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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Tuwdiy, Jm. 19, 1960 "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" 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. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue 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 UP.I. Telephoto Newspictures iEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAlluiNa WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC. Of fices in Nw York. Chicago, De- troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIA1 Zf J J 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 (Thursday) Nine masked men held up Brink's Inc., in Boston the night before last and got away with $VA million. Over one hundred ducks are trapped with their feet frozen in the ice in a stream near Independence, Oregon. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1940 (Friday) Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, called dean of sen ate, is near death in Washing ton, D.C., following a cer ebral hemorrage. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Colorado bull was sold this week for $5,700. This is said to be the highest price ever paid for bull, with no votes in sight." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 19, 1930 (Sunday) Jacksonville to be terminal for trucking ore from Blue Ledge mine. Congress refuses to pass law making it unlawful to put poison in industrial alcohol to keep peopl from drinking it. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1920 (Tuesday) Large crowd expected to attend the Trigonia oil well meeting at the Page theater tomorrow night. Governor Olcott will veto bill enabling a voter to make one mark on a ballot for a "straight ticket." 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 19. 1910 (Wednesday) Local lodge of Masons is planning a new $40,000 Ma- sonic temple, site not yet picked. Active membership cam paign is being carried on by Commercial club. They hope to have 600 members by Jan. 25. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Do like magnetic poles attract or repel each other? 2. What is the abbreviation of pennyweight? 3 . What invention gave George Westinghouse his start? 4. To what island was Na poleon Bonaparte exiled af ter his defeat at Waterloo? 5. In 1888 what man was chosen President of the U.S. by a majority of the electoral college, although his opponent had a majority of the popular vote? 6. How many years are three score and ten? 7. How many degrees are there in a right angle? 8. Which is the correct spelling, supercede, super- ceed, or supersede? 9. How many white stripes does an American flag have? 10. In England, would lorry refer to a truck, bicycle, motor-cycle, or a passenger bus? Answers: 1. Repel. 2. Dwi. 3. The pneumatic brake. 4. St. Helena. 5. Benjamin Har rison over Grover Cleveland. 6. 70. 7. 90. 8. Supersede. 9 Six. 10. Truck. Asset in Bear Creek There are a lot of along Bear creek. , Its pollution should be decreased as much as possible. Some day, one hopes, it will be safe to wade in again. It would might support game fish Once it was a pretty area. Some day, one hopes, it will again be an asset, rather than an ugly, open sewer which isn't much good to anybody THESE " objectives once, not long ago, were simply pipe dreams, servationists, fish and wildlife enthusiasts, rec reational planners, and newspaper writers. Today some are close to coming true. A committee is at work on a beautification plan which, if all goes well, can be put into effect, in whole or in part, at way is constructed through this area. It envisages a series them with picnic tables, with overnight camping freeway-Bear creek area A DOPTION of such a plan in time for it to be "incorporated in the state highway commis sion's planning of the freeway is important. We are glad to see the committee members are ac tively interested in it. This is the first step. The others will come increase in flow of Bear mer volume of som.e 25 will follow completion of should be during the coming year. THE next step, and one in the process creek, will be to find and eliminate as much as possible the upstream sources of pollution. These consist chiefly of ditches, a few small industrial developments, and farms, orchards and homes outside of the limits of Medford, Phoenix, Talent, Ashland, arid the South Bear Creek Sani tary district. (This is not to say that there is no room for improvement at Ashland plans to construct an addition to its sewage dis posal plant, and the Talent plant has been de scribed as "inadequate" by some and as a prime source of pollution when not properly operated by others.) BEAR creek probably cirw cfvnim oa ic Much of its water is when it is lowered by this, and when some of it comes from run-back irrigation water, it is nardiy a Clear, spanumg mountain strea.ni. But much can be done to improve it, if some intelligent thought and effort is put forth. Often one thine" leads to another. If it is treated as an asset, people And if it. is o-enerallv people will do what they can to see that it be comes one a real one. E.A. Slogans on Licenses Oreo-nn's new ant.nmnhile license nlates the ones with the legend "Pacific Wonderland'' em blazoned on them have been spotted occasional hereabout during the past couple of months. w ere not any more impressed oy tnem man we thought we would be. We have yet to be con vinced that a license slogan does anyone any good; or, indeed, does anything