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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Jan. 22, 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 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv 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 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eaele Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes, Dailv and Sunday 1 year $18 no Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150 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 Newspictures L MEMBFR n AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertisine Reoresentatlve: 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. O" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL "N ASSOCIATION 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. 22. 1950 (Sunday) Alger Hiss found guilty on two perjury counts after deny ing Communist activities. . Reduced load limits on eight county roads will be effective Monday; Paul Rynning, coun ty engineer, says reduction will prevent damage to roads from extra heavy trucks. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1940 (Monday) Earl Browder. U.S. commu nist leader, convicted of pass port fraud and sentenced to four years in prison. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "The Finns are still chasing Rus " sians in 56.4 degrees below zero weather. The .4 is what makes it seem cold." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 22. 1930 (Wednesday) Samuel T. Mather, former national parks director and well-known locally, dies. Local turkey pool is assur ed of getting 22,000 pounds of turkeys for shipment to Bos ton; had been worried that they couldn't meet demand. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1920 (Friday) Medford Commercial club changes name to the Chamber of Commerce. City council plans to re view parking rules on city streets since there have been several accidents lately be cause of cars backing out of parking spots. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 22, 1910 (Saturday) Work on a $1U million ir rigation project that will bring water to 55,000 acres of Rogue valley land is expected to start soon. New $50,000 Mason build ing will be erected on East Main at site of old Merriman's Blacksmith shop, local lodge decided last night. What's Your 1.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. In what country would you expect to find the Appian Way? 2. In what year did Henry Ford Sr. market his first auto mobile? 3. The buffalo is the central figure on the seal of which Federal Government Depart ment? 4. What lands or countries were ruled by the house of Bourbon? 5. Which planet is farthest from the earth? 6. Is coral a plant or an ani mal? 7. Graphology is the study of what? 8. By what process can fresh water be obtained from salt water? 9. Is the nautical term "knot" a unit of speed, or of distance? 10. In baseball, which base is called the "keystone sack"? Answers: 1. Italy. 2. 1903. 3. Department of Interior. 4. Franca and jpain. 5. Pluto. 6. Animal. 7. Handwriting. 8. Distillation. 9. Unit et speed. 10. Second base. Ill-Smelling Rose Yesterday, the Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent, A. Robert Smith, told of Con gressman Charles' Porter's plans to pursue tne idea of a chairlift down the inside of the rim of Crater Lake. Charlie, it seems, has been playing with semantics. It isn't an aerial tramway any more. Not even a chair lift. Now he calls it an "aerial gondola." Well, Shakespeare said it. "A rose by any other name , would smell as sweet." An aerial tramway, no matter what you call it, is still as outrageous an idea as it ever was, when applied to Crater Lake. JNDOUBTEDLY, in Congressman Porter's fourth distnct there are some people who strongly favor such a project, for a variety of reasons. Presumably, there are many citizens who don't much care, one way or another, and who are as apt to vote "yes" on the Congressman's questionnaire about it as they are to vote "no" and in neither case think the proposal through. But there is a third group people who be lieve strongly in the National Parks and in their concept of minimum despoilment of scenic and wilderness areas who are so thoroughly con vinced that Porter is wrong dead wrong on this issue, that their sense of outrage will color their entire attitude toward him in this election year. E.A. Across the River Eugene has crossed the river two rivers, as a matter of fact, one of them physical, the other one hypothetical. The physical river is the Willamette. A recent annexation election added 2.2 square miles of the Oakway-Willakenzie area on the north side of the Willamette to the rest of Eugene on the south side. The hypothetical river is the one dividing "small cities" from "metropolitan" cities and areas. Through the annexation, Eugene passes the 50,000-population mark, and cinches its claim to being the second-largest city m the state,' be hind Portland. rUGENE and Salem for the past few years have " been engaged in a rivalry, not always too friendly, for the second-biggest title. It was held by Salem for many years, but last year Eugene sneaked ahead by a few mi i . ine annexation now Dnngs in many more