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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medfeni, Or. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1960 Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Man lnoune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph. SP 2-6141 DAnrDT w TJTTWT. T.Hitnr HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD T. LATHAM. But. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. 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 Dailv and Sunday 8 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 $18.00 Dailv and Sunday 1 mo. 1.30 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AlejnsCjwhinAdvance "Official Paper of City of Medford Official- Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire . tl.P.I. Telephoto Newspicture "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClRCubftliuna nrvci urtrmiv CCt T VC Of- ITLl - - . - in Nw York. Chicago. De- Troll, oan i i oiic.v.. - . f - - . Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI s f A SB O CHAT HON V W W 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. 20. 1950 (Friday) A threat of floods menaces Pacific northwest as ice and snow begin to melt; Red Cross calls region "disaster area." Ashland Chamber of Com merce passes resolution call ing for restroation of Jackson County Fair. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 20. 1940 (Saturday) Moscow apologizes to Swe den and Norway for violating air space, while on bombing runs over Finland. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Politi cal views of people around here find general opinion against hatching a European emergency, as an alibi to get out of facing domestic issues. ' 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1930 (Monday) President Hoover reports nation's unemployment on the increase. City council frames a new dance law, hopes will be satis factory to everyone. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 20. 1920 (Wednesday) Local wags call the Jack sonville railroad locomotive "Old Trotsky." General Pershing announces he will not be a candidate for president. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 20. 1910 (Thursday) World champion pugilist, Jim Jeffries, will visit Med ford in February and give exhibitions of prowess. Patrons are looking for owner of local jewelry store who skipped town with all their jewels. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In the verses about "Casey at the Bat," did Casey hit a home run, get a base on balls, or strike out? 2. Which of these would most likely use an abacus: an Indian warrior, a Chinese laundryman, or a Turkish rug weaver? 3. How is the area of a circle determined? 4. Is ivory produced only by elephants? 5. Who was the first Presi dent of the U.S. to live in the White House? 6. All bills for raising revenue must originate in which house of the U.S. Con gress? 7. What well-known uni versity is at Ithaca, New York? 8. What color is the corn flower? 9. Is gold weighed by the avoirdupois ounce, troy ounce, or fluid ounce? 10. Which of the world's oceans is the largest in size? Answers: 1. He struck out. 2. Chinese laundryman. 3. Radius squared times 3.1416. 4. No. 5. John Adams. 6. House of Representatives. 7. Cornell. 8. Blue. 9. Troy. 10. Pacific. A greeting card company reports the average American family sent 65 Christmas cards in 1959; the average business firm, 145. On Good-Neighborliness Edd Roundtree, whose graying crew - cut doesn't detract from a youthful appearance, is the new editor and publisher of the Ashland Daily Tidings. He confesses nay, proclaims himself a con servative, one who might have regarded Warren G. Harding as a dangerous radical. But he is a knowledgeable man, who has learned a few things by living in the burgeoning cities and suburbias of California. Some of this he passes along in a sprightly little column in Monday's Tidings. H ESAYS: "Whether we like it or not, Ashland is going to grow larger in the next few years. "It can grow in either of two ways; into a fine, planned community where it will be a delight to live, or like Topsy, it can just grow up. "The fact that people who have lived here all their lives as well as we newcomers are interested in its future is a decidedly good sign. "But, despite all good intentions, most of us remain amateurs in the field of community planning. "Might it not be a good idea to bring in an expert outside firm to make up a master plan for future growth? "We would obviously never entirely reach the goal, but even a near miss might be an improvement. "I once lived in a town where the good citizens decided to do their own planning with no outside interference. "They turned the whole thing over to the chamber of commerce, which in turn, sponsored a contest with a prize for the best letter on the subject of what the town should do to better its lot. "The prize-winning letter: " 'Move down the road three miles and start over.' " VVELCOME to the club, Edd. This is the sort of thing this page has been saying, but not nearly so well, for lo these many years. What applies to Ashland, applies with equal force to Talent, Phoenix, Medford, Jacksonville, Central Point, and everywhere else in the county where people are moving a business. Planning, and zoning, for that matter, has been attacked as "dictatorship" by some. It isn't that at all. It simply is people getting together to set up some machinery whereby what your neighbor does won't damage you, and what you do won't damage your neighbor. Moving down the road solves nothing, unless it's already too late. Planning is the essence