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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. 'A Friday, Feb. 19, 1960 MECFORDil.TRIBUNB "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD FRUNXliNU tO 33 North Fir St. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATtlAM, BUS. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports 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 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 $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Adyance Official Paner of Cltv of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire UJM. Telephoto Newspicturea MEMBER CtT AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reoresentative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.i'.. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI AS! 5TN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20. 30,. 40 and 50 years ago.-. 10 YEARS AGO Fb. 19, 1950 (Sunday) Rogue River high school beat Butte Falls 68 to 44 last night and won second straight county class B basketball tournament championship. A 17-year-old Grants Pass youth who shot himself in the eye yesterday while cleaning a gun had his eye removed at a Medford hospital today. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 19. 1940 (Monday) Finns report that all of a Russian division of 18,000 men were either killed or cap tured in fighting in recent days. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The congregation of a Cleveland church battled with the police Sunday to keep the new pas tor out. It would have been a better story had the congrega tion battled each other trying to get into the church to hear the new pastor." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1930 Wednesday) Washington school site at Main st. and Oakdale ave. se lected as new courthouse and people will vote on it at next election. City threatens to raze ruins of Page theater unless some thing is done at once. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 19. 1920 (Friday) Trigonia Oil company will start drilling here March 1. Sen. McNary introduces a bill in congress to build a park on top of Roxy Ann. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 19. 1910 (Saturday) "Mysterious" American De velopment company which re cently asked for blanket elec tric road franchise in county also reportedly plans to spend $2Vi million in orchard de velopment here. Medford Commercial club is asking 1.000 people for $100 donation each to build the Crater Lake highway which state refuses to build. What's Your lQ.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five oi the is good. 1. Of what tree are acorns the fruit? 2. When is ante-meridian? 3. Which two Western States are perfectly rectangu lar? 4. Can the age of a rattle snake be reliably ascertained by counting the number of its rattles? 5. What does alma mater mean? 6. In what century did the French Revolution occur? 7. Is the gross income of a business greater, or less, than the net income? 8. In what city does the Pope have his residence? 9. Who is the patron saint of England? 10. What city is the capital of Montana? Answers. 1. Oak. 2. Be tween midnight and the next noon. 3. Colorado and Wyom ing. 4. No. 5. "Fostering iroiher." 6. 18th century. 7. Greater. 8. Vatican City. 9. Si. George. .10. Helta. . . Names and An editorial winter on the Oregonian waxes nostalgic about the "jeep" the war-born vehicle which has found a place in the hearts of many a GI and, more recently, ers and fanners. The Oregonian man, presumably , a World War II veteran, says: "No other instrument of the war, from Garand to A-bomb, was so widely useful; none, by far, so versa tile. The jeep transported kings, presidents, prime min isters and served as a doorstop. Equipped with a pair of tin pants, it became amphibious. In England, on one celebrated occasion, a jeep joined a fox hunt, its ex haust pipe snorting a tallyho." The jeep, indeed, was Lih Marlene, Waltzing Matilda, and other leg ends. Unlike them, it has become a civilian. JUST how much was borne in upon us the other day when, in a newspaper trade magazine, we saw a lull-page advertisement cautioning writers that "Jeep" is a registered trade mark, that it MUST be capitalized, and giving other rules and regulations for use of To heck with that approximately. The jeep came to the unnamed. Thev took it tened it. "Jeep" became idiom long beiore the with a trade mark and writers around. AS A MATTER of fact, this trade mark busi- 11COO AO 1I1U1 & VV XVIVOJI V-.C. 1AAC4AA Uli. UligilV and has a basis in necessity. For instance, a number of firms have created products, given them trade marked names, and then watched as the name entered the common language and was lost as a proprietary name. So manufacturers who have such popular trade marked names now do everything they can to preserve them for their own use. Under the law, if a trade mark enters the language as such, it can no longer be the exclusive property of one firm. The chief wav in which thev do this is to see that a trade marked name is capitalized, when printed, as befits a proper noun a name. Thus, Levi's are a protected brand name, and often when a reporter uses it thus "levis" to refer to any old sort of blue jeans, he gets a reproving letter from the Levi Strauss company. THE same is true of Coca Cola (also "Coke") ; 1 Teletype, and a number of other brand names which their owners are seeking to protect as their property. They do this both by letters to editors, and through advertising in trade magazines. Generally, I we": make an attempt to honor these proprietary names through capitalization Kleenex, Deep