other than to clutter up a license plate. So be it. The legislature, in its wisdom, de creed otherwise. Anyway, there won't-be too many of them m circulation for some time, we learn from one of the Salem newspapers. IN DECREEING the slogan-bearing plate, the lan-1'c.lntnrQ rKrl nnt nrmrnnriiifp ativ funds t.n replace the 873,000 or which is iust as well. It The slogan will go only on plates issued tor the first time, according to Vern Hill, director of the motor vehicle department And even here a supply of the old plates will be used up before the slogan-bearing plates will be put in general circulation. The three highest state officials, however, will have "Pacific Wonderland" plates. The gov ernor, secretary of state, and state treasurer will have plates numbered 1, 2 and 3, respectively. THE rest of us will make do with plastic tabs, '.which are "reflectorized" for better visibility, instead of the metal tabs in use for the past few years, to bring licenses up to date. That's all right. We'll make do with our battered plates for as long as necessary, and happily let new-car-buyers, and the state's top officials, go around as perambulating billboards. E.A. Weather Forecast Upset about the weather? If so, read the fol lowing U.S. weather bureau forecast: "Clear with ice fog tonight. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Low tonight minus 50 high tomor row minus 25. High yesterday minus 4, low last night minus 46. Noon temperature, minus 43. Sunrise tomorrow 9:32 a.m., sunset 2:28 p.m." It is from the Tuesday, Jan. 12, issue of the Daily News-Miner, of Fairbanks, Alaska. E.A. things which need doing be nice to think that it once more: stream a credit to the ior any purpose. dreamed by a few con the same time the free of waysides, some of perhaps even one or two facilities, and with the tastefully landscaped. later. One of them, the creek to an average sum cubic feet per second, the Talent project. This perhaps the determining of "cleaning up" Bear and Talent Ashland never can be the same csiv T.ifflo "Rnt.to prpalf used for irrigation, and will think of it as one. reo-arded as an asset. so plates now in use would be costly. Dennis the YbU KNOW WHY I NEVER SET ANY LETTERS? MV FRIENDS QOHT KNOW VQViTOM?7I! . Matter of Fact THE FRONT RUNNER, NOW Washington - Quite quietly, without public commotion or even public notice, the Demo- cratic nartv has acquired a new front runner in the presiden tial stakes. Or at least this is true, if you define the front - runner as the candi date with the largest number of delegates that are as nearly nailed down as possible at this early stage. The new Democratic fronts runner is the vociferously un avowed candidate from Tex as, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. As of today, Johnson has solid commitments from over 400 delegates; and he can reason ably count on over 450 dele gates. In terms of birds-m-hand, Johnson is therefore ahead of the more commonly desig nated front-runner, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Although Johnson's backers dispute this, it must be added that Kennedy is still front runner in terms of birds-in-the bush that seem well with in his reach. As for the other Democratic candidates, their collections of birds-in-hand are positively -pitiful com pared to the Johnson aviary. . THE hunt for Johnson dele gates, one of the most re markable political battles on recent record, was originally organized bv two of the ablest men in American politics, Speaker or tne House sam Ravhnm and ex - Senator Frank Clements of Kentucky. These were helped by sena tors Russell and Talmadge of Georgia, Senator Kerr of Oklahoma, the adroit young secretary of the Senate ma jority, Robert G. Baker, and other Senate figures. Covert ly, it must be added, Senator Johnson himself was in over- all command. The turninff ooints in the Johnson delegate hunt were the triumph of Senator Clem ents' faction in the Kentucky primary, and the defeat of the pro-Kennedy Mayor De lesseps Morrison of New Or leans in' the Louisiana pri mary. These two events as sured Johnson of the Louis iana and Kentucky delega tions. The list of states that are now almost solid for Johnson is as follows: Arizona, Arkan sas, Florida (unless there is a serious primary, which is un likely), Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Okla homa, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas and Virginia. In some of these states, other candidates may pick scatter ing votes. But even after al lowing for such minor losses, these states alone certainly ought to carry Johnson over the 400 mark. In addition, there are the delegations from Alabama, where the governor has come out for Kennedy but the rest of the state strongly tends to John son, and Nevada, where Johnson's chances appear ex cellent. Again allowing for normal wear and tear, the probable additions from these two states put Johnson's dele gate count around 450. To this list of birds-in-hand, the Johnson forces add a significant number of birds-in-the-bush, chiefly in the mid-Western farming states where Johnson himself went delegate hunting last fall, and in the Rocky mountain area. NO DOUBT some of these hoped for delegates in the mid-West and Rocky moun tain areas will indeed end by voting for Johnson. But as of now, these realists believe Johnson is likely to get only scattering votes outside his main area of strength, as Sen. Richard Russell tiid when he reached his high count, 295 votes, on the second ballot of 3 JOSEPH ALSOP Menace By Joseph Alsop the Democratic convention of 1952. The comparison indicates Johnson's heavy handicap, not as a front-runner, but as an endurance runner. You can all but draw a line around the Johnson strong hold. The Western regions the line encloses includes a state or two where Kennedy looked for support. In the northern region, among the border states, support was ex pected by Sen. Stuart Syming ton of Missouri, the worst hurt among the other candi dates by Johnson's initial success.