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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Thursday, Feb. 11, 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. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv 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 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 TJJM. Telephoto Newspictures 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 J AS(p)C0m(o)ri Flight of 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. 11. 1950 (Saturday) Two court injunctions un der Taft-Hartley law force John Li. Lewis' coal miners back to work after prolonged strike. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (R. Ore.) says government must balance budget and adopt tax program that will stimulate economy. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1940 (Sunday) Oreeon's Governor Charles A. Sprague says President Roosevelt's second term leg islative record is an "almost oerfect blank." From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smnrlse Pot column: "Candi dates continue to pop-up and pop off." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1930 (Tuesday) U.S. and England favor abolition of U-boats at dis armament conference; France and Japan disagree. Survey n Salem shows that interest in churches is lag ging and fewer seats filled Sunday evening than Sunday morning. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1920 (Thursday) Trigonia plans to drill 20 oil wells in valley beiorej long. Medford sees success as ma chinery center for southern Oregon. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 11. 1910 (Friday) "Work on largest natator ium and amusement park in Oregon, next to Portland, will start next week on site at Main st. and Riverside ave., to cost approximately $50, 000. A Central Point Baptist minister slaps and evicts member of Christian churcn who attended his church and allegedly encouraged several members to come to his church instead. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What are the two outlets to the Mediterranean Sea? 2. What is a natatorium? 3. How many quarts are there in a common U. b bushel? 4. What is another (and popular) name for the star Polaris? 5. What is the capital of Bermuda? 6. In the novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays," what school did Tom attend? 7. Who wrote the novel "The Razor's Edge"? 8. In what group of Pacific islands is Guam? 9. Who invented the light ning rod? 10. What do the letters ff indicate in musical composi tion? Answers: 1. The Suex Canal and the Strait of Gibraller. 2. An indoor swimming pool. 3. Thirty-two. 4. North Star. 5. Hamilton. 6. Rugby. 7. Somer set Maugham. 8. Marianas. 9. Benjamin Franklin. 10. For tissimo (very loud). . ; On School Bonds The Medford school board is on the spot. On one hand, it is sensitive to strong pressure against any increase in property taxes. On the other hand, it is faced with the reality that, just to accommodate students who will be in school next year, about 13 new classrooms will be needed. It also has to face the fact that operational costs are still rising, that teachers are in need of salary increases, and that these things will have to be reflected in the annual budget. . THE school board would be delinquent in its duties if it shrugged off its responsibility to provide schoolrooms for the students its knows (by actual count) will be in school next year. The problem is, how shall the money to build these rooms be raised. Should the funds be raised through a special bond issue? Or should they be tacked on to an already-high operating budget? There are things to be said for and against either method. IF THE funds are included in the budget, the " needed rooms would be paid for in one year. But this would increase the district's levy millage by a considerable amount for the one-year period. If the funds are raised through a bond issue, the costs will be spread over a period of years (probably 10). In other words, the rooms would be paid for while they were used and for about the same period of time that the students for whom they are built are attending school. As a result, the tax millage would not go up as much, but would stay up longer. The problem is a lot like trying to decide whether to pay cash for a new car, or buy it on the installment plan. I TNDER the circumstances, we believe the board was wise in its decision to use the bond issue method even if it means going to the voters twice (for approval of the bond issue AND the budget), rather than once, when the budget is presented for voter approval. Complicating the situation is the need for a new high school building which will be required in another three years or so, depending on how school enrollment develops. A bond issue is the only method by which a major investment could be financed. And while the board is reluctant to go to the people to obtain funds more often than neces sary, they still have the solemn obligation to see that needed buildings are built. E.A. Alternatives During the discussions of school financial needs, someone is bound to come up with sug gestions that, to save money, schools be placed on a double-shift basis, or the year around. Like many proposals, in actuality, they wouldn t save much