Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1960)
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Jan. 18, 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBKRT 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 Dailv 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 Riv er. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year 518.00 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.P.I. Telephoto Newspictureg "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis, At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. 10" NEWSPAPER Biini icucdc v.k. ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI 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. 19. 1950 (Wednesday) Drenching downpours of rain falling generally through out southern Oregon and nor thern California are increas ing the flood potential. County Commissioner Rob ert H. Lytle, Ashland republi can, yesterday declared him self a candidate for the nomi nation to that post. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1940 (Thursday) County Judge Earl Day will not be a candidate for renomi nation at the coming Republi can primary. He is just com pleting the second term as county judge. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The government of Persia reports a lack of funds in the treas ury. There is a suspicion Per sia has bought a Persian rug." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1930 (Saturday) A new 1200 pair under ground cable, one of the ma jor features of the big expan sion program underway by the Home Telephone com pany. Early this morning there was only 2V2 inches of snow on the ground, according to U. S. Weather Bureau meas urement. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1920 (Tuesday) Local mail carriers scatter crumbs along routes to help feed starving birds, including quail and pheasants. Snow continues to lie on valley floor and is melting slowly; residents again urged to clean snow off sidewalks What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or lis is good. 1. What state is nicknamed "Magnolia State"? 2. If you were suffering from pyrophobia, what would you be afraid of? 3. What is the location of the famous Mayo clinic? 4. Does the French term bourgeoisie refer to the work ing class, the middle class, or the very rich? 5. At what Royal church, founded in 1245, was Queen .Elizabeth of Great Britain crowned? 6. Who led the Mormon pioneers in their trek from Nauvoo. 111., to Utah? 7. If you make a notch in a tree trunk two feet above the ground, at what height will the notch be ten years from now? 8. According to tradition what two children were nursed by a wolf? 9. What, is a square num ber? 10. Name the institution founded in 1846 in Washing ton, D.C., by an Englishman's bequest, dedicated to "the in crease and diffusion of know ledge among men." Answers: 1. Mississippi. 2. Fixe. 3. Richester. Minn. 4. Middle class. 5. Westminster Abbey. 6. Brigham Young. 7. The tame height-two feet. 8. Romulus and Remus. 9. The product of two equal factors. 10. Smithsonian Institution. IT The Fraud Norman Cousins, the highly-regarded editor of Saturday Review, in a clinical look at tele vision, charges that this entertainment medium "deals primarily in exploitation and crime and glamorizing violence." He believes that defense of TV during the recent quiz show scandals, as being primarily for entertainment, "is the prin cipal fraud of American television." Mr. Cousins' sentiments have been echoed throughout the country by statesmen, educators, editors and others concerned with the problem of rampant juvenile delinquency. pLOSE to home, the editor of The Tri-City Herald at Pasco, has taken up his cudgel and swung out at TV for its nying any responsibility crime, particularly among juveniles. He charges the television industry "talks out of both sides of its mouth." Then he states: "One side claims fabulous powers to affect the sale of merchandise ; the other disclaims any cause-and-effect relationship between the murder and mayhem which fills TV screens and the grow ing addiction of young people to violence." 'THE Pasco editor adds "The absurdity of this contradiction is so obvious it needs no proof." We'll go along with the Pasco editor and farther. We believe any fair-minded person, after spending an evening viewing run-of-the mill TV fare, will agree that this medium, which could be so constructive, is turning American livingrooms into crime schools. It would be a veiy credulous person, indeed, who could believe that children can digest a fare of robbery, car theft, holdups, murder, one-way rides, etc., and not have a great deal of it rub off on them. There is no question that TV can sell murder and larceny as a way of life as easily as it is supposed to sell lipstick and automobiles. Pendleton East Oregonian. Keep Him Talking Wo spptti tn hp 0-pf.tfnrr alone hefct.er wif.h the . , v, O O Russians cinrp wo derirlpd tn listen tn PChni- shchev talk. No man is is talKing. bnerman county journal. Cock Robin Killed? Now Gov. Mark Hatfield, through