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J MAILTRIIUNC,M4for4.0r. 4 Monday, Fab. 1, 1960 lfEBFO!ttTBIBUia "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. IRIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copv 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year 915.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mas. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Centra 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. U0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire PfX Telephoto Newspictures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising ReDresentative: 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 EDITORIAl C3i AsgjC0Tl(3)N iqhf o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 'Bargaining9 on Dunes Park Senator Neuberger has introduced the Dunes Park bill recommended by the Hatfield admin istration. In due course it will be referred to the Interior department. The department will refer it to the National Parks Service which in due time will make its report. Senator Neuberger says he will let Interior and Governor Hatfield work out any differences.- He will go along with what they agree on. This washes out any possible charge of par tisan political conniving, since Secretary Seaton of Interior and Gov. Hatfield are both Republic ans. It puts the matter squarely where it should be, in direct negotiation between the state au thorities and the federal government. p 0 VERNOR Hatfield says that National Parks Service people have told him there are no in surmountable obstacles in the new bill, and quotes its representatives as crediting the State Natural Resources Committee with "saving" the park. It is difficult to believe that the NPS will not ask for some modifications of the terms of the state bill, but the negotiations are now where they belong, between federal and state admin istrative agencies. Senator Neuberger,' who is a provocative fig ure in some eyes, is wise in stepping aside and letting these parties work out an acceptable com promise. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Dennis the Menace A Month in Jail 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1950 (Wednesday) A defense witness in the governments anti - trust suit against Oregon medical so cieties and associations, testi fied in Portland today that 40 of 41 Klamath county doctors grossed $800,000 in 1948. Snowfall at Crater Lake during January broke all rec ords with a total of 313 inches. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1940 (Thursday) President of Finland re peats offer to Russia to ne gotiate an honorable peace. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Up state country correspondence the past week, reveals a de crease in the number of farm ers chased by bulls. However, one held a gasoline tank too close to a match." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1930 (Saturday) Hint a special prosecutor will be appointed for the crim inal libel suit against the pub lisher of a local weekly. Sidewalk mail box is in stalled at post office and proves a great convenience to busy autoists. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 1, 1920 (Monday) Fifty valley orchardists Join Oregon Growers Co operative association. Smallpox cases reported in Central Point not smallpox, but one case is valid in the Willow Springs district. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1910 (Tuesday) Ashland Mayor is charged on recall petition with incom petency, misuse of public funds and favoritism in appointments. A syndicate or. sposane men have purchased the 1,100 acre William Hamilton place near Eagle Point and plan to subdivide. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. Coffee grows in pods; true or false? 2. Is Reveille a morning, or an evening, bugle call? 3. Which weighs more, a gallon of salt water, or a gal lon of fresh water? 4. In what country is the Tiber River? 5. What is the capital of Nevada? 6. A tribunal that exercises arbitrary powers behind clos ed doors is sometimes called a "star V 7. Where are the ruins of the famous Parthenon of the Acropolis? 8. What European nation has maintained its independ ence for more than six-hundred and sixty-five years? 9. How many divisions or "signs" has the Zodiac? 10. What important metal is obtained from bauxite ore? Answers: 1. False. 2. Morning. 3. Sal Water. 4. Italy. 5. Car son City. 6. "Star Chamber." 7. Athens, Greece. 8. Switzer land. 9. Twelve. 10. Alumin um. Chicago -IIJPD- S. DeWitt Clough, 80, retired board chairman of the Abbott Labo ratories of North Chicago died Sunday. 