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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Jan. 1, 1960 MEDF0RDt2WTBIBUl "Everyone t Southern Ore rem Reads The Mail Trfhiine-T Published Dil except Saturday by nuun'Kl FfUNTING CO 83 North fir St Ph SP 2-8141 ROBUtT W RTTHL Editor HERB GREV Advertisteg Manager uEi'AU) latham Business Mer ERIC W ALLEN JB. Manajfin (Wrtor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAM Teleg Editor RICHARD JVWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR:HER Women's Editot PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medforrf Orecon under Ac of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a t In Advance Codv 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 veor $13 00 Daily and biinday mos B ud Daily and Sunday 3 mos 425 Sunday Only One year S4.Z0 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Tain and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 vear$18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c ah i erms casr in Advance Offfe?-? Ppr of City f Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Pres? International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUHEATj OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST H01.1TAV CO INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lan'i Vancouver B C 'Of" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAL asctin Flight or Time Medford and Jacksori County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Medford bank leaders pre dict prosperous valley econ omy in 1950's, with construc tion and farming showing a slight decline, and the fruit and lumbering industries showing large gains. Mail Tribune picks search and rescue pilot who crashed on Little Fish lake as top story of year with the open ing of the VA domiciliary at Camp White in second place. 20 YEARS AGO Two CCC trucks collide near Butte Falls; eight boys are injured, two seriously. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "This is 1940, and a Happy and Pros perous New Year, with a awift kick where it will do the most good for the late "Dirty 30s', is wished." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 1, 1330 (Wednesday) Attendance in local schools shows steady increase in past year. . Auto travel over Siskiyous Is snarled by snow, ice, and high winds. 40 YEARS AGO Harvard defeats Oregon 7 to 6 in Rose Bowl game; Ore gon points scored on two field goals. Senator McNary, irked by peace pact delay, threatens to join Democrats in Senate unless action is speeded. 50 YEARS AGO Since gold was discovered In Jackson creek in 1851, fully 25 million in gold has been extracted from Jackson county. , Census bureau reports one automobile to every 500 per sons in U.S.; records prove that Medford leads U.S. and world in per capita car own ership with one car to every 30 persons. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or sight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. Who was nicknamed "The Rail Splitter"? 2. Where was the first per manent English settlement in North America, established in 1601 by the London company? 3. In Army slang, is a "top kick" the commanding offi cer? 4. In which of Shake speare's plays is Ophelia the heroine? 5. Who once denounced Congressional investigations into alleged Soviet spy rings as a "red herring"? 6. Which of our States is named for a king who made wigs the fashion? 7. What model of the Ford car succeeded the Model T? 8. About which Burmese city d:.i Rudyard Kipling write a eulogistic poem? 9. Are the words "key" and "quay" homonyms? 10. Who wrote "The Man Without a Country"? Answers: I. Abraham Lincoln. 2. Jamestown, Va.' 3. No; (First Sergeant). 4. Hamlet. 5. Harry S. Tru man. 6. Louisiana, for Louis XIV. 7. Model A. 8. Mandalay. 9. Yes; (They have the same pronouncia- tion.) 10. Edward EvtraH Hal. Time and Negotiations at Geneva looking to a perman ent nuclear test ban. will face a deadline of sorts when resumed on Jan. reached when France over the Sahara. The shot conscious world could most certainly before the middle of 1960. Nothing: in the proposals now under nesrotia' tion among the United Russia would forbid France, Red China or any other non-member of the atomic club " from ex ploding nuclear weapons. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman John A. McCone told the Senate Disarmament Sub committee last June 24 that the thinking was that if the talks were successful, "a combination of logic and world opinion by other countries." But be a little optimistic. OPTIMISTIC, indeed, w announced intention Sahara test unless the present atomic powers re nounce nuclear armaments. No such world-wide adherence to a nuclear test ban is remotely pos sible this year maybe not for another decade. Red China's progress toward a nuclear capa bility is less certain than that of France. Philip Noel-Baker, winner of the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on disarmament, thinks Com munist China may develop an atomic bomb in the next two years. In an scientists had told him plants m Red China where hundreds of Chinese Communists scientists are being trained. Recent evidence that be steering a course Kremlin raises the doubt tion to exert the