of good-neighborliness and democratic procedure in a fast-growing area. E.A. Took Where is the man who finds no fascination in good hand-tools? Whether it be a pair driver, or a wrench, or a power drill, a man will look at it with affection, sometimes even eagerness. And rare indeed is the man who will confess that he is not its master (There are, it must be admitted, a few women who know one end of a ball-peen hammer from the other, but it is a rare breed, and one to be viewed with faint suspicion.) IN THIS almost-universal male attraction for For was it not just this affection, this self confessed aptitude which first set him apart as a man among beasts? A club is a tool an extension of the striking power of a man's arm and fist. A stone-headed ax is the same, a sliffht refinement of a club, with greater striking power and greater accuracy pos- siDie in tne diow. An arrow, the point not-too-distant foregoer and a deer antler without refinements. THHE history of mankind's rise from savagery is a history of the use and the development of the tool. Without it, man is only a weak, almost de fenseless, being, without strength or claws or teeth to protect him from enemies which have those natural weapons. The first tools, and, indeed, most tools, are extensions of man's hand which, together with his brain, was what made his rise to mastery of his environment possible. - But only recently we kind of tool less an extension of the hand than an extension of the brain. The typewriter, the culator these are "brain But the important thing to remember about a tool any tool is that it is not an end in itself, but is only an extension of man's own' hand and mind. E.A. When we look at a map of the fall out proba bilities, we think again how lucky it is to live in the country, and in a town so small that it isn't worth an atomic bomb. Sherman Countv Jour nal. to live or to conduct of pliers, or a screw an expert in its use. hardened in fire, is the of the guided missile; stone-chiDDer is onlv a chisel have designed a new adding machine, the cal - tools," not hand-tools. - Dennis the '...AMD PIEASS KIP COWKfQoefe Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent, the views of the Cost of Teaching To the Editor: I am a grad uate student at Oregon State College working on my mas ter's degree in science. I wish my degree so that I might better meet the challenges of academic expression; so that I might better express the heritage of our culture to my students. This is not a unique desire, but is near common place in my colleagues. In most school districts one will find three contract lev els, one for teachers with a four year educational degree, one for secondary teachers with a four year degree plus an additional fifth year, and one for teachers with their masters degree. There is a differential of approximately $200 between each step. Oregon State College tui tion is $85 per term. Books, stationery, and supplies cost approximately another $25. Meals average $3.50 per day, even at the dorm. Housing will average $25 per month. My actual cost runs $625.64 per term. And a master's de gree requires three terms, or nine months. Thus the cost is $1,965. What does nine months work cost? The teacher will soon find that with his four year degree he will start at approximately $4,000. H e will in most cases earn an ad ditional $150-200 per year of added experience. Thus if he has been in service for four years he will earn approx imately $4,800 gross, or $400 per month. (He will most likely be paid on a twelve month plan.) The nine months he has been unable to work will cost him an additional $3,600. And we must count it, for he would, or could, have worked even during the sum mer, and most teachers do. Thus the additional degree now costs $5,565. His masters will earn him $400 more gross per year; it will take him over 13 years to earn this back and be even with the board! How much did he NOT gain by working toward his degree? If he were to take this $5565, the cost of the de gree, and merely put it in the bank he would earn in the same period $3,116.40. Does this not indicate 1) either the master's candidate is so unscientific as to not be aware of the nature of the compounded . problem, (and this is quite unlikely), or 2) his value concept elevates so ciety, its children and its cul ture above the material. It is still possible to find many students, teachers, and professors who so evaluate education and the needs of our society. Knowing this, it often seems strange that the same society demands more, and more proof. But with or with out, I feel very sure teachers, educators, and students will always be with us, for they daily handle a heritage, and are soon taken by its quiet greatness. M. J. Kounz 805 Taylor St. Medford Use What We Have To the Editor: The last few years, anyway since World War II, schoolrooms, teachers, and parental delinquency, have been v the major social problems confronting almost every community in the U.S. Seemingly the only solu tions so far arrived at in P.T.A. discussion and other forums of groups interested in the problems have only been compounding the prob lems instead of coming up Menace hWSE GST WEB THE HEAVBSL.' with logical and workable answers to them. One so-called answer is "Let's find something else to tax." Another is "Build more schools, faster and larger." Any tax and all taxes are paid by the consumers of goods and the recipients of services, whether the tax be turned over to the govern ment by a public utility, a newspaper or a bellhop in a hotel. . Therefore it would seem any and all taxes are pretty well distributed and a "boot