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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Monday, Feb. 15, 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by iVLCLir rtun rinu t-U. 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 11AKL ii. auams, citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'! Editor DALE EKICKSON. 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 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 routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $38 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ofcity of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire TJ.PX Telephoto Newspictureg 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. 0jf NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI AScgmgh 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. 15, 1950 (Wednesday) Dr. Albert Einstein warns that hydrogen bomb makes annihilation of all life pos sible through radio-active poi soning of atmosphere. March 6 set as date for revote on consolidation of Central Point and Tolo school districts. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 15. 1940 (Thursday) Pacific Telephone and Tele graph is replacing old phones with dial phones here at rate of 50 per day. Dial phones will go into operation here Aug. 3. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Presi dent Roosevelt is now de scribed as an 'unspoken can didate.' The people will wish they all were before next No vember." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1930 (Saturday) Ashland defeats Meaiord 35 to 21 in hard-fought and some times wild basketball game, eliminating Medford's chances of winning district champion ship. Three thousand arrested in roundup of Chicago gang sters. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1920 (Monday) Douglas fir reaches nighest price in history of state. Allies give up efforts to try Kaiser for war crimes. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 15. 1910 (Tuesday) Bill passed by 1909 Oregon legislature to build road from Pacific ocean to Idaho across southern Oregon declared un constitutional by courts. Top executives of Railroad Tycoon James J. Hill are in Rogue valley. Speculation has it that deal cooking to extend Pacific and Eastern railroad through Medford to Cali fornia. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who was Aristotle's most famous teacher? 2. In which group of Paci fic islands is Cebu? 3. What is a gherkin? 4. In what bay is Alcatraz island? 5. Was the late Franklin Di Roosevelt ever a candidate for the office of Vice Presi dent? 6. What ship was lost on her maiden voyage when she struck an iceberg? 7. Of what office is the Comptroller General of the United States the head? 8. Knights of Columbus is a fraternal order whose mem bership is Catholic or Protest ant? S. Which is smaller in area, Rhode Island or Delaware? 10. Which of these was born first: Daniel Boone, or Buffalo Bill? Answers: . 1. Plato. 2. The Philippines. 3. Srrall pickled cucumber. 4. San Francisco Bay. 5. Yes (1920 ticket with James M. Cox). 6. The Tita nic. 7. General Accounting Office. T. Catholic. 9. Rhode Island. 10. Daniel Boone. 4 Democracy and Dictatorship At his press conference President Eisenhower spoke of dictatorships as "very efficient" and im plied there are many things dictatorships can do which we cannot do because we have a free en terprise democracy in which primary importance is attached to each individual's freedom and rights. Though he expressed confidence about the long-run results of our society's working he thought it necessary to urge our people to have more confidence in our system and he put the re sponsibility for key decisions on the mass of our citizens. LI AD HE HAD. more time for reflection, we 1 suspect, the President's answer would have been different. , Surely he knows that the supposed efficiency of dictatorships is purely a facade behind which many areas of near chaos are hidden. Hitler conquered Europe, as the President said, but there is nothing impressive about the bureaucratic civil war within the Nazi regime which delayed completion of the V-l and V-2 weapons until it was too late. t The Soviet regime has impressive accomplish' ments to its credit, out Khrushchev revealed the Kazakhstan which permitted millions of acres of valuable gram to go unharvested last fall. DY COINCIDENCE were made the same day that the organiza tion wras finally announced of the group he is sponsoring to set up national goals for the next decade. This group is relevant to the essential element which was missing from the President's offhand press conference remarks. An effective democracy requires effective leadership. Whether preserving the Union un der Abraham Lincoln or combating economic distress and fascist aggression under Franklin D. Roosevelt, our society s bnghtest pages have been written wThen vigorous and imaginative leaders employed our democratic institutions to mobilize our