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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Jan. 15, 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Keaas xne Mau TriDune" : published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St., Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor ; DALE 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 S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eaele Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 ' Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance "Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U.PJ. Telephoto Newspictures - MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reoresentatlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, S. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver. B.C.. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL A EDITORIA1 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. 15. 1950 (Sunday) Ashland Jaycees present an iron lung to the city of Ash land to kick off 1950 March of Dimes campaign. Second heavy snowfall in week adds four inches to snow on valley floor; more predicted. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 15. 1940 (Monday) Russians are stepping up bombing raids on Finnish cities, over 300 planes took part in run on Helsinki yester day. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Ice froze on mud puddles and back porch wash basins over the week end, causing prema ture spring flowers and robins to regret their bum guessing 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1930 (Wednesday) Seven persons killed in car accidents in Jackson county last year, coroner reports. A number of horses are re portedly starving to death in snow-covered fields between Medford and Jacksonville. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 15. 1920 Friday) League of Nations estab lished in Paris, regrets are ex pressed that U.S. was not rep resented. Sugar shortage hits city, prices rise to 19 cents per pound. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 15, 1910 (Saturday) Residents of first judicial district accuse Governor Ben son of playing politics in ap pointing new circuit judge for that district. Petitions have been signed by residents for the paving of about three miles of city streets on Genessee st., Riv erside ave. and Central ave What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or is is good. 1. Osteology is the science that treats of what? 2. Clara Barton, the found er of the American Red Cross, was often called "The Lady with a Lamp;" true or false? 3. What is the name of the American naturalist who was called the "wizard of horti culture" for his development; in California? 4. Is West Point's mascot a mule, a goat, or an eagle? 5. How many degrees are there in a right angle? . . 6. How many times did Wil liam Jennings Bryan run for the office of President? 7. Is a stereoscope some thing through which to speak, see, or hear? ,- 8- Does sound travel faster at room temperature, or at freezing temperature? 9. Are chain letters legally transmissible through the U. S. mails? 10. Does a carpenter use a rip saw to cut across the grain, or with the grain? Answers; 1. Bones. 2. False. 3. Luther Burbank. 4. Mult. 5 Ninety. 6. Three times. 7. Sm. 8. Room temperature. 9. No. 10. Io the direction of the cjraia. '-: Financing School Needs Schools (ranging1 from primary to higher edu cation) and their problems (ranging from those of first grade discipline to how to pay for needed new buildings) are among the most fascinating 1 i il- 1 i -1 2. i " suDjecis m mis complicated society 01 ours. In recent days we have mentioned here a couple of them teacher salaries (they're too low on the average) and teacher tenure (we're against it as now practiced). Another, of which we'll hear much more in years to come, is how to pay for schools, and who s to do the paving. POR, make no mistake, schools are expensive. " And, as more and more youngsters come along, they are going to get more so. W e cannot simply throw up our hands and say we can't afford it. If we do, we're negating this nation's entire concept of what is important and good and necessary. What we can do is this: We can insist that for each tax dollar for schools, we get a dollar's worth of education for our youngsters. And we can review our method of paying for schools, and see if there are inequities. If so, we can revise them. V FOR instance, is there anything sacred about uic ,uilLcpi iiiia.ii p ujjwij baAU ouuuiu vcuxjr the major burden for schools? There is not. To the contrary, there is a lot to be said for shifting a major part of the burden of school finance from property taxes to other means 01 taxation. , Here are a few specifics: 1. Ownership of property once was a good indication of ability to pay. It no longer is. Some three-quarters of all Americans now own (or are buying) their own homes. In the case of wage earnersparticularly those who are just getting started,! high property taxation is an inequity, piled on top of all other obligations. 2. Property taxes are levied on capital al though they are paid out of income. 