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4 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, Jan. 29. 1960 MEDFORDtWTRIBUNS "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by jvLtur unu rtun tlnu cu. 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 eakl M. aoams. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDOrts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c uauy ana Sunday l year 915.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 bunday 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 route. 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 UJ J. Telephoto Newspietures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI AS(&cfoTl6y Z) J J piHimiTimi 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. 29, 1950 (Sunday) Central Point volunteer firemen report good results in campaign to raise funds for a fire truck to serve the rural area around Central Point. Radio station KRCO in Prineville went on the air to day. It is operated by four former Medford men who were employees of KYJC. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1940 (Monday) German planes attack Brit ish shipping in worse raids yet. Three neutral ships are sunk by mistake. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "In sin circles it has been contended it was not for Moses with his Ten Commandments to say how the people should behave 1940 years later. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. . 930 (Wednesday) New snowplow arrived to day for clearing Crater Lake road in winter. Dairymen will fight new city milk law that sets mini mum price of 12 cents a quart. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1920 (Friday) A Chicago moviehouse has opened a smoking room for women patrons. Increase of illness has caused a flu quarantine to be Invoked in Medford. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1920 (Saturday) Local man back from air show in Los Angeles, says flying is easy and predicts there will be 10 planes in Medford in two years. Sis Hopkins joins Medford's growing thertrical colony. Af ter touring U.S. she likes Medford best and will stay. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct i superior; even or eight is excellent; five or tlx is good. 1. What is another name for Hoover Dam? 2. Is "revelations" the cor rect name of a book of the Bible? 3. Whiskey which is desig nated as bottled-in-bond is at least how many years old? 4. Do you associate the name Jascha Heifetz with the piano, violin, or organ? 5. An invidious remark is most likely to provoke laugh ter, ill will, or good will? 6. Bing Crosby is a member of what religious denomina tion? ' 7. Herring bone, sidestep, snowplow, telmark, and Chris tiana are terms used in which sport? 8. What blind poet wrote "Paradise Lost"? 9. In the political life of what Eureopean country was the name of Leon Blum prominent? . 10. Do prisoners confined in Federal penitentiaries wear black and white striped uni forms? Answers: 1. Boulder Drn 2. Revelation. 3. Four. 4. .Vio lin. 5. Ill will. 6. Roman Cath olic. 7. Skiing. 8. John Milton. 9. France 10. No. Shop ' Shop talk" is one kinds of discussion provided the parties to the discussion are in the same line of endeavor. Sometimes "shop talk" outside one's own line of work can be of interest, too, and sometimes it can be bonng. Well, this piece is going to" be shop talk of a sort newspaper shop talk and if it bores you, we commend to you our communications column, which has been pretty lively of late. NE of the occupational hazards of newspaper w work is losing; friends. This is true of reporters, sometimes, when they report a story which they feel is news, and which someone else a friend It is true of editors, others consider to be sins of omission or commis sion in the handling of news. It is true of editorial writers, when they voice opinions with which others disagree particularly when the opinions are set forth vigorously. A'NOTHER related occupation hazard is the business of hurting people. This is done every day. For because news is what it is;- it is frequently true that someone is hurt by its publication. Hardly a week passes but what we get a call asking that a stoiy not be print ed, or that someone's name be left out, to avoid embarrassing that someone, or his aged, ailing grandmother, or his innocent children. Since we consider that news is news, and that we're in the business of printing news, it is a rare case indeed where such requests are observed. When the request is rejected, we've made someone mad. And if ..it's a friend, then he be comes a former friend. We are not complaining. It is one of the facts of newspaper life, and one everyone who stays in the business learns to live with. E.A. Officialdom and the Public Somewhat similar hazards face holders of public office as those mentioned above. Elected and armointed officials are fair erame for critics. It has always politics, and we hope it will always be so. or America operates on the presumption of political pmialitv. and anvone who has the courage to stand up and sound off is exercising a constitutional ngnt. This does not make it pleasant for office holders. But it is one of the occupational hazards. SOMETIMES these two infn vninmHrn lilro lishes a storv in which public officials. The latter can, understandably, teei such a stnrv is unfair, narticularlv if thev are conscien tious, hard-working public servants, trying their ... . . . . 