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MAIL TtliUNf, M4M. Or. rumitf, Da. 29. "iTaryooa ta Soatfcern Ore if on fUads Th toU Tribune Published ril nceptSatnrday by M7.DrOKD PRINTING CO ' O North Wt St Ph SP 2-6141 " ROBERT W RCHdWItar RRB GRry AdTCTtiif". Maaafa GERALD LATHAM Bosiness M ERIC W ALLEN JB. , Mann Kins Mitor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JHWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCH ER Women's Editnf PALE ERICKSPN Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as ssjrrmd class matter at Medfor4 Ores on under Aet of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Hal I In Advance Copy ltte. Dail- and Sunday 1 vear $15.00 ' Daily and Sunday mos 0 0C Dan and Sunday 3 mos tM Sunday Only On year S420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eaala Point Jacksonville. 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Mutt and Jeff will start appearing in the Mail Trib une's comic section . next Tuesday. 20 TEARS AGO Doe. 29, 1939 (Friday) Manager of United Air Lin es in Bedford is named state aeronautics director. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The sales tax is again proposed as a cure for the school financial problems of. the state. The sales. tax always has two out standing faults, it works, and nobody can get out of paying it. This means its doom at the polls." 30 YEARS AGO Doe. 29. 1929 (Sunday) - Fruitgrowers of valley pro test "Mediterranean fly" reg ulations. ' Senator Borah demands ac tion from president. to end what he calls "dry law hypo crisy." 40 YEARS AGO -Doc 29. 1919 (Tuesday) : January 6 is set as date for signing peace treaty between Allies and Germany. Charles-- Comiskey, presi dent, of the Chicago White Sox, offers $25,000 for evi dence that White Sox threw the World series with Cincin nati. 50 YEARS AGO Dec. 29. 1909 (Wednesday) Thirty-one new arc lights have been -installed on city streets to. make Medford a well-lighted, city. Local fisherman caught four steelhead in - Rogue yes terday using fly tackle. What's Yosr I.Q.? Nina or ten. correct ia superior; tevaaY or iaht it amcelleat; five or si is food. v 1. Is the Commonwealth of Australia composed of States, or Provinces? - 2. To which country do the .Azores Islands belong? 3. With what university do you associate the name of Woodrow Wilson? - - 4. What is the largest species of amphibious reptiles? 5. .What colloquial or slang term is applied in Canada to French Canadians? 6. What does the Latin term ad valorem mean? 7. Which has the larger area, Pennsylvania or New York? ' 8. Upon what "two articles of food and drink were the Greek gods supposed to live? 9. What river flows for 1, 765 miles through Alaska? 10. What fuel has been widely used in rural Ireland? Answers: 1. States. 2. Portu gal. 3. Princeton. 4. Croco dile. 5. Canuck. 6. Accord ing to Value. 7. New York Stale. 8. 'Ambrosia and nec tar. 9. The Yukon. 10. Peat. In 1685 Only 2,000 persons lived in Belfast, which is now the capital of Ulster or Northern Ireland, and has a population of 450,000. A Few New Starts 1 The Eisenhower Administration's announced relaxation of its seven-year-long policy of "no new starts" in natural-resource development is not impressive. On the eve of the 1960 president ial and congressional elections, it sounds too much like deathbed repentance. Furthermore, it obviously springs from no unshakable conviction of the value of developing natural resources but rather from a desire to win votes. It has become increasingly obvious during the past three years that most voters do not want their Federal Government to be negative toward the construction and operation of power, irriga tion, flood control and navigation projects. IN THE 1956 elections that attitude played a part in the defeat of Douglas McKay in Ore gon, Senator Welker in Idaho, and other lesser advocates of do-nothingism. Republicans were shocked. ' They were shocked again, perhaps even mpre violently, when "no new starts" in a public works bill helped Democrats override an Eisenhower veto earlier this year for the first time. Secretary of Interior Seaton is trying to take the cure of inactivity off of the Administration by promising a little action, though he does not say how little. We do not think, in view of the record of massive apathy that has been piling up for seven years now, that it will work. St. Louis Post Dispatch. ' New Approach Needed? Staff members of the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of Agriculture, clear up to the Secretary level, are worried. Many of them see, in various proposals now either before Congress or being publicly-espoused by members of that body, a real danger to their domain. There is a strong feeling that if all the proposals are enacted, we will have gone a long way toward aismemDerment oi ine iNauonai r or est system. No doubt, this last such comes to pass the many ways. The Forest tne natural resources in nerfect very little ever whole it has been of relatively high quality. I7HY, then, have these proposals been ad- TT vanced? Whv do all dividuals look to the. National Forests for land to be set out from under Forest Service Manage ment for all sorts of purposes? There are reasons, of est Service and Department should do some study on them, if they are interested in retaining the public lands now under The Forest Service is eral agency. And. except in the West, Alaska, and scattered portions of the. rest of the country, it