- But in general, the line divides North from South. South of the line John son has almost everything North of the line, all is du bious for Johnson. In other words, Johnson as yet is a Southern candidate, as Senator Russell was, al though a Southern candidate with far stronger support al ready than Senator Russell obtained at Chicago. In order to win, therefore, Johnson must somehow transform himself from a sectional into a national candidate. This will be immensely dif ficult to do, without sacrific ing the massive Southern sup port Johnson now has. But this transformation cannot yet be counted as absolutely impossible, if only .because most of the very same North ern Democratic leaders who say their states "can never vote for Johnson," add in the next breath that he is now the biggest, most command ing figure in the Democratic pflrty (Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribunt, Inc.) 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. Firemen Praised To the Editor: Last Sunday night, I witnessed right here in Jacksonville an example of the spirit that made and will keep America great. The house at 502 North Fifth st. was on fire. This house had been our family home for more than 30 years, having been sold recently. The fire siren had sound ed. The two pieces of fire equipment were arriving. Hose was strung to the plug at 6th and F streets, one block east, and at Fifth and Blackstone, a long block north. By the time the water was turned on I could see fire in every one of the nine rooms and hallway. The fire chief, his captains and fire men, volunteers all, perform ed their duties superbly. Ex cellent training was evident, Equipment quality was good. Close to two hours was re quired to contain the fire be fore any appreciable gam was evident. Another hour, re duced it to a one or two man mopping-up operation that continued through the night. Damage did not even extend to the surrounding trees. Buildings 20 feet away were safe. This was accomplished by the 16 regular volunteers plus several on-the-scene assistants, all our friends and neighbors, banded together in a common cause. I am proud of our fire de partment. I thank them and am thankful for them. I shall support them at every op portunity a n d encourage everyone to do so. They will thereby be better prepared to serve us when an emergency arises. They are specially trained in fire and. resuscita tor equipment operation and first aid. Much of their per sonal - equipment ' (helmets, boots, etc.) is paid for with personal funds. Their annual "Firemans Ball" and other projects supplements the 1,000 budgeted for them an- U.S.Japanese Pact Signed, Premier Must Turn to Other Worry: By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor With the signing of the U.S. Japanese security pact out of the way, JaDanese Prime Min ister Nobusu ke Kishi must come to grips with another pressing prob lem - what to do about Red China. A large part of Japa n e s e pleas ure in Phil Newsom TO new pact stems from the fact that it makes Japan a full and equal partner of the United States, a sovereign status not enjoy ed since World War II. But the hostile demonstra tion by extremist Japanese youths upon Kishi's departure for Washington and the loud voices of Japanese Socialists also illustrate that the new nually by the city. Their funds paid half the cost of the new siren. They have over $600 in the treasury now, earmarked for a pickup truck to trans port a small pumper-tanker unit to be procured by the city. This self-contained unit would be used on small fires and those in the fringe area beyond the city, leaving the heavier equipment for pos sible other use. The fire chief, Mr. Lewis Applebaker, indicates a need for more volunteer firemen who would be available day times Monday through Fri day, when many of the pres ent active members are away from town on their regular jobs. They meet every Mon day at 8 pjn., in the fire hall at Third and C streets. Fred Edens 303 East F St., Jacksonville Freight vs. VW To the Editor: The editorial "Suicide Amendment" of Jan. 7 Mail Tribune deserves wide circulation. What it does to Mr. Willis Stone, the so-called Volunteers for Constitutional Government, and their pro- posed 23rd Constitutional amendment, is about like what happens when a heavy freight train hits a Volkswag en at a grade crossing. The day the people of the U.S. fall for anything like that will be the day when it is easy to get them to ex change their cash, real estate or securities for shares of Brooklyn bridge, or acreage on the moon. D. M. DeLong P. O. Box 184 Cottage Grove. Less Socialism To the Editor: A true pro gressive with open mind will discard a former belief when he finds himself mistaken. believe that one should exam me this suggested 2 3rd amendment carefully and fairly. The sponsors claim that the U. S. Government is losing billions of dollars an nually by operating many, many businesses at a steady loss, and that it would be good sense to