his com mittee on natural resources, has produced a set of "minimum standards" for a National Park Service facility on the Oregon coast. The new plan is a much more knowledgeable statement than the superficial statement of opposition made by the governor and his committee last fall. But, while some of the state proposals may have merit, we must remember that this is a two- way street. The National Park Service also has standards. The federal agency has already given way as much as it intends to, park officials have told Senator Richard L. Neuberger; principal pro ponent of the park idea. Will they yield further? THE trouble with the lylldts 1, lV 1 11 All .IV the federal government a park. The truth is quite the other way. Oregon will be the chief beneficiary of such a development. .With one senator (Morse) luke-warm or less about the idea and with the state's governor seem ing to agree but setting, imperiously,' "minimum standards", that likely will not be acceptable to the federal government, the park doesn't seem to stand much of a chance. So, as Gov. Charles A. Sprague commented some months ago when Mr. Hatfield was drag ging his feet, "At least we'll know who killed cock robin." Eugene Register-Guard. Four Feet Wanted Four inches of snow is as bad as four feet; stock cannot graze, the roads are just as slick and the walking just as hazardous. That being all reasoned out, why can't the weather man send us four feet? Sherman County Journal. Senator Wiley on Laughter Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, who considers himself a connoisseur of humor, has given Vice President Nixon some good advice and, perhaps unwittingly, has illuminated a facet of Mr. Nix on's character. The Senator says Mr. Nixon will improve his chances of reaching the White House if he learns to "laugh from the belly." Mr. Nixon's .critics say that this is something the Vice President can not do, for they type him as the mechanical man who laughs without really feeling a genuine emo tion. We do not know Sentor Wiley's preference for the Presidential nomination, nor are we fa miliar with his literary sources, but we wonder whether he has been looking back 100 years or so to the English preacher, Frederick William Robertson, who said: "That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh." St, Louis Post-Dispatch. of Television1 position of piously de for the rising flood of very dangerous while he governor's committee is VI VgUit VV 111 KT UUlllg favor by agreeing to a Dennis the Y0U THINK HAVe SOME CHAT Washington Report By WILLIAM "BIPARTISANSHIP" Washington - In spite of all the talk about "bipartisan ship," any real Democratic par ticipation in Pdesident E i senhower's high- level cold war talks is about aslikelyas that Vic e -President Nixon will loin the Dem- WWh"i?eS- ocratic Na- tional Committee. There are some pretty fun damental reasons why this is so: 1. The President of the United States is alone in charge, under the Constitu tion, of the foreign policy of the United States. And there can be only one president at a time. The Democrats know all this, as do the Republi cans. And when Democratic presidents are in power Dem ocratic presidents run forign policy, just as a Republican president is running it now, without rushing around ask ing the opposition how to do it. 2. No President in the driv er's seat at an international conferencewhether with his allies, the Soviet Union, or both-has any incliniation to call for back-seat driving from the party not in power at the White House. 3. In the extremely i m -probable event that President Eisenhower should, neverthe less, ask top Democratic sen ators to accompany him to the summit meeting, they wouldn't go anyhow. "CXDR ONE of the realities of not, is this: whenever repre sentatives of the party in op position to the White House are brought importantly into foreign negotiations they will be in a bad way from the start. They will have far less than half the power and run the risk of shouldering far more than half the blame if things go wrong. All these things are true, as always,, simply because of the way our system actually works. They are no less true notwithstanding that the pres ent administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower is drawing to its close and that a new ad ministration will, therefore, inherit whatever Mr. Eisen hower does in these confer ences. Actually, the whole notion of bipartisanship has long been over advertised. It is a useful notion only if too much Try and Wry (1 -By BENNETT CERF- THOMAS WOLFE, author of "Look Homeward Angel," had a well-developed sense of humor, and a good story would make him roar with laughter a quite unexpected sound from a man who wrote such serious, often tragic, tales. One of Wolfe's favorite anecdotes concerned a Southern gentleman, proud of his English ex traction, who was quite set up over the fact that Mr. George Vanderbilt was- coming to call on him. He spent an hour impressing his old serv ant, rehearsing hinvfor a half hour to how low and present him thus: "My