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MAIL TRIBUNE. Medfonl, Or. Sunday, Feb. 14, 1960 . "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Trlbone" Published Dally 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.. Mrig. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor -HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDOrts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 Rt Carrie In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 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Residents ,pf Applegate aee petition for election on' con solidation of Ruch, Little Ap plegate, Union Town and For est Creek school districts. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 14. 1940 (Wednesday) Japanese Army issues proc lamation calling for Chiang Kai-Shek's surrender in China; say further resistance is use Jess. From Arthur Perry's Ye "Smudge Pot" column: "A bent grass expert will be here next week. Farmers : have been complaining the grass won't bend, and when it does, It's generally the wrong way, 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1930 (Friday) , Local man sentenced to life term in state penitentiary for torturing a local junk dealer. "Progress Week" to open tomorrow, "Old Man Depres sion" to be burned in effigy. 4. NATIONAL 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 14, 1920 (Sunday) State board of health threat ens to "close up" Klamath Balls unless flu regulations are observed. Site for new "Methodist church here selected, but won't be made public until pext week. ?-- ? 50 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 14. 1910 (Monday) A new saw-mill having a 75,000 foot a day capacity and employing over 100 per sons is being planned in Gold Hill. . . . County court says electric road franchise in county is being held up pending inves tigation as to true owners of American Development com pany. What's Your I.Q.? Nina er ten correct is superior seven sr eight is excellent; five or ra is good. 1. What two Japanese cities were atom bombed during during World War II?" - i 2. According to the Bible, what giant stood "six cubits and a span," or something over 11 feet tall? 3. What two bodies of water are connected by the Erie canal? 4. How- many wives did Henry VIII of England marry? i 5. Who wrote the novel "Pickwick Papers"? 6. Is the capital of Saudi Arabia Mecca or Raidh? 7. Who succeeded Wood row Wilson as President of the United States? -- 8. In what war was the bat tle of San Juan Hill fought? 9. By what means was Sir Walter Raleigh executed? 10. What is the name of the British National Anthem? Answers: 1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 2. Goliath. 3. Lake Erie and Hudson river. 4: Six. 5. Charles Dickens. 6. Both. 7. Warren G. Harding. 8. Spanish-American war. 9. He ras .. beheaded. .. 10. .."God Save the Queen." Medford In 1970 No one really knows what Medford will be like ten years from now. But we heard one educated guess the other night, when Mayor John Snider, half humorously and half in dead earnest, made his own. forecast for Medford in the year 1970. Mayor Snider, in our view, hap been an un usual chief executive. He has combined vision with practicality, a determination to forge ahead with an amazing ability to get along with people, and a personal reticence with a talent, almost a genius, for quiet leadership. . LIIS forecast was made during the first annual "Living Report" of the city administration and departments. The meeting, which was attended by 65 city officials, members of unpaid boards, committees and commissions, and others interested in the city, provided probably the best overlook of what the city is and does than :has. ever before been presented here. We wish the audience , could have been 100 times as large. And thought is being given to making this annual 'event a larger affair next year, in larger accommodations, and. inviting all citizens of the city who wish to hear and see the people who have been elected and appointed to serve them. It was an impressive arid reassuring meeting. A NYWAY, here are the major portions of the mayor's 10-year look ahead : "As elected and appointed city officials, we have a responsibility to furnish services at a minimum cost to the taxpayers. During the next 10 years, urban 'growth will be staggering, and the demands for service will be without prece dent. v "Let's look at what is expected of us and fore cast a few of the things to be -accomplished : Population . ,195017,305 195926,300' 197040,850 (a eity Growth "In order to keep pace and provide the serv ices demanded, the city s in some proportion to the have 189 employees, including water department, we will probably count 292 