strap operation" lower ing the standard of living in one phase to raise it in anoth er. More efficient utilization of what we have is a solution which seems to have little sup port. The nine - months - a - year school term had it's inception at the same time and for the same reason that a tax on property was the most feasible means of raising revenue. People made their living from and on the land. During the summer months the children were needed, and used, as helpers to raise the crops and gather the harvest. Now in summer months they raise h and gather on street corners. No individual or corpora tion would be so wasteful as to build and equip a plant as expensive as a modern school and then have it standing idle three months of every year. I don't believe the teachers are paid enough now, and never have been paid enough - per year. With more effi cient use of the physical school plant there would be more monev available for them. Use the schools- we have! Eleven and one half months a year, ten hours a day. Five hour shifts for students and teachers. Homework, not study hall, mass calisthentics for body building, not sports for a chosen few. Let's not be so reluctant to face up to facts hard work doesn't hurt anyone, just makes them sleep better and aids digestion. Yes, I have children. Tim J. Horn Box 214 Yreka, Calif. Hodge Podge To the Editor: I crossed my feet when I posed for that picture of . me that appeared in Sunday's Tribune, and then they left 'em out. Well, any how, leaving them off the page made room for those people I've long wanted to see. Always read their letters with great interest. Those robins didn't go south. They simply weather ed the storm up in the ever greens on the hill. Mr. S. counted 19 redbreasts this morning. We enjoyed the Chin Up club's party at the Girls Com munity club last Friday eve ning. The Fifty Plus club was invited. Alexander's Hawaii an band furnished fine music. A young man sang several songs. His voice should be on radio. I must learn his name. After ten we drove out West Main st. toward home. Too dark for window-shopping, but here and there were groups of teenage boys-heads together and laughing. Also, there were a few lone girls - not together - just one about every second block. Poor entertainment, I'd say. How times have changed. When I was their age, we often had my crowd in for taffy-pulls, chestnut roasting, popping corn or playing games. Sometimes we took turns reading aloud from some good book, or . lolling around the fireplace, listening to father's stories, after which Infernal Stresses, Strains in Russia Revealed father saw everyone to his, or her door. Now - night is for the birds. Yep - "hoot owls." Did you ever hear one laugh crazily? It is a sound to remember, believe me! By the way: the Fifty Plus club needs more male dancers. Oh no, not any partners for, me. I step on people. But I'll help with the music. Don't forget - Friday, 12:30 p.m. -Fifth and Oakdale, for old sters of 50 years up. Mrs. John Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Where Was Floyd? To the Editor: Where was Floyd McCabe? Your pictures and article about M.T. "Let ter to the Editor" contributors was interesting, but we surely missed good old Floyd. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Trefren, 626 West Fourth st. Medford. Editor's note: We didn't have room for all our "regu lars" this time. Maybe Floyd would consent to pose anoth er time. Relative Worth To the Editor: I noted the editorial from the Salem (Ore gon) Capital Journal entitled "Mathematics of Teachers Pay" and have a few com ments to offer. Perhaps a bit of food for thought for 'those who think.' A teacher is in a relatively safe occupation in comparison to a truck driver, an explos ives 'powder monkey', a choker setter in the woods, a timber faller, etc. Evidently a lot of college people think there should be no premium pay for hazardous occupa tions. Then again, those who have these relatively hazard ous jobs have spent many years, usually, learning their trades, which should compare a bit more favorably with the so-called higher educa tion. For example what would be the difference be tween a person "who spent four years in apprenticeship in carpentry or machinist and one who spends four years in a college or univer sity learning to be a teacher, or laboratory technician, or a pharmacist, or accountant in terms of relative knowledge in their respective fields? The laboratory technician or teacher would be just about as capable of stepping into a machine shop and operating all the machines such as lathes, milling machines,- tur ret lathes, slotters, planers, shapers, etc., as the machin ist would be if he were to step into the laboratory and start making blood counts, stomach contents analysis, X ray machine, etc. So if they have equal ex perience in their respective fields, why should one get a higher salary than another? Could the average school teacher step into the cab of a cross country freight truck and operate it any better than a truck driver would teach school? I wonder, but not for long, inasmuch as the results are quite easily predictable. In the first place the ?aboratory technician or teacher would probably wreck the lathe or milling machine and the ma chinist in turn would probab ly wreck the microscope or fail to analyze correctly the contents of the patient's stomach or have a comparable result with the X-ray ma chine. And of course the lab technician or teacher, for ex ample would no doubt wreck the truck if he or she were lucky enpugh to get it under way. The truck driver has to pilot a vehicle of total weight of up to 75 tons over a route of perhaps 400 miles and try to keep out of the way of persons driving passenger cars, who usually are no where near as capable of safe driving. So, I repeat, why should one type oi worK command a higher salary than another, especially in the face of the relative safety of doing the job? Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Rt. Butte Falls, Ore. Hospital' Gripe To the Editor: I would like to put in a little gripe, if I may. It concerns our wonderful hospital. The Rogue Valley, in fact. I injured a finger while working at Tucker Sno-Cat a week ago Monday. They rushed me over to the hospital at 8:45 a.m. We went into the emergency ward. What could they do? Nothing. There was just a nurse there, no doctor and couldn't get one, Just what would happen in case of a very serious acci dent? D.O.A., I suppose. Looks like a nice new, large hospital could have at least one stand by doctor for as many emer gencies as happen in this day and age. R. Smithson " 3653 South Pacific Hwy. Medford During Meeting of Parliament By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The West got another of its comparatively rare glimpses of the inside workings of the Soviet Union last week. One an nounce m e n t told of the a b o 1 ition of the M.V.D., the secret po lice organiza tion which the late Pre- Pbil Kewsnm mier J o s e I Stalin made an instrument of his vengance and whose func tions were scattered widely after his death and the execu tion of Lavrenti Beria in 1953. Another development was the blunt admission that So viet propaganda is not getting through to the people - an admission which indicated the Russian people were not so single-mindedly devoted to development of the Commu nist state as its leaders would have us believe. Also involved in the week's development were names which have been high on the list of those in the inner circle of the Soviet master minds. FBI's Role Wilson Says; Describes Job By LYLE C. WILSON Washington flJPD When the chips are down in the trial of 20 delegates to the Apala- chin hoodlum convention, it was the Fed e r a 1 Bureau of Investiga tion that came up with most of the evi dence which sentenced the gangsters to Lvle C. Wilson jail. U. S. District Judge Irving Kaufman in New York laid West Finds Food for Thought in Census Takers Plans in '60 By DICK WEST In fact, there has been so Washington-UPD-For seven vpars Rnhprr W. Bureess has served as chief U.S. census taker without taking a census. But that isn't his fault. ' The census taker is only allowed to take the cen sus once every 10 years so you can un derstand why Burgess is looking for ward to April Dick west -i.-wnen tne next one will start. Burgess, whose formal title is census bureau director, out lined his plans for the big 1960 countdown at one of the most elaborate news confer ences i ever attended. Reporters were handed a brochure containing seven documents and five photo graphs as they entered the National Press Club auditori um. Burgess and his aides re viewed what was in the docu ments. Then we saw a 15-min-ute documentary movie. After that we had a steak lunch. Complicated Business Burgess assured us the 1960 census will be the biggest and best census ever taken. It fig ures. There are a lot more of us to count this time. Japan Warned on Signing Treaty Moscow-(UPB-The comander of the Soviet Union's Far Eastern military district to day warned Japan she . was inviting devastating retalia tory blows in the event of war. by signing the security treaty with the United States, He said the U.S.-Japan se curity pact was aimed at the Soviet Union. The warning from the com mander, identified only ' as Penkovsky, came in an article published by the official So viet Communist party news paper Pravda and distributed by the Soviet news agency Tass. By signing the "military agreement" with the United States in Washington Tuesday Japanese Prime Minister No busuke Kishi "was sowing the wind, but may reap the whirl wind," Penkovsky said. CAPITAL CHANGE Melbourne - This city was the first capital of Australia and served as such until the year 1900 when a new site, Canberra, was officially selected. Two of these were Mikhail A. Suslov and Aleksei I. Kirichenko. There were indications that both had been or soon will be demoted. Another to feel the lash was Nikolai I. Belyanyev who ap parently lost his job as party secretary of the Soviet Re public of Kazakhstan. These events came during the meeting of the Supreme Soviet, the rubber-stamp par liament which meets in Mos cow to approve steps taken or ordered by the government as represented first by the cen tral committee of the Com munist Party and finally by the inner group which makes up the ruling presidium. Kirichenko and Belyanyev not only were members of the presidium, they also were close friends of Premier Ni kita Khrushchev. For reasons still unclear, Kirichenko was ordered put of Moscow to take over the rela tively obscure job as party leader in provincial Rostov. Belyanyev already had been taken to task for failure to report shortcomings in the Kazakhstan harvest. In directing his ire at Bely Misunderstood, on sentences of from three to five years. The mob was found guilty of no more than conspiracy to refuse to talk and thus to protect them selves by withholding from the government the purpose of their Apalachin meeting. Jurisdiction Defined The nature of the crime al leged put the matter within FBI jurisdiction. It is not gen erally understood that the au thority for the areas of inves tigation by the FBI are pre cisely defined and limited by much talk about popula tion "explosions." I was al most