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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD FRINTINU tO. S3 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM, Bui. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL. M. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Tele. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor . PALE 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 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Kiv 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 PPJ. Telephoto Newspictures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS A Jiravrieini OonrocpntativP WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago, ue troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL v7 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. 12, 1950 (Thursday) Three lumber companies are planning a million dollar plant expansion at the Camp White industrial area soon. An Eagle Point baby girl, who was flown to a San Fran cisco hospital a week ago in a dramatic attempt to save her life, died yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1940 (Friday) Medford's third set of auto matic traffic control signals, at Sixth st. and Central ave., went into operation last night. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Pre mier Chamberlain of Britain ays Europe is now in the quiet of the calm before the torm.' The Finns do it better but backwards. They have the torm before the quiet of the calm." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1930 (Sunday) Boundary board cuts salar ies of Butte Falls teachers and overrules plan to increase teaching staff. Grants Pass residents op pose planned William creek road at highway meeting. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 12. 1920 (Tuesday) Supreme Court says Gov. Olcott can hold post through out the entire term of his pre decessor. Oil drill finally arrives in Medford and work will start soon at the Trigonia weU. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 12. 1910 (Wednesday) People endorse city admin istration by reelecting entire city council and the city re corder. Glenn Curtis sets three world records in a biplane at Los Angeles air show. He set, taxi distance record, 98 feet; shortest take-off time, 6Vs sec onds; and speed record, 55 miles per hour. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct " superior; even er eight is excellent; five er ti is good. 1. How did Manhattan Is land get its name? 2. In what game must one peg 61 holes to win? 3. What is meant by "dying intestate"? 4. Did George Washington sign the Declaration of Inde pendence? 5. For what is oakum used? 6. Did prehistoric dinosaurs ever live on the American con tinent? 7. By what name was the document known that bound together the 13 colonies fol lowing the Declaration of In dependence and before the Constitution? 8. For what animal is veni aon obtained? 9. What living species of birds have teeth? 10. How many guns are fired in a Presidential salute? Answers: 1. From Ihe In dian tribe. 2. Cribbage. 3. Dying without having a will. 4. No. 5. For caulking boats. C. Yes. 7. Articles of Confed eration. 8. Deer. 9. None. 10. Twenty-one. ' - Still Unsettled We received a personal letter the other day, not intended for publication. But, if we do not reveal the writer's identity, perhaps she won't mind if we print it anywav for it does make a point. It said: "I have just re-read your editorial of a few weeks ago where you stated the need for Labor Courts to' settle strikes. Now, more than ever before, I realize the need for such an agency, since the announcement of the end of the steel strike. "It seems to me the settlement was nothing more that a political football played by the Gold Dust Twins, Nixon and Mitchell, to launch their election campaign. If I am wrong on this score, at least our judicial sys- $ tem would have taken it out of the realm of politics and the dispute could have been settled with the in- terests of the Nation As A Whole in Mind. "But now it looks as though Industry gets to raise their prices and union members get their raises. Some one has to pay for this and it is the rest of the public those who have not been "blessed with the money of industry, nor are they many of them in a job where they could be a union member and receive high wages and benefits. "I guess you could call them the Forgotten Race, neither Capital nor Labor, fish nor fowl, but here they are, respectable hard-working Americans. Are they to be free-bargained out of existence?" f"UR correspondent is not alone in her feeling. V Walter Lippmann, one of America's most astute and best-informed men, while he has never advocated labor courts as such, has time and again returned to the problems of the public in terest in the settlement of labor disputes in vital industries. His column which appeared on this page last Sunday was entitled "Inglorious Ending," referring to the steel strike. And he said, m part: : "The President, so he said last July, has been acting on the notion that there must be no govern ment intvervention because 'we have got thoroughly to test out and use the method of free bargaining.' "We have now had the test. What happened in the test? What happend was that the government inter vened in the person of the Vice President. He used the carrot for the union and the stick for the compa nies.' He coerced the companies into yielding not all but most of what the union was fighting for. More over, it would appear, he induced them to agree that they will not raise steel prices at least until after the election. "The strike was not settled by 'free bargaining.' It was settled by a political fix." IT LEFT one thing unsettled, and that is the need for additional legislation to avoid this type of national danger in the future. With the steel strike out of the way, Congress is not faced with the necessity of hammering out controversial labor legislation during an election year. But the need remains. Compulsory arbitration, which many people favor, has much to recommend it, but it also has much in its disfavor. How much more effective, how much fairer, would be a system of labor courts, which, in a judicial atmosphere, could hear the evidence and render a verdict, on its merits, in a labor dispute of national significance. E.A. 'The Good Life '? This week's contribution to culture by that paragon of taste, Life magazine, is a special is sue devoted to "The Good Life." What is the good life? According to Life, it is having lots of money and the time in which to spend it. The issue is one long advertisement for the modem prosperous America, whose citizens have more cash and more leisure time than the citizens of any previous civilization. THIS display becomes hoq vf" trio nliroco editors of Life want to spend an issue trumpeting the glories of prosperity, that's all right. There's nothing wrong with prosperity. But call it "the nappy life," or "the prosper ous life" or some snazzy catch phrase like "the new leisure." Lay off calling it "the good life." For the good life means the life of virtue. It has meant this since the earliest ethical writings of Plato and Aristotle. VOU DON'T have to be rich to live the good life. The impoverished doctor who works for coolie wages while fighting disease among the natives of Africa may be closer to living the good life than the wealthy penthouse dweller. In the past few months we have seen how easily Americans will lie or cheat, or degrade honorable professions, in the name of the fast buck. Unfortunately, Life now comes along to praise and make tantalizing the things which can be bought with it, without the least bow to the moral discipline without which life is just a sorry joke. Bend Bulletin. UNICEF Benefits Youngsters who collected coins for UNICEF on recent Halloweens will be interested to know that part of this money will go to help Burma eliminate leprosy. In that country there are 200, 000 lepers, or more than one to every 100 persons. UNICEF is furnishing a new drag, sulfone, and reports that a dollar's worth of this drug can cure a leper in two or three years. The World Health Organization is supplying technical advice for the program. Burma hopes to get rid of this old and notorious disease within a generation. Chil dren of America may feel thev have a Dart in this health program. Oregon Statesman, Salem.; tasteless because of the "rVin crnnA li-fo " Tf fVio Dennis the I J I :b V3H. IS THAT YO&? T WAS WWDEClM' WIXCBG. Ufe GOT THAT OLD FAStiiOHEO Matter of Fact BIG BROTHER'S EYE AND OURS Washington The Soviets are now getting ready to send up reconnaissance satellites - mechan i c a 1 eyes of "Big B r other" which will watch this country and report what they see at all hours and in all weathers. Such, at any josepu alsop rate, is t n e most reasonable reading of the Kremlin announcement of an oncoming series of long-range missile shots with the target area in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The military interpretation is certainly far more likely than the public relations interpre tation, that the Kremlin is getting ready to launch a satellite with a man on board. The new series of missile shots over the Pacific will not be the first that the Soviets have made, by any means. The American watching sta tions have long since tracked at least two and perhaps more Soviet long - range missile shots with Pacific Ocean tar get areas. They were reported in this space; but there has been no official mention of them, because the American government, as usual, was ob ligingly trying to keep . the Kremlin's secrets from the American people. ONE of these earlier shots was even mentioned by Nikita Si Khrushchev, in his menacing-roguish way, in the course of his long private con versation with Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. Khrush chev genially remarked that something had gone alarming ly wrong with the guidance of the Pacific shot in question. With a jolly twinkle, Khru shchev added they had feared that the missile would come down on Americn soil, in Alaska. But . a combination of two facts sets the new test series apart from the earlier Soviet Pacific shots. The first fact is simply the announcement itself. The second fact is the stated Soviet purpose to send to the. target area a large number of Soviet naval ves sels, in order to observe the results of the shots. This naval movement, pretty plainly, is what made the announcement necessary. The planned Soviet naval movement, in turn, strongly recalls the great but unsuc cessful effort of the American Air Force and Navy, to rescue from the sea one of the nose cones of the Discoverer series missiles. The motive of these efforts was simple. The Dis coverer is the first step on the road towards an American Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF - A "VISITOR TO the home of the late Oliver Herford was astonished to discover that the unpredictable poet and humorist had added a big and menacing brown bear to his menage. "What on earth are you doing with that bear in the house?" he demand ed. Herford explained gently, "I came into a substantial sum of money recently and I was afraid I might spend it foolish ly so I bought a bear!" One of the many dark lorses now popping up in the political arena wanted a. speech writer who could pepper, his remarks with both wisdom and .wit, and . finally persuaded his own senator to lend him the writer chiefly responsible for landing said senator in Washington. Jim Spinning, Rochester savant, upon hearing of the deal, marveled, "Greater love hath no man than this, that he give up the ghost for a friend!" - Menace SHOE" By Joseph Alsop I reconnaissance satellite. Its ! r ii r 1 l . nuse-c-uiie is iuii oi waicmng apparatus. When a Discoverer nose-cone is picked up, it will show how the watching ap paratus worked in the upper air. ALTHOUGH no nose - cone has yet been recovered to give the final verdict, the shots of the Discoverer series have been outstandingly suc cessful in every other way. In this single category of long range missile and satellite de velopment, in other words, the American effort at present seems to be well ahead of the Soviet effort. Nor is the apparent success with the Discoverer the end of the story. In order to cut weight, the Discoverer is only half of a reconnaissance satel lite. It can be launched in the difficult north - south orbit, with no helping push from the revolving earth, which is necessary for a satellite that is to watch the Russian land mass. It has its watching ap paratus, too; but it cannot carry the heavy extra appar atus to report what it sees. Already on the way after Dis coverer, however, is the Midas satellite. Already on the way after Midas is the Samos satellite. And these two can both see and report. Midas is intended to give Drecious 15 to 18 minutes of sure warning of a Soviet mis sile attack, by spotting the Soviet ICBMs with infra-red watching apparatus the in stant they rise above the earth's insulating blanket of atmosphere. Samos, still more advanced, is capable of main taining a ground-watch. Al though there is an unavoid able element of gamble in the scheme, the researchers and developers believe that Midas and Samos are so promising that an immediate investment in the whole weapons system is now justified. THE SUM to be gambled is not astronomical perhaps $200,000,000 for Midas and another $100,000,000 for Sa mos. With this much invest ment, the U.S. would have an "excellent chance" of possess in!? a complete, operational Midas watching system with in 18 months, and the begin ning of an operational ground watch by Samos in the same period. On the eve of the hard years of the missile gap, the American need for this kind of reconnaissance is immeas urably, indeed desperately, more urgent than the Soviet need. But this, alas, is not the end of the story either. "Develop ment is continuing," as they alwavs say in the Pentagon; but the money to buy an oper ational Midas-Samos watching system is not included in the 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. Park and Locomotive To the Editor: Agreed, that the locomotive is a fine his toric monument and a real addition to the Jackson Street park; not agreed that it will be a tourist attraction. Mc Andrews is a busy logging and commercial road, not a scenic highway. The park committee was not thinking of improving this section either in terms of safe ty or appearance when they placed the engine directly off busy McAndrews rd. It blocks the opposite residents' view. Children race around it and out into the street. It has cre ated a nearly blind corner at McAndrews and Clark st., which we asume will support heavy traffic during park and pool season. Moving the engine only half a block in nearly any direction would please almost everyone. We of this section of Med ford are delighted that work on the much-needed pool and park has finally commenced. We shall wholeheartedly aid and support any efforts to raise money for the diving pool. Mrs. Charles H. Clark, 838 West McAndrews rd., Medford. Thanks To the Editor: May I take this opportunity to publicly express my appreciation to the many friends, relatives, neighbors, organizations, and even strangers, whose thought fulness and generosity has made the past holiday season a most memorable one for my children and me. A "special thanks" goes to the young people of: Brownies Scout Troop 200 Cub Scout Pack 5 Boy Scout Troop 105 for their lovely gifts and hard work in our behalf. Mrs. Nelle Christensen, 903 South Holly st., Medford. Government and Morals . To the Editor: Last Thurs day's rather frantic editorial condemning Mr. Stone and his proposed 23rd amendment de serves a bit of comment. For one thing, associating Mr. Stone with communistic thinking revives memories of how you excruciated (sic) the late Senator McCarthy for al legedly doing the same thang to his foes of Americanism, In fact, just a few months ago, you were picking at his bleaching bones concerning this same subject. Tsk! Tsk! Another reason I call your editorial frantic is because you listed an excessive num ber of governmental func tions which would not be af fected by the proposed 23rd amendment. Makes it almost look like you were grasping for straws to help save your ideal of a socialistic state. Concerning the govern ment's more than 700 busi nesses it is running tax free and in direct competition with free enterprise-suppose the federal government should decide to start a daily news paper in Medford. It would use tax dollars to build and equip a beautiful big expen sive building and, at the end of the first year, should a deficit of 5 or 6 million dol lars show up, there would be no sweat - just appropriate more tax dollars and go blithlely on their way with never a thought of paying bus iness, property, income, cor porate or any other kind of a tax. Would it knock your lucrative monopoly for a loop or wouldn't it? i The government's wild-eyed spending spree is knocking the morals of the American people into a cocked hat. Sup pose the government had of fered your grandfather or his father, say $10,000 not to grow grain, on the north sec tion of his farm. American morality and love of freedom were such in those days that a shot gun would have been budget. We may have the makings of the eyes, but we are not to have the eyes them selves. Even where we are ahead, our apparent purpose is to fall behind. And this seems a good be ginning for an inquiry into this vital aspect of administra tion decision-making in the al leged year of the peace issue. (c) 1960. New York Herald Tribune Inc. TIME' ON THEIR HANDS Pendleton, Ind. (UPD The sports staff of the Pendleton Reflector regretfully turned down an invitation to a St. Louis, wrestling match ex plaining, " 'Time' does not permit us to attend functions outside our own neighbor hood." The paper is published by inmates of the Indiana re formatory, ' " Disarmament Talks 'Unreal' In Absence of Red Chinese By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor An unreality of the forth coming disarmament talks in Geneva is the fact that a na tion with one of the largest armies in the world will not be represent ed. That na tion is RpiI 31 China. The United N a t i ons - ap pointed sub- pwi Newsom committee on disarmament meets March 15 to consider numerous disarma ment proposals, prominent among which will be Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's demand for total world dis armament in four years. Communist nations on the committee are Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. Non-Communist are the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Italy. There is no indication that any, including Russia, can speak for the Red Chinese. But any disarmament agree ment, to have meaning at all, must include them. Estimate Chinese Strength Western intelligence at pres ent estimates the strength of the Red Chinese army at 3.500.000 men under arms. Well-placed sources says this figure could be practically doubled "almost overnight." The Red Chinese air force has a total of about 3.000 planes, of which about half are MIG-15 or MIG-17 fight ers and about 300 are iet bombers. used to run the federal agent into the next state. Present day American mor als have ;' been degraded by our shocking socialistic atti tude of getting something for nothing. History proves that when a nation's mortality is gone, it is headed towards oblivion. M. J. Olsen, Route 4, Box 325, Medford. On Dunes Proposal To the Editor: Congress man Charles Porter has in formed us that he is sending out a questionnaire: "Do you favor establishment of a na tional seashore between Flor ence and Reedsport?" We have pointed out to Mr, Porter that because of lack of information uninformed citizens will vote in favor for the simple reason that it sounds like a good idea. Most of us are for parks, peace, recreation and so forth. We have, therefore, sug gested that facts about the proposed seashore be sent with the questionnaire. Here are a few: Shoreline between Florence and Reedsport is in govern ment ownership: most of it is owned by the U. S. Forest Service-about. 12,000 acres extending back from the state-owned beaches from one to two miles. The forest serv ice is developing it for recre ation. The area includes the 522-acre Honeyman State Park and county areas. There is no "vanishing shoreline. According to proposed boundaries; the seashore would reach inland five miles, absorbing 250 year-around homes, 16 farms, a 3,500-acre tree farm, and 39 businesses, as well as a 140-acre Boy Scout camp. Park officials have stated they plan to eventually ' "eliminate all housing." Seashore would take taxes from schools and hospitals. Unlike forest service, the park service seldom pays taxes. Park service plans to relo cate Highway 101 at estimat ed cost of $15,000,000. Congressman Poiter might also submit names of organi zations for and against the project, and other informa tion which would give the voters a better understanding of the situation. We hope he takes this op portunity to be of service to his constituents. John S. Parker Committee on Information Western Lane Taxpayers Association Box 1033 Florence, Ore. Protests TV Ad To the Editor: Following is a letter I sent to TV station KBES. Please print it in your Letters to the Editor" col umns: Station KBES Dear Sirs: I am writing to protest the advertising on your station by the Craterian theater for "The Five Gates to Hell." If we don't like what the theaters are showing, we can stay home, and we DO. When ysuch trash follows you into your home, and bursts .unexpectedly on your screen, it is just too much. Please be more careful of what you show to our young people and children. Mrs. Thomas Cardona 224 Saginaw drive Medford. " ' ' 9) "3ra Their naval strength is neg ligible, and so far they have no nuclear capabilities except as it might be supplied by Russia. They are, however, believ ed to have the know-how and possibly the material to touch off a relatively crude atomic blast. So their atomic possi bilities cannot be written off forever. While Moscow broadcasts have been soft - pedalling boasts of military might in favor of disarmament, Pei- ping broadcasts from Red China have continued with unabated truculence. Flex Military Muscles Some of the Red Chinese saber-rattling has been at tributed to sensitivity over U.S. refusal to grant them diplomatic recognition, some to a theory that they still are flexing their relatively new military muscles. In any event, they have served notice before that no summit meeting can be truly Washington Report By WILLIAM FORMIDABLE PUSH Washington Formidable is the word for the massive and many-sided push the Re publicans are now opening for the elec tion of Vice President Nix on as the next President o f the United States. It is as pow- iffiil nc o Vhiill. nmn. n White dozer at full throttle. It is as synchronized as the finest watch. It is the most . professionally compe tent operation seen in Wash ington in a long, lone time. Few detached observers nere and few Democrats too, in their private thoughts have any remaining doubt that Mr. Nixon will be ex tremely hard to beat. Simple luck, as has been the case over and over in his career, is one factor. He is the prac tically unchallenged heir to the Republican nomination but for the small gleam of hope for a convention draft that still lies in the eye of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. WHEN, as President Eisen hower's more or less or dained successor, Nixon is in a most happy position. He can accept all that is helpful in this relationship. And very probably he can avoid most of any part of that relation ship which may seem harm ful by election day next No vember. But beyond all this there is an elaborate, smooth, clicking plan of battle to exploit ev ery ounce of the prestige of Nixon's present position. Ac tually, the effort is to make him seem almost to be Presi dent already. 1. Nixon is presented as the principal author of the steel strike settlement and, to a large degree, so he was. That settlement has undeni able inflationary possibilities, on which the Republicans un derstandably do not care to dwell. But it also avoids hav ing to face up to new and controversial labor legislation in an election year. On the whole, it pleases management. And manage ment, it should not be forgot ten, is still the heart and mind of the G.O.P., not to mention the main source of campaign money. And though none of the fundamental labor-man agement issues in steel is Counsel With . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. a summit without Red Chi nese participation. The possibility of a Red China-U.S. summit seems en tirely unlikely so long as Red China presses its demands on Formosa and the U.S. retains its firm friendship for Nation alist President Chiang Kai shek. Neither seems likely to change. And until there is a change, both will continue to main tain large military forces in the Formosa Strait area. One and possibily two oth er large Communist forces in Asia probably would ac cept Russia as a spokesman. One is North Korea, with an army of nearly half a million and close to 1,000 warplanes. The other is North Viet Nam, with an army of more than 400,000. But until Red China can be brought into agreement, subject to the same controls as any other nation, the air of unreality must persist at Geneva. S. WHITE solved, the Nixon formula at least puts off the showdown until after the campaign is over. A ND it is far from displeas ing to labor. On the whole it was a labor victory, and not a management victory, which Nixon helped so much to dictate. So, for the politi cally critical short run any how, this is one of those rari ties: a political tour de force pleasing to both side or not at any rate, resented much by either. 2. Nixon the doer, as to labor, is at the same time shown as Nixon the doer in civil rights. A "Presidential committee" of which the Vice President is actually the head is quietly winning him power ful political friends in its ef fort to put qualified Negroes into white-collar jobs in busi ness. This anti - discrimination committee is a political natur al. It appeals to all who are liberal on race matters, in part because its operating vice-chairman, Irving Ferman, had past connections with the American Civil Liberties Un ion. More importantly, the committee is getting the job done to an observable extent. It may well be that its activi ties in breaking down job dis criminatinon against Negroes in clerical and technical posts, as well as in manual labor, may be as useful to Nixon in the end as his own advocacy of civil rights legislation. 3. Some of President Ei senhower's own most initi-' mate associates, his Cabinet officers, are now openly re porting to the Vice-President as well as to the President Secretary of Labor James Mitchell has long done so. Ar thur Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Wel fare, is among other Cabinet members joining this parade. FINALLY, the Republican National Committee had to act with some show of neu trality while Nixon was still being opposed by Rockefeller. But it is now able frankly to cast all its heavy resources into the Nixon buildup, and into an accompanying cam paign to try to elect a pro Nixon Congress. Put it all together and what does it spell? It means that no man not already in the Presidency ever had so big a drive going in his behalf. (Copyright. 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) IT'S GOING LIKE SIXTY! The New Year we mean. If you're still sneaking by with antiquated Insurance Coverage don't let the year get any older before you bring it up to date. Bill Fish l