people 40 police men now, 62 in 1970: 37 firemen now, 58 then. These numbers could be reduction in horn's and Streets "The 10-year through have been completed m will be inaugurated to implement the city's master plan for development. Underpasses or overpasses will be constructed at 10th street and the bouth ern Pacific tracks, and possibly at Jackson" street. "AH the city streets will be paved (including East Main). " V Airport "Eunways at the Medford Municipal Airport will be extended to provide for jet plane service, keeping Medford an important part of: the na tion's skyways. ' - Public Buildings "A new City Hall will be constructed along side of the (new) Federal Building in the pro posed Civic Center adjacent to the Library Park. "A new public safety building will be added. A new fire station will be constructed in the northern part of the city. Pollutants "Air pollution will be solved and all days will be bright. "Bear Creek will be parks will grace its banks. "Garbage disposal will all be done by sani tary landfill method, building up waste land as the process continues. Industry An industnal park development will be made and several light industries satisfactorily located. "White City will continue to expand by heavy industrial development. Planning "The wisdom of the city's master plan for de velopment for the city and the metropolitan area will become manifest. "A portion of the central city will be convert ed into a pedestrian mall. This will be landscaped and it will become a focal point for. shoppers. Vehicular traffic will be prohibited in the area. Adequate Park & Shoo lots on the perimeter will provide adequate .parking. Parks and Playgrounds , "A system of parks and playgrounds will be Erovided around, the schools in each neighbor ood. V .- " - - "A well rounded recreation program will fill the leisure time of youths and adults alike. City Beautiful "The Street Tree Committee's vision of beau tiful streets will become a reality. "Advertising- signs will become more sub dued and smaller. . "I7ILL it happen this way? ; V- -"You bet it can, if we MAKE it happen this way. ' ; ;V ' - - . ; We have ah obligation to bur children and grandchildren to pass on to them a bright, modern city, reasonably free of debt Y "We lose . -. . with sincere thanks that we live jn a community so endowed with bright, en thusiastic, dedicated people such as yourselves.'' We like the mayor's" forecast.- May it come true. E.A. the size of Salem). employees will increase growth. Where we now drastically increased by shifts. street program will 1967 and a new program ' .. ' . clean again, and many - Dennis the THAT'S no stope dAimiHBl I. - : ; . '"' ' Today fir Tomorrow By Walter THE WORLD COURT The Senate Foreign Rela tions committee has been hold ing hearings on a resolution which; cur iously and re in a kably enough, was introduced by Senator Hum- ft SfeiL I Pnrey ana xia& WaiC3ftthe ardent VfS5Sr,T support of i , . Vice President TMivnn This. LlDDmann a S ivi r. a. might say. is an instance where a shrimp has whistled The Humphrey Resolution has the full backing of the Administration and it is like ly to command the support of the Democratic leadership There are, to be sure, dissent ers who are seriously worried that the acceptance of the res olution will be an abdication of American sovereignty. But they are a small minori ty as compared with the huge non-partisan majority . which includes so many of the lead ing lawyers of the country. THE Humphrey Resolution would repeal what is known as the Connally Amendment - to the original Senate Resolution No. 196. This Resolution, - which was adopted in . 1946, called for the deposit of a. declaration accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Internation al Court of Justice. This is the court set up under the Charter of the United Nations. The United States was per haps its leading advocate. Before the Connally Amend ment- was adopted .the 1946 Resolution said that "in re lation to .any other state ac cepting the same obligation" the United States accepts the compulsory jurisdiction ofj the International Court of Justice "in all legal disputes" which come under four class es of cases. The International Court is to have compulsory .jurisdic tion in a dispute about (1) the interpretation of a treaty, (2) any question of international law, (3) the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation, and (4) the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the breach of an internation al obligation. The 1946 Senate Resolu tion says expressly where the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court shall NOT apply. Of these reservations, the. im portant one is that the Court shall not have jurisdiction in a "dispute with regard to mat ters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdic tion of the United States." The question was then raised in the Senate as to how it was to be decided whether a mat ter is or is not essentially within the domestic jurisdic tion of the United States. rpHE Senate ; answered this -- question in ,1946 by ac cepting the Connally Amend ment which added six words to the original text.