3. Because of varying local situations, the levy on property for schools may be dispropor tionately high in one area, and disproportionately low in another. In each case, justice and equity is lacking. IN ADDITION, property taxes are all based on occoccmonfc A rA rlocnif o tint hocf of f nrfe fif good assessors and appraisers, there cannot al- i ji ; mi i ways De assurance inai mere win De equality in these procedures. v Probably it is inevitable that capital expen ditures for schools for a long time to come will have to be financed through bond issues, and thus be based on property. But this represents a far smaller proportion of school funds than the operating and mainte nance budgets. And it can be said that school construction is of benefit to property in the area, thus making it a proper charge against property. IF PROPERTY taxes are eliminated as a major means of supporting school operations, what then? . ....... .. The only answer is some, other form of taxa tion and this leads us inevitably to increased income taxes, or a new form of taxation, pre sumably a sales tax. This, in turn, creates another choice : Income andpr sales tax on a local, school district level, or such tax or taxes on a state level. , It would seem logical that thev be levied by the state. There are three principal reasons : First, and most important, the state has an obligation under the constitution to support equal educational opportunities throughout the state. Second, its taxation machinery is more effici ent than would be that of a school district, or even a county collecting for school districts. Third, citizens of the entire state would pay for education equally, without poorer districts being penalized by the fact of their poverty. I IT WILL be argued that state financing means state control. Up to a point this is true. But it is also true that there can be no effective substi tute for local school districts in day-by-day ad ministration, as long as state standards are met. And it would make sense for the state to leave the maior administrative decisions to local school boards. The state sets school' standards now; it has a constitutional obligation to do so. But there is no reason for it to attempt to run the districts. And we don't think it would. WE COME out of this with four conclusions: 1. Property taxation (except for building bond issues) is not -the fairest nor even the most efficient means of supporting schools. 2. This financial burden should be shifted to other types of taxes, preferably at the state level. 3. The state would then be better able to ful fill its obligation to insure "a uniform and gen eral system of common schools"in the words of the constitution. . ' 4. Administration should remain local. We have a hunch the voters of the state would go along with such a program if it were presented clearly to them. E.A. ' Oregon school administrators prefer more state aid for education rather than federal aid. This puts the issue squarely up to the state, With federal aid the "or else . . ."Oregon Statesman, Salem. . Dennis the Menace -s- 1 HE HAD A BATH, SOT DRESSED. WENT OUTDOORS AND WA3 8ACr IN THE B4THTU3 IN FIFTEEN MINUTES FLAT' Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE OLD MAN LEAVING Washington""- The old, old man is going at last from the Senate. In the 93rd year of his, life, Sen. Theodore Francis Green of Rhode Island has an n o u n ced he will not seek re-election to his fifth term because h e does not "feel well enough." He is not, of William S. white pensable. And a man can work only so long as strength remains. Too, his state will have no trouble in finding a replacement. All the same, when Theo dore Francis Green leaves, the Senate will be the poorer, in the strictly human sense anyhow, for his departure. For, oddly, in this correspond ent's time it has been mainly the very old men there who have given a special quality to the place. There, more often than not, it is the very old who will take the greatest risks. Who are the least influenced by today's universal urge for per sonal "security." Who are the most ready to run forward to meet the possibility menac ing tomorrow. They are, again more often than not, the best of the individual men, the free and fighting spirits who make the youngsters look rather like conscientious ob jectors. - rpo BE sure, "the problems of the aged" - which is a nice-Nelly phrase admitting that society tends to throw the aged upon the ash heap - exist in the Senate, too. Even there, men can grow too old to go on any more but happily it takes an awfully long time to grow that old in the Senate. Green at a mere 70 carried not simply a full load but a great load, as a personality aristocratic and privileged man who went all the way with the Roosevelt New Deal. Green at a ripe 80 was tough enough and strong enough to take on one of the hardest and most thankless jobs the Sen ate had handed out in this century. This was to serve on the first committee that investi gated Senator Joseph R. Mc Carthy's charges of "commu nism" in the State Depart ment. Nobody could hope to win in that mare's nest - no body but, in the short run, McCarthy himself. For fear and suspicion were loose in a country that had suffered great and undeniable setbacks from imperialist communism. The nation was ready for a devil-hunt; it was all there to be exploited. BUT of UT old Green, unlike