lord, -1 am honored to present Mr. Vanderbilt." When Mr. V. finally arrived, the old servant, possibly over-rehearsed, threw up his hands, ran to his master's study, and hollered, "My God, it's Mr. Vanderbiltl" There's an overnight star in Hollywood who's gotten so fancy She spells the name of her French poodle "Phydeaux." O1960. ty Scutett Cert Butributed by in Feateea Syndicate .. Menace V&AM$....MT'lL 1 TZLL S. WHITE is not expected of it - if it is not somehow assumed that once you got "bipartisanship" all will be well. For bipartisanship has nev or meant that the minority party has any truly creative, decisive, and fifty-role in for eign policy. The device was first widely talked about in the Truman Administration when G.O.P. Senators were brought into close coopera tion - sometimes. Such men undoubtedly helped the Ad ministration a great deal. But their genuine function was only this: to persuade their fellow-Republicans not to rock the boat too much too soon. The helm' remained ab solutely in Mr. Truman's hands, as it will surely now remain absolutely in Mr. Ei senhower's hand. POR EXAMPLES, the Tru man Administration, and not "bipartisanship," made the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The Truman Ad ministration, and not "biparti sanship," sent American troops into Korea. The only difference was this: the Re publicans generally remained in support of the Atlantic al liance. But the Republicans generally became critical of the Korean War. What true - bipartisanship really requires of any opposi tion party, and all it requires, is this: not to knock the Presi dent down on the bridge while he is navigating tricky waters. To give him such de cent support as in conviction is possible; or at any rate, not to pick at him endlessly and destructively for mere pettily partisan reasons. It may seem odd. But the truth also is that most real, working, professional politi cians tend, in the single area of foreign policy, to be less partisan than many nonpolit- ical people. About this one thing the pros usually are not looking for a fight with the other party Fun. is fun and all that. But to operate with parti san irresponsibility in this field is to endanger the coun try itself and also, in the end, the party which takes such a course. , (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) SPARKS THINKING Washington-OJPD-Rep. Char les E. Chamberlain (R-Mich.) sent a spark plug to each member of Congress in the hope they would "ignite the cerebral mixture within and carry an electric current into that cylinder to spark effec tive and brilliant legislation." Stop Me Ike Counting the Days Until Term Over; Nixon-Eisenhower 'Dream Ticket' Eyed By LYLE C. WILSON Washington - (UPD - Well known to President Eisen hower's inti mates is his habit of check ing off the months, even the days, un til he leaves the White House next TN I year- i; jf , f Ask him Lyie C. wiuon anyume now long it will be. The President will rattle it off exactly to the day and, if given a mo ment to calculate, to the very hour. Foreign Notebook: China's Troops; Chiang's Term Ending By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook. The China Story In contrast to Russia's pro claimed reduction of troops, Communist China is stepping up consc r l p tions for its army this year. Peiping apparently in tends by this to notify the West as well as Russia that Red China is an important factor in any fun iNmvsnm forthcoming intern a t i o n a 1 d i s a rmament arrangements. Red China's standing army is 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. Properly Tax and Schools To the Editor: Thank you for your excellent editorial of Jan. 15, "Financing School Needs." Your presentation of the problems involved is very concisely and accurately stat ed. Certainly the property tax is no longer an adequate or equitable basis for the support of our schools for the reasons which you so clearly point out. Our hopes that the reas sessment program, which has been in process for several years in the various counties, would ameliorate the situa tion, have been somewhat dimmed by the information from the State Tax Commis sion that even in those coun ties where reassessment has been completed, it will be im possible, with present facili ties, to keep the assessments current. Another aspect of the real property tax which disturbs me is the fact that in assessing on an ad valorem basis, we are discouraging one of the important social concepts which we claim to uphold higher standards for low in come groups. Improvement of property, which adds to the aesthetic values of a com munity, is rewarded by high er taxes, thus deterring many people from making such im provements. In pointing out the two areas which we can explore in our effort to meet our edu cational program, you have actually stated the directive from the Legislature to the Interim Committee on Educa tion. This committee is cur rently making a thorough study of the entire program of school finance in Oregon in an effort to recommend to the 1961 Legislature a long range