-Because of this amendment the ques tion of whether a matter is essentially within, the domes tic jurisdiction of the United States is to be "determined by the United States." This is the amendment that both Senator Humphrey and Vice President Nixon want to re peal. . As the law stands today, the United States . 'govern ment has the right to exclude the Court whenever it desires to dp .so-, without having to prove or to argue its position when it declares that the case is - domestic."- This means that while we have agreed to compulsory jurisdiction in legal disputes, we have in fact reserved the right to stop the Court's proceedings. As a result, no other nation with which we have a dispute can bt compelled to comt before j 5 fVfl Menace 1 MADE IT MYSElFf Lippmann the Court. What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander. Under the Connal ly Amendment we cannot be sued without our consent. But equally we cannot sue anyone else without his con sent. This reduces the Interna tional Court of Justice to a kind of small sideshow. It is no doubt the reason why, de spite all the international dis putes with which the world is beset, the International Court has so few cases before it. rpHE question raised in Con- eress now is whether our government or the Interna - tional Court itself shall dc cide whether a matter is dt mestic. The dissenters, whc believe that the Connally Amendment must be retained, argue that . the Court might take jurisdiction in a dispute which challenged our tariff laws, our immigration laws, our currency laws, our admin istration of the Panama Canal. These fears, through under standable, are groundless. If the Court took jurisdiction in domestic matters, it would be violating its own statute which expressly limits its jurisdiction to international legal disputes. -. It is conceivable, although it is in the highest degree un likely, that the Court might violate the law which created it. But if it did that,- there would be a remedy. We would have an indubitable grievance and we would be entitled, legally and morally, to chal lenge the Court by political action in the United Nations. rpHERE is, therefore, no risk which would leave us help less. Onjthe other hand, the advantages of building up the jurisdiction of the Court are very great. Perhaps the most important of these advantages is one that the Vice President pointed out in an address last April. If the richer nations, like the United States, are to export capital to assist the underdeveloped - cou n t r i e s, there must be legal security for the investments they make. To create that security the International Court can have a big part to play. Indeed, in view of what is happening in this hemisphere to affect American property abroad, we have an interest that every property dispute, as with Castro today, should be decided by a Court and not left to propaganda, agita tion, coercion, and force. But if we want to go to Court to: protect our Tights, we must be willing to go to Court where someone else has a grievance against us. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERT T ETTERS RECEIVED by an editor during a hard-fought J- election campaign: "Sir: You are a coward and uncon scionable swine. Lynching is too good for you and your stau. uancex my sub- scription. John Doakes. P. S. Excuse pencil." Terence O'Flaherty de scribes a whale as "the last of the red hot mam mals.'' He further as serts that the first time he met Gypsy Rose Lee, he told her, "Don't just stand there. Undo some thing!" 'It's not always such a' good idea to marry when you're very young," a wise mother counselled her teen-age daughter. "Just remember it's the early bird who catches the worm." ' Dick Shawn dismisses a mermaid as "not enough fish to fry and not enough woman to keep warm." C I960, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King gestures Syndicate Matter of Fact By,jo$ePh ais0P Wausau, Wisc.