some his committee col leagues, faced the unalterable facts with that special candor and realism of the Senate's aged men. He knew McCarthy and his associates were mak ing a bitter brew that at length would spill over on the Re publicans as well as it did when the Eisenhower Admin istration came to power. But he knew that, first of all, Mc Carthy was reaching for the throat not simply of Truman and Acheson but of the Demo cratic party which Green loved. So, full of the self-honesty of the old Senate types, T. F. Green, from the first mo ment, made no pretense to an "objectivity" that could not exist here. From the first mo ment he hit McCarthy with everything to which he .could lay hand. He was a true liberal, as distinguished from a knee jerk liberal. And he was a loyal liberal, instead of a cut-and-run liberal. He stayed with Truman in the good times, and also in the bad times. In the times, indeed, when some of the knee-jerk liberals were self righteously rushing into print (to coin a sparkling phrase) to run out on a liberal Presi dent who had represented the views which they had always said were also their own. But this was a President who also now had the bad luck to get into trouble. So though they were just terribly, terribly "liberal," they also managed to be terribly, terribly safe. TT WAS only the true lib- erals like old Green, plus some non-liberals who be lieved in most but not all of what he was doing, who stood with Truman when the heavy firing about "corruption and cronyism" broke out. Truman has never hated, or even much disliked, all those who had fought him from conviction, the Republi cans and the ultra-conserva tive Democrats. But he has an unforgettable contempt for those who really agreed with his policies but prudently left the firing line when it became evident that his troops were going to be overborne. Old Green may have been intellectually wrong in stay ing in the line to the end. But he was a combat soldier, and not a talking soldier. He had guts. You knew where he stood; not just some of the time, but all of the time. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Firing of Pinay Reveals Conflict High In French Government; He May Return By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-ihe-week: An- toine Piny, fired as finance minister of France. The place: Paris. The quote: "Do you think I'm going to keep Jacquinot company?" It was the bitter remark of a man at another turn in the road of a political life which has had many turns. It was Pinay's exit line from the government of President Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic whose success in resto ring Phil Newsom trie t rench economy in just over a year's time largely has been at tributed to Pinay. This reference was to Louis Jacquinot, a member of Pi nay's own Independent Con servative Party, who holds a post of minister of state- but with little or no power. " In effect, it was a summa tion of Pinay's own attitude. Pinay, a "hard money" man, was saying that either he would rule French financial policy, or he would be fired. He would not resign. To be sure, there was one more line. It came 24 hours later, after a final conference between Pinay and de Gaulle at which Pinay reportedly re fused to accept a post which represented a step down. "I am quitting the govern ment and I am retiring from all political life," he said, "at least momentarily." The latter phrase meant that Pinay believed there would be another swing of the pendulum as there has been many times for him in the last 25 years and that once again, sometime, he would re turn to the "bear pit" of French politics. It was obvious that De Gaulle let Pinay go with re luctance. There was the possibility Pinay would lead his fellow Conservatives in the French Assembly in revolt against De Gaulle, in which De Gaulle might have to abandon all pretense of democratic pro cedures and rule as a virtual dictator. There also was the risk to the French economy, of which Pinay was, regarded as the bulwark. ' De Gaulle offset the latter by appointment of the gov ernor of the Bank of France, Wilfrid Baumgartner, to take Pinay's place as minister of finance. On finances, Pinay and Baumgartner think muchj Army's Food Irradiation Plan Strikes Snag, Committee Finds By DICK WEST ibeef steaks in the cupboard Washington-(UPD-That bright seems to be fading into the tomorrow when we can throw distance, away our freezers and keep This is disturbing to mem- Communications Neglect of Children To the Editor: One minis ter said TV is the sewer for delinquency. I cannot , imagine any man of God would or could make such statements and expect people to have much faith in the Bible or the church. I have seen ..some TV which does not impress me, but I only have to turn it off. I have seen other programs such as Oral Roberts and "This Is the Life" that I have never seen or heard of in the churches. Rev. Roberts, through Jesus Christ, actually heals children, men and wom en, through his great faith in Christ. . I know because I'have been helped 50 per cent already and expect, if it is God's wish, I will be practically well again, maybe never to work manually, but can in some way help God. I think the delinquent child is" less to blame for having delinquent