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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Jan. 8, 1960 Medford Tbibuns Evervone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 HER3 GREY. Advertising Manager -roirn r T.ATWATVf Rtn Mpt. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL. H. AUAOIO, -liy ioiwjr Jlliii ........ n - OLIVE ST ARCHER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. circulation mgr. Entered as second class matter at Medfora. Oregon, unaer ci oi March 3. 1897 CTTOCTjroTlrtM T ATP? By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and sunaay i year ?ia:uu Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 JDV i.dL 1 ici aii . ..- - Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv. Dailv and Sunday 1 year $38.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. UO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms asn in nnmi " official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UniteTPress "international TT. .11 I aicpr) Wirt " U.P.I. Telephoto Newspictures "MEMBKR OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHt.umi"JJ ...To-n am m4V m TVP. Of w r.ji numin ' - - fices in New York. Chicago, pe. troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver, as-. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL . , 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. 8, 1950 (Sunday) Shelley Cross, 18 -month-old Medford boy suffering from polio, is in an iron lung in a Eugene hospital; he is one of the youngest ever to be in iron lung. ; The Jackson county farm home near Talent is scheduled for completion by Feb. 15. 20 YEARS AGO Jan.. 8, 1940 (Monday) Congress begins debate on anti-lynchine bill; southern congressmen declare that idea is slap in face to South. - From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A lo comotive whistle stuck and kept citizens of Albany, Ore gon awake for 35 minutes last night. The forty or so autoists who tooted their horns were n't able to stop it." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1930 (Wednesday) Local orchardists are con testing attempts by several Californians to get a patent on a fruit spray wash solu tion. City council votes for strict enforcement of ordinance re quiring matrons at all public dances; controversy rages. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1920 (Frday) Press talks about drafting Herbert Hoover as Republi can candidate for president. Rogue river fish bill causes furor in legislature; valley sportsmen aroused. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 8, 1910 (Saturday) Rogue valley representa tive en route to Washington, D. C. to organize opposition to Apple Bill that would set standards in boxing apples not practical for local apples. President Taft removes Gifford Pinchot from office as chief forester and Crater Lake loses best supporter in government circles. Yhai's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct I mperior; seven or eight ii excellent; five or nx i good. 1. During the Renaissance, what invention caused learn widesDread? 2. According to St.' Paul, what are the abiding virtues? 3. Name two games in Viiz-w tho tprm "balk" is 4. Of what Island group is Mindoro one? 5. Do stalactites, or stalag mites, hang from the-roof of a limestone cavern? 6. What produces ocean waves? 7. In what part of the world is the island of Trinidad? . 8. Were any attempts made to establish colonies in what is now New England before the Pilgrims sailed in, 1620? 9. What does the legal term amicus curiae mean? 10. Complete the saying: didn't know him from Answers: 1. Invention of printing. 2. Faith, hope and charity. 3. Baseball and bil liards. 4. The' Philippines: 3. Stalactites. 6. Wind. 7. West Indies. 8. Yes; several. 9. "Friend of the court." 10. Adam. This Needs Saying Perhaps it's about time that someone said, out loud, what a lot of people have been think ing quietly. This is: The teacher tenure law in Oregon is bad for school administration, bad for students, and bad for the teaching profession. It ought to be drastically amended. Lack ing that, it ought to be repealed. - Few teachers will admit this publicly (al though quite a number will do so privately). IN THE larger school districts of the state (of 4,500 or more students) teachers, during their first three years of employment, can be refused renewed contracts if,' in the judgment of the administration,", they are not good teachers. Once they get their fourth annual contract, however, they come under the protection of the tenure law, which provides, briefly, that they can be discharged only for inefficiency, unbecoming conduct, insubordination, neglect of duty, or re fusal to comply with