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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1960 i MEDFORDtfWTRIBUHE "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. City Editor . -HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor JtlCHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr " An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class -matter at t Medford. Oregon under Act of. -,. ' March 3.-189? . SUBSCRIPTION .RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and SundjV 1 year $13.00 : s Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 , Daily and Sunday 3 mos.- 4.25 Sundav Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford , Ashland. Central Point Eagle . Point. Jacksonville. . Gold Hill, J" Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes, Dailv 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 ' DPI Telephoto Newspictnres MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS - VEST 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 EDITORIAt z w w Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1950 (Friday) Dr. Klaus Fuchs signs con fession in London admitting to giving U.S. and British A bomb secrets to Russia for past seven years. Scientist tells senate armed services committee not to be "cocksure" that U.S. or any other country can build hy drogen bomb.' 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1940 (Saturday) Medford first- in state's traffic safety contest for cities over 10,000; Portland second. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The new 50 cent pieces . have shown up here and citizens lucky enough to have one say they look about the same as last time they saw one, , in 1930." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1930 (Monday) Pacific highway to Central Point will be straightened, and "Death curve" near Pros pect to be eliminated. Local school officials warn that further demonstrations at Ashland - Medford games may cause suspension from state association. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1920 (Wednesday) Jackson county issues 1,600 dog licenses so far. President Wilson to take personal charge of talks aim ed at settling threatened rail strike. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 10. 1910 (Thursday) There are now two applica tions for a gas plant franchise here to build plant providing cooking gas to residents; may go to voters. Medford Commercial club still unable to locate suitable site for proposed new head quarters. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is luoerior even or eight is excellent; five or ix is good. ' 1. Would a myopic person be near sighted, or far sight ed? 2. Daniel Webster was Sec retary of State during which President's administration? 3. Is a sunspot cooler, or hotter than the rest of the sun? . 4. Did Cyrus McCormick invent the reaper, the cotton gin, or the sewing machine? 5. Are peonies annuals, biennials, or perennials? 6. Who saw the Holy Grail? 7. In what principality is Monte Carlo locateo? 8. Eros is the Greek mytho logical god of ? 9. Name the three heads of governments who signed the famous Yalta Agreement in February, 1945. 10. What are the three pri mary pigment colors? Answers: 1. Near sighted. 2. Millard Fillmore's. 3. Cool er. 4. Reaper. 5. Perennials. 6. Sir Galahad. 7. Monaco. 8. Love. 9. Franklin D. Roose velt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin. 10. Yellow, blue. red. Portland-(UPD - Dr. Samuel B. Osgood, Portland, has been appointed director of the local health services division of the State Board of Health. On Military Strength .'A friendly and thoughtfuUetter from a reader of tKese columns makes a point. , .. The writer says a piece here the other day, entitled -"Gambling Our ; Future," shocked her. She adds: .. I "Your list of publications', columnists and military men who want more weapons is very disheartening when we should be concerned only with solving the 'problems that face us at the next summit meeting. - Anyway, the administration has said we are strong enough. - . "Our problem is to stop this crazy competition in , nuclear weapons and missiles, not to continue it. . ." agree whole-heartedly with this sincere j Xy expression up to a point. The point where we begin to differ is at the unspoken but implicit assumption that we can trust the Russians' word. . Tragically, they have shown, repeatedly, their word cannot be trusted. And therein lies the difficulty of working out an accommodation for which the whole world is crying. Unless and until the Russians demon strate conclusively that they have abandoned their declared aim to conquer the world, or un less and until we can work out ENFORCEABLE disarmament agreements, we see no alternative but to remain strong militarily strong enough to deter any ambitions Russia might be harbor ing for conquest. , HTHIS is the crux of the problem can we trust Russia's word? If we could, the armaments race would end. But Russia has shown (and, unhappily, is still showing) that she will honor an agreement, or a treaty, only so long as she considers it to her interests to do so. Let us grant that change in Russia since the death of Stalin. Let us grant that Khrushchev is a far more likeable fellow. Let us grant that he talks (at least part of the time) in a more reasonable manner. But the grim fact never renounced her world-wide ambitions; has never given any evidence real reduction in military power; has never felt bound by any international agreement