needed pressure to obtain Chi nese compliance with any inspection procedure that may be agreed upon at Geneva. TTHE TEST TRUCE, now in effect for 14 months, has been a fragile thing from the first The United States on Oct. 31, 1958, began a voluntary one-year moratorium by joint agree ment with Britain. Russia then fired nuclear shots on Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 to conclude a series of tests designed to "match" the number of U.S. and British tests in the preceding six months. President Eisenhower on Aug. 26, 1959, ex tended the original Oct. 31 termination date for the U. S. moratorium to Dec. 31, 1959. Then came the announcement on Dec. 29 that the United States, beginning Jan. 1, would observe a "period of voluntary suspension. With the .United States now free to resume tests after prior warning to the rest of the world, our hand at Geneva should be strengthened. TT'HE GENEVA talks were still bogged down over the issue of controls as the new-year be gan. If France achieves her nuclear prowess be fore the final agreement is reached, the negotia tors might have to start from scratch with France a new party to the proceedings. Another un known quantity would be the Soviet reaction to France's nuclear test. During United Nations de bate on the planned Sahara test, the Russian delegate gave a pointed Union had agreed to suspend its nuclear tests only so long as no further tests were made by any member of the Western alliance. Delegates to the Geneva talks, therefore, are working under an ultimatum imposed by the re lentless advance in atomic technology. Footsteps of the seekers of atomic status can be heard out side and soon there will be knocking at the paper door of the "atomic club." E.R.R. Spotlight on Latin America Communism's propaganda is giving gleeful publicity to the troubled relations between the United States andsome Latin American coun tries, apparently on the theory that still more mischief can be stirred; up-in America's back yard. v Peking Radio Dec. 14J)eamed a 10-minute commentary in Spanish to countries south of the border entitled "The Anti-U.S. Struggle In Latin America." It cited Cuba's refusal to let this coun try "interfere" in its internal affairs, the Pana manian demonstrations in Nicaragua, the Do minican Republic, Paraguay, and other countries against "U.S.-supported dictatorships." . pVEN U. S. aid to Latin America is regarded - as a "sugar-coated cannon ball" by Peking. In a broadcast to East Asia Dec. 15, the Red China radio said that the increase in aid "means a tightening of the grip of exploitation and con trol," and that adoption of the economic stabil ization program in Argentina "has resulted in currency devaluation, freezing of wages, sky rocketing commodity, prices, unbridled penetra tion of U. S. economic and political influence, and aggravation of internal economic and po litical crises." Russia's Near-Eastem Service seized on the Panama Canal as the subject for a broadcast beamed in Arabic Dec. 10, declaring the United States had replied to the Panamanians' "just demand" for nationalization of the canal "by the bloody repression organized by the American troops against those who took part in the dem onstrations Nov. 3 and who tried to take the Pan amanian national flag to the Canal Zone." The Communists clearly regard friction in Latin America as a handy weapon in the long term struggle to enlist political converts among the peoples of under-developed nations there and elsewhere throughout the world. E. R. R. The Bomb 12 a deadline to be explodes its atomic bomb heard 'round a fall-out come at any time, but al States, Great Britain and would develop adherence he added: "That may if France sticks by its to go ahead with the interview, he said Soviet they saw "vast nuclear the Peipmg regime may semi - independent of the that Moscow is in posi reminder that the Soviet Dennis the ten l FIXED AW OWAJ 3RAXFA51. I HAD SCWS pBWUTS.SOVIe POTATO CHIPS AH' TWO GU&&5 OF GIHGER AlS." Washington Report By WILLIAM PUBLIC ELATION Washington - Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's ' forced retire ment as an aspirant for the r't-s--, R e d u b lican P r e s idential n o m i n ation has given the Democrats oc casion for much public 2 e 1 a t ion. But they have cause also for private con cern. The situ ation has been clarified in one sense, of course. The Demo crats now know beyond rea sonable doubt that the Repub lican nominee will be Vice President Richard M. Nixon. But this clarification of the Democratic problem does not necessarily make it simpler, pr even easier. True, there was widespread Democratic opinion that Rockefeller would be harder to beat than Nixon. But this, after all, was never better than an iffy guess. Rockefel ler's victory in New York in 1958 was extraordinary, so far as it went. Again, nowever, New York is not necessarily a reliable pattern of national thinking. Thomas E. Dewey for many years held that state in the palm of his hand. But twice he was defeated nation ally in running for President -once, in 1948, against a sup posed pushover, Harry S. Tru man. CJO THE basic fact was that Rnrkpfpllpr harl never Pnne to bat in the big leagues. No body could really know how he would fare in a world se ries against the Democrats. He had never really been pushed hard. No one could know how he would stand up under the brutal pressures of a nation-wide campaign. Nix on's severest critics must con cede him this: he can take it, as he can dish it out. Moreover, the mere fact Rockefeller obediently got out of the competition clearly brings some bad-as well as some possibly good-news for the Democrats. For it proves to the hilt what had long been plain to all close politi cal observers: the best secret weapon in the Republicans arsenal is that they know how to maintain, and even to force, operating unity in facing the common Democratic enemy. 