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Friday, Jan. 8, 1960
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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
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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.)
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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.