1 1 1 best to do a good job ior the public. But the newspaper owes its first allegiance to its readers, and any newspaper worth its salt will not withhold news for the purpose of sparing the feelings of public officials. WE MAINTAIN that both elected and appoint or! nffiVinls in addition t.n heino- subl'ect to V. VlVAWtlUJ " wwv-- w V criticism, also should answer it when it is voiced. Not tn dn so mav leave the impression the eritipism is valid. And keep the public informed about the public business. Tt is an ao-e-old temDtation of public officials, who are entrusted with come to look upon it as And admittedly it is iar easier to transact business when no one is looking oyer your shoul der, or second-guessing your decisions. ' THIS has led to closed-door sessions of com mJffnnn orwl iniitioilo onrl Vinnvrlc anrl fnmmi's. sions sessions at which the business of the public is transacted in private. Oregon has been singularly free of this kind of petty secrecy in public affairs. Jn Medford, council meetings, meetings of the school board, and most other public bodies, are open not only to the press, but also to any interested citizen. Elsewhere, it is a continual battle for news men to ferret out news of public affairs so that the public can be informed. This is true at all levels of government federal, state, county and city. THIS newspaper joins the great majority of papers in America in believing that public business should be transacted in public save only ininstances involving national security. But it has never gone to the length that some papers do, demanding that whenever-public offi cials get together to discuss public business, even inf ormally, the press must be included. Having been on "both sides of the fence," we know it is sometimes difficult, if not impossible, to thrash out solutions to controversial problems in public. BUT we do insist that when decisions are made, the public has the right to know about them, and the reasons which led to the decisions. For the same reason we feel that when public bodies or officials are criticized, they have an obligation to the public, to their "bosses" and constituents, toanswer the criticism, frankly and fully. - v " ' Only in that way can the public, determine if the trust placed in their public servants is justi fied, or. if .. the criticisms . themselves are ill founded. E.A. . Talk of the most interesting thinks should not be. when they commit what been thus in American against the government related hazards come urTlon J n PW5nHT1PV TVnVl- someone is critical of not to do so is failing; to the public's business, to a private trust. Dennis the 1 THOUGHT 0U TOLD A IT 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Reflections on Complexions To the Editor: On a stanza and the chorus of the Indian love song, Red Wing, we read a parody entitled "Fledgling." "Oh, there once was a nice little maid, She used a complexion aid; She was ill content with the one God sent, So for lipstick and rouge Some money she spent; She thought of a warrior brave, So her make-up she care fully made; Fixed her face and hair quite weU Till she thought she looked real swell, "BUT THE RAIN WASHED IT NEARLY ALL AWAY. (Chorus:) Now the light shines real bright on the painted lady, Deceit shows plamly, it's camouflage mainly; While those content to live as God has made them Still look quite finely from day to day." So deeply ingrained in my tastes and discretionary na ture is the love of the real and genuine in humans, that, were I young again and un married, I would remain un married until I found that companion who would shun the unreal, the artificial, and the superficial enough to re frain from paint and make-up and here is the reason: If she were unreal in her out ward appearance, having an artificial and superficial and purchased complexion, how am I to know that she has a genuine interior. My consolation would be that there still remain some undoubted and genuine wom en whose exterior and inter ior afiree. and whose deDths are unmarred by what in so many is mere camouflage. If a painted exterior is indi cative of an inferior interior -and it is and would con tribute to a disrespect for his wife in him who loves the real and the bonafide, let us plead and pray for better womanhood. Try to visualize God mak ing an help meet for him" who requires to enhance and complete her complexion ap pearance by the application of coal tar dyes lately diagnosed and condemned and ready to be banned by the U.S. depart ment of health as cancer pro ducing! , Suppose men began to paint lips, nails, and toe-nails; and to wear toe-less, sox-less shoes, women would (and I would) scorn them, and re fuse to trust such freaks! Lord, give me a woman who is genuine and bonafide, from the farthest outside ex terior to the deepest inward interior; from the tips of her unpointed nails to the ven tricles of her magnanimous heart! "And all the people said (or should say) Amen." H. R. Bulman Route 4, Box 316A Medford. Pot and Kettle To the Editor: O brother, look who is calling the kettle black. Do you, by any stretch of the imagination, believe those 'big yellow cans' that we see tacked at random or in stacks like pyramids on nearly every mailbox, fence post, tree or whatever is handy, a work of art or an asset to the beauty of our countryside? Certainly not! You paint them a bright yellow with your name in large letters because you live in a com petitive country