it served her purpose to break. .... . . NOR has she hesitated Witness Finland. Esthonia. Latvia. . Lithuan ia, roiand. uzecnosiovakia. Hungary. We happen to believe Kremlin today are realistic enough to fear the devastation of nuclear it at (almost) any. cost. But we also believe that the masters of the Kremlin are still bent on world-wide power, and are not a bit queasy about how they achieve it. . The United States' capability of nuclear re taliation is, we regretfully conclude, the chief means at hand still restraining , them. 117E agree with our gentle correspondent that the armament race is a crazy and senseless thing. . But the alternative is And if the day comes judgment, our weakness immediately and effectively retaliate, to an extent which would make a Russian military gamble prohibitive, then, Kremlin wouldn t hesitate a moment to strike, and strike hard. If that day comes, the United States and its traditions of responsible Ihe world as we know it will end. MEANWHILE (as we also indicated. before), we must, while remaining strong, continue to seek accommodations which may lead to an end of the armaments race. We must maintain contact with Russia's mas ters, in the hope that they may, in fact as well as in outward gesture, be inclined to abandon their world-wide ambitions. We must seek the friendship of free men and free nations throughout the world, for alone our power and prestige are not sufficient to deter Russia's ambitions. We must continue and expand programs of international exchange, educational, cultural and in other fields, hoping that by increasing con tacts we can broaden understandings on both sides of .the Iron Curtain. DUT none of these things will avail if, in speak ing to the Kremlin, we speak from a position of weakness. Would Khrushchev have any more compunc tion about bombing Washington or New York than he did in sending Soviet tanks in to crash the rebellion . in Hungary little more than three short years ago? We'd, like to believe lie would, but his own actions belie any such hope. These are the reasons why we argue that this nation must remain militarily strong beyond any reasonable doubt. These, coupled with strong evidence that our def ensss are not and will not be strong enough, are the reasons why we called for increased de fense appropriations. . . .. We are as anxious for peace and disarmament as our friendly correspondent But to divest our selves of military strength under today's condi tions would, we fear, be an invitation to suicide. E.A. . there has been a great remains that Russia has of good faith toward a to use force to gain her that the masters of the warfare, and will avoid to evidence weakness. when, in the Kremlin's is such that we cannot we are convinced, the government will vanish. Dennis the SEE WHY I OlDNT WANNA SHAKE 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- League's Role To the Editor: In line with the non-partisan policy of the League of Women Voters, Mrs. Robert Boyer has sub mitted her resignation as an elected member of the Med ford board due to political party activity within her fam ily. As you may know the League encourages activity by its members in the party of their choice, but Board Mem bers maintain " an attitude of non-partisanship in order to give effective service to the community. The League never endorses any candidate and takes a po sition only on those issues chosen by the members to which it has given intensive thought and study. On the other hand it attempts to pro vide accurate information to citizens on the qualifications of candidates of both parties as well as on both sides of issues to help voters in the making of those wise choices on which good government is based. Mrs. Dunbar Carpenter, President, Medford League of Women Voters. Slash Burning Destructive To the Editor: Years ago loggers cut the big timber, leaving the small and the slash, and moved on. The slash and humus from decayed foliage and logs held the moisture. The land was shaded with the remaining timber, so soon even the landmgs and the skid trails were grow ing up again. Now there is another stand of timber. Now after logging, the slash is burned. Included with slash is all the logs, humus, and most of the young growth. Without cover, the ground that isn't washed away is too hot for seedlings to start. Our crew burned several hundred acres - of slash this year. We tried to start at the top of the ridges and burn down, leaving what young growth we could, but fire cre ates its own draft and soon the fires sounded like forma tions of jets going over. There was at least 90 per cent kill of aU the young growth. In stead of getting in trouble for aU the damage we did, the fire inspector told us to go back and burn it some more before he would give the land a re lease. Standing on a fire trail be tween a burned-over section on one side and a selectively logged, non-burned section on the other, gives a goodcom parison. The burned one is badly eroded, covered with brush, and logs that were too green to burn. All through it small snags that were small trees when burned stick up. It would be hard to imagine a worse fire hazard. Some trees escaped. With good luck and no fire, there may be an other half crop of tre on what ground didn't wash away in another hundred years. Across the line is a good stand of young second growth that has been selec tively logged three times, the last, a "final" cut. In about 30 years there will be another crop. After the second year of not burning, there is