doesn't draw much public attention. Out here, though, it is a highly important agency and one which will grow more important as the years go by, unless the dismemberment it fears comes to pass. . PART of the pressure from various special in ' favacf rrwi-ir-o my A lnrlivirlimlc rn trio Inm- ber industry side of the fence as well as the so called conservationist side comes from basic mistrust of the Forest Service. Industry, if the off - its leaders can be believed, feels the USFS pays too much attention to the And those whose primary forest interest is in the recreation field feel that industry packs too big a stick in the offices of rangers, supervisors, regional foresters and in Washington. There is a strong feeling in this group that log values are given more weight in determinirtg land use than any other factor. THIS poses a difficult problem for the Forest CAnnM ortA tVia Tionnvr-merif Hnf if srirmlrl Tint. be insurmountable. It should be possible, with the resources of the agency, to set f orth some long ranee plans which can compromise the basic dif ferences between the two silently-warring fac tions, which can be sold If this can be done and sold, too, to the mem bers of the Congress, the Forest Service and the Department could greatly relieve their worries about eventual dismemberment of the National Forest system. Bend Bulletin. Quotes From the News By United Press International Washington Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), after being asked which Democrat best chance of defeating Vice for the presidency! ' "I'm too modest to answer Athens, Ohio Kermit Eby, professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago, stating that automation has made obsolete the the principle that work is the most creative expression of man's daily life: ' "Most Amerieani went te work this morning hating it like hell." Chicago Judge Sigmund J. Stefanowicz, sentencing Mrs. Minnie Pearl Hinton to five days in jail and a year probation for slapping her son's third grade teacher: "We're going to stop this abuse of teachers. I think the parents should set an example for their children." Tucson, Ariz.-Cary W. Moyer, describing the death of a woman in the explosion of a fuel tank mat had dropped from an Air Force B-47 jet bomber into a Tucson street: "There was a woman riding a bicycle in the street. The next thing I saw. she was lTiS in the center of a 50-foot circle of flames." statement is time. And if public will be the loser m Service's management of lis cnarge nas not ueen is perfect but on the sorts of croups and in course, remaps tne t or- their jurisdiction. a relatively small Fed the - record statements of conservationists. to the members of each. he believed would have the President Richard M. Nixon - T that question." Dennis the Menace OUT Af f TU-VSe rV)WF2 IM A 00G WHO'S NEVER TASTED RBSTAURAttT FOOD' Matter of Fact Bw Joseph Alsop CONNECTICUT: A CASE STUDY Hartford, Conn. This state provides a useful case study, showing all the . reasons for Gov. Nelson A. Rocke f e 1 1 e r's sensible decision not to enter the Re- W puDiican presi- 1 WS dential race Until the big news came over the wire, the Connect!- joseph alsop cut Republi can organization was eagerly planning to star the New York Governor's New Year with some thoroughly bad news. By happy chance or careful design, the Republican State Central Committee is to meet on Jan. 4, just two days before Rockefeller was orig inally expected to give his decision. Since Rockefeller was also expected to announce his presidential candidacy, a preface to the Rockefeller an nouncement had been planned, in the form of a strong en dorsement of the candidacy of Vice President Richard M. Nixon. One of the prime movers in this plan was the Governor's old friend and Dartmouth classmate, former Republican National Chairman Meade Al corn who is also very close to Nixon. Another organizer of the intended Nixon endorse ment was the Republican State Chairman, former Representa tive Edward May. Unless the Vice President had actively intervened to prevent the en dorsement, moreover, it would certainly have been given. For there was literally no Con necticut Republican of any importance to speak up for Gov. Rockefeller. THIS total absence of Rocke feller sentiment was the key fact in the Connecticut Republican situation, as it was clearly the key fact in many other state situations explored by the New York Governor. Soundings were taken here, both by the Governor himself and by his agents. There was a long search for Connecticut Republicans who might wish to start a Rockefeller move ment in 1960, like the Eisen hower movement that swept the state in 1952. The sound ings met with no response whatever, in any quarter of real consequence. The Governor could only have done business with the state's bitter-enders for the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, who form a faction almost entire ly outside the state Republi can organization. But Rocke feller, for obvious reasons, did not choose to do business with Republicans of this stripe, either in Connecticut or in the many other states where the same choice presented itself. Barring a miracle, in short, there was just no way for the Rockefeller candidacy to get i Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AN OBSERVANT LAD in Brooklyn accompanied his mom to the butcher shop. "Is that turkey you're wrapping?" he asked. "It's lamb," corrected the butcher. "You don't see any feathers on it, do you?" "I don't," admitted the lad, but added, "I don't see any wool on it, eith er." .. John Straley knows " a bride who insists she gives her husband balanced meals. By that she means he has a 50-50 chance of recovering. The husband has heavy marks on his nose from glasses. An oculist tried to persuade him to use con tact lenses, but he refused: said they don't hold enough for him. . Bliss Perry once remarked of a venerable Oxford don -who refused to resign that he had all the Christian virtues except resignation! 