free people's energies for the tasks that needed to be done if our society were to survive. There is nothing worth while Khrushchev's land has accomplished which we cannot do better if all the rich potentialities of our flexible society are used imaginatively and boldly by the leaders to whom our people look for guidance. New York Times. Public Profit Plan Associated Press reports that the Congress is expected to take kindly to Forest Service requests for a $23 million start on "Operation Multiple Use." This long-range program is intended to im prove utilization of the United States forest re sources, to insure their bounty for future genera tions, and to provide benefits ranging from con servation of watersheds more than pay for the outlays envisioned. t QPERATION Multiple Use is the most ambi- tious conservation and development pro gram ever proposed for the nation's forests. Yet its total cost, over a period of 40 years, is expect ed to run only slightly more than a billion dollars. Congress should look proposition. Not often does the federal govern ment have such a sound self-liquidating invest ment opportunity. A billion dollars is spread over a 40-year period. But Congress sure ly must be aware that it is only a fifth of what Uncle Sam is paying out every year lor the op eration of its Veteran's Administration. .. ACTUALLY, the Forest Service is asking Con-m-aaa -for Kiit -$1 1 Trnllirvn in flffrHrinnpl -fTinrlc to, get Operation Multiple Use underway in the coming fiscal year. The service has $11.8 million on hand that it can use for the rest of the first year bills. Eleven million dollars is only about three times the amount Congress appropriates each year for the American Battle Monuments Com mission. Eugene Register-Guard. Enter the Moskvich - Will the Moskvich make a'place for itself in the American automobile market? Possibly, but it will not be easy. The Soviet car, to be imported by a New York concern, will have to bid for Unit ed States customers on a price basis. The machine sells for $6000 in Russia and in other parts of Europe for $1400. The American price has not been announced. There is already one thing wrong with the Moskvich its name. Somehow we cannot quite hear our neighbor boasting about his Moskvich. Solid, perhaps, but dull. St. Louis Post Dispatch Sen. Wayne Morse says he is seriously con sidering entering the presidential primary in Wis consin. That is a signal that he will. His entry will complicate the race which has been shaping up between Sens. Humphrey and Kennedy. A native of Wisconsin and graduate of its state uni versity Morse would receive a measure of "favor ite son" SUDDort. and as the nnlv candidate who voM against the 1959 labor bill could claim sup port of labor. Our guess is that a Morse candidacy there would hurt Humphrey more than Kennedy. Oregon Statesman, Salem. only a tew weeKs ago incredible confusion m the President's remarks to recreation which will approvingly upon this a lot ot money, even Dennis the .Ml ' ji'i 'HEY, J GOT AN 1064 1 lK MkKB A MIOMAN I Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON'S CLOUDS Washington - Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon has long appeared all but happily ex empt from the fact that into each (politi cal) life some rain must fall, As ' unchal lenged heir to the Republi c a n nomina tion he has oc- cuDied a dace wiTh. far above the storm. He has been able to look on while aspirants for the Democratic nomination have fought among them selves for the right to oppose him in the November elec tion. Suddenly, however, the weather has turned a bit. Now, a few small clouds are gathering over the prospect for Nixon. 1- He is under persistent pressure from the Rockefeller wing to declare himself a "progressive" and so to say goodbye to all the bad old "conservatives." 2. Just as he is the GOP's designated successor to Mr. Eisenhower, so is Nixon the undoubted inheritor of the growing headache of the missile-gap argument.' 3. There is now a possibility that the "peace" issue may not look quite so good for the Re publicanswhich means Mr. Nixon-in the fall as it has been looking. UNTIL the other day Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York had not uttered the name "Nixon" since Dec - 26. That was the date Rockefeller removed himself from the race for the Presidential nomi-, nation. In breaking this brood ing silence, Rockefeller has said something only guarded ly and maybe favorable of Nixon. The Governor quoted a promise the Vice President himself recently made that the Republicans would not stand pat on the Eisenhower record. "This," Rockefeller observ ed coolly, "is a clear and forthright statement." What he didn't need to add, so plain was his meaning, was this: "And, now, Mr. Nixon, let's see if you carry through on that pledge." As to the defense debate, this is the central political reality: if the people should decide these defenses really have not been enough, the man hurt will not be Mr. Ei