stop it. While it certainly would take longer than three years economical ly to liquidate all these ven tures, and while we may al ways have to pay some in come tax, it seems to me high ly desirable to make a start to put our finances in order. - . I think it one of the . most unfortunate things that we ever did was to adopt the ori ginal income tax amendment without any ceiling on what the Congress can soak us. I do not have figures to prove the exact annual loss, but I have infinite faith in the ability of politicians to lose taxpayers' money. The Post Office is always operated at a loss and I remember what a mess the Government made when they attempted to run the railroads during World War I. Many politicians want more and more jobs to give as rewards to friends who voted and worked for them. Any private business would go bankrupt under those con ditions, but the Government can just raise taxes, or bor row more money. Look at the financial diffi culties of England when under a socialistic minded government! Why not learn from their mistakes? The fact that our country is now so highly industrialized, as "E. A." pointed out, does not change human nature. Of course there are thou sands of able men working in the Post Office and in oth er' government owned busi nesses, but these businesses are completely under the po liticians' thumb. "Govern ment ownership and opera tion of the essential means of production" certainly can work, if the Government be comes a despot, as in Russia! Let us not be so childlike as to believe that "it can't hap pen here." I do not want any more socialism than we al ready have. In fact I want a lot less. Horace W. Thompson 3642 Hilsinger rd. Medford. Kf 1 treaty is not universally popular. The hostile extremists youths who follow the Com munist Party line would op pose any close link with the United States: The Socialists, many of whom also are anti-United States, feel that the pact draws Japan away from its area of greatest interest. namely, Asia, and renders more difficult the establish ment of friendly relations with Red China. Press for Closer Ties The pressure for closer ties with Red China is both politi cal and economic, and is not limited to the leftists. A senior adviser in Kishi's own Liberal-Democratic par ty, Kenzo Matsumura, recent ly returned to Tokyo from an extended tour of Red China and warned the Peiping re gime will be "a mighty power within five or 10 years." "Why not face up to the reality that Communist China today is an awakening na tion?" he demanded. "It is not wise to exclude her from international dealings." Japanese businessmen also look longingly at the vast China mainland. Before the war, some 20 per cent of Japan's exports went to China and 10 per cent of her imports came from there. Japanese trade with Red China today is a comparative trickle, with the balance run ning against Japan. Dollar on Japan's Sid In contrast, Japanese - U.S. trade runs to approximately a billion dollars annually, about evenly divided between imports and exports. Counting U.S. military and other ex penditures, the dollar balance is on Japan's side. Nonetheless, the desire for trade with Red China lingers on, and eventually would be come strong enough to oust Kishi from his job. Eisenhower Budget Disappoints Moscow London-TOPD-Moscow radio today called President Eisen hower's budget for the com ing fiscal year "disappoint ing" because military alloca tions "are not reduced at all.' In a mildly worded com mentary beamed in English at North American listeners, the Communist radio said "cer tain cold war interests are trying to freeze the war still colder and to maintain the high level of arms competi tion." The broadcast further charged: "You can't reinforce the peace by intensively prepar ing a nuclear and rocket war." This was an apparent re ference to increased outlays for missiles in the new budget. Wag Waitzes With Washingtonian Wampum Wad By DICK WEST Washington -rtJPD- President Eisenhower's new budget is a good book to curl up with on a rainy after noon if you need exercise. But I would not recom mend it for reading. I mean this is no volume to be taken lightly. Even Dick west - in a supine position you can get a vigo rous workout just lifting the tome off your tummy to turn the pages. Each year when the Presi dent sends his budget to Con gress, I assume the burden of inspecting it from a physi cal, rather than a . fiscal, standpoint. In times past, the first thing I did was weigh it. But this has become impractical; The postal scales in our of fice only register up to four pounds and for the past two or three years the budget has exceeded this limit. . I did determine, however, that the President was able to cram more money into less space this year. For fiscal I960,, it took him 1,027 pages to explain how the govern ment intended to spend $77 billion. ' To Turn Out Pannitt For fiscal 1961,. he man aged to fit plans for spending $79,800,000,000 into only 952 pages. I guess this is what the economists mean when they talk about "tight money." Tight or loose,, money should be more plentiful in the new fiscal year. The U.S. Mint, according to the budg et,, plans to turn . out ; two billion coins, an increase, of 100,000 over current produc tion, y Unfortunately, almost half of the. new supply will be pennies. .. The Mint, incidentally, re What About China? In deciding what to do about Red China, Japan also must decide what to do about the Nationalist Chinese gov ernment on . Formosa. Red