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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Thursday, J. 7, I960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads ine wau rriDune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDF ORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor . HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. Bus. Mer. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year si 5.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily 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 routes, 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 Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased wire U .P.I. Telephoto Newspictures "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago, ue troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, foruana, ai. x-ouis, lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITOR! Al Ias,c5,in Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1950 (Saturday) Reduced load limit on Ore g o n ' s secondary highways went into effect today and lumbermen predict that 400 to 500 men in Prospect area alone will face immediate un employment because of it. Pacific Greyhound lines agrees to license 15 pieces of equipment in Jackson county to give county license reve nues. . . 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1940 (Sunday) A woman who was brutal Iv slain in Aberdeen. Wash., vpsterdav was a Medford vis itor during Christmas holi- davs. from Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Some gumption is being manifested in Republican ranks here, but it is rumored they will be militant and sass the new deal." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1930 (Tuesday) Car driven by Medford chief of police skids on ice and hits parked car. Tax levy in county to show a decrease this year. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1920 (Thursday) ' Premier Lenin of Russia makes peace offer to allies. Jitney line to Jacksonville to be established. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1910 (Friday) Local carpenter's union votes to raise daily minimum wage from $3 to $3.50 for an eieht-hour day. Over $2V'2 million spent for building construction in Medford last year, and 1910 promises , to beat that. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. Complete this cliche: "Lock, stock and 2. Are lichi nuts grown in Italy, China, or Brazil? 3. Do members of Congress receive extra salary for at tendance at special sessions? 4. What continent lies en tirely south of the Equator? 5. Correct the following "Of the thirty plane passen gers, none were injured." 6. In what field of art is Rosa Ponselle well known? 7. What is the Arabic num ber equivalent to MCDXCII? 8. What Prussian dnllmas- ter had a great part in train ing George Washington's troops as fighting men? 9. Is "Mutiny on the Boun ty" purely fictitional, or based on iaci; 10. What arithmetic opera tion is implied by the term "product"? Answcrst 1. Barrel. 2. Chi na. 3. No. 4. Australia. 5. It is correct. 6. Music; opera singer. 7. 1492. 8. Baron von Steuben. 8. Based on fact 10. Multiplication. REELECT PRESIDENT Chicago-OIPD - The National Retail Furniture association Wednesday reelected Roscoe R Rau executive vice presi dent. Rau has been with the 8,000-member furniture deal ers group since 1926. Km Suicide Amendment Here's a modest proposal: Abolish the U.S. Forest Service, and sell the forest reserve timberland, wilderness, recrea tion areas, grazing lands and all to Weyer haeuser, Crown-Zellerbach or Georgia Pacific. Ditto the Bureau of Land Management. Wipe out the Tennessee Valley Authority, and sell its power plants, flood-control works, levees and transmission lines to private utilities. Dismember the Bonneville Power Adminis tration, and similarly dispose of its huge dams, irrigation canals and power lines. CND THE U.S. MARITIME Commission, and throw the American merchant fleet onto its own, in the face of murderous competition. Wipe out nine-tenths of the Department of Agriculture, including its farm program, its ex periment stations, its soil conservation service, and all its other vital services. Decimate the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, including the Social Security Administration, with its program of old age pen sions, and the U.S. Public Health Service, with its watchdog role on behalf of the health and physical welfare of the nation. Close up the Weather Bureau. And the Nation al Aeronautics and Space Administration. And the Panama Canal. And the Federal Housing Ad ministration. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Wipe out the National Parks, and sell them to private industry's recreational entrepreneurs. THAT'S NOT ALL. Tm-minafQ -all fnrpiorn sistnnp p and advice which ly countries alive and outside the Iron Curtain. Terminate our membership in the United Nations. End all government-sponsored cultural or educational exchange programs. And do all this within a period of three years. Silly? Absurd? Asinine? Unthinkable? Mnr. in the vi'pw of the suDDorters of a serious ly proposed (honestly!) U.S. Constitution. ... This amendment would do all these things Tt has some resolutions 'in its support legislatures ot two states ONE WILLIS E. Stone of Los Angeles, selt styled author of the amendment, has been in Medford this week speaking on its behalf. He has rounded up some rather voluble support, too, and