plan for adequately fi nancing a good educational program for the children of our state. In addition, a subcommit tee, of which I am chairman, is attempting to determine the quality of the program now being offered, the ef fectiveness of certain admin istrative procedures such as optimum use of teachers' time and training, across-the-board salary increases, etc., as well as some of the practices which have been enacted into law, such as the teacher tenure law. You might be interested to know that I have asked the Interim Committee on Educa tion to hold a meeting in Med ford late this spring or early summer in order that the peo ple of this area may attend and thus not only have per sonal knowledge of its study, but offer testimony for the consideration of the commit tee if they so desire. Evelyn Nye State Representative Medford Brush Buggy To the Editor: Some Med ford people have asked me to describe my old Brush car. They ain't never seen one, ! "I don't know," he said at his news conference whether he would be eligible to run this year for vice president. "You might find out about that one," he added. "The only thing I k n o w about the Presidency next time is this, I can't run." Old Age Haven You get the idea that Presi dent Ike wouldn't swap the 22nd amendment for a gold plated Cadillac or another Gettysburg farm. No. 22 is Eisenhower's haven in his old age. The amendment says: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice." estimated at between 2,500, 000 and 3,000,000. It has been reorganized recently by Mar shal Lin Piao with an assist from a Soviet military mis sion. Its fire power is under stood to have been increased in the process. Third Term Troubles Nationalist China is begin ning to face up to the problem of how to give President Chiang Kai-shek a third term without violating the two term constitutional limit. Po litical quarters in Taipei be lieve the National Assembly, which elects the president, will decide in its meeting starting Feb. 20 to waive the two term rule during the "period of national crisis." On Formosa this means until the Nationalists return to the Chi nese mainland. Chiang, now 72, completes his second term in May. Budget Battle The United States is due to start a battle against any re Capitol Tours May Be Free, Unbiased, Under New Proposal By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - If you took a guided tour of the U. S. Capitol last week, you may have seen a seedy char acter with the furtive air of a pickpocket sidle up to your group. Since I was the party act ing so sus d i c i ously, I Dick West want to ex- plain that I was not bent on any lightfingered exercise de signed to separate some tour ist from his wallet. I was merely eavesdropping on the guide to see if I could catch him making any parti san comments. This detective work was brought on by a bill intro duced bv Rep. Charles E. Chamberlain (R - Mich.) to create a free capitol guide service. It now costs 25 cents for a guided tour. Chamberlain's bill also would provide for the imme diate dismissal of any guide who spoke "in praise or cen sure of any person" during one of the tours. Shows Implication This seemed to imply that the guides may have been making slurring remarks about members of Congress or about the historic personages whose statues stand in the halls. It caused some mis understandings. Chamberlain said his mam objective was to eliminate the tour fee. If the government can afford to issue "free bul letins about the love life of bullfrogs," he reasoned, it should be able to treat every one to a guided tour. and they ain't never missed nothin'. I wished I ain't never seen one, but its a lot easier to describe it than drive it. It wuz that wonderful year 1902, the year they started puttin' one cylinder engines in buggies. It wuz made by the Brush Buggy and Elastic Corporation. It wuz just a plain old buggy when they made it, then their old horse died, and they put an engine m the buggy, right back of where the horse used to be, and they called it an automo bile. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. Hew To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Place bo your false teeth annoy and em barrass by slipping, dropping or wob bling when you eat, laugh or talk? Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH on your plates. This alkaline (non-acid) powder holds false teeth more firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today a any drug counter. Mi There is more but that is enough for Eisenhower. About the vice presidency, however, there is nothing. It would be legal, although perhaps a dirty trick to play on the Democrats, if next July's Re publican National Convention put Eisenhower in second place. Nixon and Eisenhower! That would be a ticket. If the President did not really know about that at his news confer ence, he probably knows now. He is eligible, whether or not available. Against such a tick et the Democrats might come up with an unexpected hole card. . They could nominate duction in the budget for the o r g a n i zation of