Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 06, 1960, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Jan. 6, I960 MEDFO! mi -"Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 HOBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor rotites. Daily and Sunday 1 year 18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance . "Official Paner of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephtoewpictures MEMBER-OFAUDiT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising ReDresentative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De- troit. San Francisco. Los. Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 'NATIONAL EDITORIAL (AsgjcfjngN Flight o' Time Medford and "Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. in YEARS AGO - Jan. G. 1950 (Friday) Great Britain grants full China, and severs relations with the Chinese Nationalists. Pear production last year county to 2,554,000 boxes compared to a 1948 total of 2.570.000 boxes. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1940 (saxuraayj Finland pushing Russians back on all fronts and Ru mania announces she will fight Russia if latter violates her borders. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Motor ists were warned today to have 1940 plates by the end of the week, or walk." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 6, 1930 (Monday) Klamath Falls cagers de feat Medford for first time in history by 31 to 15 score. C. E. (Pop) Gates urged by local friends to run for gov ernor. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1920 (Wednesday) City council plans to elim inate sharp corner at West Main st. and Oakdale ave. Local Legion refuses to en dorse political candidate for office. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 6. 1910 (Thursday) Jackson county spent $o 000 on roads last year. Rogue River valley Yellow Newtown Pippins win top prize at National Apple tnow in Denver. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; even or eight is excellent; five or tix is good. . 1. Is "Golden Bantam" the name of a breed of fowl? 2. Whose birth marks the division between the Old and the New Testaments? 3. Will oil poured on water lessen the violence of waves? 4. Do elephants ever breed in captivity? 5. For what was James J, Corbett famous? 6. Who painted the famous portrait "Blue Boy"? 7. In "Treasure Island" what was brought to Bill Bones by Blind Pew? 8. At birth, do baby boys usually weigh more, or less, than girl babies? 9. What is a jehu? 10. Who is the Roman, mythological god of war? Answers: 1. No; it is a type of corn. 2. The birlh of Christ. 3. Yes. 4. Occasionally. 5. As a boxer. 6. Thomas Gains borough. 7. The black spot. 8. More. 9. A driver of horses. 10. Mars. Tyvo Reappointed To Welfare Posts Saiem -EPD- Gv' Iark Hat field made two reappoint ments to county welfare com missions Tuesday. Fred S. Fisher, Laeview, was named to another term on the Lake county Public Wel fare Commission and Carl D. Anderson, Condon, was reap pointed to the Public Welfare Commission of GilUam county. 1 Pay for Teachers Are teachers still underpaid? This is an "iffy" question, and the answer depends on a lot of things, including one's view point of the importance of education, the impor tance of good teachers, and the desirability of attracting good, competent, well-trained people to the profession. . One criterion by which to judge teachers' sal aries is to compare them to pay rates in similar occupations. Another is to compare them to pay rates for teachers elsewhere. ,' A RECENT study by the Oregon Education As sociation, the "schoolteachers organization" in the state, makes the latter kind of comparison possible. It shows that the rates of pay possible for teachers in the Medford school district, for ex ample, stand up well in comparison to those in other first class districts in the state. For high school teachers here the maximum pay possible is $8,500 per year, a total which is exceeded in only three other school districts in the state Coos Bay ($9,300), Eugene ($8,900), and Beaverton ($8,800). THE AVERAGE pay for high school teachers in the Medford system is $6,244. This is ex ceeded slightly in only five other districts in the state Lake Oswego ($6,286), Coos Bay ($6, 366), North Bend ($6,526), Cottage Grove ($6, 327), and Beaverton ($6,255). The state average is $5,626. ' Junior high school teachers in Medford fare well, also, on a comparative basis in the state. Their maximum is . $7,800, which is exceeded in only one district in the state, Eugene, where the maximum is $8,200. The average pay of a junior high school teacher in Medford is $5,562, wThich is exceeded in only six school districts, and in none of them by much. State average is $5,320. Elementary school teachers (grades 1 through 6) fare a little less well in Medford, comparative ly. The maximum salary here is $5,390, which is equalled or exceeded in 22 districts. State av erage for elementary teachers is $5,207. CINCE, however, there are more than 100 first class and county unit districts in the state, and second and third class districts were not in cluded in this comparison, it appears that Med ford school teachers, as a group, are relatively well-off. This "relatively," of course, refers