and you are competing in a race to gain attention. Attention to build your circulation more cir culation for a better news paper, a more prosperous newspaper that can better serve the people. A successful,- thriving newspaper for Menace -29 I PlW'T SQJ&V. more profits. Profits' to hire more : carriers, reporters, printers and others, more hired help to spend money in a competitive country. A com petitive country that is grow ing on competition, and ad vertising is the voice of that competition. Mr. Crutcher presented his views in a competitive way. He did it strongly and effec tively to sell his ideas. He showed only the best of what was available in Europe and only the worst of what we have. Moscow would love that boy - he could prove we live in an ash can. Don't , construe this letter to mean that I believe the situation is perfect, but every story has two sides and both sides should be judged and consideration given to both before any action is taken. Certainly, we can use regula tion, restrictions and - plan ning, but I do believe that a person who can create such a wrath of indignation should be obligated to recognize the reasons and the results of the advertising which he so de tests. Next time I hear Mr. Crutcher, I hope he presents a sound reasonable, workable plan that won't sink the ship while he is looking for the leak. It is comparatively easy to point but mistakes, but sometimes it takes real thought to present an effec tive correction. Just as an added thought my family enjoyed watching the sunset change the colors on the slopes of Mt. Hood during our last drive to Port land. Sorry we missed the billboards, the view was won derful. If a person can't see a sight as big as Mt. Hood, maybe he did get his Cascades from a bottle. ". Richard G. Eastin Box 310 Prospect, Ore. Christmas Project To the Editor: The Medford Lady Lions wish to thank the editor and staff members of the Medford Mail Tribune for the excellent publicity given for our project, "Dolls and gifts for needy children at Christmas-time." Through this widespread publicity many individuals and organizations in and near Medford made dolls and gifts available for distribution pri or to Christmas. Our thanks too for the splendid coopera tion on the part of all' those who sent in gifts and dolls for the children. (Mrs.) Beulah A. Dollar hide, Secretary, Medford Lady Lions. Modern, But Not Indifferent ' To the Editor: In answer to Mr. Barleen's article depict ing me as an evil-minded do gooder on my-, protest to . a recent movie, I must -reply that I am really quite a mod ern mother of three children. .However I am not so mod ern that I will accept obscen ity with complacency and in difference. I dir not intend to bring religion into the con troversy, but since Mr. Bar leen quotes scripture from the Biblj, I can- only state that if Christ Himself had been seated in the theater dur ing the previews which I wit nessed, I doubt that He would have smiled His approval on the spectacle. Mr. Barleen might be a ma ture adult who can take sen sualism in his stride, but I'm concerned about the children and teen - agers who were shriek ing, whistling, and stomping their J feet. Appar ently they do 'not share. his modern, cosmopolitan atti tude. Do the French have such praiseworthy morals that we must try to imitate them? Cannibalism and polygamy are prevalent in some parts of the world too, but that does not make it desirable for us. Perhaps my protest will mean nothing, but if parents do not object to movies of this type being shown to chil dren, what will we be accept ing in a few years? I'm sure Mr. Barleen will allow me to retain both my blushes and my anonymity. (Name on file) Medford. 23rd, Et Al To the Editor: It appears a number of people either have not read or were unable to understand the text of the "23rd Amendment" proposal, and I must, whether I like it or -not, agree with the editor. I interpret it as follows: "Section one-The Govern ment of the United States shall not engage in any busi ness, professional, commer cial, financial or industrial en terprise except as specified in the Constitution." The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Soil Conservation Service, Flood Control, power and other simL lar efforts on the part of the Corps of Engineers, and some others are, and I cannot see how anyone could consider them otherwise, either engag ed in business, professional, commercial, financial or in dustrial enterprises. May I ask these proponents-What is the building of a flood control or power dam if not business, professional, commercial or industrial enterprises? What are the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, if not business enterprises? Now, "Section Two -The Constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment." I cannot say much about the "domestic" agreements but I see no way we can get along in this world, the way things are, without the foreign aid given by the United States. By comparison with me, the late Senator Taft was a So cialist, but still, like a num ber of other people I do not see what this country would do without - the foreign aid and I definitely would not want all the federal lands to be thrown on the market with a provision that they be sold within three years. However, if the Sixteenth Amendment were the only thing to be changed by the proposed 23rd Amendment, then rest as sured it would have my sup port. Now a note to the county court: How about making ar rangements with the Forest Service for material and mov ing a rock crusher to the foot of Mosquito Hill to rebuild our road here? Also next time you buy gravel trucks get a rig with tandem rear axles and a tandem axle trailer to carry a minimum of 25 yards of crushed rock. This should cut considerably the cost of rebuilding our roads. Floyd R. McCabe, Mt. Pitt Star Rt., Butte Falls, Ore. God's Truth To the Editor: It matters not which creed we choose; God's Truth, unchanging, is the same For Catholics, Protestants and Jews, And even those who faith disclaim. Without beginning, without end, Truth goes beyond infinity; Fore-shortened thoughts we must transcend To know our own Divinity. There is no doctrine that has all The everything of God's great plan Oft' times we stumble, yes, and fall While following the Son of Man. He said that Heaven lies within Each soul; that it's a state of mind. 'Tis there that God blots out each sin, As those who seek will sure ly find. The key is Faith-It opens ; wide -.. The temple gate; Christ leads the way To all the precious gifts inside- To Love, Truth, Light-Eter-. nal Day! (By Evelyn Evans) P. S.-If there is clearer thinking, more 'petal-perfect' apology to Ben Hur Lamp man) poetry written, this writer has failed to find it. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. Ambulance Speed To the Editor: As a former owner of an ambulance com pany, it was with great in terest and concern that I read your article in last Sunday's paper on "Speed and First Aid." I agree with Dr. Louis Feves on one point, but heav ily disagree on the main point. It is true that you wiU find some unscrupulous operators that-will hire some siren hap py' individuals who will un- Matter of Fact Y (The following article is the fourth in a series of six.) THE MISSILE GAP: FISHY STUFF Washington - The Ameri can intelligence estimate pre pared at the time of the first STTl Sputnik gave t n e boviets about 500 in- tercontinental missiles by the end of this urst pst.imatps r happened to I I be correct the Kremlin may Joseph alsop already have enough ICBMs to "wipe out" our nuclear deterrent. During 1958, however, the first estimates were down graded. New and lower esti mates were conveniently re vealed by former Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, during his presentation of the business-as-usual 1959 defense budget. This second set of estimates gave the Kremlin 500 ICBMs by the end of 1961. If the revised estimates happened to be correct, the Kremlin should be in a posi tion to win the world about 12 months from now. During 1959, however, the revised estimates were re vised yet again. The new and still lower estimates were conveniently revealed by Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, during his presenta tion of the business-as-usual 1960 defense budget. If the twice - downgraded estimates happen to be correct, we may perhaps bridge the missile gap without any final catas trophe -. PROVIDED the Pentagon's highly optimistic schedules for the Minute Man missile and other weapons of the future also happen to be correct. fYN THE face of it, there is " something very fishy about these repeated, strikingly convenient down-gradings of intelligence estimates. How can anyone be so sure that Nikita S. Khrushchev was lying, in late 1958, when he stated that Soviet ICBMs were already "in serial pro duction?" How prove that he was being deliberately mis leading, more recently, when he seemed to say that a single Soviet factory had turned out 250 ICBMs last year? If he was telling the truth, Khrushcev.must now have at least 150 operational ICBMs ine nignest American au thority, the Strategic Air necessarily endanger their own lives as well as the lives of the public in general. However when you stop to think that an ambulance will cost the owner some $20,000 new, or even a good second hand car some $6,000, a lot of thought is going to be put into just how the car is going to be driven and cared for, Then again the insurance rate for an ambulance is quite high and for the most part is based on the number of ac cidents the company is in volved in each year. In a lot of cases speed is essential" if the lives of the patients are to be saved. I would like to cite just a few of such cases. In an accident involving three cars, on ar rival the crew found several people injured, among them a seven-year-old girl that had Deen tnrown tnrougn a win dow and her throat cut. The attendant applied first aid, reached down into her throat and succeeded in holding her jugular vein until the driver reached the hospital. Another time an elderly woman had suffered a bad heart attack. When the am bulance arrived she was al ready turning blue. First aid was applied, oxygen was giv en and she was rushed to the hospital. A woman in advance stage of labor was started for the hospital. The baby was born in the ambulance en route. She started to hem orrhage. If speed had not been made the woman might have died before -the ambulance could have reached the hos pital. I could go on and on and give example after ex ample of cases where speed was most essential if a life was to be saved. In a case of a minor injury I say no, that speed is not es sential, but on the other hand how would you like to have one of your loved ones die' en route to a hospital just be cause the ambulance was or dered to obey all traffic rules? Come on people, wake up, tragedy can strike any of us at any time. Write to this Dr. Feves, write to this newspa per, make your voice heard in this most important matter. Don't depend on your neigh bor to do it but write that letter now. Russell Osborn, 725 Walker ave., Ashland. Ore. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOl You must be satisfied er your money cheerfully refunded. Get bottle today at WESTERN THRIFT f V ViKf A Joseph Alsop Commander, Gen. Thomas Power, has publicly said 150 ICBMs could "virtually wipe out" our nuclear deterrent. And the answer to the ques tions posed above is, quite simply, that no one in Ameri ca can possibly be sure Khru shchev was not telling the truth, despite our downgraded estimates. The proof of the statement lies not merely in the disturb ing record of the estimates and the peculiar machinery that produces them, both of which have already been des cribed in this series. In the evidence itself lies the best proof that the estimates are no more absolutely reliable than their name implies. IHE gaps in our evidence on the Soviet ICBM program are quite certainly very great. We do not know wheth er the Soviets have one. or two, or three, or more ICBM plants comparable to our own Atlas plant, which could turn out 150 ICBMs in ten months if ordered into three shift production. We do not know whether crews have been di verted for ICBMs from the ad mittedly massive Soviet ICBM program. We do not know about launching pads, since even the doubly downgraded estimates suggested that the Soviet ICBMs are probably rail-mobile. Such are the vast areas of ignorance, which unchallenge able authorities assert are concealed behind the national estimates. There are hints and indications, of course, to gar nish the gap. But there is in fact onlv one main area of certainty. Our missile-watching radars have told us that the Soviets were not running great numbers of ICBM tests only about three pe- month until recently. We also have information about the Soviet testing facilities apparently confirming the information about the ICBM tests. This limited Soviet pro gram of ICBM tests has been almost the only excuse for twice down-grading the esti mates. On this point, the Cen tral Intelligence Agency, which is not in the missile business, is ill - equipped to argue with the Pentagon, which is very much in the missile business. The Penta gon uses American test re quirements as the yardstick -a highly dubious yardstick for many technical reasons. In sisting on this yardstick, the Pentagon has also insisted that the Soviets cannot be en gaged in a "crash program" of ICBM output. - rpHE words, "crash pro gram," are doubly reveal ing. They show first the de forming effect of budgetary pressures. A mere ten months"! of capacity output by our own Atlas plant - the Kremlin re quiremept as stated by Gener al Power - could not be called a "crash program" by anyone who had not lost his grip on reality. Second, these words, "crash " 1831 The first home loan by a Savings and Loan Association was granted to a lamplighter in Frankford, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia. Last year, Insured Savings and Loan Associations like ours, made home loans to more American families than did all other financial institutions combined .. .well over 1 million loans totaling $15 billion. Whether you are opening a savings account for a down payment on a home of your own or want financing to buy or build your home, we suggest you see us first. CURRENT DIVIDEND Open a Savings FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford ,29 North Ivy Street - Robert F. Kyle, Manager program," also imply a shock ing fact that Secretary Gates has now publicly admitted. They show that our estimates are no longer calculations of Soviet "capabilities" - calcu lations of the utmost the So viet can do, by a crash pro gram for- instance. They indi cate that our estimates are now mere calculations of So viet "intentions." Despite Sec retary Gate's subsequent at tempts to fuzz the whole thing over, his original testimony on this point was crystal clear: "Figures (of Soviet ICBM output) that have been testi fied to in years past . . . were based on Soviet capabilities. This present one is an intelli gence estimate of what we be lieve (the Soviet) will prob ably do, not what (the Soviets are) capable of doing." PEARL Harbor was the re sult this Tact tiYvm tViA American government based its defense posture on what it believed a hostile power would probably do, and not on what the hostile power was capable of doing. If the esti mates are wrong by no more than a hairsbreadth, some thing much worse than Pearl Harbor can now be the result. In this matter, it is folly to blame the estimators, and above all the Central Intelli gence Agency. The C.I.A. has never claimed to provide gospel instead of estimates. It has done its best with a bad, difficult business. But those who have pressed for downgraded estimates, and have then used mere estimates as gospel, can certainly be blamed. These sponsors of our business-as-usual defense bud gets, headed by the President, are playing a vast game of Russian roulette with the na tional future. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. 4 PER ANNUM Account Now j Don't Wiss Oui! fff Over an acre of cars, both ft 11 new and used plus top Vl fjf trade allowances if you if V act now. During rt ) Opportunity )) S Days ( COURTESY (( ( CHEVROLET ( 9th & Bartlett Medford if . V TO A f i