far less danger of fire on the un burned tract. I would suggest no burning except bug kUled slash and hand-piled slash along public roads. The money saved could be used to build more fire and access roads. , .Years from now, future gen erations will look back on today as the dark ages of for est conservation. Robert Conger, Prospect, Ore. Menace KAH0S? TfW Gf&ASB. Are We Cowards? To the Editor: Are we being too lenient with Castro in Cuba? Do we have the moral if not legal right to protect United States interest in Cuba? Castro in his new land re form is taking land away from the large land owners and, like Robin Hood, giving it to the less fortunate people of Cuba. The United States controls large sugar planta tions in Cuba, so we are find ing that our sugar investments are being taken away and divided among the Cuban peons. Yet, we do nothing. We do not wish to harm friendly relations with Latin America. Yes, Cuba is our friend and we must remember that even when Castro de nounces the United States, and repeatedly accuses us of being aggressive trouble-ma kers. Yet, we must remember they are our friends and we must not hurt friendly rela tions. Other nations of Latin America are looking to Cuba for leadership and even now some nations are beginning to take steps to follow Castro's corrupt philosophy. The Car ribean is being turned up side down with this new pro-Castro feeling. Quite recently Panama broke out with anti U.S. demonstrations, threat ening the. United States with the fear of losing the Canal Zone to illegal nationalization. Who will be next? Venezu ela,' Brazil j or. possibly. Co lombia? Will these nations be gin to nationalize U.S. invest ments when they' discover that the United States is afraid to do anything to pro tect our rights? Are we cowards that we have to hide behind the words, "friendly relations"? Roger W. Doak 847 East Ninth st. Medford. .: Wants Taxes Cut To the Editor: I am very much concerned about ' the people living on Social Securi ty and low incomes being tax ed out of their homes. I have seen the time in Medford when many people lost their homes and lots, And others, near City Hall, were able ' to buy them up cheap, ignoring the law as stated in the city charter that the prop erty must be advertised and sold to the highest bidder. Let's not see that happen again. The Budget Committee will soon be meeting for the 60-61 budget. Let's demand that they forget that they can raise our taxes another 6 per cent without our vote and start cutting our taxes. IT CAN-BE-DONE. When Medford brought the outlying school districts into the Medford system, they cut the school tax in the outlying district, but Medford got an other raise. Is this to continue and many be forced out of their homes? I have said before, . and I repeat, wake up taxpayer. You could, with misfortune, be one of them. Mrs. Edward U. Canoose Jr. 55 Ross Court Medford Stop It Now To the Editor: I am writing to you in connection with an article in the Tribune of Fri day, Feb. 5, concerning the use of billboards for advertis ing in our area. I am very much against this sort of ad vertising and condemn it as the worst form of this evil ever conceived by man. Advertisement in other forms is necessary, I realize to bring the public knowledge of new products. Other areas in the United States are using Israeli, U.A.R., Forces Clash; Neither Side Wants War, But Incidents Continue By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor In a demilitarized valley three miles wide and 10 miles long near the southern end of the Sea of Galilee, Israe li and Syrian farmers have tilled their 4 acres side by s i a e since 1951. An irriga tion ditch di vided them and the Israe Phil Newsom lis claimed that ditch had be come the recognized, if not fefl la- M Writer Learns More About Piaeonholes Than He Wants By DICK WEST i "Washington - (UPD -I have been over to the office of Rep. Thomas Pelly (R-Wash.) watching a p i geonholing demons tra tion. It was all very educa tional and I came away feeling that I had learned more about p i geonholing Dick West than I had wanted to know. The exhibition was staked by 11 vice presidents of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks, which is trying to convince Congress that ex tra pay ought to. tie given for pigeonholing home work. I never even knew that pi- geonholers had to do home work. But the 11 vice presi dents soon set me straight. 40 Letters A Minute 1 Outside of designing stamps, pigeonholing is prob ably the highest art form in the postal service. It takes a mail clerk about three years to become a good pigeonholer. And it takes a lot of study for him to stay that way. A clerk must learn by heart more than 4,000 combinations of mail routes and schedules in order to put letters in the proper pigeonholes. This is roughly equivalent to memor izing 100 pages of a telephone book. Once he has mastered the system, the average clerk can pigeonhole about' 40 letters a minute. The trouble is that mail routes and schedules are constantly changing. Each time that happens, the clerk has to break his old pigeon holing habit - pattern and de velop a new one. billboards to do much of ttieir advertising, .however, one must realize that the Rogue Valley is . not just another area. Some parts of this val ley are abundant in , scenic beautyothers could stand im provement. Bear Creek stands as a firm example of what could stand some improve ment. . I propose that rather than deface the vicinity further with unsightly billboards, we