117HEN the professionals can ' simply tell a man so pow erful as Rockefeller that he must quietly drop out of con tention, the profound practi cal unity of that party cannot be ' argued. Campaigns, of course, are won by many fac tors. But not the least of these is the possession of disciplined battalions of party fighters. Of such practical unity the Democrats, as of now, have anything but. They have now got to meet an actual Nixon, not a theoretical Rockefeller. And unless they can draw to gether they are going to have a difficult time, indeed. Already, some Democrats are assuming that because Nixon is said to be "conserva tive" (and in such matters as civil rights he is surely not) they must nominate a New Deal type of liberal. No reality of"the past eight years sup ports such a notion. The unal terable fact is that the New Deal and the conditions mak ing it necessary and successful are long dead. The tactics of yesterday's battles will not win actions on today's terrain. Nixon will give off an im pression mainly of competence and strength. The Democratic nominee will surely need to do likewise, THE true nature of the strug gle has been set by the Re publicans. They are going to offer not a rnan of fresh ideas, Rockefeller, but a master prac tical politician, Nixon. The Democrats, to have a chance, must run at least a good poli tician against him. "Mm William S. White Menace S. WHITE Nixon is going to be strong everywhere but in the South His nomination will practical ly hand the South over to the Democrats if they are skilled in the art of politics, which is simply the art of rational compromise. They will need to be wise enough, in short, to choose a standard bearer and write a civil rights plank not absolutely intolerable be low the Potomac. For this time the South they will bad ly need. And, as a practical matter, Nixon's civil rights record is so advanced that their ability to outbid him in the North is highly questionable any how. Three Democratic "possibili ties"-Adlai E. Stevenson and Senators Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy-could honestly run on a moderate civil rights plank. It is diffi cult to see how any other ma jor and now visible Demo cratic aspirant could do so. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: Starting today, Uncle Sam will take more from your pay check for social security tax es. The 20 per cent hike, which will be felt by virtually every worker and employer in the United States, is designed to bring the government an ad ditional $2 bunon a year m revenue. It will be the fourth in crease in social security taxes in the last three years. The present law calls for three more increases spread over the next nine years. OW come all these in creases? It's perfectly simple. High er taxes are needed to cover the swelling costs of the pro gram, which now provides monthly benefit checks to 13, 400,000 persons. Our popula tion is growing. The statisti cians like to tell us it is EX PLODING. Each year there are more people. And- Each year more people reach the age at which they they become eligible for so cial security checks. Not on ly are more people being born. Each year MORE PEO PLE ARE LIVING LONGER. That explains why social security costs are rising. It ex plains, why they are going to go on rising. THERE'S another reason why social security costs are rising and will keep on rising. When social security was started, a dollar would buy a certain amount of se curity. Now the same dollar buys MUCH LESS SECUR ITY. So - As inflation grows Social security checks have to be BIGGER. Let's not complain (too much) about the rising cost of social security. Social security is one of the good things of modern life. We couldn't do without it. No one would want to do without it. No one wants to go back to the cruel days when for a large part of our population advancing years meant . movmg in witn the children or being help ed out by the neighbors . . . or GOING TO THE POOR HOUSE. But- ' Let's keep this in mind: There is no such thing as something for nothing. Social security doesn't come for free. It isn't manna from heaven. It isn't something that is giv en to us by the kind-hearted politicians.. It has to be paid for - just like everything else that is worth having. ' Wilson Clarifies Statement Made by Education Institution Associations By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (UPD - This essay is to wag a finger at, of all people, the executive comm 1 1 1 e e men of two great associa tions of educa tional institu tions. They are: (1) The