parents. It seems that to some the child cannot be managed because he does not have any one who cares enough to try to understand his or her needs. We should have more homes, less houses; more mothers, less baby sitters; and fathers who demand that their homes and families come first, not golf or bowling or card games. Family fun with kids wife, dog, fishing or hunting or just a good old picnic with all the ants and the trimmings. We are too busy, to make a place for the family, and when company does come, either the children disappear or they are in bed. We either show them off or we hide them so the adults can have their fun. We have lost our trust in humans and we deny or over indulge and never take time out to find the truth. Children are not natural born "-liars, and they do want to be loved and to share the family happiness and sorrow. Treat them according to their age and when a question is asked be sure you know the answer so the child will not have to go elsewhere and may get the wrong answers. Never put off doing a worth while thing. And what is more worthwhile than your Johnson is Seen as Only Real Candidate For 'Compromise' yle C. Wilson By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (WD - Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri is most mentioned among pos- fTJI M2TVri sible candi dates if next July's Demo cratic Nation al Convention fails on an early ballot to n o m i nate a presiden t i a 1 candidate. A d 1 a i E. Stevenson is another who figures in com promise speculation. That is to say this: If neither Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey nor Sen. John F. Kennedy is able to win very quickly, the conven tion is likely to turn to Sym ington or to Stevenson. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas does not much figure in talk of a compromise nomi nation. This is strange be cause, of them all, Johnson's record seems most nearly to fit the pattern of compromise A .simple definition of com promise is: A settlement reached by mutual conces sions. As illuminated by that defi nition, neither Stevenson's nor Symington's record seems to identify them as properly compromise choices if both Humphrey and Kennedy strike out. More properly, Stevenson and Symington would appear to be alternate choices. Symington Record Alternates they surely would seem to be on the basis of Symington's recent voting record and Stevenson's record of policy statements so far as the left wing of the Democrat ic party is concerned. Ameri cans for Democratic Action (ADA) speaks for the most effective element of the Demo cratic left wing. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is ADA national honorary chairman. National own flesh and blood? Leo A. Rifenbark, 1121 Pinecroft ave., Medford Save the Bridge To the Editor: My writing may not be so good. I am 8 years old. I am in the third grade. I go to Griffin Creek school. I had an idea that the cov ered bridee on Laurelhurst road might be a museum, and as I heard, it was going to be destroyed. Thank you. Tungsten Tucker Route 4, Box 372-B Medford chairman is Robert Nathan, one-time CIO economist. Humphrey is vice chairman. Executive committee members include Leon H. Keyserling, chief economist of the Tru man administration; former Sen. Herbert H. Lehman of New York, and Walter P. Reuther, No. 2 man in the AFL-CIO. ADA annually rates mem bers of Congress on their vot ing record, selecting key issues which ADA feels clear ly made an issue between lib eral and conservative view points. The most recently ratr ed were voting records in the first session of the 86th Con gress which met in 1959. On 13 such liberal-conservative Senate showdowns last year, Humphrey and Syming ton were tied, each with a perfect score of never having once failed to support the ADA point of view. Kennedy voted the ADA way on 12 is sues, but was absent on one occasion. ADA rated Johnson with seven ADA votes and five against. ADA Record - On the record, so far as ADA is concerned with Senate votes, all but Johnson would seem to qualify as eligible for the Democratic presidential nomination. There would be little need or room for mutual concessions. To nominate Johnson, all concerned would have to concede. Johnson compares some what more favorably from; the ADA standpoint in the 1955 rundown on votes in the first session of the 84th Con gress. On the basis of 10 se lected liberal-conservative is sues, ADA scored Humphrey 100 per cent in 1955. Syming ton voted 80 per cent the ADA way. Johnson and Kennedy were tied, 66.7 per cent, each. Humphrey is consistent, al ways well to the left of center. He is the only long-haul New Deal-Fair Deal Democrat of the lot. ADA likes to honor its own. On Jan. 28, Humphrey will be guest speaker at New York's 12th annual National Roosevelt Day dinner. Hum phrey keynoted last winter's annual ADA convention. Choice spots such as those are pure gold for a Democratic politician. , alike. The immediate crisis lead ing to Pinay's ouster sprang from a quarrel with Premier Michel Debre and the advance guard of the De Gaulle cab inet whom Pinay accused of wishing to "Sovietize" large sections of French industry by nationalization. However, there was more. It stemmed from Pinay's dis satisfaction with De