China has made formal rec ognition a condition for re establishing trade ties with Washington Report By WILLIAM LONG PANTS NEEDED Washington - There is mounting evidence that both political parties and the voters, too, will owe a i terribly high duty to their c country to put on their long pants in this Presiden tial election year. niiam a. . White Union s pow er to turn cold-war negotia tions to its favor is undeni ably growing. Whether or not its actual strength is rising, its propaganda strength cer tainly is. The West's chance to win, in a summit meeting and beyond, is declining. There will be no chance at all unless the West can be drawn together in adult unity -and unless the core of the alliance, the United States, can get through the campaign at home without tearing it self apart. We must not weak en the ability of the incoming administration-whoever may head it-to act decisively and with heavy public support in a profoundly dangerous world. - ALL THESE facts are anx- responsible men in both par ties. Much more than this awareness is needed, howev er, if the country is, indeed going to wear its long pants- to take a grown-up view of the world of 1960. No one supposes the cam paign can be run off without some unwise emotionalism. But it does not seem too much to hope for less automatic and trivial partisanship; less personal like and dislike as governing factors in voting; fewer voting decisions based on petty personal prejudice. The grave Russian challenge will not be subject to wasting weakness of this kind. Surely," the national prob lem can thus be fairly stated: there is special" necessity not to choose a president on the basis of two-bit politics or mere pressure-group interests, however decent these in terests may be in themselves -or on the basis of simple per sonal prejudice. The country manifestly will need a powerful and able leader;, it it not really import ant whether all of us like him, ports that it will cost more to make money in fiscal 1960. Its budget for penny produc tion has gone up from 93 to 97 cents per thousand I don't like to quibble over small change, but a couple of things in the budget puzzled me. For instance, the Presi dent asked Congress to raise postal rates but didn't : in crease the congressional stamp budget. What he did increase was the stationery budget. No Bird Eliminator I can't figure out how our Congressmen are going to write more letters and . pay more for stamps with the same amount of money. I also Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Japan. Yet to recognize Peiping as the official Chinese gov ernment would mean to with draw it from Taipei, a step Kishi is unwilling to take against another firm friend of the United States. S. WHITE or how he combs his hair. rpHIS correspondent does not presume to say who should be elected. He does contend, however, that the etermining considera tion should not be party affil iation or shopworn labels like "liberal" or "conserva tive." Whether we are "Re publican" or "Democratic" or "liberal" or "conservative" will be meaningless if the Russians are able to cast us into the position of a second class power. The decision should be sole ly on this question: Who among the aspirants could best represent the United States and keep it strong in tough and infinitely perilous world growing ever more per ilous? The first necessary step is to get rid of a series of prejudices against almost ev ery leading presidential possi bility so that they may be judged only on adult and rel evant standards. For exam ples: Vice President Richard Nix on is constantly under attack on such vague "grounds" as "I don't like him." "I don't like his face." and so on. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts is constantly under attack because he hap pens to be a Catholic. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson is ditto because he happens to be from Texas. Adlai E. Stevenson is ditto because he has twice been de feated for the presidency. ' "ACCUSATIONS" such as these are totally irrel evant to today's realities. And they are little-boy stuff, too. Whatever is right and what ever is wrong with each of these candidates is in no way affected by such nonsense. The fact that Stevenson didn't win before has nothing to do with whether he would be a good president now. Dit to that Kennedy is a Catholic. Ditto that Johnson is a Texan. Ditto that some people "don't like" Nixon-usually for rea sons both undefined and un definable. Judge them all with a cold-blooded, adult mind. Most of all the presidency simply requires competence and strength. And we shall never have had greater room for those qualities than in the four years ahead. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Weighty am a little worried about the Supreme Court's budget and its troubles with dirty birds. Last year, the court asked for $35,000 to buy an "elec tronic bird elimination sys tem." With thousands of star lings roosting on the court every night, "bird elimina tion" is a big problem. For some reason, Congress didn't appropriate the funds and this year, for some rea son, the court didn t renew its request. However, it did ask for $150 for snow re moval. In view of the fact that it rarely snows in Washington, I wonder if this isn't being precipitation wise and orni- thologically foolish. FAVORITE SON CANDIDATES, will be a dime a dozen by November. But your fa vorite possessions will some day be priceless . . . Make sure they're ade quately INSURED. Bin Fish