1 Dr. Willard Uphaus has been behind bars in New Hampshire for more than a month. If he does not give up the guest list tor his summer camp at Conway, N. H., demanded in State At torney General Wyman's investigation back in 1954, Dr. Uphaus will stay in jail for 11 months more. How much good will that do the State of New Hampshire, Gov. Powell and Attorney Gen eral Wyman? They have already had the satisfac tion, if such it is, of imprisoning a 69-year-old teacher of religious education because he would not do what he said was against his conscience inform on his fellow men. They knew there was no indictable case against Willard Uphaus under state or federal law and so they maneuvered him into a position which placed him m contempt. THE longer they keep Dr. Uphaus in prison the more the demand for his release will grow. It already has assumed amazing proportions. Not a day passes without more protests reaching the officials of New Hampshire protests irom news papers, from citizens over the country, from re ligious leaders, from church groups, and from organizations that are belatedly finding out about the imprisonment ana the narrow a-to-4 decision of the Supreme Court which upheld the procedure used to find Dr. Uphaus guilty of contempt. The Providence Journal, published m the citv which found Roger Williams an exile for relgious freedom from colonial Massachusetts, says that the faets in the Uphaus case "add up to the persecution of an essentially blameless cit izen. How much longer are New Hampshire or ficials going to try to tough it out? St. Louis- Dispatch. Brief Encounter Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover "met the i ii n 1 j . 1 press sunaay on tne radio ana television pro gram of the same name, and it appeared that the press liked him. He was anything out evasive. Adm. Rickover, a clever hand at building with atoms, was talking about our schools system. College students aren t supposd to know much about "education," being too close to the trees, so to speak. However, we were able to perceive that: TTHE ADMIRAL is a critical sort. He seems almost conceited over building the first atomic submarine. He thinks the schools have too many ex-half back administrators, and he has a somewhat com parable attitude toward the armed services and the Pentagon. He thinks that children should be educated according to ability and not on an "average" basis. HE ADVOCATES federal standards for educa tion, and federal money where it is needed to meet the standards. He was unpleasant, arrogant and opinionated about everything. AND BOY, WAS HE RIGHT ! O r e g o n Emerald (student daily newspaper at University of Oregon). Nixon Sets Tone of Campaign in Speech In Chicago; 'Do It Yourself is Theme By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-fiJPD-The broad outline of issues on which Vice President Richard M. Nixon expects to campaign this year for President have been laid out for public examination. Nixon did the job, him self, at last w e e k"s C h i- tyie c. wusoo cago winner with Ike." The vice president was the principal speaker and he conformed to the custom LftJ of presidential aspirants, in eluding the Democrats. The custom is to campaign on issues which promise some thing for everybody or, any way, almost everybody. On education, Nixon spoke of weaknesses such as "inade quate class rooms, underpaid teachers, flabby standards." He repeated his commitment to civil rights and to equalityJ of opportunity for all Ameri cans. On agriculture the vice president said the objective must be an overhaul of obso lete programs under which farm product prices go down and costs to the taxpayers go up. Effective programs, he said, must be developed to restore areas of chronic unemploy ment to healthy produqtivity. He proposed more adequate methods of protecting the aged, the unemployed and thf disabled. There should be, Nixon said, more effective methods to deal with labor-management disputes to protect the public but without controls. After this roll call of advances in areas largely pioneered by the Roosevelt New Deal, Nix on raised an obvious question: Matter of Fact bx Joseph 'Sure i caiu&a Toys! I have fUNWm 'BM' Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE William S. " White 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 Outer and Inner Appearance To the Editor: Mr. Bulman's "Reflections on Complexions" was cleverly written. Mr. Bulman talked with me on the phone and asked that I write no retaliation to his letter, and I had no intention to at the time. Women are known to change their minds. Mr. Bulman, this is no dis credit to you or your views, but I feel I'm entitled to mine also. God says in his word, and I quote: I Sam. 16:7 "For man looketh on the outward ap pearance, but the Lord look eth on the heart." It's usually appearance that attracts people to each other. Then as time goes by and you become acquainted, then you learn in part, what's in that persons heart. Make-up, like anything, can be used to extremes. But just a touch is much like a picture in black and white and then you see it in color. If you had your choice, you would choose the one in color. We even paint buildings to- De GAULLE ALONE wasnington i or tne sec ond time in his long career Charles de Gaulle of France is a figure of heroic resistance in a Western world that i already owes him much And that world is now r e f u sing to give him one fifth of the support he deserves. Half a gen eration