senhower, who is leaving an office. It will be Mr. Nixon, Try and By BENNETT CERF- A PHILOSOPHER was invited to be guest of honor at a big banquet, but absentmindedly arrived in a business suit, and soon noticed that the welcoming committee was distinctly upset. So he unostentatiously with drew, put on his dinner dress suit, and reap peared. Led with a great show of deference to the dais, he waited until the soup was served, then took a tablespoonful and spilled it drop by drop on his elegant suit "Eat well, my fine suit,'' he said distinctly, an edge of fine sarcasm in his voice, "for it obviously was you and not me who was invited here this evening!" A. very pretty girl approached Richard Rodgers for a part in the English company of "Flower Drum Song." "Come over to Shubert Alley with me and hear me sing," she begged. "What's the matter with the stage of the St James Theater?" asked Dick. "Oh, I could never sing there," shuddered the girl. "When I'm in a theater I get stage fright" 1360, by Sewett Cerf. Bistribuled by Xing Tauuu SyadiuU Menace S. WHITE who is attempting to assume that office. TT IS increasingly doubtful that the Republicans can effectively retort to Democrat ic criticism simply by saying it is all just partisan politics. There is plenty of partisan politics. But there is also some genuine, and not partisan, alarm for the nation itself. This has now been illustrat ed by the anxious comments of Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. In 40-odd years in public life Rayburn has been amply partisan on every ques tion but two: foreign and mili tary policy. In these two areas, he would never publicly chal lenge this country's strength before the world for partisan motives. The Eisenhower Ad ministration - including the President and Nixon - knows this. The Democrats know it. Indeed, Rayburn'a traditional reluctance to attack any Presi dent on such grave matters has brought him much criti cism in his own party for be ing "too soft on Eisenhower. " And Rayburn, at 76, isn't running for President. True, he is surely running his fel low Texan, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. But old Mr. Sam would not, for himself or for Johnson, question this nation's military power if he didn't believe he needed to do ,it for the nation's sake. Rayburn may be very wrong in his critical defense estimates. But he is not irresponsibly wrong, as no major politician in ei ther party would privately deny. SO, THE defense storm is be coming a real one, and will become more and more a real concern to Nixon. Finally, as to "peace." Re cent Soviet pronouncements have made it hard to find in Washington a single author ity who now believes the sum mit meeting of May will pro duce any real easement in the cold war. This does not necessarily mean ultimate failure. It doesn't mean that Nixon doesn't still have an enor mously useful issue. But it does mean that its net value can well have been greatly reduced by November. (Copyright, 1960, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) : CALL FOR YOUTH Leamington, England- (UPD - Shapely contestants in the local judging for the "Miss Great Britain" beauty- contest are threatening not to appear unless younger judges are chosen. One judge is over 60. Stop Me Dick West Tries Hand at Valentine's Verse; Poems Go To Political Figures By DICK WEST Washington -(UPD-1 thought this year's crop of "valentine poetry contained more in flation than inspiration. R e member those old-fashioned comic v a 1 e n t i nes that used to sell for a penny? The ones with a cartoon and a rick west verse on a single sheet of paper? The ones that poked fun at drink ers, smokers, tightwads, Foreign Notebook: Landing Rights, Deadlock on By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor 1 From the foreign editor's notebook: Turbulance U. S. refusal to permit KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to pick uo passengers in Los Angeles en route to the Far East has rubbed an old sore spot. In Montreal, he adquarters tor the United Nation's Inter national Civil Aviation Or ganization and the Airlines' fhJj Nrwsom International Air Transport Assn., aviation sources say they would not be surprised if a number of nations retali ate against what they regard as an unreasonably protective U. S. attitude. These countries may stall possible U. S. ap plications for corresponding rights in Europe until the U.S. government relaxes its attitude. 