to other school teachers in comparable districts. Whether they are wrell-off "relative" to other economic and professional groups is something else again, and something which Durelv local level. The nation-wide "average" income for a fam ily last year, for instance, was just over $5,000. And we have an ineradicable feeling that the people to whom we entrust our children for their education, and for much of their vital, early training for life, should somehow be in an income bracket above the national "average." It follows that they people, too. E.A. And Other Factors Further aspects of "competition" or com parability with respect to teachers' salaries can be noted. One is the fact that, in addition to com parisons within the state, out-of-state salaries also must be taken into consideration. In attracting teachers to an Oregon commun ity, for instance, it is necessary also to note the fact that in California, teachers generally receive more money than in Oregon. The same is true, though to a somewhat less er extent, in Washington. IN ALBANY, where the comparisons of teach- ers' pay are not as favorable as in the Medford district, the Democrat-Herald takes note of the fact that, in general, the lot of teachers in Oregon apparently is getting better, probably because of a growing public appreciation of their services and of competition between communities. ... It also. adds: . . . . ". . . It will be necessary for us to consider need for keeping the spread between our pay levels and those of our neighbors from getting too great, for teachers cannot be entirely aesthetic in deciding where they want to teach." THIS IS TRUE, to an extent. A But is should be added that other factors, beside pay scales, do make a considerable dif ference in a teacher's willingness to accept a po sition in one town as opposed to another. Also a factor is the attitude of a community toward the teaching profession, and toward the schools generally, aften as expressed through its support of schools and their activities. And in addition, teachers, in common with everyone else, are affected by working condi tions, by the attitudes and abilities of their super iors, and by the attractiveness generally of a com munity. ' In virtually all of these categories, we would score Medford high. E.A. Remember Vanenards. the tobacrnlpss nVn- rettes, bora last year of Well, a friend cave us a day (they're still unavailable at local counters) and they're AWFULr-worse than com silk or grapevine. Another friend tried one, grimaced, and remarked "I'd rather have cancer." He nrnh- ably didn't mean it, but cannot be debated at a should be above-average ) the lung-cancer scare? few of them the nt.her you get the idea. E.A. Dennis the W 'Box mo fm-Qm'KEmins.' n&ssfz jours fig&k 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. Fog and Travel To the Editor: It wasn't Kil- roy on his way to the moon, but I think I saw his chariot last Sunday. Its front looked remarkably like a rototiller frame. Its ca boose was two strong wheels topped by a good sized square box, but what sort of reach connected these contraptions I cannot guess, but three nice young men and a hound dog made up the crew and they rolled right up the hill like nobody's business. I didn't notice a state li cense, but Frank Carter, our Jacksonville policeman, has more eyes than a potato. I hope he was enjoying a Sun day nap. That "wagging" (the dog was) was a beaut! No waste material in swept wings or fancy do-dads, and if there'd been room and I weren't a big fat slob, I would have thumbed a ride. Not too far behind them rode two pretty girls on well fed horses, and going at about the same speed as the "auto- mopushie." I shouldn't have called it that, but it did remind me of my oldest son, who in 1920 cut four wheels from the end of an old log and made a buggy to ride down hill on. When he got so riled up about my calling it an "auto-mo-pushie" I never did use that word again-'til now. I'm all for those youngsters, and there wasn't any traffic to bother them, that day. Maybe one of them will own a much needed bus be tween J'ville and Medford some day, and we can go over to Medford's Fifty Plus Club Fridays at 12:30 and to orchestra practice, too, with out trying to drive through fog. Young eyes are keener. Since I am publicity chair man, please feel free to in quire about the Fifty Plus Club of: . Mrs. John Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. A Correction To the Editor: In my letter under your "Communications" column of Jan. 4, relative to the Christmas activities at the Jackson County Farm Home, I mentioned, "Unfortunately the fog hindered the appear ance of many church groups, the Salvation Army and the Apostolic Faith." I wish to make this correction. Both church groups were present, Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AN" AFTER-A-WINGDING the ice bags long enough food of the day at about 4 P. husband, " I hate to ask, hut was it you I made love to in the kitchen last night?" The bride lifted a bloodshot eye, then asked, "About what time, my darling?' When you're mooching around broadcasting your troubles, counsels Gre gory Peck, remember this: Half the people aren't interested at all, and the other half are de lighted to hear you're