people from 4,000 to 6,000, depending on whose estimate you believe than Salem can muster with any foreseeable annexation of its own. Salem, of course, is It is followed (not very closely, with 26,300) by Medford. These four cities are the only ones in Oregon with a population If, as is expected, Salem tops 50,000 m the census this year, Medford will be the only one in the 25,000-50,000 category. E.A. One in As noted above, Medford's population .is now 26,300. If one person in ten right now, extract a dollar bill, stick it in an en velope, and mail it to Post Office Box 5000, Med ford, the United Medford Crusade would be well over the top. If one person in every drive would be close enough to success to call it a success. For the first time in (or its predecessor, the drive isn t going to be thing happens. W m m w fNE MEDFORD professional man got to think ing about this the other day and, unlike a lot of us, did something about it. He wrote a letter to UMC headquarters. Parts of it are quoted be low : "... I am quitw concerned over the difficulty, which we have had this year in getting over the last hummock of our goal. I earnestly wish that I were in a "position to be of greater personal help in sur-. mounting this last deficiency, but even if I cannof take the entire thing in stride by myself, I do feel that I would like to make an additional contribution at this time, fend I accordingly enclose my check. "The agencies involved in this United drive are, as you and I both full well realize, of tremendous importance in keeping this Medford of ours the won derful place which it is, and I just cannot believe that the many fine citizens on our board and active ly involved in the campaign are going to rest until the goal is reached ..." NOW THE Boy and mc vctmpiue vjhis, me oaivauon Army, tne Red Cross, Rogue Valley Council on Aging, Child Guidance Clinic not to mention the many im nortant child welfare ore-anizatinns nf the state are not going1 to dry up iasi $i,4uu or so isn i ioitncommg. But a Droud record of such a drive will be gone. And Medford's repu tation and record will suffer bv that. much. I- One dollar from every It. Not everyone will get a license plate-.with "Pacific Wonderland" on it this year only those gett;ng new plates. Okay with us. The, slogan is valueless anyway. It fits our neighbor states as well as Oregon. Oregon Statesman, Salem. hundred people. now third in population. of 25,000 or more. Ten would take out his wallet 100 would mail S5, tne the history of the UMC, Community chest) the a success unless some Girl Scouts, the YMCA, and blow away if this never havrnp- failed in tenth person would do Dennis the 'Hill JUSTWANTEO TD SEE IF YOU Washington Report By WILLIAM EYES ON YOUTH Washington - One of the smallest of the states in popu lation may well provide the largest and most eloquent voice at the Democratic Na tional Convention next July ,fI Sen. Frank Church of Idaho - at 35 the youngest man in the Sen?te-is be- i n g strongly pushed for keynote speaker and tempo rary chairman o f the c o n v en- tion. The field of possibilities also numbers Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and Gov. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. But, on balance, Church seems to have much better than a 1 in 3 chance of selec tion. A moderate liberal of the casual Western variety, he is representative of the broad est single sector of his party. His "geography" is right. The Democrats need to pay spe cial attention to the West, the fastest-growing region of the country and also the fast est-growing section of" the Democratic party. rTPOO, he is perhaps the most - widely respected of the young Democrats of the Sen- ate-for general ability, for fair-mindedness, and, what is very important here, for or atorial powers. Half a gen eration ago the pros consid ered oratory to be "making the eagle scream." His eagle does not scream; it speaks in stead in more muted, more appealing, modern accents. Finally, Church is not com mitted to any of the Demo cratic Presidential aspirants. Thus he would arouse no acute suspicion that as key noter he might promote Jones over Brown or Smith or Green. A keynoter-t emporary chairman's task is to deliver the convention's first major address and so to lay down the pattern of party policy for the campaign. Once he has done this, a permanent chairman is chosen to pre side over the convention. Rep resentative Hale Boggs of Louisiana is out in front for this post. The system of selecting the keynoter is elaborately tra ditional. Democratic Nation al Chairman Paul Butler will appoint a "Committee on Ar rangements." This committee will "recommend" a keynoter to the convention. The con vention will then elect him. ALL this seems a dull and dusty business, and some times it is just that. This time, however, it will be a good deal more than routine. Be cause there is so large a field of real Democratic Presiden tial possibilities-half a dozen -the tone taken by the key noter's speech will have real meaning. What he says can not actually bind or control whoever is ultimately nom inated for President. But it can surely please or greatly embarrass that fortunate fel low. if Governor Nelson should turn out to be the keynoter he would certainly deliver a call for far-advanced liberal-ism-a difficult plank for a Presidential nominee to walk on unless he himself should be an advanced liberal. Sen ator Muskie, for his part, is a moderate liberal like Church. But Muskie is also a Catholic. An outstanding Presiden tial candidate. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, is a Catholic. So is Representa tive Boggs. And so is Chair man Butler. Therefore, there is a fairly general, tendency not to have a Catholic key noter as well. William S. " White Menace HAD CHlVlES OR A BUZZEPJ S. WHITE ALL this has increasingly turned attention to Church. Then there are yet other factors: television's im age and the image of youth. The Democrats want an im pression of youthful vigor to go out over the TV. screens in order to compete with the brisk youthfulness of Vice President Nixon (42), the al most mevitable Republican Presidential choice. Slim and dark, Church photographs well-and nobody could pos sibly confuse him with some middle-aged chap. A happy side point is that he is most pleasantly reserved about headline hunting. The fact is that Church's status in the race for key noter is an interesting com mentary on how politics is changing. A few years ago the young were rarely either seen or-heard at a national convention. Now, the old boys are still the indispensable men in those famous smoke filled rooms. But out front they are giving way to the young. (Copyright. 1960. by United ' Feature Syndicate, 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 excee'd 400 words On a Silver Platter To the Editor: Two items which should be of local in terest have appeared in the news lately. Both are in ref erence to adult educational courses. One, issued through our school board, offers a new series of adult classes to begm Feb. 1. The second, which ap peared on the f ron page of the Jan. 20 Tribune, contains an announcement from Ray mond E. Petty, representative of the college extension divi sion. He states that an adult course which had been pre arranged has been cancelled due to lack of interest. Only one-fourth of the required number of persons was in at tendance. . This is nothing new in either the college or high school roll-calls. It seems to indicate, however, the general attitude of the local gentry and somewhere there must be an answer as to why. Medford and Jackson coun ty show the least enthusiasm for learning of any district. Is it because the majority of people are already so well learned? If so, this is very commendable. Perhaps the an swer lies in feeling "an old dog is incapable of learning." (Some time ago I was privil eged to meet a woman who had just received her mas ter's degree from the U. of O. She was 86 years old and still rarin to go.) Finally, if the lack of inter est involves the time element, this is the poorest excuse of all. Anyone who breathes should want to find spare hours to observe and to learn. (Jujitsu can be educational if it's something one doesn't al ready know.) , It would be well to con sider the time and much ef fort put forth by the educa tors who try to arrange and instruct 'these courses. They are the ones who are doing US a favor; not the opposite. Believe me, their satisfaction is realized more in attention and enthusiasm than in any other compensation. Lack of these, after all their work, is pretty much a swat in the jaw. These " various courses of fered can be fun as well as educational and, surprisingly enough, with a little dili gence, might even develop Democrats May Wish Mr. Sam Back After Convention Opens; 1952 Work Recalled By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (DPD Perhaps the Democrats will sadly re-, gret that speaker Sam Ray- burn has re jected perma nent chair mans hip of this year's na tional conven tion. Mr. Sam, the old pro, will sit out on the c o n v e n floor attempt- Lyie c Wilson ing to maneu ver the nomination of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson for Presi dent. The Democrats would have been in bad trouble in 1952, but for Mr. Sam. The night of July 24-25 during the 1952 national convention could have been deadly for the Dem ocratic Party. That night a left-wing, Young Turk task force attempted to force out of the convention and out of the Democratic Party the delegations of three southern states-Louisiana, South Caro lina and Virginia. The whole south might have gone with them. This was part of a strategy to prevent the nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson and to name either Averell Harri- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Trivia in the news: The U.S. department of commerce reports that foreign customers are complaining that many U.S. firms don't answer promptly inquiries from abroad about their prod ucts. Some of the foreigners quoted by the commerce de partment say their letters and cablegrams to American firms go unanswered as long as two or three months. Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe a lot of these in quiries arrive during the cof fee hour. MORE trivia: An upstate Oregon news An upstate Oregon news paper noted sapiently a while back that business men espe cially the upper bracket men of what we call Big Biz-al-ways have something to worry about. For years, it remark ed, they have been worrying about reduction of defense spending, which might result in a decrease in orders. Now, it added, they are worrying about this crack down on expense accounts that the hold-over session of the congress that is just as sembling appears to be acute ly interested in. T ET"S put it this way: The proposed crackdown on big expense accounts works on the principle that the medical men call a COUN TER IRRITANT. What's a counter irritant? It's something that makes you hurt SOMEWHERE ELSE to make you forget where you've been hurting. THERE'S always something to worry about. Even the politicians have their worries. One of them is the so-called CLEAN ELECTIONS bill that has bobbed up in this hold over session. One of its pur poses is to require fuller re porting of campaign contribu tions. It's a hot potato. The poli ticians want all the campaign contributions they can get, but it's often embarrassing to report WHERE THEY CAME FROM. To make the situation even more embar rassing, Senator Hennings of Missouri-who is a rather in teresting character-wants the rigid reporting requirements extended to the state primary elections, as well as the gen eral elections. He won an unexpected vic tory last night when the sen ate voted 50 to 39 to approve his amendment to bring that about. QUESTION: Why shouldn't contribu tions to primary election cam paigns be just as fully report ed as contributions to general i election campaigns? i Isn't it just as important j to know how much candidates i are spending in the primary elections-and WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM -as in the general elections? In some ways, the pri maries, are more important than the general elections. If we can't get good candidates, how are we going to get good officials? into something profitable at a later date. I'm by no means a crusader; nor do I care to be looked upon as a crank. But from where I sit, we're a pretty fortunate bunch of people. We are handed, on a silver platter, what myriads of peo ple in the world would give their eye teeth to have-educa tion. Mrs. G. Farfan, 723 South Newtown st., Medford ft man of New York or Sen. Estes Kefauver, Tennessee. There was a political brawl such as only Democrats can accomplish, and that rarely. The Young Turks were led by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; his brother, James; Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Minne sota; Michigan's Gov. G. Men nen (Soapy) Williams, and the late Sen. Blair Moody, Michi gan. Do Wilhout South Some of them, notably Humphrey, said the Demo cratic Party could do with out the South and seemed eager to have it that way. They put elder statesmen of the three southern states on a spot from which they might be expected to take a walk. But the southerners refused ti walk, preferring that the convention throw them out, if leave they must. The dispute was whether leaders of the three delegations must sign a loyalty oath assuring that the convention's nominees would be on southern ballots Strange Serenity of Senate Hearing on Tranquilizers Ends By DICK WEST Washington - (UPD - The at mosphere in the Senate caucus room was strangely serene, as befits a hear ing on tran quilizer pills. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.) was calm and Sen. E v e r ett M. Dirksen (R 111.) was calm and they en- Dick west gaged in the calmest 30 - minute contro versy I ever listened to. In a voice that was as sooth ing as a Miltown tablet, Dirk sen denounced the way that Kefauver, as chairman, had been running the anti-trust sub-committee's investigation of drug prices. The burden of his protest was that the subcommittee, in previous hearings on anti arthritis drugs, had exagger ated the profit margins of some pharmaceutical houses. He said he hoped this would not happen in the tranquiliz er inquiry. Tension Crops Up Kefauver naturally couldn't match the mellifluous tonal quality of the Dirksen larynx. But in his own mild way he managed to suggest that Dirk sen didn't know what he was talking about. The contending senators were so tranquil, I was be ginning to suspect that they had sampled some of the evi dence. But as the hearing con tinued, little signs of tension became apparent. The tempo seemed to pick up when the late-arriving Sen. John A. Carroll (D-Colo.) came in. He was wearing a necktie whose bright yellow stripes clashed with the muted haberdashery of the other subcommittee members. . First I noticed that Ke fauver, who normally can handle one syllable words without a bobble, had begun to stumble over such simple drug names as chlorproma- zine and prochlorperazine. Then I observed that the witness. President Walter A. Munns of the Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, was fid dling with his cigarette light er when not actually lighting cigarettes. Subcommittee staff investi gators displayed some charts ana grapns maicaung mat Munns' company, one of the largest tranquilizer manufact urers, was making healthy profits on the nation's neuroses. LITWILLER FUNERAL HOME announces... The Opening of Their New Addition to MOUNTAIN VIEW CHAPEL C.t-Ut" Between the Hours