reasonable rules calling for improvement of their skills. While these sound, on first reading, to offer little protection to a really poor teacher, in prac tice they are almost impossible to prove except in extreme cases. TTHE result is that, throughout, the-state, there are teachers who should not be teaching at all and there's virtually nothing anyone can do about it. Teachers who are uninterested, unskillful, marginally prepared for the profession these are the ones conscientious administrators and school boards would like to eliminate from facul ties, but have found they cannot. Some protection for teachers, from the one-in-a-million administrator who may wish to fire a teacher caDriciouslv. because he doesn't like the way he or she pails be retained. 3nt the law should protection for lazy, or inefficient, or disinterested teachers. HE Oregon Education Association supports the tenure law. We are surprised that it should do so, for ostensibly it is a "professional" organ ization not a "labor union" and boasts of its dedication to raising standards in the profession. ml . -I i.T -I 1- ine tenure iaw, m our greatest drawback to this The good teacher, the conscientious one, with the professional skills and dedication and incen tive to teach the rising generation, should be the first to demand that it' become possible for the lesser breeds to be weeded out. For this would make his or her own job more rewarding and meaningful. The good nothing to fear if tenure, abandoned. IT IS even possible that, with this artificial pro- tection removed, sub-standard teachers would find the incentive to become good ones. Over- protection is good for no one. The first consideration should be for the youngsters being taught. That is what the whole thing is about. We yield to no one tion, the schools, and the It is for this reason petent teachers supporting a law which serves to Keep incompetent ones the destinies of our sons Civil Service, Too What applies to the teacher tenure law also applies to many positions under civil service both state and federal. Once an employee falls under civil service protection, it is almost impossible to dislodge him, short of proving moral turpitude. Thus, again, the- inefficient, sub-standard worker is protected, and drags out his years on the public payroll without doing the job for which he is being paid. . . rON'T misunderstand we are convinced that this is the exception to the rule. We have found that by far the biggest majority of civil sen-ants and teachers are good, conscientious people, doing their best for the public which pays their salaries. But the exceptions,' be they ever so few, dis credit the public service, drag down standards, destroy the incentive of others, and wreak havoc with morale. Again, public employees should be protected from capricious firings. But they should not be protected against legitimate discharge, as unde sirable employees. E.A. The Good Rain The rain and snow have been miserable indeed, to those worried available irrigation water for next summer. And surely they are no worse than cold, foggy weather. We'll need more rain to make up the deficit left by last winter's lack of precipitation and the long dry fall last year. So let us hope for more ram, keep our. fingers his or her hair, should not be made a blanket view, is uie one smgie very aim. teacher is the one with in its present form, is in our support of educa teaching profession. that we hate to see com in a position 01 guiding and daughters. b.A. of the last few days may but they are gratifying, about the supplies of and snow a lot of it Dennis the ffe'S REAliyW 5R0.6UT I 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. Figures Misleading . To the Editor: I wish to take exception to some of the statements used in your edi torial of Jan. 6 concerning the pay of Medford teachers.. I realize that the material you used is from the O.E.A., but it does not represent fair ly the pay of Medford teach ers. The reason this is true is that the reports as sent to OEA include on the high school staff many of the super visory personnel of the dis trict. As a result the average pay of the high school teach ers is stated as being some what higher than is actually the case if the average of TEACHERS pay were taken. The same is also true relative to the maximum pay possible for high school teachers. The only way such a salary could be reached is by being under contract to work for a longer period of time than the regu lar contract period and to have additional duties of a supervisory nature. Regardless of the level taught, Medford teachers are paid on the basis of training and experience, and the maxi mum pay according to the sal ary schedule for a teacher