money, and would detract from the quality of education offered to our young people. The major expense of operation, not from construction, and the major operational cost is in salaries. THUS, double-shifting discomfiture of many when double-shifting was and Wilson schools weren t finished on sched ule), but it is questionable whether any money would be saved. The same applies to plus all the headaches vacations around the calendar, the increased problems of maintenance, and a host of others. And either expedient construction it doesn t No if Medford is to retain its ranking as one of the best school districts in the state, it is going to have to continue its traditional support, build the needed buildings, and then pay the piper. E.A. Posey on Tenure Elsewhere on this page is a letter from Cecil Posey, the executive secretary of the Oregon Ed ucation Association. He takes issue with a recent editorial here criticizing the Oregon teacher tenure law. We have long admired Cecil for his vigorous and effective work on behalf of the teaching pro fession. (He is known in Salem as one of the most effective lobbyists in the state.) But we'll have to disagree with him (and Governor Sprague, too) this time, although not very strongly. llE'LL agree, for instance, that "a properly administered and supervised tenure pro gram" is needed. We'll disagree that there is one now in Ore gon. In the earlier editorial we said: "Some pro tection for teachers, from the one-in-a-million ad ministrator who may wish to fire a teacher capric iously should be retained." It was interesting to note that several teach ers in the Medford school district let us know they agree with our criticism. We are not convinced that a good teacher has had his energies and initiative "released" by the present tenure law, which makes it virtually im possible to discharge a sub-standard teacher short of a charge of moral turpitude. E.A. ; Discounted these "listen well," but schools comes in their would not only down- parents two years ago required when Hoover a 12-month school year involved in scheduling merely postpones new make it unnecessary. Dennis the l jy "...AHO ITS GOT A RED LIGHT AH' A GREEN LIGHT AH'.., .AW. HECK. 1 GUESS TV'S GONE NOW.... Matter of Fact Washington-Go to the old Navy Department, to hear the story of the great Polaris s u b m a rine- a n d - missile project. It is a n inspiring experience. It is also a deep ly reassuring e x penence until you be gin to think about it. Joseph alsop 1 e r e are just about the most technic ally advanced weapons man has ever devised, consider ably more complex, over all, than our Atlas ICBM for in stance. Here is a weapons system requiring many tens of thousands of human and mechanical components, rang ing from men for the missile crews to air-cleaners for . the submarines, to fabulously ac curate gyros for the missiles themselves. Here is a project demanding continuous, coor dinated forward movement on countless different fronts. This marvelous movement began, almost from scratch, in 1956. Less than four years ago, the Polaris project was set up on the lines of a smaller Manhattan District, under the brilliant and hard driving Adm. W. F. Raborn Jr. Yet today, all the fan tastically complex parts are nearly ready to be fitted to gether in the first operational Polaris. Before the year is out, the George Washington will be at sea with 16 mis siles aboard, any one of which will be able to kill a medium sized city. THE Polaris project is in spiring because it shows what we in America can do if we put our minds to . it, and it is reassuring because it . promises important rein forcements for the American deterrent. But this project is also the very opposite of re assuring, if you just crank the Polaris experience into the current great debate about national defense. At bottom, the defense de bate concerns only one ques tion. The question is whether the Soviets now have or viU soon have the smaU number of intercontinental ballstic missiles needed "to wipe out" the American deterrent, which is now totally vulner able. The number needed at this time is only 150 Soviet ICBMs. The National Intel ligence Estimates say that the Soviets do not now have 150 ICBMs, and further say they will not have the still small but gradually increasing numbers of ICBMs they will need later. The President has therefore neglected to budget the relatively modest sums of money that .are needed to make the American deterrent less vulnerable, by maintain ing an airborne alert and in other ways. Yet merely by its brilliant success, the Po laris project raises at least two kinds of grave doubts about the dependability of the National Intelligence Esti mates on which so much de pendence has been placed. On the one hand, it raises technical doubts. For exam ple, the able director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen W. Dulles, has testified that there are good reasons to believe the Soviets do not have weapons crews for a decisive number of ICBMs. These reasons are fairly per suasive if the Soviets are as sumed to need the same large numbers of men included in the American ICBM squad rons. But these reasons are less persuasive when you note that 33 men on the George Washington will service and if necessary fire a total of 16 Polaris