Am erican Associ ation of Land Grant College Lyie c. Wilson and State Uni versities and (2) the State Universities association. Their executive committees jointly have issued a state ment which - if accurate -would be very good news, in deed. One paragraph from this statement was as follows: Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation, letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Cougar Research To the Editor: Research is a must when writing for gen eral public entertainment and information, especially that obtained afield original source. This seems to be lack ing in Lynn M. Watkins Small Worlds Around Us column of the Dec. 29 issue, where men tion is made: "he (the cougar) has not been known actually to attack a human being." Had Watkins delved into the "graveyard files of the Sportsman Review in Spo kane. Wash., he would have found there an account of two prospectors found dead and partly eaten near their temporary camp. The only tracks other than their own in that mid-November time of 1882 were those of a large cougar. Naturalist Watkins might talk with an old-one of the Okanogan Indian tribe who tell of a tribesman long ago disappearing on a wintry day, never to be seen again. Later on, a cougar, when dressed out for eating, was found to have its stomach contain in an elongated tight roll, the long black hair of the tribes man and it still had certain ornaments therein. Ray Harnish out Eagle Point way can give some first-hand information on the subject that deals with a big husky Norwegian young com panion who was jumped by one of the big cats but fought the thing off and survived the serious blood-letting or deal. Watkins also might visit the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C, and find there a cougar stomach con taining the scalp-hair tightly rolled with a tooth dented 32 rim-fire cartridge and patches of an overall pocket inter laced with human hair still showing subcuteanous parts. This writer helped carry the frozen body of the boy to the undertaker's car on the deep crusted mountain road 35 years ago in north central Washington. This is not cheerful read ing, but seems necessary to clear up some widespread misunder standing of the American Puma, felis con color, known here as the cougar. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point The Audubon Society To the Editor: The Oregon Audubon Society, 5219 SW Cornell rd., Portland, Ore., was organized about 1910, in corporated under the laws of Oregon, has functioned as a local group, primarily inter ested in the spread of informa tion about birds, animals and the general subject of the con servation of our natural re sources. The original planning call ed for sub-districts over the state.. Circumstances pre vented such action at that time. As conditions now exist, the local group has come to feel that conservation throughout the state can better be served by the joint effort of the various groups of the state. With this in mind, we are suggesting that interested per sons and study groups make the interest manifest by com municating with the Audubon society of the above address. The Portland group has de tailed drawings made of a photographers blind to be erected in Malheur lake, the blind to be made of local stone, the top covered with local vegetation as a camou flage. Apertures for camera DANCE. Saturday llighl OASIS Eagle Point "In science and engineer ing - critical factors in today's world - our colleges and uni versities have been for many years and are now graduating more trained young people in Humphrey Looks Sharp for Plain Man's Candidate By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington -flJPD- For an avowed plain man's candidate for President, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), these days looks mighty sharp. He turned up for his formal an nouncement attired in a new dark blue continental suit with cuffs on the coat sleeves. A fellow I know in the suit and cloak game said he does n't ordinarily offer these mo dels to people like senators. He said they're more for the younger fellows, switching over from the tight pants Ivy League look. Humphrey assured me, though, he bought his, and another one like it, from a tailor back home who said it was what he should have. So I guess maybe that's what they're wearing now out in Minnesota. Narrow Lapels On one of the narrow la pels which these suits feature, Humphrey had broken out a big jeweled pin for the occas ion in the shape of an H; how ever, his aides wore plain old campaign buttons, with HHH on them. It seems he has on ly one homburg, and he said it was already a little soiled. Otherwise, I guess Hum phrey qualified aU right. He came out for jobs for every viewing are to be placed on the four sides of the building. This project has found such acceptance by the wild life service that they propose to Duiia a second Dima in a different part of the lake. Phil Lewis 10660 SW Walnuf st. Tigard ,Ore. Former President of the Oregon Audubon Society Try and -By BENNETT CERF- EVER WONDER about the maze of pipes, wires and cables ' strung under the pavements of a modern metropolis? Robert Daley explains all this in a fascinating book, "The World Beneath the City." - In