with a masters degree and' several years experience is $6,730. Not all of the teachers have attained this maximum, in fact the majority have not, and many of the younger teachers in the system are be ing paid the minimum of $4,000. The only way a high school teacher can attain a higher salary is by being assigned ad ditional duties such as depart ment head, counselor, coach ing, or being a member of the administrative staff. I believe on further investi gation you will find the same is true of the averages report ed by OEA for Junior High and Elementary teachers, which were also raised by the inclusion of the supervisory personnel. I send you this information not to be critical of either the salaries paid Medford teachers or to be critical of your editorial, but merely that the information as mis-represented by the OEA might be made straight in the minds of the readers of the paper. James A. Johnston, Physics Instructor, Medford High School. Editor's note: Mr. Johnston is correct. We are at a loss to understand why the O EA., the teachers own organiza tion, should distribute wide ly information which, in es sence, misrepresents the pay scales of the average teacher those who do not receive extra pay for additional duties. An other point made in the edi torial, however, is unchanged and, perhaps, made even more important - that the teaching profession as a whole does not receive financial rewards commensurate to its responsi bilities. Richards, Again To the Editor: It takes a courageous, but forgetful, Congressman to make the statements Congressman Porter made in his recent let ter to the editor. For exam ple: (a). He denies he urged im mediate recognition of Red China on Nov. 24. But the Washington Post on Nov. 25 reported: "Speaking to a meeting of the Young Demo crats Club at the Mayflower Hotel, the Congressman said the United States should rec ognize the Red regime, back its admission to the U. N. trade with it in non-strategic goods." . The experts in the field classify the three general' po Menace LET AlOW TAKE CARE Of HM sitions on the recognition question as: (1) immediate rec ognition, (2) future recogni tion after a sequence of stages, and (3) non-recognition. It is widely accepted that Mr. Porter has favored immediate recognition. Would the Congressman like a copy of the Washington Post of Nov. 24 or an affidavit from its publisher? In view of this evidence, his statement, "I urged no such thing in Wash ington or elsewhere on that day or any other," is some what surprising! (b) He denies that the prin cipal source of his informa tion for his speech "Iron Cur tain Made in USA" to Con gress on Sept. 1 was a Red Chinese official, the second secretary of the Red delega tion to England. But in the speech he said, "Mr. Chou told me the Iron Curtain was of U. S. manufacture," during an hour and 20 minute con versation with him. The speech also quotes liberally from Red Chinese newspap ers. No need to argue, however, it is a matter of record. We might wish that each of his constituents had a copy of the September 1 Congressional Record so he could see for himself. (c) His statement, "There have been no innocent men executed in Cuba," is also a matter of record in the Nov 1 Register Guard, under the title, "Porter a Bit Worried About Castro, Still Doesn't Think He's a Dictator." We have a right to be con cerned about a self-appointed, one-man Foreign Relations Committee. The Congressman spoke to an audience of Dom inican exiles on Dec. 19, and forecast that "Trujillo will be thrown out of office by the first of the year." He added that his forecast on the Ba tista overthrow was correct, to the day. By any standard, this is encouragement or in citement of revolution by an apparent spokesman of the Congress. No wonder his constituents are angry and alarmed. Joe B. Richards 2870 Mill st. Eugene, Ore. A Rebuttal To the Editor: The outdoor column, "Woods, Water, Wild life," written by Hank De- Voss, on Sunday, January 3, has, again, a derogatory dig for the game-enforcement of ficers of this section of the state . . . namely, the Oregon State Police. We have noted for the last month or so that this outdoor writer has been printing game commission re leases favorable to their ac tivities, but unduly criticiz ing the State Police game-enforcement work. I have made it a point to save every "Woods, Water and Wildlife" column and have noted that for the last month or so, Mr. DeVoss has concentrated on alleged snag ging of salmon and steelhead in the Illinois river, particu larly at the falls. In his column of Jan. 3, Mr. DeVoss says, quote: "A meet ing of the Illinois Falls Sal mon and Steelhead Poaching Club was held this "Thursday and outsiders were NOT in vited. The meeting was held at the Falls, a place noted for its entertainment values just at dusk, and the members ex pected it to be a rewarding one. Past experience has taught the members to exer cise the proper amount of cau tion in this outing, and THEY HAVE LITTLE TO FEAR IN WHAT THEY CONSIDER A RIGHTFUL FUNC TION." End quote. Now, to any fisherman, and particularly a steelheader, the above paragraph is easy to de cipher. Here is what it means Indonesian Minister Seen as Learning Lessons of Democracy By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Lt. Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian minister of se curity and defense. The place: Jakarta: The quote: "The rights of your finger end where my nose begins " Thus the Indonesian strong man ruled out eye-gouging or a punch in the nose as a demo cratic princi ple to be prao t i c e d either among nations or at home. In an era when national leaders seek out the Madi s o n Avenue type phrase to Phil Newsom puncn Home their ideas, Nasution has not been noted as a public speak er. But in his appearance at Presidential Hopefuls Provide Side-Show r By DICK WEST Washington -(UPI)- While everyone else was watching the President deliver his State of the Union Message to Con gress, I was watching the pres idential candidates. In some respects, the side show was more entertaining than the main event. There were at least five Washington Report By WILLIAM KENNEDY FIRMING Washington - The race for the Democratic Presidential nomination is hardening into w h a t may well become the wildest and fiercest struggle with in the party since the ear ly part of this century. - Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts is not only the front-running aspirant. He also is firming up his hold on the initiative to the point where he is likely to. be, at least until the last bal lot is taken, the most power ful single force at the Demo cratic convention in July. "We three are going down to the Illinois River falls to get us some fresh-run steelhead. The run is on and we won't have too much trouble getting them in the deep pool close to the falls where they are schooled up. We have little fear of being apprehended." Then Mr. DeVoss goes on to say . that the . State Police "seem to need help" in order to do something about Illinois river steelhead snagging. I, for oner, can assure Mr. DeVoss that the fishermen need not "call the cops" as he so rudely puts it. The State police were on the job and made arrests of three snaggers at the falls. I made it a point to contact the State Police officers mak ing the arrests: their names are Bob Snider and Bill Allen of Grants Pass. The men ar rested for snagging, and due to appear in court in Cave Junction on Monday, Jan. 4, 1960, are Delbert Scott, Clyde Campbell and Robert Lee Par sons, all residents of the Ker-by-Cave Junction area. - J. Olson Holland hotel Medford She's Angry To the Editor: "Five Gates to Hell"! Now there's a title for you. The only thing they should have added is "In One Easy Lesson"! My family and I saw the previews last week and I can't believe that this is the kind of picture the Medford people would pick if we had a choice. We have as much choice in selecting a movie as the Rus sians have in voting. We have one movie, they have one can didate on the ballot. Our P.T-A. at Washington school is very interested in the problem of pornography, but this movie makes pornog raphy look like a kindergar ten in the school of sordid sex education. It is true, my family and my friends don't have to see the show, which we certain ly won't, but I can't help but wonder about how our sons and your daughters will be affected by those who do see these pictures. " J. Edgar Hoover advises an all-out war against pornogra phy and obscene movies and TV. Why can't we wage our own little battle right here in Medford? ; . As you have gathered, I'm angry. Mrs. E. D. Bennett . 914 Grant ave. Medford. "" . William S. White a dinner given in his honor by foreign correspondents in Jakarta, he demonstrated that he is learning. His theme was that while he still favors democracy, it also carries with it certain obligations. Improves Relations "Indonesia's misfortune has been the fact that democracy is only observed from the standpoint of rights," he said, "and not considered from the standpoint of limitations and obligations." This deeply religious man is the one credited most of all with the steadily improv ing relations between Indo nesia and the United States and the renewed confidence among western nations that the Indonesian archipelago is not going to fall to the Com munists. In the last year in Indo nesia, it has been President Sukarno who remained