1 jr?i Communications Letters to the Editor must bear 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 ofteVi the case. Respect For Elders To the Editor; Art Linklet- ter is always saying children live in a separate world all their own. With a . little thought one can see that very young adults also live in a separate world, in between the child and elderly adults. It is true that there have been editorial letters in rather light vein for the last few months. But what of it? The writers were only whiling away a few dull moments in humorous reminiscence. Which was little lift to my own dull moments. I wonder what would be of interest to those that are just at the threshold of life? They have not the least idea of the responsibilities that they will fmd up ahead. I have observed that young folks don't like to listen to oldsters harp on the constitu tional mistakes of our coun tries' leaders, etc. But. when they start fam ily life on their own and be gin to get some such exper iences, they are apt to admit that Dad was right. About four generations ago education was limited to the three R's, and people strug gled even for that all on their own efforts. Later on there were the nine grades which: our fathers paid for. Today a portion of each taxpayers money goes for a fine education, ; whether they have any children or not. And whether they all will get a good education or not is up to them. Far in the past people had to work hard long hours and grab what they could of ed ucation, and no fault of their own. What do the kids do to day? A group of girls were talking one day about just that, and one girl said, "I fed the birds this morning be fore I left for school." Some won't even get up out of their chair to let the dog out of the house. By the looks of the walks along Oakdale ave., even with handy cans, show that there are lazy and ungrateful ones beholden to your tax money. It is time young people be gan to show a little respect to their elders. MaryE.Akins, 1634 Orchard Home Dr. Medford. Working for Whom? To the Editor: The Supreme court has . recently decided that even if a man has been arrested and convicted as a spy, or a traitor, he must stilf continue to receive his month ly social security check from the government of the United States. It is estimated that over one hundred million dollars is sloppy dressers and other fa miliar types? The ones you sent to your friends without signing your name? Well, -I saw some very sim ilar creations on sale this year and the price was three for a quarter. At . that rate, - I couldn't afford to insult any one. A Little Late . . In view of the high costs, I thought, I would try to save some of our politicians some money by making up a batch of valentines -c1 for them to send to each other. Unfortunately I didn't get them finished in tune for Val Deadlock Despite Washington opti mism that Russia ultimately will accept President Eisen hower's proposal for a ban on all nuclear tests except the smallest underground ones, sources in Geneva where the nuclear talks are being conducted, see little hope for any such Russian about-face. Instead, they think Britain, as the middle nation in the controversy, may try to recon cile U. S. -Soviet differences and bring about a giant horse- trade. Otherwise, they say the deadlock is complete. Freedom's Ring The London conference to arrange independence for Great Britain's African Kenya colony swiftly is getting no where. However, it generally is agreed that African control is coming soon and that white rule is on the way out. Family Quarrel West Germany's opposition Socialists are going to bring the name and address of the writer, being paid out each year from the national treasury , to trai tors, spies and fugitives from justice who have fled the United States and are now living in foreign countries. Justice Felix Frankfurter (of the Supreme court) has participated in 72 cases. His record shows pro-Communist votes 56; anti - Communist votes 16.. Who is the Supreme court working for? Lloyd Stratton, 963 Ferry lane, Eugene, Ore. A Look Ahead 10 tne Editor: we were much in accord with the stu dents in Senior high on re questing more constructive letters be written to commu nications columns. - As we enter the "push-but ton age, men will be retired at 45 years of age, in order that younger graduates can fill the future jobs in all skilled industries. Times will never be quite the same, be cause we will eventually evolve from our present day lumber mills to more perma nent materials of building structures. Rare earth ele ments will be much in de mand and there probably lies the forerunner of a great fu ture demand for new trained chemists, geologists and scien tists. ' Southeastern Oregon, north eastern California and north ern Nevada will probably be the scene and territory of the discovery of many new and valuable minerals now sought after. Certain of the rare earth elements are now com manding many thousands of dollars an ounce on the world market today. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Yust Taxes To the Editor: I saw this headline in the Tribune of Feb. 4, 1960. It says: "Stock Market Used To Teach Stu dents Art of Economics." Aye had three good teach ers to teach me the art of economics, two Democrats und vun Republican. Two more Republicans or yust vun more Democrat und Aye von't have no economics, Aye yust have taxes to vorry about Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. Critic To the Editor: Our Mr. Bulman (Critic of woman) Men's acts will condone And leave them alone. . I .think that his words Are all for the birds. ' Mrs. Delbert Casey, Route 1, Box 358, Central Point, Ore. entine's Day. But the senti ments expressed are still fresh, so here's belated greet ings: "To Sen. Johnson from Sen. Kennedy "New Hampshire is red, "Wisconsin is blue. "I entered the primaries, "Why didn't you?" To Gov. Rockefeller from Vice President Nixon "Your voice is full of char acter; "I admire your handsome face; "For you became my valentine A-Ban their big guns to bear on Chancellor Konrad Adenau er's government in an early parliamentary debate on anti- Semitism. The government will weather the storm, but the Socialists plan to charge it with doing nothing during the recent anti-Semitic out break and with refusing to clean out Nazis from its own ranks. In the Day's News By FRANK From Washington: The Internal Revenue Serv icethe outfit whose job it is to COLLECT THE FED ERAL TAXES - has moved in along the sidelines of a house of representatives investiga tion of under-the-table pay ments td disc jockeys to MAKE SURE THE GOVERN MENT GETS ITS SHARE OF THE PAYOLA. IBS has assigned an agent from its intelligence division to listen in on the hearings by the house subcommittee that is investigating the pay ola charges. rpHAT is to say: The internal Revenue Serv- The Internal Revenue Serv ice wants to know how much payola is being paid, and TO WHOM. It will then move in on the payees and say to them: "COME ACROSS! This is INCOME. So be sure you put it in your income report and PAY TAXES ON IT." The U.S. Internal Revenue Service isn't concerned with the legal and ethical aspects of payola. All it wants to know is WHO GOT WHAT, It will then move in on him and tell him to PAY UNCLE HIS SHARE. l?ROM where Uncle sits, the payola business is a good payola business is a good deal like the slot machine business. Uncle isn't con cerned with the legality of slot machines unless, per chance, their . operators run afoul of the federal statute that forbids use of. the mails to promote a lottery. His job is to see to it that slot machine profits and WIN NINGS are reported as in come so that federal taxes will be paid on them. His job ends there. THAT suggests a question: . When vnn'ru n a c c i n (T When you're passing through Reno or Las Vegas and drop into a slot machine den or a casino and put a dollar in the dollar machine and the jackpot comes rat tling gaily out and falls all over the floor and you gather it up and put it in your pocket, do you report it to Uncle as INCOME? , jff?;- TXjr MM "When you dropped out of the race." To Gov. Brown from Sen. Humphrey "I need each vote that I can get ' "From every Californian. "So won't you be my val entine - "Instead of a favorite son?" To President Eisenhower from Sen. Symington "I send this little valentine "All wrapped in hearts and tissue. "For in each little missile gap "I've found a campaign issue." To Nixon from Sen. Dirk sen, Rep. Halleck and 18 other Republicans. "I love each hair upon your head; "Each Democrat I hate. "If you will be my valen tine, "I'll be your running mate." To the voters of Tennessee from Sen. Kefauver "I made the race for Pres ident twice, "And every time I meant it. "But now I'll be content if I'm "Re-elected to the Senate." JENKINS If not, LOOK OUT! If Uncle hears of your lapse of memory, you'll be in hot water. REREADING this stuff as it cVtrvure nn nn tVo tvrwwrit- v o v J was. www f w " ten page, it seems to put our kind old Uncle in a bad light- depicting him, perhaps, as an old Shylock who is willing to look the . other way when shady transactions are going on SO LONG AS HE GETS HIS SHARE OF THE LOOT. It isn't meant that way. After all, our kindly old Uncle is in a tough spot. His nephews and his nieces are yelling bloody murder at him all the time to loosen up with more and more of the good things of life for free, of course. We want this and we want that. We yammer at our senators and our representa tives in the congress to GET IT FOR US. If they don't get it for us, we're apt to vote against them at the next elec tion. CO- & What is Uncle to do? The answer is that about the only thing for him to do is what he is doing - which is to go on taking it out of the hides of the taxpayers. That's about the long and the short of it; Youngsters Find Way foSafefy Toledo, Ore. - (UPD'-Two 11-year-old boys missing over night walked to safety Sun day after a hike on Pioneer mountain east of here. The boys, David Brooks and Walter Potter, said they stay ed under a stump after dark ness overtook them Saturday and the next morning follow ed a power line and then a logging road out. Both live near here. BLOWN OFF CLIFF Ryhope, England- (UPD -William Hedley, 45, was wheel ing his bicycle along the edge of a 60 foot cliff near here Sunday when a guest of wind converted his open raincoat into a kind of "sail" and blew him over the precipice to hii death, police reported. 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