ago, this man of great haughtiness-but of great hon or-staked his life and his coun try on a seemingly hopeless fight against the Nazi occupa tion of France. Raising the Cross of Lorraine as his ban ner, he reclaimed France's in tegrity and her will to resist and live. At last, after bitter years, he was able to sit, ramrod stiff, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame at a mass said on a memorable summer day in thanksgiving for the liberation of Paris. THIS correspondent remem- bers that day, for he was present in the cathedral. And he recalls, too, the cold, total unapproachability of the re mote figures in the uniform of a General of the French Arm-ies-the personality which was than, as now, making it hu manly difficult for many to pay him his due. Perhaps Charles de Gaulle is too right, to consciously, to be liked too much. But today, de Gaulle still standing strongly (and all but alone, too, this time, among statesmen of the West) against the common enemy of the free society. This enemy has many faces, for different times. Some of them, like the Nazi face, are more evil than others, and so openly evil as to leave no room for argu ment. But all of them are de structive faces. And all of them can be spelled with the single word "extremism." Alone among the free world's leaders, de Gaulle has fully understood the true challenge of this century. Ev erywhere the contest at bot tom is between those who wish to find imperfect but work able solutions and those who violently and on "principle" reject all solutions except the one that is quite impossi ble to obtain. This is the solu tion of absolute perfection- in their eyes. . THE tragedy of Algeria lies in this. De Gaulle has worked with, devotion to find a middle way. He has on the one side the Arab Algerian independence extremists who demand everything all at once. And he has the French settler improve their appearance. If you had a choice of going to two churches of your denomi nation, standing side by side, one painted, well kept yard, and the other unpainted, un tidy yard, I believe you would choose the painted, tidy one. I agree with you that make up and men wouldn't belong together. But who wants a woman to look like a man, or vice versa? I will keep my appearance for people's eyes as attractive as possible and for God s eyes, with his help, I will do what it says in Proverbs 4:23, "Keep thy heart with all dili gence; for out of it are the issues of life." Mrs. Delbert Casey ; Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. extremists who really would refuse to give a single inch to the independence movement. He is the head of a country that is an irreplaceable ally of the United States and Great Britain. But when all the ifs and ands and buts and maybes are stripped away, it comes to this: We and the British have hemmed and hawed with him Why? Because we dared not to be called "colonialists," even where the epihet would have been nonsense. . President Eisenhower, for example, long since publicly endorsed the moderate de Gaulle formula for Algeria But in a subsequent show down in the United Nations on an extremist motion call' ing for support for the Alger ian rebels instead, the United States said neither yea nor nay. We "abstained." . rpHIS sort of thing has made it far more difficult for de Gaulle to vindicate his middle course. He desperately needed our all-out backing, for the man in the middle is always the special target of the crackpots on both ex tremes of an issue. The British have given de Gaulle even less help. And so now the thing in Algeria seems really to have got out of hand, whereas firm Allied support for the de Gaulle plan would surely have given some pause to both s ets of extremists. We and the British were afraid of this and of that- most of all that we might offend the world's emotional ists' who demand total "inde pendence" for everybody, ev erywhere, by tomorrow morn ing. Maybe this tender regard for them is fine, in theory. But a terrible fact remains. It is Franch, it is de Gaulle, who is our ally. It is not the emotional extremists, or even "the Afro-Asian bloc." And if de Gaulle falls now, France falls with him into a chaotic vacuum which will never be filled in our interests by all the "Afro-Asian blocs" and all the "independence" extrem ists in all the world. (Copyright. I960, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Out Der Vindow To the Editor: The stock market bane acting up, and aye tank the 1960 surplus yust vent out der vindow. Everett Acklin Ashland, Ore. . License Fees Due For House Trailers Salem - Oregon house trail er owners who have not yet paid registration and license fees were reminded that fees are delinquent after today. Beginning March 2 a 10 per cent penalty fee will be added. Fees are to be paid to the department of motor vehicles. Under the law, .which went into effect on Jan. 1, a $6 registration fee for all house trailers replaces the former $15-$25 fee. The new license fee is two per cent of the trailer's pres ent market value. This