Gaulle's lukewarm attitude toward the North Atlantic Treaty Alli ance and Pinay's opposition to a soft line toward the re volt in Algeria. De Gaulle has blocked inte gration of French forces into NATO, the West European de fensive concept for which Pi nay has fought since he first was premier in 1952. His announcement that he was "retiring" from political life indicated he neither would lead nor participate in a revolt against De Gaulle now. But, significantly, left the door open. he bers of the joint Congression al Atomic Energy Committee, who had high hopes that nu clear radiation could soon be used to sterilize and preserve foods. So onto the maroon and blue carpet in. the capitol's old Supreme Court room the committee called Richard S. Morse, director of research and development for the Army. What it wanted was an ex planation of why the Army recently cancelled plans to build a seven mill in dollar plant at Stockton, Calif., to test irradiated groceries. I'm sure you've heard about the experiments being con ducted along this line. The idea is to bombard a pork 1 chop or some other delicacy with gamma rays to kill bac teria. ! . Prevents Spoiling This keeps the chop from spoiling and makes refrigera tion or canning unnecessary. The Army got interested ' in the program as a possible means of supplying front-line troops with fresh meat. A GI theoretically could keep a sirloin steak in his haversack and cook it right in the foxhole. Having fre quently dined on K-rations during World War II, I can see the advantages this would offer. But, according to Morse, the program isn't shaping up too well as yet, despite the $13 million the Army has spent on research. He said something about getting the bugs out This was more than the committee chairman, Sen, Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.), could swallow. He asked Morse to please refer to the troubles as "difficulties" in stead of "bugs." Changes Taste One difficulty is determin ing the amount of radiation that will sterilize food with out making it radioactive. We wouldn't want to have to keep a geiger counter on the dining room table ' Another problem is how to keep from changing the taste of the food. Morse said irra diated chicken and pork turn ed out pretty good but beef was less palatable He told the committee the need for more research was a good enough reason for dropping the pilot plant after $1,654,000 already had been spent on plans and equipment. But the committee members didn't seem to agree. They peppered Morse with so many questions he hardly had time to light his pipe. I have a hunch we will be hearing a lot more about1 In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, a GOP stalwart and a Nixon supporter, says the Republican national con vention could be "pepped up" with a WIDE OPEN fight for the vice presidential nomina tion. He lists eight possible participants in his proposed free-for-all, no - holds - barred Donnybrook. They are: New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Interior Secre tary Fred Seaton, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Ander son, Attorney General Wil liam P. Rogers, Labor Secre tary James P. Mitchell, Sen. Everett Dirkson of Illinois. Representative Charles Hal- leck of Indiana, Oregon Gov. Hatfield and United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. HE MIGHT have something In a good, stiff fight, one can often judge by the way they handle themselves in the ruckus the caliber of those doing the fighting. TTIS suggestion is interest ing for another reason. The men he names are able men, men of STATURE. There was a time in our history when JUST ABOUT ANYBODY was good enough to be , nominated for vice- president if he looked like a vote-catcher. Days-or even weeks-might be spent in pick ing the party candidate for President, but as like as not the candidate for vice-president would be chosen by the weary delegates in a matter of minutes-or, at most, hours. The question then was not HOW GOOD IS HE? It was IS HE HARMLESS? In these days, the big thing to think about in choos ing a candidate for vice-president is HOW GOOD A PRESI DENT WOULD HE MAKE? this and I wouldn't be sur prised if plans for the plant are revived. Some of those lawmakers sure seemed to have a hankering for irradi ated steak. jwam i " ' ''for you vte ... your guests your family HAWTHORNE MARKET 534 Easf Main Street Medford Life on the Run To the Editor: . Mr. Acklin's Ancient cars Could form a line From here to Mars. Cardboard body, Hard rubber tires, Taxi driver With crossed wires Could have ridden A Jersey cow But no matter, It's too late now. Oh! to go back When life was slow. Life today is All go, go, go! Today we're all Upon the run. Our life is lived When half begun. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 385 . Central Point, Ore. EfemodeSSng? If you are planning to Remodel your home or if you are now in the process of remodel ing, be sure to stop at BRUCE BAUER Lumber Company and discuss your plans or problems. You'll find the men at BAUER are experts in this field. Their thoughts and suggestions can save you money and time. You'll also find BAUER LUMBER completely equipped to meet your material needs. 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