work to improve the situation as it now stands. Let's leave advertising in magazines and newspapers where it won t de face scenery or disgust people who are not interested. I'm sure that if enough people are interested in stop ping this form of advertise ment it will never become a problem. Let's stop it now, be fore it does get out of hand. Richard Andre 449 Fan-mount st. Medford Federal Aid To Schools To the Editor: I am writing in regard to a recent letter which you . received concern ing the students of Crater pay ing for their lunches. I agree fully that, the par ents should pay for their chil dren's lunches, but I do not believe that we shouldn't rely on Federal aid for schools and buildings. As for the reason, when ever we need a new school or additional rooms on one, we have to hold a bond election to be able to get these bonds, whereas, if we had Federal aid the chances of obtaining the action we need sooner would double. Doug Paddock 2262 West Prune Medford st. Only Solution To the Editor: As I am writ ing these lines the sound of falling rain is reaching my ears. To some the dark, mois ture-laden clouds may bring a gloomy experience. io me the sound of the pattering raindrops is music. The other day a friend jok ingly said, "When you get through with the wind, you can send it back." Yes we've been having some blustery weather, especially here in the south end of the valley. A little earlier we were 'ac tually thankful for it but we did feel a bit sorry for you poor people down the valley who found yourselves under a heavy blanket of fog. When the final, boundary between the two sides. Last week the sword took over from the ploughshare, and along the ridges of the red brown hiUs on either side, Israelis and troops of the United Arab Republic took up positions across from each other in the losest thing to a mideast war since the Suez crisis of 1956. The Fighting Starts The Israelis claimed that the Syrians illegally were sta tioning troops in the Arab village of Tawafik, which lies within the demilitarized zone, and that farmers working the "It's harder to unlearn the old than it is to learn the new, unartes ai. Aiimon oi Memphis, Tenn., one of the 11 vice presidents, told me. "It's like memorizing the Dec laration of Independence and then changing the words around." On Own Time All this memory work has to be done on the clerk's own time. Most of them buy a min iature set of pigeonholes and training cards and practice at home. Pelly, who is sponsoring a bill .to compensate the clerks for their home work, said it In the Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS Politics: Over the week end. Sen ator Karl Mundt Republican, South Dakota) and Repre sentative George H. Mahon (Democrat, Texas) kept the defense controversy boiling. Mundt, in a report to his constituents, charged that the Democratic critics of the ad ministration have been play ing-"not so powerful politics on a critical issue-our nation al security." Mahon, appearing on a tele vision program, said the United States faces a "fright ening situation because of So viet missile superiority." IIE HOME folks, of course, " understand it all. This is an election year, and in elec tion years we Americans do strange things. . Still-' , This question can't help arising at times in our minds: Is it, or isn't it, a good idea to keep telling the enemy all the time how weak and help less we are? He just MIGHT- believe it. In that event, the conse quences could be TRAGIC. HORE politics: If X For the past four days Democratic leaders (some 750 of them) have been meeting in Albuquerque to put to eether Dlanks of benefit to the West for inclusion in the structure of. the Democratic national platform. These planks dealt with development of the national resources of the Western states, with transportation problems and with small busi ness.. The news services re- Dort that this purpose "was achieved quietly amid the hullabaloo which centered around the Presidential as pirants." . These aspirants included Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who said he isn't seek ing the nomination; Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minne- I'm tempted to complain be cause it's windy, well, I think what would we do without the wind? Those moisture la den clouds out there over the Pacific need some way to get inland. Without the wind, well my guess is, they'd just stay there. So instead of growling and complaining, let's ' smile. Just think of the beautiful, spring flowers that will soon be com ing out. Our Heavenly Father has indeed given us a beauti ful place in which to, live. Yet there is enough of the sordid and dark side to help us real ize that all is not well. With the tension and unrest, the wanton destruction so preva lent today, and "the fears that grip men's hearts, it all makes us long for something better. Many people feel as though a new order of things can be brought about with new heads of government. This I fear is only wishful thinking. The motives of men may be well and good but until the God in Heaven sets up His everlast ing kingdom, which will never pass away, all will be unrest and trouble. Only in the Holy Scriptures can we hope to find the solution to all of our problems. Many may scoff at this view. If a better answer can be found, I'd be happy to have it. r Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Arab lands actually were U.A.R. troops in disguise. The Arabs claimed , the troops merely were there to protect the farmers