4? 1951, by Bennett Cert. Dutributed by Xing features Syndicate. A RAfl WILL Via? T GOT off the ground in Connecticut a state where there should have been support for Rocke feller if he was going to gain support anywhere. His candi dacy, at best, could only offer a vehicle for the hankerings for revenge of various Repub lican Adullamites a prospect, in itself, that must have re pelled the Governor. rpHERE was one other way to play the . game, to be sure. Governor Rockefeller could have gone in, not to win this time, but to lose and make a record. His grave doubts about the foreign and defense policies of the Eisen hower administration are well known. He could have become a candidate solely id order to voice those doubts in the most resounding possible manner. If he had done this, lie would have lost all chance of nomina tion in 1960. But he would have made a record; and this record would in turn have been remembered, if and when the weaknesses of Amer ican foreign and defense poli cy produce critical results. The Governor was admitted ly tempted to play the game in just this way. One conse quence, if he had done so, would have been a stirring and remarkable national de bate.' But the other conse quence would nave been a serious split in the Republi can party, gravely impairing the party's chance of victory in 1960. It was plain here in Connec ticut that no Republican would have forgiven Gover nor Rockefeller after this kind of campaign for the nomina tion. No amount of later jus tification by events would have won Connecticut's sup port for the Governor in 1964 or 1968, if he had split the party in I960 by speaking out in meetings about the foreign and defense issues now con fronting the country. Thus the second way of playing the game was also self-defeating. With his polls showing Nixon being chosen by nearly three out of four Republicans in the crucial primary state of New Hampshire, the Governor therefore bowed out with a good grace and just in time. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. STUDENTS TO EUROPE . New York -UPD- The en tire junior class of Lake Erie college,. Rainesville, Ohio, embarked on the French liner Liberte Monday for 11 weeks of study abroad. The 80 wom en were accompanied by Paul Weaver, president of the 100- year-old college. He plans to visit the heads of all the Eu ropean colleges the students will attend. Kluane lake in the Yukon, 150 miles west of Whitehorse, borders one of the notable big-game hunting regions in the territory. n-ir Recent Loan to Egypt Re-Emph, Tightrope By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The recent 50 million-dollar World Bank loan to Egypt has served to re-emphasize the tiehtroDe which the United States is on between Egypt and n e i g hboring Israel. The Egypti an loan was granted as a start tow a r d PtaJ) Newsrnn an expensive modernization Communications letters to the Edttsr must bear 'be name and address of the wrritei although nder cer tain circumstances tba use of a pen name oi initial for publica tion is pe-misiible. Hie Mai Tribune reserves the rirht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica. Uon must not exceed 400 word Two Laws ; To the Editor: The chief of police was only quoting facts of the law and the Bible says if one breaks the law of its land it is a sin. The minister was quoting the law of God and the words of the Bible. The Bible does not say if you take a drink or smoke in moderation that you will be cast into Hell. It is not against man's law to smoke or to take a drink so therefore it is not God's law. The laws we break from God and man are many that can not be seen, but which has the sting of death as a poison snake. They are love our neighbor as our self regardless of color or demoni nation. Do unto others as we would like to be done unto us. Give to the poor and sick and not honor the rich who wor ship their earthly good. The quoting of the Bible as this man of God had done is not a warped conception. We who wish to become a follow er of Christ many times omit the facts of the Bible and rely on being just a good person. We do not want any of our misgivings out in the open, but Jesus knows our thoughts and it is not our neighbors who will be our final judge. What goeth down the throat and cometh out the draught does not defile the body, but what cometh out of the mouth. When Jesus was in the. desert and had 5,000 who fol lowed him, were, fed from a few fishes and a few loaves of bread, and had many bas kets left with vessels filled with water over and he told them to empty the water and let them be filled with wine. This was Jesus' way to give added comfort so his follow ers would not fall or faint on their way back to their homes I hope this will ease the mind of many who love God, but think one must be perfect in order to receive the kxve of God. Perfection was never spoken of the flesh, but Jesus died not to have the righteous - but to save