American states. Washington indicates it regards the OAS as prob ably the greatest single peace stabilizing agency yet devised for Latin America, with spec ial emphasis on its effective ness in the Caribbean sector. Argentina, living an austerity program, has led a fight for OAS budget trimming in or der to reduce its own burden. Cracks in the Fifth Gen. de Gaulle's fifth French Republic is not exact ly breaking up but it is be ginning to show some small cracks. vThe recent govern ment resignations signal the possible start of major oppo sition to the French President who has had pretty much his own way up to now. The real showdown between the old politicians and the new re gime may be postponed until April when Parliament re sumes. But, he said, he was being pictured as "an autocrat who would place a censorship on what is said about Will Rog ers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Davey Crockett and those three marble ladies who sit in a tublike arrange ment in one of the lower cor ridors of the Capitol." Denying that tie was any "witch hunter of Capitol guides," the Congressman said he only sought "to protect both political parties from prejudicial opinions." Determined to see for my self what was going on, plunked down a quarter for a ticket and went along on one of the tours. Our group drew guide JNo. 26, a greying lady with a schoolteacherish man ner. We started out in one of the lower corridors in front of the three marble ladies mentioned by Chamberlain Our guide identified them as suffragettes Susan B. An thony, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They were in a tublike arrange ment because the sculptor died before finishing the statue, leaving just their heads sticking out of the marble block. This guide was the epitome of impartiality. Checking fur ther, I trailed around after some of the other guides, sur reptitiously listening to their spiels. The upshot was the same tfv iv, V y-r Harry S. Truman again and in either place on their ticket, too. Truman Unaffected The 22nd amendment al most reached Truman, but not quite. He was free and clear on the prohibition against any person being elected Presi dent more than twice. The amendment added a further proscription against the election of any person who had served out more than two years of an elected President's term and then had been elect ed President once in his own right. HST served all but three months of FDR's fourth term and was elected in 1948. The 22nd amendment, how ever, also provided that it would not apply to the Presi dent in office at the time the amendment was proposed by Congress. So HST also would be eligible this year, although no more available than Eisen hower, which is not any. Truman and Stevenson: There's a ticket. A man who is licked once or oftener does not become ineligible for elec tion to anything. He might be come ineligible for renomina tion, but that would be only because his party doubted he ever could win, not by reason of law. No Property Qualification Before the 22nd amend ment came along in 1951, the Constitution dealt with the Presidency in article 2, sec tion 1. That article still gov erns to the extent that to be eligible for President, one must be a natural born citizen who shall have attained the age of 35 years. It was urged at the time that there should be a property qualification, that a president should be worth in property at least $100,000. The idea was reject ed. Good thing for Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon that it was rejected. For some of the Democratic hopefuls this year it wouldn't make much dif ference. Much? Not any! Area Around Volcano Closed Oii Kapoho, Hawaii - (UPD - The sightseeing area near Kilauea Volcano was closed by au thorities Sunday when two civil defense workers were overcome by sulphur fumes from the lava flow. Deputy Civil Defense Di rector Peter Pakele did not identify the two workers, but said they were not seriously affected by the fumes. Sightseers and residents of this tiny village and surround ing areas were instructed to leave while a state board of health director tested the air to determine the exact strength of the fumes. Meanwhile the giant river of lava, spouting from a 1,110-foot-high fountain at Kilauea Crater, spread throughout farms and gardens as it flowed to the ocean. The molten stream covered a $40,000 orchid farm, one of the largest on the Island of Hawaii. except that I made a discovery which could render Chamber lain's bill unnecessary. J found that if you work it right, you can make the tour without paying anyway. All you have to do is stand aside and pretend to be in specting the ceiling when the guide collects tickets at the House and Senate chambers. You won't miss anything. You can get a pass from your Con gressman to go inside later. A Gratifying Assurance REVERENCE The foundation stone of our service is reverence for all creeds. Our attention to detail enables us to serve each group. Funerals in the Best Tradition of Good Taste PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