-The pleas ant, hard-working, home-loving peoole of the farms and small towns of this part of Wisconsin are just pos sibly going to play a key role in the choice of the next Demo cratic nomi nee for the Presidency. Before the voters of Wis consin's Seventh Congression al District can lay claim to being king-makers, a highly important condition must of course be fulfilled. By win ning the Wisconsin Presi dential primary, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts has also got to win the Demo cratic Presidential nomina tion. But if this quite conceiv able condition is indeed ful filled , the Seventh District should have its special niche in our political history. The District's importance is indi cated by the poll of Wisconsin taken for Senator Kennedy before he decided to contest! the crucial primary here with Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. THE real . facts about this poll (as contrasted with the widespread but wholly in accurate rumors) are briefly as follows: The polltaker, the able professional, Louis Har ris, gave Kennedy 53 per cent of the statewide vote against 47 per cent for Humphrey. But Harris also showed an almost exactly even split of the state's Congressional Dis tricts, which elect most of the convention delegates. Four Districts went to Kennedy, four went to Humphrey, and two were in doubt. Of these two in doubt, moreover, the Seventh District was the most evenly balanced. Right here, then, is where the make-or-break Wisconsin 1 fight may well be decided. or just this reason, this re- Jrter came here a couple of ays ago, to do some fairly wintry doorbell ringing in re vived partnership with his brother Stewart. And because the Seventh District is so largely rural, our first effort centered in the little villages of Edgar, in Marathon Coun ty, and Aniwa, in Shawano County. Aniwa is tiny-hardly more than a few stores, an excel lent roadside restaurant, and a handful of houses. Even Edgar, though' lately- in creased by the new, suburban-.looking-ranch houses of re tired farmers, is also an ex tremely small place. But the experts, hereabouts say that Aniwa and Edgar and their surrounding rural routes, bor dered with the small, neat houses and big barns of the local dairy farmers, are pretty typical places in the Seventh District's countryside. If this is true, the outlook for Sen ator Kennedy is hopeful, al though by no means decisive ly hopeful. TN A VERY long day's work we collected a sample of 56 voters-which may seem small, but is in fact just about equal to the entire Wiscon sin sample in one of Dr. Gal lup's national polls. Ten of our fifty-six, as usual, were people who had net register ed, or "just never voted," or were ladies who "might vote, but just couldn't talk about it yet" because their hus bands had not told them what to say. The remaining 46 pollees were offered the choice they are likely to get in the pri mary, between Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the Re publican ballot, and Senators Kennedy and Humphrey on the Democratic ballot. Eight strongly chose. Kennedy. Five strongly chose Humphrey One had not decided which Democrat ' to back, but was against that . Nixon." Three, all. Catholics and Republi cans, were leaning to a Nixon vote, but "just might cross over to the Democrats to vote loELSOi for Kennedy,- as one farm housewife put it. Fourteen were strong for Nixon alone. And 15 still wanted to wait "to hear what they have to say for themselves." The scatter of traces in the primary-straw vote was per haps less meaningful than the way the same people voted in two-man Presidential trial heats. In 1956, no less than 32 of these people had chosen President Eisenhower, against only 7 for'Adlai Stevenson, and 7 did not vote. The re sults of the Nixon-Humphrey trial heat were broadly rep resentative of the way these same people now feel about all other potential Democrat ic candidates except Sen. Kennedy. In this heat, 25 chose 'Nixon decidedly, 2 leaned to Nixon, 10 A chose Sen. Humphrey, and 9 were still uncertain. : TN THE Nixon-Kennedy trial -- heat, Sen. Kennedy got the same number of decided votes as Sen. Humphrey, .just 1-0. But 2 more were leaning, to Kennedy; only 15 chose Nix on decidedly; 7, were learn ing to Nixon but considering Kennedy; and the total of "wait-and-see" pollees rose to 12. Among these 46 peope, in short, Kennedy seemed to have at least an outside chance to make a real show ing against -Nixon,- whereas Humphrey and the other Democrats seemed rto have no chance at all. In this result, no doubt, re ligious feeling played a con siderable part.- As in Wiscon sin's Seventh District as a whole, the people of our sample were almost evenly divided between Protestants and' Catholics. And although Kennedy's faith cut both ways, being a Catholic helped him decidedly more than it hurt him. Such is the story of Ani wa and Edgar. It suggests that the Wisconsin primary is one of the rare political contests that will really be decided by the campaigners' performance on the stump. The story requires no addi tion, except a word of thanks to the Aniwa and Edgar peo ple, for their unusual will ingness to invite frost-bitten, red-eared pollers to do their questioning indoors, in the cheerful, . steamy kitchens, rather than on icy, wind blown doorsteps. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: ' : House investigators hinted today there is more than meets the eye in a fun-filled Miami Beach convention at which record companies put up at least $117,665 to make disc jockeys "richer and hap pier." Edward E. Eicher, an ex ecutive of a Miami Beach hotel, testified that a score of record companies paid the bills for convention break fasts, dances, cocktail parties, lunches and receptions at his hostelry. One of the biggest blow outs, he testified, was an eight-hour jam session by a big name band that began with a barbecue at midnight and wound up with a break fast during which 2,000 bot tles of bourbon were downed SOUNDS RUGGED, doesn't it? But- Before going off the deep end on the subject of the in iquities of the Miami Beach disc jockeys' whing-ding, con ventioneers of all varieties might do well to . consider this word of advice offered in the. Good Book; Le him who is without sin cast the first, stone. . . . AND- :; While we're at it- We might give some thought to these words of Isaiah (65:5) in which he speaks of those which say: . "Stand by thy self, come not near to me, for I AM HOLIER THAN THOU." Of these holier-than-thou persons, . Isaiah adds: . f These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth, all the.'day." 1IHAT I'm getting ' at is this:' - The weird goings-on of TV in its rigged quiz shows and of the radio disc jockeys who accept payola for plugging the platters of the record companies that come across handsomely (under the table) are nothing to be admired. But-- . Before the other communi cations industries, including the newspapers; the ? maga zines and all theirest of us who make a living by -selling advertising, fall for the temptation-to get more business for ourselves by pointng the finger of scorn at our com petitors, we'd better make very sure indeed that our-own skirts re clean and : unde filed. s, - - t - : Anybody who tries to get business by running down his competitor is a pretty poor stick.;. -; ; :ri ' , (By M-T Staff and Contributors) It may have escaped gener al notice, but there has been some small debate in the Mail Tribune's "family" about how long the tail of a groundhog (or. "woodchuck") is. Artist - Photographer Bob Vroman on Feb. 2 drew a cartoon of a groundhog whip ping back into his hole to await the expiration of six more weeks of winter wea ther. The beast, as pictured, had an abbreviated tail. This was challenged by a proof-reader, who claimed (in verse, yet) that a groundhog does too have a tail. Now we have proof.. A recent resident of New York (where they have groundhogs) moved to . the Rogue Valley (where we don't), and before leaving he shot one of the rodents, and brought its tail (which they call "scalps" back there) along as proof. And here it is: One of a group of Med ford people, who visited Whidbey Navy Air Station last week, was amased at the greeting the admiral himself, and a bunch of lop ranking officers, met the visitors at the plane. This man mused, half to- him self: "They didn't Co that . to me the first :time I was in the Navy. I'd heard of admirals, but-1 wasn't sure lhey existed. -Let -alone TOUCH onel" ' - - Secretary -of State - Howell Appling Jr. must be planning to run for reelection. How do we-know? Well, it' because we keep getting press releases from -him -about how much money -he's saving the taxpayers, or would like to save the taxpayers. This is an almost-sure sign that the election-bug has bitten. . In his most recent offering he declares -that money can be saved by mailing only one, instead of two, voter's pam phlet to husband and wife who are of the same party. In arguing for the change Appling asks: : , . "If a husband and wife can't share a voter's pamphlet, how in the world can they be expected to share bed and board?" I guess, in the Appling family, they don't get a maga zine or newspaper which the whole family wants to read at the same time. Bed and board indeed!! The new sheriffs cars, which should be arriving soon, will be a sort of off white color to distinguish them from slate or city po lice vehicles. But this poses the problem of keeping them clean, and Sheriff Joe Walsh is thinking about forming e citisen's commit- iV Editorial Comment THEY CAN'T STAND ANY MORE VIOLENCE Organized labor in Port land is having as much-trou ble with its friends as with its enemies. Two events of recent days . have been ex tremely embarrassing to the