Freeze, Scotch-brand tape, and so on. Their owners have a point. But there are a couple of cases which cause us irritation. One of them is the which was named by the American GI, has long been part of the language, and which, from our point of view, is used by the manufacturer only through the courtesy of the U.S. fighting man of World War II. ' ANOTHER even more Vin A ri-P m mi nooin m trampoline. One fiim which manufactures this kind of equipment had the effrontery to take the word (which has appeared in dictionaries for years it's from the Italian and is derived from the word stilts) and get a trade mark on it. (Don't ask us how the Patent Office permitted itself to be bam boozled on that one ; the workings of the Patent Office are weird and mysterious anyway.) We'll go along with Coca Cola, but not with trampoline. We'll go along with Levi's, but not writh jeep. The language and the law have their quirks. But the pure theft of a word in an attempt to make it private property is (to paraphrase Win ston Churchill) "Arrant knavery, up with which I will not put." E.A. The Wrong Issue . There's quite a debate raging in Washington these days about federal aid to education. Should federal aid be given to schools, or shouldn't it? Thus goes the argument. The National Education Association says this isn't the argument at all, and that by talking about it, the real issue is obscured. The real issue, the NEA says, is this: How can we provide ADEQUATE federal support for schools quickly, efficiently, and with the fullest Dossible assurance that the funds will be per mitted to be used to fill the areas of greatest need. THE issue of whether there should or should not be federal aid to education is already settled, NEA points out affirmatively. A total of more than $481 million in federal funds now goes to local schools, "through a maze of new and old bits and pieces of legislation," it says, adding: . . . "Federal funds flow into some schools earmarked for vocational education, into the general school budget in some places recognized as federally impacted areas, through school lunch programs, for scholarship loans and other purposes designated in the National Defense Education Act, and so on and on." This principle, coupled with the nation's edu cation needs and inequalities, puts the matter in a different light than that now being debated. Doesn't it? E.A. Trade Marks hunters, fishermen, camp a war-baby, like Kilroy, the name. noise, as a GI would say armed men of America to their hearts, and chns part of the American manufacturer jumped up started bossing America's jeep (small "j" please), flagrant example, is the Dmiirm onf Irrt nnrn oc a Dennis the It's sure a neat tent ! it's evem got WAU-TO-VYAU. &ZASG Communications Letters to the Editor must tear the 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 Pro and Con Letters To the Editor: A long time since such a faith-renewing uplift in our youth by their recent letters to the editor in the M-T, displaying adult rea soning, even though of con demnatory nature. But, it is my experience that a sour no" is more worthwhile than a sugary "yes." However, my elation was short lived. At a Lincoln Day Grange potluck supper, a local orchardist re marked to me: "I do wish these high-schoolers would bring more of their adult thinking along when coming to work in our orchards. They are good for about an hour's work, when we find them in a leaning or on-the-ground po sition, apparently suffering from a lack of breakfast as they yell for' a hot-dog coke- break- And this is not the worst of it, for when we pay them off, we are berated by parents, pa and grandma, uncles and aunts, for not keeping them on the job and refusal to hire them, save those who have proved their willingness and well inten- tioned interest in their work." As to women drivers, traf fic officials have often re marked to me that their over- caution, their anxiety to ob serve driving rules, especially in unexpected situations, is the main cause of their in volvement in accidents. Re the high-schoolers' crit icism of the 'pointless and asinine letters to the editor, they will find them, as ac cumulating years lend toler ance, valuable cross-sections of people's thinking and wor rying, as all trained editors do. Like one time this writer found Editorial Manager Kel- ty of the Oregonian busy with a sheaf of letters to the edi tor. To my lifted eye-brow he dryly remarked, "this is my easiest and most dependable way of keeping a finger on the public pulse, especially our readers." Poetry, it would be a real pleasure for a high-schooler, or anyone, to bring to my at tention a more generously tolerant, clear thinking, Ben Hur Lampman- petal -perfect poetry than "God's Truth" by Evelyn Evans, recently in the M-T. Some of them are. very 'doggie,' but obviously an out let to a frustrated soul. "My Sons of Paul," (Timberman, Feb. 1936) lifted me from the depression doldrums to a good job and a chance meeting at Susanville, Calif., with a Walt Disney scout and a tentative assignment to do a Paul Bun yan lyric for them. But War II ended all that and lost com plete contact with the Disney scout. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F, Central Point, Ore. 