system of collecting license fees' on house trailers replaces the property tax formerly collected by all counties on trailers. The de oartment of motor vehicles will distribute fees collected to the county of registration. For additional information, house trailer owners snoum contact local branch offices of the department or the office in baiem. . j THE MISSILE GAP: THE KING'S CLOTHES (The following article is the last in a series of six.) Washington - With any other president in the White House, the missile gap and the way it has been neglect ed and mis repre sented by the Admin istration would by now constitute a huge, emotion charged na tional s c a n - JOSEPH AI.SOP Udl. But Dwight D. Eisenhower not only has the curious, often useful political knack of acting as a kind of super tranquilizer, a whole nation's Milltown. He is also, and with justice, remembered as the General who led our men to victory in the last war. Be cause he is a military hero, the country tells itself, "Ike knows best," while the Eisen hower Defense Department plays its macabre game of Russian roulette with the country's future. In this way, Eisenhower the man is a key part of the problem of the missile gap. For this reason, no study of the problem can be complete without an attempt to answer the question, whether Ike really does know best. TT IS A truism, of course, -1- that military heroes cannot always and forever be trusted to know best. Indeed, the fields of history are whitened by the bones of armies that were prepared for the next war by generals who won the last war. But truisms need not be universally applicable; so one must look at Eisenhow er's individual record in or der to form a judgment. In that record, the most significant single episode is surely the part President EU senhower played in our most disatrous post-war defense budget. This was the budget prepared when President Tru man was having his own bout of budget-mania, under the Defense Department leader ship of the egregious Louis Alsop Johnson. This was the budget that invited the Korean ag gression. As some predicted, its invitation was quickly ac cepted. By Louis Johnson's request, Eisenhower came back to Washington that year, to work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff while the budget was being prepared. Without con tradiction from Eisenhower, the budget was then present ed to Congress by Johnson as an "Eisenhower budget." Nor was Eisenhower the only great American military fig ure with a major share of re sponsibility for this budget that invited disaster. A WHOLLY different bud get had been prepared, with infinite toil, by the great James V. Forrestal; and Pres ident Truman had made Gen. George C. Marshall the judge between Forrestal and him self. For the specific reason that the national economy could not support the Forrest al budget (which totalled $18, 000.000.000!) General Mar shall told Truman to go ahead and cut Forrestal's handi work to the bone. Gen. Omar C. Bradley also testified that if we spent a dollar more for defense than the Eisenhower Johnson budget (which to tailed $13,000,000,000!) the national economy, would promptly collapse under the strain. Here we see not just Eisen hower alone, but three of our greatest soldiers of the last war, all making the same ap palling mistake for the same reason. It is the very reason that Eisenhower now puts for ward, once again, to justify skimping the national defense in the current budget. Our generals apparently, are taught to regard the economy of the richest nation in his tory as a sort of sensitive plant, likely to fall into de cline at the merest touch. In Eisenhower, of course, this viewpoint has more recently been vastly strengthened by the powerful influence of men like George M. Humphrey. Foreign Notebook: Soviet Blunder; Tunisia Problem By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook. Soviet Blunder Russia may have tripped into one of its greatest diplo matic blunders in its postwar relations with Japan. It has threatened to keep two Jap anese islands, which it got Ci in world War II, unless Ja pan tears up its new secu rity treaty with the Unit- Such is the nation al indignation in Japan at this interference that it has served to counter the highly vocal opposition to the treaty among Japanese leftists. The back fire may bring the Russians up sharply in their dealings with other Asians. 