unions that are trying to bring to a satisfactory settle ment their differences . with Portland's two newspapers that brought about a strike more than 100 days ago. Somebody blew up some trucks that carry newspapers for the Oregonian and The Oregon Journal. And a few days later a small organiza tion, claiming to speak for organized . labor, put out a hate, sheet - in which union men were encouraged to arm themselves and resort to vio lence against the newspapers. This, you may be sure, was done , without knowledge of or participation by the unions that are on strike against the newspapers, or the respons ible leaders of organized la bor in Portland. The unions have only two ways out of their difficulties at the newspapers. They must either concede to the desires of the owners of the newspa pers or they must bring pub lic opinion to bear so strongly upon the newspaper' owners that the unions won't suffer a total loss. ' Public opinion is not likely to be on. the side of violence perhaps a small segment of public opinion, but not the weight of public opinion that the unions must have in this case. The unions know this. They know that destruction of property and calls for vio-J tee to keep lhem washed. Sort of a Jackson Countv Sheriff's Dismounted Wash ing Posse, as it were. We don't know what hap pened to'the gun, but it may be for sale again. Anyway, one citizen of this area purchased a new .22 caliber pistol not long ago. and went through the process of registering it. Less than 24 hours later he was treated for a leg wound. suffered while he was prac ticing a " fast draw." What with all the talk about air pollution, and with the smudge season fast, approaching, we've heard a whole bunch of ideas for keeping the or chards warm without smoke. One of them is to cover each pear tree with a little plastic tent-tori of the way gardeners do with toma toes. But the one that really tickles our fancy is the suggestion that giant pipes be run to each lumber mill -burner, and that the hot air be distributed through out the orchards. This would eliminate air pollution from the burners, and from the orchards or so the origin ator of the idea claims. My, how chemicals have changed our lives. Insecticides, fertilizer, food additives, spray glazes the list is endless. One woman about whom we've heard started to use the product of chemistry - a spray-like substance that is supposed to keep her hair in place-only to get it confused with another chemical prod uct: an air freshener in a spray can. She - er - smelled for a day or two, we are told. Jury notices mailed our from the county clerk's of fice recently bore the rubber-stamp signature. "Mrs. Beretb Hopkins, county clerk." Is this an economical use of old supplies? Or is it an omen of what is to come? Or is it just our im agination that Marv Mad den was elected to that of fice last time around? On this St Valentine's ' ' day, we' are pleased t o UC ' bring you ' a '-Valentine:'"'' ., ' t I t w a "s ,' s dra w'n b y w - Craig Huston, who is in the first grade at Hoover school, and it appeared in the cur rent issue of the Hoover Hi Lite. " This is an election year; so we'll pass along a dilem ma which may be faced by one group or another this year. One man simply can't make up his mind whom to vote for because he doesn't know either candidate. The other one can't make up his ' mind because he knows both. lence drastically weaken their case in the court of public opinion. Any more rought stuff, no matter by whom, and the unions will have had it.-Pendleton East Oregonian. SLASH BURNING Loggers . are required . by law to burn the slashings left after logging. This is to re duce the hazard from forest fires, since the litter becomes highly flammable in the dry season. When a fire does start in the slash it spreads fast, burns with intensity and may spread into surrounding green timber. Controlled burning ordered by law is done in seasons of moderate dryness, in fall or spring. , The question is frequently raised whether slash burning really is desirable. A forester, writing to the Medford Mail Tribune, argues that it isn't. He calls it a hazard to repro duction, says it robs the soil of humus, pollutes the air, causes soil erosion and is de structive of wild life. The proper substitute, says this forester is "good forest man agement." The subject is worth fresh consideration by those charged with forest protec tion.' Logging now is more by patches. More equipment is at hand for fire suppression. The state forester can give some tolerance now on slash burning, and it is quite con ceivable that the rigid re quirements for burning slash are no longer necessary under present logging practices. Oregon Statesman, Salem. A