of 2:00 and 4:00 under the symbol or the name of the Democratic Party. None would sign, although all explained that state laws guaranteed precisely what the loyalty oath sought to im pose. The convention had adopted the oath which meant that non-signers were exclud ed. On a motion to re-estab lish the Virginia delegation as voting conventioneers, Vir ginia was beaten when the roll call ended. Everybody in the suddenly-hushed conven tion hall knew it especially Mr. Sam. Then the old pro began to move. Voting Open Chairman Rayburn held the voting open. He and oth ers who believed Moody's oath would wreck the party on election day were determ ined to get all three states back into the convention, or else. Rayburn decided to re verse the anti-Virginia vote. His teeth gritting in anger, his eyes glaring with cold fury, Mr. Sam whacked his gavel. Did any state desire to be Munns retorted that the fig' ures were so misleading they would "make an accountant rather sick at his stomach." He lit another cigarette. The financial discussion got pretty confusing and the sen ators were straining to under stand it. Kefauver twice chewed up the end of a cigar without lighting it. French Army Chief 'Man to Watch' in Algerian Dispute By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man - of the - week: Maj. Gen. Jacques Massu. hero of the French in Al geria. The place: Paris. The quote: "As to the question of unrest in the army, he (Massu) does not claim to be its spokesman, since nobody in Algeria questions the authority of Gen. Andre Challe." After a little more than a year in the job as president of the new French Fifth Repub- 1 i c, troubles were piling up for Gen. C h a r 1 e de Gaulle French colo nials in Al geria first had hailed him as savior. Now the word was Phil Newsom closer to trai tor. The . man to watcn was Maj. Gen. Massu. For as Mas su went, Algeria might also go. This week, De Gaulle brusquely ordered Massu to Paris from his Algeria post for a showdown on whether the hawk - nosed paratroop general was plotting another revolt in Algeria similar to the one he led which on May 13, 1958, swept away the Fourth Republic and brought De Gaulle to power. Specifically, De Gaulle wanted to know about a pur ported interview in a German newspaper which quoted Mas su as saying: "' De Gaulle was the only man at our disposition. The army perhaps committed a mistake." -.; Massu denied the quote, but whether or not he said it, the dispatch pointed up a situa 3 vjfe&fi HI if 1 Located on Hwy. 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Ore. OPEN HOUSE Will Be Held SATURDAY & SUNDAY Jan. 23 and 24 polled? Was there any dele gate unrecorded? Did any delegate or delegation desire to change his vote? They were questions, but they had the cutting edge of a com mand. Mr. Sam stalled and milked the anti-Virginia ma jority for wavering votes. Vote changes rolled in by ones, triples and more. The old pro . triumphed. The final result was 615 to 529 for making Virginia a convention member. The northern alliance of the Democratic Party with orga nized labor, Negroes, Ameri cans for Democratic action and other splinter groups had been shellacked in as wild and wooly a balloting as the party ever had. Mr. Sam gavelled down, persuaded the convention to vote down, or ruled down, every strategy of the left wing. The night of July 24-25 might have wrecked the Democrat Party, but for old pro Rayburn. The democrats may wish they had him again this year. Carroll undertook to "clar ify the picture" and it was long past lunch time before the subcommittee finally re cessed. I stopped by the wit ness table and counted 15 filter-tipped butts in Munns' ash tray. Maybe he ought to switch to a" thinking man's tranquil izer. tion which was becoming more and more apparent the French settlers in Algeria once more were building up to the boiling point, and for De Gaulle at home, the poli tical honeymoon was over. Pinay Resigns Cabinet At home, De Gaulle had come to the parting of the ways with his finance min ister, former Premier An toine Pinay, opening the way to a revolt by Pinay's Inde pendent Party which could whittle De Gaulle's assembly majority to nothing. While Pinay saw eye-to-eye with De Gaulle on the latter's liberalized policy in Algeria, others in his party did not and were capitalizing on the settlers' unrest. Pinay left because of dis agreement with the govern ment's financial and foreign policies, particularly De Gaulle's reluctance to partici pate whole-heartedly in the Atlantic pact. These issues also gave the Independents ammunition. Could Dissolve Assembly But from the politicians De Gaulle was in no real immedi ate danger. He could, if neces sary, dissolve the assembly and go to the people for another change in the consti tution. The key lay with the French army, most of which now is in Algeria. It was fear of an open re bellion by the army that finally led to dissolution of the Fourth Republic. Should the army also become disen chanted with De Gaulle, then De Gaulle also could fall. Hence the showdown with Massu. In Algeria, the rally cry of the colonists is, "Algeria is French." And until France can settle the Algerian ques tion her troubles will remain. P.M. "-ill to