the During Ike's Talk known or suspected presi dential hopefuls in the House chamber during the speech. Nobody knows how many oth ers were secretly picturing themselves in Eisenhower's place at the rostrum. I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of politicking on the President's time, but a couple S. WHITE Put it this way: if he him self is not nominated he will at worst hold the key as to what other aspirant is to be chosen. The decision of Gov. Mike DiSalle of Ohio to go all-out for Kennedy is one of the big gest breaks of the campaign to date. Its immediately ob vious meaning is that almost certainly Kennedy will have the fourth largest state dele gation to the convention. But it means , a good deal more than simply this. DiSalle's action will put pressure on other urban states with large traditionally Catholic-Democratic popula tions to look with growing Kinaness upon tne young Sen ator. (Kennedy, of course, is a Catholic, as is DiSalle.) The Democratic bosses of at least two highly significant states-Gov. David Lawrence in Pennsylvania and Tamma ny leader Carmine DeSapio in New York - will surely not be left wholly unaware of this new breeze from Ohio INHERE IS also some evi- dence here of a break m the Truman wing of the party toward Kennedy. DiSalle, in the past at any rate, has been a faithful Truman manl The wide belief heretofore had been that "Mike" was going to turn Ohio toward Harry S. Truman's own apparent pres ent choice for the nomination, Sen. Stuart Symington of Mis souri. ... The real strategy of all of Kennedy's rivals has been based on the assumption that he was all but certain to over reach himself and fall short of a majority at the conven tion. This assumption, though not necesarily now destroyed, is looking shakier all the time. x Kennedy's own strategy, in the meantime, is plainly look ing up. Rivals, for illustra tion, must either go into the ; Ohio primary against DiSalle, who will run there as a Ken nedy man; or give up. The Kennedy plan is and al ways has been to force some of the other hopefuls into pri mary contests with him or with his people. Practically speaking, it is so to force not "some" . but actually one co contender, Senator Syming ton. One candidate, Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minne sota, has already taken the plunge and agreed to contest in the primaries. Another "possibility", who denies be ing an aspirant, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, can rea sonably avoid entering pri mary fights by pointing out that as Senate Democratic leader his plate is full al ready. ADLAI E. Stevenson of Illi nois, the fourth of the big five among the Democratic availabilities, also can quite logically stay out. He has said repeatedly he isn't -running this time - and he really isn't, not in the literal sense, any how. : He can thus fairly take this line: I have had the nomina tion twice before; if the party wants me again, the party knows where to find me. Symington, however, is dai ly becoming more vulnerable to Kennedy's repeated chal lenges to. combat in the. pri maries. He is happily vuiner- 'Man of the Week'; popular leader and made the speeches, but Nasution has been making the decisions. It was Nasution who in 1958, reportedly without con sulting ' Sukarno, contracted for $10 million in U.S. small arms. Until that time, the United States had been unwilling to supply arms to a nation which appeared to be on the high road to Communist control. Nasution's firm action against Indonesian Communists and the Communists' hatred for him convinced the U.S. other wise. To Deal With Khrushchev The arms deal was but the forerunner of others to be con cluded between the U.S. and Indonesia. One was a $70 million U.S. loan, for Indonesian economic development. Another was a credit for nearly $7 million to buy U.S. machinery, equip ment and services with which of Democrats sure made the! most of the audience he had attracted after the speech was over. Nixon Announced First to check in was Vice President Richard M. Nixon, the leading Republican con tender. As head of the visiting Senate delegation, he got his title mentioned orally-loudly, that is-by House doorkeeper William M. Fishbait Miller. Miller announced the en trance of each group of dig nitaries in the styV end ac cent of a Mississippi station master calling trains. "Mistah speakah," he bawled, "the vice prezadunt and membahs of the Senate!" ' Thus heralded, senators from both the South and North filed in two-by-two, like members of a wedding party or animals entering the' ark. Up front' was Democratic Leader Lyndon B. . Johnson (Tex.), another of the hopeful five. Johnson also got special mention-by Nixon, who, in a softer voice than Miller's, ap pointed his possible future rival to the committee which escorted the President into the chamber. Humphrey Late Nobody individually men tioned Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.), but he made up for this by arriving con spicuously late and making a solo entrance. Sen. John F, Kennedy (D-Mass.) distin guished himself by sitting apart from senators in the rear row. I was unable to detect any thing exceptional about the actions of Sen. Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.). However, normal behavior in itself is unusual for someone said to be eye- balling the White House. After the speech, Kennedy and Humphrey, the only an nounced candidates, lingered in the chamber, shaking hands and slapping backs of well wishers. They appeared to be waiting each other out. Slowly working their way towards the doors, Humphrey and his group and Kennedy and his group almost collided at one point. The two cam paigners studiously ignored each other and headed up sep arate aisles For whatever significance it may have, Kennedy won this preliminary skirmish. He stayed in the chamber for 20 minutes after the President able, too, from Kennedy's viewpoint. For generally speaking, the kind of poten tial support open to the one is about equally open to the other. Humphrey and Kenne dy, on the other hand, are really rivals only in the sur face sense. The groups fav oring Humphrey would not want Kennedy, anyhow; and the other way around. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) MOW 55 Hurry Limited Supply SAVE NOW ON HUNDREDS OF TOY ITEMS Games Dolls Guns Wagons Plush Animals Tricycles Bikes Model Kits Doll Buggies and Strollers ALL MARKED DOWN NOW!! HURRY! MOORE'S PATIO S TOY SHOP 816 South Riverside- S&H Green Stamps to expand the capacity of the Gresik Cement Corporation in East Java. It seems probable that one of Khrushchev's roles will be to seek to act as peace-maker between Indonesia and Red China in their growing dis pute over Indonesia's decision to freeze out alien Chinese merchants. One of the men with whom he must deal will be Nasution, the man who makes decisions. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Hodgepodge in the news: A National Airlines plane with 34 persons aboard is down on a non-stop flight from New York to Miami. Search activities began . im mediately. The news has been full of plane trouble recently. Does that mean that plane travel is getting more dangerous? Probaoly not. We can assume that the real reason is that there are more planes in the air. There are more highway fatalities because there are more cars on the road. JET S put it tills way: More people are being killed ana injured by slipping in bathtuos. it isn t that Dath tubs are more dangerous, '.there are just more bathtuos and more people taking batns. S PEAKING of traffic: George A. Walter, who in vented me nation's first trat- fic signals, died the other day in Stratford, Conn., at the age of 87. His invention was a man ually operated jigger consist ing of a square oox at the top of a pole. Two sides of the box carried the word GO. The other two sides carried the word STOP. The cop man ipulated it by means of han dles. When, in his judgment, traffic had flowed long enough in one direction, he changed the GO sign to STOP. He had a barricade around him to keep careless motor ists from knocking him for a loop. A LOT of water has flowed under the bridge since then. IMAGINE A JIGGER LIKE THAT AT A COMPLICATED CORNER ON. A LOS ANGE LES FREEWAY! ORISON doors in Havana swing open for 1200 Cu ban criminals granted a blan ket pardon in observance of Epiphany-the day when Latin Americans traditionally ex change Christmas presents. QUESTIONS: In a system like that, WHO is a political prisoner? Answer: He's a guy who isn't going to vote for you-if you hap pen to be running the show. COLUMBIA University L graduate who worked his way through college has just presented to his alma mater the not inconsiderable sum of $5 million. No money will be used to help build an 18-story medi cal research building at Co lumbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Who is the donor? He is William Black, founder and president of Chock Full o Nuts Corporation. How did he make his mon ey? He got a good idea and ran it into a big pile. left, or eight minutes longer than Humphrey. On his way out, Humphrey noticed that some of us news men were still in the press gallery enjoying the perform ance. Reaching into his coat pocket, he extracted a piece of cardboard and jocularly waved it. It was a sign he had snitched from one of the re served seats and it had two words: "White House." crossed, ana if it comes, enjoy it. E.A.