missiles. SUPPOSE it is certain that the Soviet ICBM is liquid fueled, rather than solid-fuelled like the Polaris and the prospective American Min- Menace By Joseph Alsop uteman missile. Suppose, that a Soviet ICBM weapons crew has to be proportionally four times larger than a Polaris weapons crew, because of the greater difficulty of servicing liquid-fuelled missiles. But suppose also that the Soviet ICBMs are as fully auto mated as Polaris, and that the Soviet ICBM crews are as economically organized as Admiral Raborn's Polaris crews. You then get a figure of only about 1,300 men in spe cially trained weapons crews to fire 150 Soviet ICBMs. And how on earth can any one but the all-seeing Al mighty be sure that a mere 1,300 men have not been spe cially trained somewhere in the vast reaches of the Soviet land mass? In the same way, the Polar is project also raises what may be called grave organiza tional doubts about the Na tional Intelligence Estimates To be specific, former Assist ant Secretary of the Air Force Prevor Gardner, who was eventually fired for being too right about the missile gap, wisely fought for a Manhat tan District type organization of our ICBM program. Gard ner was defeated in this fight, however. Under Gen. Ben a min Schriever, great things have nonetheless been ac complished with our ICBM program. But because Gard ner was defeated, General Schriever has always had to work through channels, and mostly through half-clogged channels. Hence Schriever has lacked the immense organi zational advantages' of Ad miral Raborn in the Polaris project, and of General Groves in the Manhattan Dis trict. MEANWHILE, under the prevailing estimating sys tem, our own ICBM perform ance is our yardstick for So viet ICBM performance. The Soviet program began years before ours did. Only sup pose that the boss of the So viet program has enjoyed the same organizational advan tages as Admiral Raborn. Then there is no reason why all the needful components- missiles, weapons crews, launchers, and so on - may not suddenly be brought together into a complete, decisively powerful Soviet ICBM sys tem in the near future, just as all the Polaris components wUl be brought together in the near future in the George Washington. These doubts about the na tional estimates do not reflect on the C.I-A., which only claims to produce informed estimates, not gospel truth. These doubts reflect, rather, on the use the Administration is making of the estimates. Just this is the crucial point. The National Intelli gence Estimates may be cor rect to the last decimal. Pray God they are. But they-may also be wrong by a consider able margin. If the estimates of Soviet ICBMs are wrong, even by a very narrow mar gin, the error can be fatal. Basically therefore, it is not merely foolish, it is really criminal, to use the National Estimates as precision instru ments which show HOW LITTLE we need to do. Com mon prudence demands insur ance against error in the ICBI.l estimate. The national interest de mands measures, such as the airborne alert, to end the to tal vulnerability of the Amer ican deterrent. And sound practice demands that the use of mere estimates as precis ion instruments be abandort ed and condemned, as wholly pernicious and improper. (Copyright I960 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) SLOT TAXES PAID Greensboro, N.C. -flJPD- In ternal Revenue Service rec ords at district headquarters today revealed that yearly taxes of $250 were paid on 79 slot machines in North Car olina. The machines are out lawed in the state. Khrushchev's Good Will Tour Will Cross Eisenhower's PathComparisons Inevitable By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is off on another good wiU tour wherein twice his path will cross that trod less than two months ago by President Ei senhower. Th ere in evitably ' will be compari sons, both in what he has to say and in t his reception Phi) Newborn in Afghanistan and India. No one knows the value of 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. Tenure Supported To the Editor: Your recent editorial regarding tenure for teachers has come to our at tention. By now you have read the answer of former Governor Charles A. Sprague in "The Oregon Statesman" and are aware of his very strong stand for the support of the protec tion of school personnel. A properly administered and supervised tenure pro gram is a very healthy thing. Teachers come under the scru tiny of pupils, parents, citi zens at large, school board members and administrators. No professional group lives in such a f ishbowl atmosphere. Teaching is a creative act and teachers must feel free to express themselves and to live in an atmosphere which is charged with freedom. This is difficult for people who have never been in the class Today & Tomorrow By Walter DEFEATISM At his press conference last week the President re plied to his critics who are saying that we are behind Soviet Union At the end, in response to a que stion by V wJ I Mr- Edw ard VS A-1J p- Morgan, he v? , 31 went bevond the technical Walter argument, j. , Lippmann about the missile gap and deterrent power to his own philoso phical attitude towards the rivalry of the two strongest world powers, the Soviet Union and ourselves. Mr. Eisenhower's philoso phy, if I