afraid to strike a match But Burgess didn't seem at all concerned. "Only 73 days to go," he said, and I gathered he could hardly wait. Census-taking is more com plicated than mere nose- counting, or ' even counting ears and dividing by two. The bureau wants to know about us how many air condition ers we own and whether we drive our own car to work. It is hiring 160,000 enum erators, 10,000 foremen and 400 supervisors to take all this down and add it all up The statistics will cost us, as taxpayers, about $118 million Firm Picks Up Tab I understand, however, that the bureau didn't have to pay for the lunch that followed the news conference. The tab was picked up by a big com pany which sells electronic "brains" to the bureau. une oi tne machines is a "film optical sensing device for input to computers." They call it "Fosdic" for short. This started me to thinking about another census machine which i would describe as a one- dial-five - bulb propagating people meter." The machine was rigged up by the bureau several years ago to keep an estimated count of our tribal increase between census - takings. I dropped by the Commerce Department and found it sil ently and relentlessly count ing to itself in one corner of the lobby. ' At the moment I arrived, the population was growing at the awesome rate of more than-300 an hour. I began to feel crowded and left. On my way out, I stopped by the department's aquarium. There I saw a fish (micropter us salmoides) which lays about 5,000 eggs at one time. This alio is food for. thought. Non-Surgical Method Cures Hemorrhoids Painlessly A relatively painless, non surgical method of treating hemorrhoids (piles) is work ing therapeutic miracles for thousands who suffer from rectal and colon disorders. A recently developed elec tronic treatment is proving more effective than surgery, with none of the after effects of surgery. The relatively new tech nique requires no hospital anyev, Khrushchev said friendship could not excuse failure. Smash Black Marketeers Suslov's future was left un clear as result of the blast against N failure of Soviet propaganda at home. Suslov, regarded as one of the last of the Stalinists, has played a prominent part in Soviet propaganda and may suffer because of it. As evidences of failure, the Soviet press last week report ed the smashing of a ring of young black marketeers who were distributing bootleg rock 'n' roll records on used x-ray film. A letter also published took the government to task for spending more time on pro ducing rocket achievements than on turning out shoes. Press attacks on religion demonstrate that the govern ment still has been unable to sell completely its philosophy of atheism. None of this points to serious difficulty either for the government or Khrush chev. But it does illustrate that the Soviet Union also has its internal stresses and strains. law or executive order. Con gress enacted a law after the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby to authoribe the FBI to act in kidnap cases. Kidnaping is one of 46 items within FBI jurisdiction by act of Congress or execu tive order. The list ranges from anti-trust investigations to enforcement of the Mann Act which forbids the inter state transportation of a fe male for prostitution, de bauchery or other immoral purposes. The FBI got into the Apala chin case because it is the U.S. investigative agency re sponsible for protecting the government against fraud. In this instance, the fraud con sisted of "the misrepresenta tion or concealment of facta concerning matters within the jurisdiction of the govern ment." Smart New York state po lice work in detecting the hoodlum's presence in Apala chin and in taking instant action was widely remarked before and during the trial. A rundown of the proceedings will show, however, that the FBI furnished approximately 80 per cent of the evidence produced against the hood lum delegates. Sixteen FBI agents and one former agent were witnesses for the government. Thirty three statements introduced by the government in connec tion with the trial were pre pared as a result of FBI in vestigation. FBI's Enemies Know It The public is little aware of such phases of FBI opera tions. The Communist, fellow traveller and other left-wing operators who, from time to time, attempt to oust director Edgar Hoover or otherwise to hamper the operations of the FBI are better informed than is the general public about what the FBI does and why. There were a couple of more sorties against the FBI during the Truman adminis tration, apparently encour aged by what their promoters interpreted as President Tru man's chilly attitude toward the organization. None of these got off the ground al though there was published a book denouncing the FBI and proposing Hoover's ouster. This book was denounced in the Senate as "an utterly biased piece of propaganda." The author was Max Lowen thal, a Truman associate dur ing HST's Senate days. Low enthal, for example, accused Hoover of reaching out on his own in 1940 for authority to investigate subversive ac tivities in particular and in ternal security in general. What Lowenthal must have known but did not mention was that on Sept. 6, 1939, FDR by execution order in- ' structed Hoover to "take 1 charge of investigative work in matters relating to espionage and sabotage." ization or confinement. Pa tients show marked im provement almost immedi ately, and uncomplicated cases can be frequently cor rected in as little as 10 days. Further information with out obligation may be ob tained by writing the Dean Clinic, Chiropractic Physi cians, 2026 N. E. Sandy Blvd., Portland 12, Oregon.