telephones have been busy bidding people to attend his meetings. The gimmick: The amendment also would abolish all federal income, inheritance and gift taxes. This has a fine sound to it at least until one figures out what the whole thing would do. Tt wnnlrl do this: It would reduce the United states nf America to a nvern io-ht alone and without friends in the world, bankrupt, destitute, and with its immense natural resources at the mercy of what Teddy Roosevelt once called "malefactors ot great weaitn. IT WOULD have another interesting effect. It would place the western world at the mercy of international communism. . If Mr. Stone didn't specifically claim author ship of the amendment, we could have sworn it was dreamect up during dream in the Kremlin. We can think of nothing, offhand, which would so neatly remove tive foe of totalitarianism. And this if for no other reason than that it would prevent its mobilizing, its great potential i . i.:..- .en economic ana moiai puvver miu eiiecuve luice either military or political. WE HAVE READ, in detail and with great m toroot a cneenh Mv Stone made in Portland last September, and which was reprinted in the Congressional Record at the request of Congress man James B. Utt of California, sponsor of the resolution for this proposed 23rd amendment.1 - Superficially, he makes a logical case. "Sell off all government property not specifi cally authorized by the constitution," he says in effect, "and end all government in business, and the proceeds, plus the lessened burden on govern ment finances, will make it possible to bar all taxes except those on corporations." . But the speech is loaded with misstatements, half-truths and phoney arguments. II TE ARE NOT in the " utterly wild-hair notion ever will attain the status of a constitutional amendment. For one thincr. no sensible and informed person could pos sibly take it seriously its implications. J or another, there are too many people with too much at stake to allow the fed eral government to be stripped of all its functions except the aimed forces, the bureau of the census, and the post office. . , What does concern us is the fact that some people are sufficiently credulous to take this pro posal with any degree of seriousness. ' While it is tine that the constitution does not snecificallv authorize manv of the government s present activities, the founding fathers were wise enough to make that great document. sufficiently broad in scope to take care of unforeseen situa tions, through the "general welfare" clause. Perhaps the government does have a hand in too many things which might properly be left to private enterprise (although this is debatable). But this amendment would be like blowing your head off to get rid of a pimple on the end of your nose. E.A. nirJ thd PCnnnmiC as- have kert manv friend 23rd amendment to the serious supporters. And have already passed the Wyoming ana icxas. fifth-rate Dower almost someone s eupnonc day this nation as an effec least concerned that this after once understanding Dennis the Joey stays in ihb house a tor ivhen ak SNowy He's afraio Or POtAK BCKS.- M after of Fact Joseph ais0P STEEL: BACKGROUND REPORT " Washington-Vice President Richard M. 'Nixon and his friend and ally, Secretary of ,n Labor James Mitchell, are rightly given most of the credit for the vital steel set t 1 e m e n t . I which pre vents another crippling strike and joseph alsop many another misfortune besides. The method used has not been understood, however, and it is certainly well worth understanding. In brief, Nix on and Mitchell devoted their major efforts to convincing the steel companies' manage ments that the political cli mate was hostile; and that, in the event of another strike, management would suffer more than labor at the hands of Congress. This was no resort to emp ty threat, either. Nixon and Mitchell quite simply gave the steel executives their cool-headed and thoroughly informed judgment of the Congressional response to a renewal of the steel strike, which seemed so likely only a few days ago. Mitchell alone probably would not have been believed. - Nixon had to be believed however. THE POLITICAL assess ment offered by Nixon was so important, because there was still a considerable spill-over from the attitudes of last summer. At that time. the steel managements figur atively wrapped themselves in Old Glory, with the stars and : stripes re-embroidered with the President's initials. In this temporary toga, they proclaimed that their sole purpose was to fight infla tion as the President had commanded them to do. They heard no hint from the White House, either, that the line they were taking was not al together in accord with the President's views. The tactics used by Nixon and Mitchell were as interest ing as their strategy. In brief, their really active interven tion in the steel dispute only began after the President clothed the Vice President with solid authority to act. This occurred just before Ei senhower left for his world trip, when he asked Nixon to "do what he could" to secure a steel settlement. ON DEC. 8, accordingly, Nixon and Mitchell met secretly in New York with Roger Blough, of U.S. Steel, Charles White, of Republic Steel, Arthur Homer, of Beth lehem, and Conrad Cooper, the chosen negotiator for all M . A Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF COMPLAINED ANOTHER WIFE to that same old psychia trist, "my husband insists on banging