the sinner. Leo A. Rifinbark, 1131 Pinecraft st., Medford, Ore. Seeks Address To the Editor: I am publish inc a five-volume history. "En Route to the Redoubt." I am interested in hearing from anyone who knows the current address of O. D. Har vey, who was in the 314th FA battalion in World War II, or anyone in the 314th or 318th infantries. Ralph E, Pearson, Colonel U.S.A. 19 Dyer st. Ft. Bragg, N.C. Thanks People To the Editor: I wish to take this opportunity, on be half of the F. L. Somers Con struction company, to thank the people who live along and near the city s new storm sewer on the east side. Their cooperation and understand ing has made a miserable situation, at best, tolerable for all concerned. In this age where people have trouble getting along with their immediate neigh bors, much less the other countries of this world, it is heartening to behold spon taneous friendliness without reservation. Once again, for every man who works on . this project: Thanks! Craig F. Gates, Project Manager, Medford, Ore. FREE COFFEE . Red Bank, N.J. -fllTD- Mo torists on the Garden State Parkway will get more than the use of the highway when they pay their tolls New Year's morning. For the third year in a row, toll booth at tendants will offer drivers cards entitling them to a so bering free cup of coffee or tea at parkway restaurants. The French Protestant church in London, England, was established about 1560 in Threadneedle street. - i 1 4 jJ U.S. Walks Between program for the Suez Canal. It was protested by t'ae Is raeli government which cur rently has cargo aboard two ships tied up in the canal be cause of the Egyptian gov ernment ban against transit of Israeli ships or goods. The fact that the loan was granted was a further sign of the gradually improving rela tions between Egypt and the Western nations. But it also points up again the seemingly insoluble problems confront ing the United States and its allies in dealing with the Mid dle East. With the 1956 attack by Israel, Britain and France on Egypt as the exception, Egypt and Israel have lived in an uneasy state of armistice since 1949. Financial Drain Heavy The financial drain on both has been heavy. But at the same time both have been engaged in boot strap operations attempting to boost their economies. Since Israel's inception as FBI Sweating Out Impossible Situation Tapping Phones By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (UPD - The FBI has been sweating out one of those impossible spots which add up about to this: Heads you win; tails I lose. Thus it is with the FBI and wiretap ping. A con s t i t u t i o nal rights sub c o mmittee of fwjrle C. Wilson the senate has been looking into the wiretap situation. The pattern of testimony went about like this: Wiretapping is a dirty busi ness,, and the FBI engages' in 11 Russia Expected to Pull Further Ahead In Space Exploring By JOSEPH L. MYLER Washington (UPD A U.S. space official says Russia's "clear lead" in rocketry will enable it to pull farther ahead of this country in the explor ation of outer space. This forecast is evident in a study of U.S. and Soviet space programs made recently by Dr. Homer J. iMeweii Jr., as sistant director for space sciences of the National Aero nautics and Space Adminis tration. According to Newell, the two countries are running about even in scientific in vestigation of nearby space. But "in deep space probe work," Newell said, "the U.S. S.R. has definitely taken the lead. This is directly attribut able to their clear lead in vehicle technology." Similar Advancement Russia's rocketry lead has been variously estimated at 2 to 10 years. Newell mention ed no time figure. But he said: "The side that has the more advanced technology m the way of payload capabilities, guidance, etc., will have tne distinct edge, and by virtue of the increased flexibility and capabilities provided by the more advanced technology will forge steadily ahead. Thus, one may predict a time lead in vehicle technol ogy will be transformed into a corresponding time lead in Business Boom Seen to Continue Washington (UPD- A sub stantial majority of some 200 economists attending a top level conference here have agreed that the business boom will continue in 1960. An informal poll of the eco nomist's views was taken Monday after Paul W. Mc- Cracken, a former member of President Eisenhower's Coun cil of Economic Advisers, pre dicted higher prices and a drop in unemployment in 1960. Arthur F. Burns, a former chairman of the council, also warned the annual meeting of American Statistical and Economic associations that the economy may be in for long-range inflationary press ures, despite the administra tion's effort to hold down prices. The poll of economists was taken by a show of hands, with no specific figures com piled. It was understood that the forecasts were contingent upon a settlement of the steel dispute. - a state, an Israeli dream has been to harness the waters of the Jordan river for elec tric power and irrigation. One facet of this plan is a project to pipe Jordan waters 100 miles southward to irrigate the arid Negev. . It is bitterly opposed by the Arab nations, over Israeli claims that no waters belong ing to the Arab states would be affected. Another Israeli project has been the building of a rail road to the port of Aqaba, bypassing the Suez Canal and opening the way for ship ments of Israeli goods in the direction of Asia via the Red Sea. This also has met bitter Arab