understand correct ly his impromptu remarks, is that our security is not in jeopardy and that if the So viet Union is moving faster than we are in the develop ment of certain elements of national power, that is to be expected and must be accept ed. For, said Mr. Eisenhower, "let's remember that dictator ships have been very ef ficient." If we must , achieve a "greater tempo" in our de velopment of national power, we shall have to "take our country and make it into an armed camp and regiment it and get people steamed up like you did in wars. ' After that explanation of why we have fallen behind, Mr. Eisenhower delivered little- lecture on how we should think and talk more about the "values . . . which we do believe'-namely "our own individual freedoms and rights." He went on to say that "our people ought to have greater faith in their own system." By tnis ne seemed to mean that the critics who think our de fenses are inadequate and the critics who say that we are neelecting our children and not keeping up with the needs of our population, have less faith than he has in our "sys tem." . - WITH all due respect, Mr. Eisenhower is mistaken. It is he who lacks faith in our system. It'is he who is saying that we cannot meet the Soviet challenge without changing our system and giv ing up our freedom. It is he who is telling the country that it cannot afford to meet the needs of our rapidly grow ing andj increasingly urban ized population. It is he who is saying" that with a 500 billion-dollar economy, the Am erican nation will lose its freedom if it devotes to pub lic purposes a somewhat larg er share than it does today. It is he who is saying that our system of liberty is so fragile that it is not tough enough and durable enough the personal approach better than Khrushchev, and it may be assumed one of the tasks he has assigned himself is to offset as much as possible the good will generated by the President's tour. As a speaker he also knows the value of a catch phrase. Eisenhower had a good one and he used it over and over in hammering home his theme: "Peace and friendship in freedom." Khrushchev, with at' least one count against him in India, will find that one hard to beat. In India, Khrushchev is op erating against the rankling room to understand. But if tenure is bad for the educa tion of boys and girls, I would be the first one to agree with you that it should go. No studies that I know of condemn a properly adminis tered and supervised tenure program as being bad for the education of boys and girls. On the other hand, it has re leased the energies and ini tiative of teachers to provide a better education program. C. W. Posey Executive Secretary Oregon Education Association 1530 S.W. Taylor st. Portland 3, Ore. Editor's note: See comment in editorial column. Misquotation Alleged To the Editor: For the rec ord I would like to point out an error in a news story in Lippmann to keep up the pace in the great contest of national pow er. Again, with all due respect, he has sunk into, he has re signed himself to, an attitude of defeatism in which there is no faith that our people have the will, the energy, the resourcefulness, and the capacity, to close ranks, if they are summoned to make a greater effort. Mr. Eisenhower is talking like a tired old man who has lost touch with the springs of our national vitality. rPHE doctrine which the President holds, the doc trine which determines his budget, his program, and his preaching to the nation is, in the perspectve of the world struggle, a most dangerous doctrine. The central issue of the world struggle is whether the Soviet system or a liberal system can deal best with the problems that beset man kind. In that struggle we shaU surely lose if we tell the world that, though we have the richest economy in all his tory, our liberal system is such that we cannot afford a sure defense and adequate provision for the civil needs of our people. If that doctrine goes out into the world, unchallenged and unrefuted here at home, Mr. K. will have the ball which we will have fumbled. We can talk to the end of time about how much we love liberty in such a way that we cannot keep our place in the world, they will look for- guidance and for exam ple to Moscow and not to Washington. VET the President's defeat ism has no objective jus tification. The virtues of our system of society are not in separably tied up with the Revenue Act of 1954 or with a philosophy of government which, when the President explains it, regards the Fed eral government as at best a necessary evil. The Federal government is no doubt wasteful, and clumsy, and inflated with bureaucracy, and not wholly immune to the payola. But the Federal government is not a necessary evil to be talked down to. The Federal government is an indispen sable good which must be held to account and be criti cized but with respect and ap preciation. For when we talk about our freedoms and our rights, we should not forget the next sentence in the Declaration of Independence which says "that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." (c) I960 N Y. Herald Tribune Inc. background of Communist China's aggression against In dia's northern borders and its brutal suppression of any semblance of freedom in Tibet. Since it would be difficult to equal