away on a big bass drum from early morning until late at night" "So maybe he's a natu ral musician," soothed inf anx vsl i. Lfio. ut?i. a bass drum occasionally for relaxation." "You do?" exclaimed the wife. "From the IN SIDE?" "Papa," asked a city boy on vacation with his folks," what makes cocks crow so loudly every morning?" "My boy," answered his weary father, "they are merely making the most of their opportunity before the hens wake up." "I see you're driving' a new car," said a friend to the town'a leading insurance salesman. "So I am," replied the insurance salesman ruefully. "I tried to sell a policy to an automobile salea man." - 1960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate Menace the other companies involved in the dispute with the United Steelworkers. This first meet-1 ing was primarily explora tory. The aim was to discover the kind of settlement the steel managements might go along with. But Nixon and Mitchell also warned that a prompt settlement was cer tainly the cheapest way out. This first secret meeting in New York led to three 'ther meetings in Washington, one between Nixon, Mitchell, and Roger Blough of U.S. Steel, one between Nixon, Mitchell, Blough, and David MacDon ald of the Steelworkers, and one between Nixon, Mitchell, Blough, Conrad Cooper, and the Steelworkers' lawyer, Arthur Goldberg. The purpose of . all these meetings was to use Nixon's authority to persuade the in dustry representatives to come to terms. Mitchell mean while had the task of per suading the Union to reduce its demands to an acceptable level. Contrary to - report, neither Mitchell nor Nixon ever threatened an adminis tration-sponsored bill to halt or arbitrate a renewed strike. Nixon's warnings only con cerned Congress. Both Nixon and Mitchell always drove directly for a settlement. BY THE END of December, a settlement seemed pos sible, although thejre was no detailed settlement in sight Just before flying to Califor nia for the New Year, the Vice President therefore held a final secret meeting, in New York at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on the evening of Dec. 30, with representatives of all the 11 steel companies in volved in the dispute. At this meeting, he . gave his political judgment to the steel executives straight from the shoulder, causing some anguish by so doing. The re sult of this effort, plus Mit chell's efforts with the Union representatives, was to create a true climate for bargaining for the first time. At that, the bargaining went on, non-stop, for days on end. Secretary Mitchell had no real sleep for close to 72 hours when the settlement was announced on Monday morning. But in the end, the astutely managed Nixon Mitchell campaign paid off handsomely. It has averted In calculable damage to the na tional economy. It has also averted, by no means incidentally, the kind of management-labor row in Congress that would have done much damage to Rich ard M. Nixon's chances of election next November. (Copyright 1960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) t . 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. Gift Project To the Editor: Thank you very much for the excellent coverage your newspaper gave the Mental Health Association Christmas gift project for the patients in the state mental hospitals. Without the sup port of the newspapers, the gift project could not possibly be successful. Mrs. J. Robert Ridehalgh, Christmas Gift Chairman . Mental Health Association of Oregon, Portland, Ore. Foggy Taxi Fares To the Editor: During the recent fog, local taxicabs doubled their fares to outly ing zones, without advance notice. This happened to me, and also to others. Perhaps the city should take another look at the fran chise under which the taxi cab firms operate as public utilities on the streets of Med ford. And perhaps those who feel as I do should call this mat ter to the attention of their councilmen. (Name on file) Medford. Ads Helpful To the Editor: We wish to express our deep thinks to you for running the Mental Health series of ads in your paper. The success of these mes sages carried by newspapers throughout the country is clearly shown in the number of requests which resulted from the ads' offer of the free booklet, "How to Deal With Your Tension s." For the three-month period durirTg which the ads appeared, 46, 927 requests for the booklet were received, and filled. Thank you again for your generous contribution to the Better Mental Health Cam paign sponsored on our be half by The Advertising Council. Lawrence J. Linck, Executive Vice President National Association for Mental Health, Inc. New York, N.Y. Diplomacy To the Editor: You don't have to be a Diplomat to set tie a strike by giving the un ions a 40c an hour increase in pay, but you sure would have to use diplomacy to get the Unions to agree to a 40c an hour cut in pay. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Fearsome Carnivore To the Editor: I don't know Lynn Watkins and have no personal interest either in proving or disproving his in tegrity as a naturalist or col umnist. I don't know F. J. Clifford either, and so have no interest in proving anything to or about him either. Felis concolor, American lion, puma, cougar, painter, panther or whatever name he may be using, or have used, I know quite well, haying hunted him with hounds, hunted him as he hunts, by knowledge of the ways of the wild and innumerable nights roaming the mountains and deserts as a friend of nature and as her open minded stu dent for the last 37 years. So, to defend my friendly enemy, Mr. Cougar. Mr. Clifford cites interest ing cases of dead men being partially or wholly eaten by cougars. Mr. Watkins said: "he (cou gar) has not been known actu ally to attack a human being." I agree with that statement and find no reason to change my opinion about the deer's best friend, the -cougar, be cause of any instance Mr. Clifford cites. By his (Clifford's) logic (stomach contents)-I attacked and ate a turkey today! Actu ally I found him dead and frozen solid. One time my stomach contained a chunk of whale meat. -What a fear some carnivore I must be! Tell me where there is a cougar who attacks humans. I'll hunt him without weapons, tie him up and bring him in for trial or research. Tim J. Horn, Box 214, Yreka, Calif. Women and Hatfield To the Editor: Women are n't doing so well under the Hatfield regime -. Republican women that is. Republican women are complaining, and rightfully so. Every time the governor ap points or considers women for major appointment he goes to the Democratic party. For in stance, he replaced Cecelia Galey, Republican, with Emily Logan, Democrat, on the Unemployment Compensa- tion Commission. The governor with much Start of Aswan Dam Nasser's Dream Still By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Egypt sees a dream on the way to reality this week. President Gamal Abdel Nas- s e r presides over cere monies laying the foundation stone of the great Aswan H Dam, whose first phase is being built with the aid of Soviet mon ey and techni Ph)l Netvsom cians and which upon com pletion is to increase Egypt's cultivated land by one-third. i" 1 -Yii mfr i Today & Tomorrow By Walter The Administration and TV Mr. Rogers, the Attorney General, has replied to ques tions which the President put to him when the television scandals broke out: "Whether there were any laws vio- VVVW I lateG YH whether w e C?!! should pro pose any new laws." The answer from the Department of Jus--tice is that the laws as passed by Congress are on the whole adequate, that these laws have been violated, and that the Federal regulatory commis sions concerned with them -the one for communications and the one-for trade have in fact made no serious at tempt to enforce the laws. While the Attorney Gener al, perhaps rightly, did not deem it his business to say so, can it be denied that if the officials have failed to en force the law, the remedy would be to appoint some new officials who will try to en force the law? THE REPORT itself, is, it seems to me, a clear and candid introduction to the TV problem. Mr. Rogers has fixed his main attention on the re cent scandals on the fraud of the quiz programs and the corruption of the payola. But he has opened the door, with out going through it, to the much greater question of na tional policy, which is how to deal with the consequences of what he calls "naked commer cial selfishness." This is the search for larger and larger audiences to yield larger and larger advertising revenues Here the broadcasting compa nies are debasing and degrad ing the most powerful of all popular institutions of educa tion, and entertainment, Mr. Rogers believes, and no doubt with good reason, that the laws as passed by Con gress,' if enforced, are ade quate to deal with the "decep tive and corrupt practices" which have shocked the coun try. Certainly it is true that the problem here is not to write new laws but to find men who have the will and the ability to enforce the laws we have. But there is more in the laws than that. The rights to use the comparatively few air waves are valuable prop erty. These properties belong to the public, and the intent of the existing . law is that licensees to use the air waves are pledged to treat them as a public trust in the public interest. The question here is wheth er any regulatory commission, even a good one, can induce or compel the broadcasting companies to live up to a higher,..but . less ..profitable, standard of information, edu cation, and entertainment. This is at bottom of the ques tion of what can be done by the method of regulation. A commission can police the in dustry against fraud. But what if anything can it do to raise the intellectual and fanfare went to the press an nouncing that" Democratic Senator Jean Lewis would be a fine Multnomah county cir cuit court judge and that he would appoint Jier to a va cancy - if possible. Now he by-passes an avow ed woman candidate, Republi can Representative Shirley Field, for state treasurer. Surely the Republican par ty isn't so impoverished for competent female' talent in the political field that the gover nor can't find one Republican of. stature to-appoint. We Democrats should be flattered by his recognition of Democrats-capabilities, but some how his gestures remind one of the "beware of Greeks bearing gifts" quotation. Beulah Hand Vice Chairman Democratic Party . .