getting what they feel is coming to you. Said an envious, erudite ermine, - : "There's one thing.I cannot determine: When a girl wears my coat, She's a person of note, When I wear it, Tm just called a vermin!. S ISSO, by Bennett Cut Distributed by Kiar JTettuiM Syndicate Menace the Salvation Army present ing all with their kind gifts, and the Apostolic Faith, with their choristers in traditional carols. With my sincere apology. E. Cozad Howard, Jackson County Farm Home, Phoenix, Ore. An Addition To the Editor: Last week wrote a letter giving thanks for all the Christmas cheer brought to our Rest Homes in Central Point. May I add this . message please. In my previous letter I did not mention the three ladies who called from the Salvation Army during Christmas week and brought useful gifts to each one in our homes. I feel these wonderful people de serve a heartfelt "thank you, and we aU appreciate the great work God's servants in the Salvation Army have done in the past years in this valley, Also others who remem bered the older ladies were Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Swain (my sister), now living in Munich, Germany. They sent special Christmas cards and handker chiefs to each lady in my home. Please accept my sincere apology for not mentioning these people in my previous article in the Tribune. Thank you. Mrs. Bernice E. McCue, McCue Rest Home, 134 Laurel St., Central Point, Ore. Judge Partially Believes Man's Story Greensboro, N.C. (UPDA. few days before Christmas Rufus Sawyer, 28, tried to mail a letter in a fire alarm box. He was fined $25 and costs in Muncipal Court Tuesday. The usual fee for making such a mistake in the city is $100. However, Judge Percy L. Wall believed Sawyer when the defendant said he had not meant to pull the alarm. Sawyer pointed out he stayed until the trucks ar rived to explain what had happened. TO HONOR MEDARIS Huntsville, Ala. (DPD Maj Gen. J. B. Medaris, retiring chief of the Army ordnance missile command, will be guest of honor at a "Medaris Day" celebration here Jan. 15. couple ducked out from under to touch their first morsel of M. "Dearest," stammered the Kennedy's Announcement Calls for Some Harassment by Favorite Son Candidates By LYLE C. WILSON , Washington (DPD Favorite sons and, especially, Missou ri's Sen. Stuart Symington, are likely to haunt and to harass Sen. John F. Ken nedy's cam paign for the Democra tic presiden t i a 1 nomination. Ken nedy's week end an nounce m e n t tyle C. Wilson of his candidacy will invigor ate the considerable activity within the Democratic party to kill him off. His announce ment formalized his position as front runner among a half dozen more or less legitimate seekers of the nomination. A front-runner has the ad vantage, of course, of being in front. The disadvantage is that all other aspirants, plus those who for one reason or another also oppose the can didacy of the man in front, tend to gang up on the leader to pull him down. Pull Kennedy down, the others must, or their own hopes are hollow. Kennedy is well aware of this. As long ago as last summer, he was complaining in public that favorite son candidacies in In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The steel strike has been settled and the mills will con tinue to run. That lends substance to the hope that 1960 will be a GOOD year. DETAILS of the settlement are lacking as this is writ ten. About all we know is that the strike will not be re sumed when the processes of the Taft-Hartley injunction that sent the workers back to their jobs for an 80-day cooling off period have been completed. But it is clear that the set tlement was reached by AGREEMENT. That is all to the good. A forcible settle in en t BY GOVERNMENT would have involved the en trance into our economy of a principle that I don't think we'd like. It would have been another step, and a rather long one, in the direction of govern- ment-run-everything. WHAT REMAINS to be seen ' is whether the result of the settlement will be another upward swoosh in the wage price spiral. Mr. Cooper, who has been the chief negotiator for the steel companies, would not say Monday whether or not they will raise prices as a result of the agreement. Asked flatly what the pros pects are for a price boost, he replied tersely: "I do not care to discuss that subject." What we'll all hope is that it WON'T. If it does, nobody will have been helped very greatly. The workers will have got a hike in their wages, but the wage increase will soon be eaten up by ris ing costs of living. The rise in prices will put the Amer ican steel industry in a WORSE position with its foreign competitors. In the long run, that would mean EXPORTING OF JOBS to foreign countries - which we can't afford. AT THE moment this is written, more attention is being paid in the news to the POLITICAL CONSEQUEN CES of the settlement than to the settlement itself. The dis patches tell us that Vice President Nixon and Secre tary of Labor Mitchell played an ACTIVE role in the set tlement. They made specific dollars and cents proposals. Mr. Nix on warned both sides that congress might approve STRONG NEW LEGISLA-j tiujm u tne strute was re newed. Secretary Mitchell says this morning that "with out Mr. Nixon's influence, leadership and