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Monday, Jan. 18, 1960
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40
and 50 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Jan. 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
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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
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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
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bling when you eat, laugh or talk?
Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH on
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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.
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