4 PL 1 Ph'l Newsom ed States Battle for Bizerle When France gave Tunisia its independence four years ago, it kept the huge strategic naval base of Bizert. Now the Tunisians want that too and are starting to turn the psy chological screws. Starting next Monday Tunisians prob ably will begin a series of protest strikes, demonstra tions and diplomatic pressures gauged at further making life miserable for France in North Africa. Ike's Latin Trip The U. S. Secret Service will, as usual, accompany President Eisenhower on his Latin American trip. Not the least of its worries will come when he hits Chile. This na tion is plagued by one of the most active Communist groups in South America. The Communists and other left ists have seized every occa sion to blame Chile's econom ic plight on the United Statea. This, in part, will be an im pression Eisenhower will tny to correct. TF YOU believe, with Hum- phrey, that paying the full bill for national defense is a quick road to national sui cide, it is of course tempting to avert the eyes from all the reasons why not paying the defense bill may be suicidal. There is evidence, too, that the President has done just this. If Eisenhower were a less transparently honest man, such Eisenhower de fense speeches as the one af ter the first Sputnik would have had to be called some thing far uglier than grossly misleading. The facts were wrong, and they were wrong ly presented as well. The chief fault lay, per haps, in the White House staffs constant, sedulous ef irt to protect their chief )m anything too disturbing or too disagreeable. One thinks of the former Secre tary of the National Security Council, Robert Cutler, the greatest of all the President protectors, viciously ridicul ing the awe-inspiring, wholly accurate warnings of the Gaither Report. One things, too, of the Pen tagon warning to Gen. An drew Goodpaster that the resident had better not claim our Vanguard satellite would soon match the Soviet Ssputnik, because the Van guard project was in a mess The warning, overly calculat ed to upset the President, was never transmitted. The claim that we would match the Sputnik was duly made. And for many months on end, the United States looked silly among its unsuccessful satellites. fFHIS IS NO attempt to den A igrate the President. It is an effort rather to show why. in this crucial cause, a very virtuous king may be claim ing to wear all sorts of clothes he has not got on. But per haps it would have been bet ter to assert, at the outset. that it is always wrong for any nation to trust any lead er, instead of trusting the hard facts. The hard facts say that a very small number of Soviet ICBMs can wipe out the American nuclear deterrent The hard facts say there is a good chance of error in the intelligence estimates which deny the Soviets this small number of ICBMs. The hard facts say, therefore, that the remedies must be urgently ap plied that are needed to put an end to the Russian roulette gamei (c) I960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. . "I am sure," he ssaid, "that a question which may have occurred to you is this: Aren't all Americans for these ob jectives, including our op ponents? The answer is ves, of course. What is the differ ence, then?" To his own question, Nixon responded in a couple of para graphs which probably will come to represent the key stone of his campaign for the presidency. His answer was: "We Republicans have un shakable faith that the way to achieve these goals is by the free choice of millions of individual consumers, by the productive efforts of free management and labor, and by local and state action wherever possible - supple mented when necessary but not supplanted by the federal government. Opponents' Philosophy "The philosophy of most of our opponents is just the op posite. They claim that the road to progress has to be pav ed with bigger government. more spending and higher tax bills for the people to pay." Nixon's campaign slogan might be: "Don't do it in Washington. Do it yourself!" His Chicago speech was solid evidence that the vice presi dent will attempt to make that the key 1960 issue. His program was an all-out de fense and endorsement of the Eisenhower administration, as it must be if he is to have any chance of election. The hottest fire is playing right now on Eisenhower de fense policies and spending. The fire is being fed by civil ian and Pentagon experts, and the public is alarmed. U.S. Strategic A i r Commander Gen. Thomas Power was say ing the other day that with 300 ballistic missiles, the So viets in 30 minutes virtually could wipe out the U.S. nu clear strike ability. In Chicago, Nixon said: "Let's get these facts straight here and now. No aggressor today can knock out the de terrent striking power of the United States and its allies. "It is time to quit selling America short. We are not a second-rate country with second-rate military strength and a second-rate economy." cissy? 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PIONEER AVIATOR DIES Paris - (UPD - Aviation pio neer Paul Godos, 63, who had set records for a closed cir cuit around the world flight and for a straight line distance flight, died here Saturday. Co dos, a retired inspector gen eral for Air France, held the honorary rank of commander in the French Legion of Hon or. . IBILCIDX 12" and 2' Mixed Big Double Loads Summer Prices S&H Green Stamps MEDFORD FUEL CO. - Telephone SP 2-21 11 A Gratifying Assurance COMPLETE When your world is turned upside down. turn with confidence to us, where every provision is made for complete service. A fine funeral service need nor be expensive. viff ,h Y vV PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