prestige" a set tlement could not have been reached. Well ac in that- Politics is politics." There will be plenty of contention on the other side that it isn't so. But at least a settlement was reached. If Mr. Nixon was influential in bringing it about, I think the general consensus will be that he was providing the kind of lead ership -that ought to be pro vided. AT THE moment, we don't rtporl t.r nav inn Tniirh at tention to that phase of the situation. It will be chewed over and over as the weeks and the months pass. The big thing is that a set tlement has been reached. The chances are we all share the feeling that ruled the stock exchanges when they opened. It was a hopeful feeling. As result stock prices rose in the opening hours, reflecting increase! . confidence in the future. various states and abandon- ment of presidential primaries in others were stifling the people's voice in the choice of a Democratic nominee. Favoriie Sons Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California and Gov. J. Mil lard Tawes of Maryland are potentail favorite sons who have put up against Kennedy "No Trespassing" signs be cause they intend to control their own convention delega tions. The governors of Michi gan and New Jersey prefer to control their state's delega tion themselves when the time comes at the Democratic Na tional Convention for the wheeling and dealing involved in making a nomination. There are others. All of this is harmful to Kennedy's candidacy. Spe cifically, all of this cuts into Kennedy's potential first and early ballot convention strength. And the political pros are saying with much Dachau Remains Symbolic of Anti-Semitism in Germany By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor About a half hour out of Munich, in rolling farm coun try which eventually gives way to the Alps, lies the pleasant little Bavarian town of Dachau. Houses of t yellow stucco nestle close to gether in the manner of German vil- Newsnm 1 a S e S. and there is no hint of the horrow that went on there 20 years Phil Writer Helps Hoist Flag, Rides in New Senate Subway Cars By DICK WEST Washington - (LTD - It is not every day that a fellow gets to see the first flag raised at the new Senate office build ing. If he also gets to ride the new Senate subway on its maiden voyage, his cup run neth over ... or at least spilleth a few drops. I participated in such an eventful double-header Tues day and my cup, a paper carton I brought along from the Senate restaurant, sloshed all over my note paper. For tunately, I had one of those new pens that write under coffee. Reading between the dark brown stains, I can make out from my notes that two U. S. senators braved a frosty wind to take part in the flag-raising ceremony. This honor fell to Sens Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.) and Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) be pause they are chairman and ranking GOP member re spectively of the commission which supervised the erection of the building. Red Noses From Cold In view of all the criticism the commission has absorbed because of the expense and inconvenience of the building, the privilege of hoisting the first flag was small enough compension for their service. The senators were getting red-nosed from the cold be fore a phalanx of photograph ers, who seemed to be in charge of the ceremony, final ly permitted Chavez to run up the flag. Despite a strong breeze, the banner, once aloft, refused to wave. It barely flapped. Then the ' Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, Senate chap lain, led us in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and we all went inside for the main event the formal opening of the 1,200-foot subway tun nel which links the new office building to the capitol. The subway project, which cost more than six million dollars, or roughly $6,000 a foot, also has caused some eyebrow-raising among the economy-minded, such as tax payers. But Chavez and Bridges, in their ceremonial remarks, assured us it was worth it. .' ' Chavez snipped a red, white and blue ribbon across the tunnel entrance and 36 of us FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many weartrs of UIm teeth hav suffered real embarrassment bec&ust their plate dropped, slipped or wob bled at just the wrong time. Do not live in fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH. the alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any trug counter. ' confidence that if Kennedy is unable to make it on an early ballot next July in Los An geles, he will not make it at all, and that the Democratic nomination will go either to Adlai E. Stevenson or to Sym ington. The pros could be wrong and perhaps they are. But it is not only in Washington that predictions and bets are being made that the Democrats, finally, will choose between Stevenson and Symington next summer. The Symington boom, as of now, probably is the stronger of the two, large ly because Stevenson insists he wants to sit this one out. Well Liked Symington's strength gen erally is rated like this: He is solid with the left wing of the Democratic Party, well liked by labor, and, as a bord er state man, the mere men tion of his name does not in furiate the South. Also said of Symington is that he has