underground New York . City, says Daley, there are 7,000 miles of gas mains, 5,000 miles of sewers, 22,000 miles of TV cables, and 15 million miles of telephone wires enough to circle this planet 600 times! There also are 19,000 miles of electric cables and 5,500 miles of water mains. Guarding this incredi ble network of vital fa cilities is an army of over 20,000 highly-trained technicians and troubleshooters ready to jump into action (via the city's 683,000 manholes) at the flashing of a danger signal. A lawyer just received a letter from a stranger who obviously has a magnanimous streak. "I know you specialize in drawing wills," the letter began. "If the time ever comes when you cannot think of a beneficiary, I tfant you to feel free to use my name." JANUARY BIG TAILORED to MEASURE By... SIEBLER CMS 36 NORTH BARTLETT proportion to population than any other country in the world, including Russia. The Russians have recently ex ceeded us in total numbers of scientists and engineers body, an expanding economy (with stable prices). and a 'full share" of DrosDeritv for people like farmers, workers, and old folks, he was against disease, poverty, hunger and illiteracy. And he possibly nicked n support from some of the plain reporters present by showing up for his press con ference precisely at 10 o'clock, the hour for which h called it. But. to show von how hazardous politics is, this gesture curried no favor at all with one veteran poli tical writer who acted on the assumption HumDhrev would follow local custom and make an impressive entrance, with sideboys, at along about 10:08. Hearing Room Packed Nevertheless the hearing room of the Senate Appropri ations committee was packed. disproving the old journalism school maxim that news is an account of the unexpected. If there was anybody present who expected Humphrey to say he wasn't running, I did n't see him. But there were certain as pects of his announcement that we hadn't looked for. One was that he didn't open up with a speech. He just had a helper hand around a mime ographed statement, in which he said why he had decided to run. Then he said he would try to answer our questions. xmow tew senators are known for their brevity, Sen Humphrey is known for once having talked eight hours to Khrushchev. And it is said he once protested to a radio re porter who proposed to tape a two-minute interview: "Why, I can't say hello in less than a half hour." Stop Me Q EXTRA PANTS regardless of price . . . when ordered with coat and pants, suit or top coat ... OR V - lXJ 1 uT 0 Hit DISCOUNT Without Extra Pants A wonderful selection of hun dreds of top quality patterns from which to choose. Finest imported and domestic fabrics . . custom tailored to your individual meas ure. A real bargain at this very special price. HURRY! Limited time only! - the TQMJm PHONE SP 2 graduating from their uni versities. This is solely be cause they have more young people than we have." . , The paragraph outs an en tirely new face on the argu ment about scientific educa tion now boilins in th United States. If the associa tions are correct, things can't be so bad. United Press In ternational (UPI), however, must be pessimistic about such good news, esneciallv when it is controversial. So UPI braced Washington head quarters of the Association of Land Grant Colleges for sup porting evidence. The association acknowl edged that is simply accepted at face value some fizures published in a magazine article by . Prof. Robert J. Havighurst of the University of Chicago. Havighurst had calculated that about 4 nnn- 000 Russian youths reach age zz annually and about 2,000, 000 American youths. On that basis, he computed that the United States had been graduating an annual average of 20 engineering and scien- imc scholars per 1,000 22-year-olds as against 17 per 1,000 Russians. Prof. Havighurst. a re spected scholar, emphasized in a footnote to his article that "the data for Russia are not completely reliable" and ignored this warning in its " release. Dr. William K. Medlin, Rus sian specialist in the U.S. Office of Education, told UPI that statistical eomnarisnn.: are virtually impossible be cause: Official Breakdown -Russia has not published any official age-breakdown of its census figures since 1939. Projections of the 1939 age distribution to represent cur rent distribution are likely to be unreliable. -Russia asserts that it is graduating 90,000 engineers annually but has not pub lished figures on how many scientists are graduated. Russian statistics list col lege graduates, not by aca demic discipline, as in the United States, but by the field in which they will work -agriculture, transportat ion, heavy industry and such. There are no means of know ing, for example, how msny transportation graduates are physicists and how many are merely railroad dispatchers. Medlin told UPI: "We are evploring this question. All indications are that their (Russian) production rate of scientists and engineers is greater than ours, greater both in absolute numbers and in proportion to population. We have not been able to find enough information to justify any definite statistical comparisons." 1 WORTH OF GROCERIES FOR ONLY See Groceteria Ad on Page 6 - 8473 n j in I