against a long series of Israeli en croachments, during which Is rael gradually was taking over the whole of the valley. Then, a week and a half ago, the Syrians shelled the nearby Jewish village of Beit Katzir, and in retaliation Is raeli troops razed Tawafik That there was not a full scale war may be credited to two forces, one of which usually receives too little credit in its attempts to pre- is not uncommon for them to spend a week or more of their annual leave boning up for pigeonholing exams. Contrary to what you might think from the number of letters that go astray, a pi geonholer must be at least 97 per cent accurate to hold his job. I asked one vice president if the Post Office might devel op an automatic pigeonholer which would make so much human memory work unnec essary. "Absolutely not," he said. "Nothing is going to substi tute for the human brain." sota, who suggested that he is the man to lead the Demo- rats back to the White House; and Senator John Kennedy -of Massachusetts, who said quite frankly that he came to Albuquerque in search of votes. Among other things, he chided those Presidential can didates who decline to enter the various state primary elections, terming tnem "peo ple who wish to be nomi nated, but do not wish to meet the people." I THINK maybe he has something there. The purpose of Presiden tial primary elections is to give the general run of the people a chance to express their preferences among the candidates for the party nom inations. How can the people express their preferences if candidates either stay out of the primaries entirely or en ter only those in which they think they have a walk away? If the Presidential primary system is to be of any value, it ought to be universal. SENATOR Kennedy, whose home is in Massachu setts, took a crack at the Ei- senhower administration, which he accused of "shame ful neglect of the West." He added: "Any administration which has forgotten the West is an administration which neglected the nation.'". I SUPPOSE that ;is true enough. . . And, as West erners, we feel that over the years we haven't had EV ERYTHING we might want. Still- I think it must be con ceded that the West isn't do ing too badly. In a recent bulletin, the Census Bureau reports that from 1950 to 1958 Nevada had the highest population increase of ANY state-69.7 per cent. In the same period Flonda-where more or less everybody east of the Mississippi seems to want to go to retire-had an increase of only 62.9 per cent. Arizona was up 56.7 per cent, California up 34.9 per cent. The bulletin adds: "In the same period, New York's population increased only 10 per cent. If current rate of increase continues, California A VERY IMPORTANT SERVICE. ... Mrs. Litwiller has been our lady assistant ever since we came to Ashland in 1935. In addition to regular duties, she furnishes vocal music when desired and is our regular . Organist. All without added cost to , bur Datrons. . . this has resulted in savings of many hundreds of dollars. Just our way of saying "Thank You", LITWILLER ' FUNERAL HOME Highway 66 at Normal Ave. Ashland Dial MU 5-4541 ' Only local member of Oregon & serve world peace. That force is the United Na tions whose armistice observ ers operate on both sides of the line, and therefore can pinpoint responsibility for ag gression, and whose emer gency force of 5,000 men stands along the southern Irsaeli-U.A.R. border from Gaza to the tip of the Aqaba" Peninsula. Another factor preventing; large-scale fight now is the fact that neither Israel nor the U.A.R. wants a war. Israel charges that stepped- up U.A.R. hostility is politi cally motivated. On the other hand, the Arabs charge that Israeli Pre mier David Ben-Gurion delib erately builds up incidents to focus world attention and sympathy on Israel. Education Group Votes School Bill Washington -dTD - A House education subcommittee has given tentative approval to a three-year S975 million school construction bill, about half the Senate-approved total. . . The measure would provide grants of $325 million annu ally to the states for class room construction only. The House subcommittee agreed Tuesday that states should put up matching funds in the third year of the pro gram. A final vote was post poned until next week. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. (D-N.J.) was said to have the backing of House Democratic leaders. It was considerably below both the two-year. $1,833.- 000,000 school aid bill passed by the Senate last week and the four-year, $4,400,000,000 measure approved by the House subcommittee in 1959. Both these bills provided aid for teachers salaries as well as construction. School aid supporters conceded there was . little chance that the House would vote aid for sal aries. WELL 'LAID' PLANS Memphis, Tenn.-ttJPD-Willie Wagner Mopre, 46, lost his freedom and his nest egg Monday. Police jailed Moore after finding seven quart bot tles of illegal corn whiskey under the setting hens in Moore's hen house. could pass New York - in 1964." Regionally, the census bul letin adds, "the Far West wa the big gainer with 29.1 per cent. The- North Central was up only 14 per cent, the South was up only 13.5 pef cent and the Northeast up only 9.8 per cent. We're doing pretty well, thank you, without going all out on the political limb. NEED CASE FAST? Toa mtj charge itat"Koneylaad" charging money is about Ifka Charging anything olaa-you borrow M now, pay It back lator. PACIFIC HNAKCE 16 S. 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