objections who look upon the Gulf of Aqaba as an inland Arab sea. President G a m a 1 Abdel Nasser also has grandiose, plans for development of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria). Modernization of the Suez Canal is one, bringing in much it. Or, by inference, wiretap ping is illegal and the FBI engages in illegal acts. The words "dirty business" and wire tapping became synonymous many years ago when the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes so character ized the tapping of communi cations wires. That made it official. The tendency to make the FBI the whipping boy of the wiretap controversy " is less easily explained. The ten dency to assert that wiretap ping is illegal cannot be ex plained at all. It's Not Illegal The facts are that wiretap ping is not illegal. You may bet on that, and win. More than 18 years ago, an attor ney general explained the wiretap situation when there the exploration and investiga tion of outer space. Newell said the two coun tries "appear to be at about the same stage of advance ment in upper air research" and in scientific "studies of the earth's environs," He said their instrumentations are roughly equivalent." The Russians have "done far less on solar radiations' than the United States but have accomplished "m u c h more in experiments with ani mals in space. Sights Soviet Achievements The United States may have a slight edge in close-in space investigations and in in strument designs, but the Rus sians are superior in rocket power, maneuverability, and size of their scientific pack ages. - U.S. exploration of the moon "is yet to begin" where as the Russians have "already achieved significant steps" in lunar investigation. As for exploration of the planets: The United States, Newell said, "has minimal capability in this area at present, and on the present schedule plane tary work is proceeding at a very low pace." The Soviet Union, on the other hand, "has an advanced capability in this area and has declared its definite interest in planetary research." Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 . MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. asizes Nations needed hard currency for the Egyptian treasury. Discuss New Loan Another is the fabulous As wan Dam, designed to harness the waters of the Nile and now in its first stages through the aid of a loan from Russia. U.S. Embassy sources in Cairo have revealed that a new U.S. loan is being dis cussed to finance communica tions and other projects in Egypt. Details probably will be completed next month. Over a period of 10 years, U.S. non-military aid to Is rael has totalled in the neigh borhood of 500 million dol lars. Aid to Egypt has not been so great but is sizable. Meanwhile, in their person al quarrel, both sides remain adamant, and at the end of a decade seem no closer to peace now than in 1956 when President Eisenhower pledged the U.S. to seek "a fair solu tion of the tragic dispute be tween the Arab states and Is rael, all of whom we wi-.nt as our friends." was uproar about the citizen's right of privacy. Here is what the late Attorney General Robert H. Jackson wrote: " "It would clarify the dis cussion if those who fear that the p r o p o se d legislation would deprive them of their 'right to privacy' would first learn just what 'right of pri vacy' they now have. "There is no federal statute that prohibits or . punishes wiretapping alone. The only offense under the present law is to "intercept any commu nication and divulge or pub lish' the same. Any person, with no risk of penalty, may tap the telephone wires and eavesdrop on his competitor, employer, workman or others and act upon what he hears or make any use of -it that does not involve divulging or publication. Courts Stop Evidence "To use evidence obtained by wiretapping for the protec tion of society against crimi nals often requires that it be divulged in open court. It is this divulging in law enforce ment that court decisions hold to violate the statute. The courts do not stop the people from tapping wires -no one has ever been or under pres ent law could be convicted of that by itself. What has been stopped is the use of evidence to enforce laws against crimi nals. "Many uninformed persons, and some who ought to know better, are thinking that these decisions protect their tele phone privacy. They do noth ing of the sort. They only pro tect those who engage in in criminating c o n v e r s ations from having them reproduced in court." . That was the law then. That is the law now. Yet, it was suggested, without re buke, before the subcommit tee that the FBI deliberately was failing to prosecute wire tappers because the FBI, it self, illegally tapped wires. That, of course, was nonsense. Taps Kidnaping Cases The FBI does tap wires but these taps can be made only with the specific consent of the attorney general. The FBI uses taps only in cases involv ing internal security or in kidnaping cases when the vic tim's life may be at stake. The FBI has fewer than 80 taps in effect at this time. The Senate subcommittee made no effort to protect the FBI against unfair charges with respect to wiretapping. It is not likely, however, that the subcommittee would go so far as to protest the kind of taps the FBI makes. NOTHING TO READ- If you are prepared to pay the BIG MEDICAL BILLS that sooner or later hit the overage family. If you're not prepared check our NEW MAJOR MEDICAL . EXPENSE PLAN. Bill Fish te LA4