or surpass the great est of all receptions accorded Eisenhower in New Delhi, it would appear that Khru shchev's triumphs must come in the diplomatic or economic fields. . Indian Prime Minister- Jawaharlal Nehru already has rejected a 'Russian offer to mediate the Sino-Indian dis pute which would be Khru shchev's greatest coup. In the your paper on Friday. Feb. 5. I was quoted in effect that Southern Oregon Collage would play all its football games in a new stadium if it were built in Medford in a report of a Stadium Commit tee meeting Thursday, Feb. 4. No such statement was made by me. When asked to write a let ter indicating the college's in terests, needs and recommen dations, I replied that I was not in a position to write such a letter, but that I would take the request to President Stev enson. During the meeting it was reported that a representative of the college had stated by telephone that Southern Ore gon College would use such a stadium for its home football games except, perhaps, for homecoming. I remarked that if this happened we probably wouldn t play the homecom ing game in Ashland because of the limited facilities. In clarification of my posi tion, I would like to go on record as favoring the con struction of a public multiple use facility in this county. I am happy to serve on the Stadium Committee as a rep resentative of the college at the request of the college president. Alexander Petersen Jr, Chairman, Physical Education and Health Department Southern Oregon College Ashland, Ore. Editor's note: The Mail Tribune stands by the accu racy of its story. Two staff members were present, and both substantiate the story's version of what Dr. Petersen said at the time. In addition, after the accuracy of the story was called into question by another newspaper, others attending were questioned. To a man they verified that the story was in every detail a correct summary of what was said at the meeting. Lincolniana To the Editor and the Peo ple of America: Seems like we choose to wait till the birth- anniversary of Lincoln is well nigh upon us, and of late years not even then, before we recall the time-proven guide- posts established by him a hundred years ago, or less. They have to do with the 'so-whaf flouting of law and order today, the offend ers going more or less scot- free by use of smart members of the legal profession resort ing to technical loop holes in our laws. With litUe of school-learning but highly self educated, Lincoln was noted for win ning of law-suits he accepted as well as those he rejected. Like the time he said to a would-be client, "No, I. cannot honestly accept your case, legal though it may be. For, WHEN UndeUtandii WILL Abom from lh CeurlKevM FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNOOORASS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT economic field, the Soviet Union has poured millions into India and presumably is prepared to spend more. Here again, however, th United States was first with its announced intention this year of stepping up its own economic aid to India. In Kabul. Afghanistan, Khrushchev will be on friend ly ground. Eisenhower re ceived a tremendous ovation there, but Afghanistan, while technically neutral, is peril ously close to the Russian orbit. Visits to Burma and Indo nesia will be mainly fence mending. They will be delicate areas for Khrushchev because they lie well within what Red China regards as its own sphere of interest. . Khrushchev has visited Burma before but this time will be shortly after an elec tion in which the Burmese re affirmed their democracy and eliminated the Communists as a factor in public office. The government of newly-elected Premier U Nu is anti-Communist, although it maintains good relations with Red China. It is in Indonesia that Khru shchev may play best the role of peacemaker. Indonesia and Red China are in the midst of a smouldering quarrel over Indonesia's determination to uproot so-called "overseas" Chinese businessmen there. in my summing up before judge and jury in saying things I would have to say. my conscience would be con stantly yelling, 'Abe Lincoln you're a liar, Abe Lincoln you're a liar, till I might say it right out loud. So, I must not take that chance. Since there is a growing scarcity of Lincoln sayings in our general press, it is my intention, if privileged to do so, to include his sayings in letters to the editor or other media that may give clearer understanding to events of the day. Also you may see me on. suitable occisions like Lin coln's birth anniversary, clothed much as he used to be, even to the well known shawl. One given to me by a 90-odd-year-old descendent of the Robert E. Lee family for such use, is evidence of wounds healing between the South and the North. This to recapture sight of the lonely Lincoln, pondering ways and wiles of mankind, ways and means to end the terrible war to preserve the Union and free the slaves, as well ac to keep free the white people from social and intimate con tact with the Negro, for which he vowed he would give his life and which he did, that 'government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. HELP US! We need clothing, sheet, diihes. furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army. SPring 3-7335 ONLY DO PHONE SP 2-9030