ago. Some of the villagers claim that, even at the time, they had no knowledge of the fact that thousands upon thousands of Jews were dy ing in the gas ovens of Da chau. The gas chambers still stand as a horrible memento to Ger mans of the sins of Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi swastika emblem once more is appear ing on synagogue walls, on Jewish shrines and on the homes of some of the 30,000 Jews remaining in West Ger many. Some six million Jews died at the hands of the Hitlerites before the Nazis finally were climbed aboard the rolling stock - two shiny electric powered cars with green carpets and bouncy brown foam rubber seats. Felt Like Ben Hur In his opening prayer, Chaplain Harris likened the cars to "swift chariots of de mocracy." To me, they looked more like roller coasters. But I did feel a bit like Ben Hur as we went shooting along over a sound-proofed roadbed at speeds up to 17 miles an hour. There was a rush of wind on the face and the recessed, indirect lighting along the air conditioned tunnel was blur red before the eyes. The cheers of the crowd left at the terminal faded in the distance. A lady next to me nearly lost her hat. I he historic run took 52 seconds. I regret to say that the car on the other track got there first. Leaving this underground elegance, I went over for a comparison ride on one of the famous old Senate monorail trolleys which are being re placed by the new subway In a few months, these faith ful conveyances will be noth ing but museum pieces. Their seats are hard and their wheels are noisy, but I'm sort of sad to see them go. Cardinal Stepinac Has Health Crisis Zagreb, Yugoslavia -(UPD- Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac entered another crisis last week, according to Roman Catholic sources. The cardinal, suffering from glaudular trouble, has lived in Krasic village near here since his conditional re lease from prison in 1951. A Home Atmosphere C M. Lltwilter Beautiful weddings surrounded by palms and flowers, growing plants and rock waterfall. For that long to be remembered occasion . . . arrange now to have your wedding at Litwiller's Mountain View Chapel! LITWILLER Funeral Home . . Mountain View Chapel . Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We. Never Close than to not offended anybody or any bloc of voters. Kennedy is on pretty good terms with organized labor and his name certainly does not infuriate the South. On the contrary, Kennedy has some Southern support and may get more, notably in Louisiana. The left wing, Americans for Democratic Actions, however, appear to be cool toward Kennedy. And Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt oc casionally has challenged his fitness for the presidency. She has not done so recently, but neither has she retracted public statements obviously intended to cut down Ken nedy even before he could an nounce his candidacy. She would not comment on his announcement that he would run. Now that he formally has announced h i s intentions, Kennedy's job is, somehow, to unstifle what he regards as the people's voice. crushed by the World War II Allies in 1945, and today in West Germany there are laws to insure that never again can anti-semitism run ram pant as it did under Hitler. Hard Core Remains Anti-semitism is a subject from which most Germans re coil, for of all the excesses of Hitlerism, that left perhaps the greatest stain. But there has remained a hard core of anti-semitism. German officials insist it does not represent by any means the majority feelings of West Germans, and is, in fact, probably no worse than in other nations which do not have a history of Nazism. On a visit to West Ger many last spring, this cor respondent was told of anti semitic incidents, and of the severity with which German Courts deal with such. But, perhaps because of its recent history, there is a dif ference of opinion in German officialdom and among Jews themselves as to how these in cidents should be treatted. Restaurant Owner Bankrupted A Jewish acquaintance illus trated one side of the argu ment when he told of a Jewish restaurant owner who return ed to Germany after several years in Israel and attempted to resume in his old business. It prospered until his religion became known and then a boycott finally bankrupted him; The case was not one that could be taken to the courts, and the acquaintance who told the story was grateful that it could not be. "It just starts something else," he said. But there are others who believe action of the courts should be even more severe. ! Chancellor Konrad Aden auer's regime has been ac cused of turning its back on rising anti-semitism, but re jects the charge. The regime feels Itself caught between two fires. If it outlaws neo-Nazi or nation alist parties, it drives them underground. If it curbs free dom of speech, it is accused of being anti-democratic. LIVE A LITTLE! Get money at "MONEYLAND" Pacific Rl Finance prompt, courteous personal loans and new or used car financing 16 S. Central Ph. SP 3-530S Bob Griffith, Manager (All loans made under the Oregon Industrial Loan Act) Open Daily 9 A.M.-S P.M. Mondays Till 8 P.M. Closed Saturdays Pocif k FfcKHtf L Mrs. Litwilier 'It is better to know us and not need us need us and not know us."