as well count now your radios, TV's, and automobiles. Most of the form-filling will be done by those being counted. Still, 160,000 enum erators will be hired for about two weeks of hoofing around. These jobs will pay about $12 daily. To get one you have to read, write, and vote Republican. American political way. Nix on's solo position as an aspi rant for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 1956 was seized upon by the Democrats as a campaign is sue. The Democrats called their own an open convention in contrast to the Republican convention which they said was closed. The Bosses' Man' The Democrats could have a better issue on open-closed conventions in 1960. That would be if Nixon came out of the Republican convention tagged by Rockefeller as the nominee whom the party leaders protected from all op position; the bosses' man. Nixon's strategists certain ly did not foresee this Rocke feller action. The Vice Presi dent was on a sight-seeing tour with a young relative Saturday when the governor's statement erupted from Al bany. The Nixon camp had been aware, however, of an noyed intimations from Rock efeller sources that the Vice President was the Republican machine choice. The polls, for what they are worth, indicate that Nixon is far stronger today than Rock efeller, not merely with party bosses but with the rank and file. Future polls will be es- ed Air Command. The man who will judge it and who is also the man to be pleased is Supreme Commander U.S. Gen. Lauris N o r s t a d. The French report is expected about mid-February, giving Norstad a month to study it before reporting on it to the allied military committee. HAT IN THE RING: West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt is said to be quietly working behind the scenes to become the Social Democratic Party's nominee for West Ger man chancellor in the 1961 elections. The socialists never have been able to dislodge Chancellor Konrad Aden auer's Christian - Democratic Party but the popular Brandt might give Adenauer some election-day troubles. COMPETITION: Reliable economic sources in Frankfurt say West Ger man steel firms are preparing to step up their exports to the United States in the event of a new walkout by U.S. steel workers. The West German firms already are making some U.S. deliveries but the plan now is to step up these shipments to meet a consider able part of U.S. steel needs. MORE TROUBLE: Observers in Southeast Asia expect new troubles in Laos to break out around the mid dle of January. Not only will there be pressure from the Communist North Vietnamese border area, but it is possible that a civil war may be touch ed off by dissident tribal ele ments and the outlawed Path et Lao forces which are friend ly to communism. ELUSIVE MAO: Western intelligence sourc es admit they have lost track completely of Mai Tse-tung, strongman of Red China. They haven't been able to get a line on him since Oct.- 25. It is surmised that he is in the southern provinces, checking up on the campaign to root out the so-called "rightist op portunists," those who have opposed the regime's rigorous work campaign. But even this is not known for certain. Decially interesting. ThT may show whether the rank and me will switch to Rocke-feller-the man the party bosses counted out. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Today's brightest news: Man's hones for nA3p on earth grew stronjrer tndav after the happiest and most relaxed Christmas the world has known since World War 'THERE'S still some shooting. There is a rebellion in "Al geria. Algeria came into writ ten history as Numidia Un man colony with an advanced civilization. In 440 A.D., the vanaais swept in and ended Numidia's prosperity. In the 600's, the Moslems conquered the land. In 1492. Ferdinand and Isabella drove the Moors out of Spain and some of them settled in Algeria, which be came one of the Barbary States, which were the home of the Barbary pirates. We had to clean up the Barbary pi rates. The French conquered Algeria in 1830. held it unrfpr military rule until 1871, then maae it a part of France. The Algerians want to run their own show. Hence the shoot ing. There's a ruckus on be tween Iran and Iran- Thprp'.t tension along the India-China border. The Chinese commu nists are still shooting at the Chinese Nationalist offshore islands. Castro is making a mess in Cuba. AND so on. But In general The world today is about as peaceful as it has ever been. That's something. AND- '.' All over the world, the people WANT PEACE. Ike's recently completed journey gave dramatic evidence of that fact . Here's a thought: ' Maybe this yearning of the PEOPLE for peace is so great as to cause the. despots and the would-be world conquer ors to FEAR THE PEOPLE. When despots and would-be world conquerors fear the peo ple, it is a healthy sign. SO MUCH for peace. What of PROSPERITY which, history tells us, goes hand-in-hand, with peace? A NEWS summary that is clicking off the wires as this is written puts it this way: Cash registers . jangled a happy climax to- a SENSA TIONAL Christmas buying season. The ' extent of 1959 holiday shopping is indicated by two surveys. Dun & Brad street reports that dollar vol ume for the pre-Christmas week was up from 1 to 5 per cent over a year ago. The trade newspaper Wom en's Wear says department and specialty stores boosted their sales for the season by 3 per cent over last yesr. The Toy Manufacturers Asso ciation says toy sales this year topped 1958 by 15 to 20 per cent and will exceed the all time record set in 1957. NOT too bad. When people are reason ably easy in their minds, they tend to spend their money for things they want. When they are UNEASY in their minds, they tend to hang onto their money in preparation for the rainy day they fear may be coming. & All in all, you see, things might be worse. Maybe we'll live through 1960. A Gratifying Assurance COURTESY The sincerity, kindness and efficiency of our staff will be of great help to you during this time of distress and need. PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT.