MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or.
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1960
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Coverage don't let the year
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