-. - of Oregon - 429 Governor Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. Walter Lippmann The year just past has been a good ' one for Nasser, and with the start of the huge dam holding back waters of the Nile he is able to present the Egyptian people with tan gible evidence of a better future. In the last year, friendship with the United States has been restored and Nasser's United Arab Republic em bracing Syria and Egypt has been the recipient of $125 mil lion in various forms of Amer ican aid. Diplomatic and business re lations have been restored with Britain, and soon maybe with France. Lippmann moral and esthetic standards, and to improve the quality of what is broadcast? THIS IS the door which Mr. Rogers has opened with out passing through it. It is a fair inference, however, from the general tenor of his report that he knows quite well that not much can be done by way of regulations to improve the quality of the programs. My own view is that it is not possible to define in the laws and regulations stand ards of quality which can be enforced. Nor do I think it would be desirable or healthy to have the regulating com mission, which is essentially a policeman, set up shop to advise and even control the quality of the programs. What then? How to jut re lying upon voluntary self im provement by the networks? mere appears to be some evidence that they would like to do better than they have been doing, and that :they would like to recover the -confidence and respect .w h i c h they lost during the recent exposures and the public out cry. More power to them. But we must not forget that the economic interest of the com panies, which require bigger audiences for bigger revenues is against any serious and lasting effort to use television for its highest possibilities ine companies will do as much but not much more than the traffic will bear. rpHAT WILL not be enough -a- This country needs SOME television at the best hours which-like schools and uni versities, like art galleries, like the parks, like research- is not commercial, is produced not because it yields private profits but because it moves towards truth and excellence I say "some television." We could not and should not have the government run the whole television industry. What we need is a competitor with commercial television, a com petitor who has a different motive and can have, there fore, different standards. The non - commercial com petitor would have to be some kind of public corporation or authority, chartered by law, governed like a university by trustees, and operated by pro fessionals. How could it be financed? The best discussion of this question has, I think, come from Mr. John Fischer who had been writing in "Harper's" magazine. His the sis is that since the air waves are public property, the gov ernment should charge rentals .STj HMytgttip. -:: .mmm):!' " Advance preparation always has, and always will be a sound investment. Am Iron Ih. CeurfhouM " , FRANK MOtQAN HAKOIO SNOOCRASS.fUNERAl DRECTOtS . - DAY Off NIGHT - J-SSSil WONC 2-4030 - Brings Closer Quarrels with Moscow and Peiping arising from attempt ed Communist penetration of the U-A.R. have been healed over, at least on the surface. Nasser has been able to crush communism at home while at the same time retaining Rus sia as a market for Egyptian cotton. Presumably, the Egyptian arms lost in the 1956 Suer crisis now have been replaced by the Russians and Nasser once again feels himself strong enough to challenge Israel's use of the canal over objec tions of the United Nations. Nasser's only real setback of the year came in Iraq where elements friendly to him lost out steadily. In March, Iraqi Premier Abdel-Karim Kassem crushed revolt in northern Iraa which the Iraqi government charged was fostered by the U.A.R. In October, Kassem escaped an assassination attempt which nevertheless laid him up with wounds for most of the remainder of the year. struggle for Leadership ihe struggle for leadership of Arab nationalism between Kassem and Nasser has been out in the open since last March. Nasser still is the Middle East's popular symbol of re volt against colonialism but Kassem still has not given up the struggle. One of the pawns is Syria. oynan politicians persuad- ed XNasser to incomorate Syria into the U.A.R. in 1958 oecause they feared a Com munist take-over. But Syria has Droved as much a problem to Nasser as it did to the French after World War I and to the Turks before that. Severe drought, resentment at economic restrictions and balky politicians kept Syria in such ferment that last fall Nasser had to dispatch his closest lieutenant to Damas cus, to hasten the integration process. Kassem has played upon Syrian unrest and has advo cated a "fertile crescent" which would bring Syria un der Iraq's sway. But between the two, Nasser seems to have the best chance for longevity. No one is taking bets on Kas sem. . for them. This is quite feasi ble since the profits are large. Moreover, rentals could be charged not only in money which would finance the non commercial company but also in the form of time set aside for it on the commercial net works. There is little doubt that some non-commercial televi sion could be financed. It would be a very good thing if an appropriate committee of Congress would make a re port on the economics and the finances of the television in dustry. THERE WILL be a tempta tion, I realize, to treat the uproar of the autumn as one of those things which pass and are lorgotten. ims country cannot afford to do that. For television, which is the most powerful medium of mass communications, is of enor mous importance in the life of a nation. To forget about it because it is not in the head lines would be frivolous, and indeed a sign of a serious na-" tional weakness. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. sometimes it's smart to cross bridges before you come to them