'Phone Girls Defended To the Editor: I read Mrs. Maness' letter of Feb. 14 (about telephone service) and I heartily disagree. Being a retired telephone operator with 32 years service in southern Oregon, I feel I know a little about the con ditions under which the girls work. ' What purpose can a tele phone directory serve other than telephone information? So why should the directory be any place in the house ex cept next to the telephone? The only other use I can think of is to make Junior a trifle higher on his chair at the table, and Medford direc tories aren't thick enough for that. " ' Did it ever occur to Mrs. Maness or her neighbor to read the first page of their directory when it is delivered each year? About-four years Menace name and address of the writer, the case. -v ago a system was adopted of dialing 116 for emergencies. It is fully explained how to use it. This will put their call on a special emergency trunk which takes precedence over aU other calls. When lights come in on the main switch board, one light looks the same as any other, and the girls are instructed to answer them in the order in which they come in to the best of their ability. The company, in coopera tion with the state labor com missioner, gives the girls a 15 minute period out of each 4 hours of working time in which to drink coffee. There is a minimum of 9 hours be tween shifts for sleep. There are many of them who have the double job of raising fam ilies too, so on occasion they may go to work 'tired' but hardly asleep. It is a known fact by any one who has ever worked for the telephone company that the people of the Rogue val ley rarely use a directory for looking up numbers that have remained the same for years. Where was Mrs. Maness' di rectory, even if her neighbors was misplaced? There are times when the girls are swamped with calls and people aren't answered as soon as thev would like for them to be, but you can rest assured that if neoDle aren't answered, the girls aren't sitting back in their chairs with a cup of coffee and their feet on the board resting, neither are they asieep. Ruth Hogan, 111 N. E. A' st. Grants Pass, Ore. Confusion at lhe M-T To the Editor: Last Wednes day we walked up the flight of stairs at 33 North Fir st. to the second floor. By turn ing left, we entered the sanc tuary of the Tribune editorial staff. Methinks, by turning, as in dicated above, we opened a aoor into what seemed to be a rectangular room of many di mensions, or is it only an op tical illusion? Perhaps if occasion arises again we had better go equip ped with some kind of printed pocket sized guide, so at least we can find our way around wimoui going tnrough a quadrifid of office suites to the same door of entering. Or maybe we had better brush up on our trigonometry to serve better our instinct of direction in the future? As Confucius would say, it is not where you are going1, it is what you do on the way! Were we "turned around,", or did we only look that way? Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford. Writes Letter To the Editor: In recent issues of the Mail Tribune, there have appeared letters from the Medford High stu dents containing very wise and mature observations on this same column and its con tents. . ' I heartily agree - with the three or four who criticized your printing some of the nonsensical, idiotic works I have read, but I do under stand why you are limited to such drivel most of the time. Could it be that most of us merely tear down the efforts of others, rather than spend time writing what we per sonally think abouV a " given subject? I certainly disagree with the ramblings of Mary E. Akins about the youth of today, but at least she took , the oppor tunity to air, her views, and she is entitled to her opinion., Truman Being Coy About His 1960 Choice For Presidential Candidate, Wilson Says By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington (DPD Playing it coy is not the role for Harry S. Truman. Coy means to shrink, modestly or coquettishly Our Harry is more the political gun slinger type, shooting from the hip, fan ing the gun, getting his Lyit c wiuoo man. But Truman is being coy about his 1960 choice for the Democratic presidential nomi nation. It is ' not clear who "Of . .. British Defense Minister Is Phil Newsom's Man of the Week By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man-of-the-week: Brit ish Defense Minister Harold Arthur Watkinson. The olace: Parliament, Lon don. The quote: "The policy of the govern ment, in co operation with our allies, is to prevent war. We in tend to do all in our power bl Nrwsnni 'O acmeve oy A. 1- ' 1 negotiations comprehen s i v e disarmament under proper controls. Meanwhile our de fenses must be maintained.' For the 50-year-old Harold I am enclosing a copy of a letter I have written to the parties shown. I think this is a subject which some of your readers will be interested in, whether they agree with me or not. (Mrs.) Thomasina F. Rush Ashland, Ore. Editor's note: letter follows. Mrs.' Rush's Bernie 'Gould tv writer The Pillsbury Co. Kenneth L. Evans - story edtior Max Schulman - author co "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" CBS 485 Madison Ave. . New York 20, N. A. .- - Dear .Sirs: J. feel I must bring to your ' attention what I'm sure is very distasteful to millions of Americans. I'm speaking of the phrase "I've gotta KILL that boy" which is used more than once every week in the "Dobie Gillis" series. I am the mother of two teen age boys, and even they find this phrase much too blunt and shocking. - I refrained from writing you for the first few weeks of this show, for I felt certain many others would. Now, however, I have decided per haps others also are merely waiting for something to be done. Please, I implore you all; see that the offensive words are removed from the scripts! There are many other words which could put across the intended meaning just as po tently. Surely you can understand the revulsion any parent must feel at the use of the word "kill", when pur newspapers daily carry true stories of homicide commited by both parents and children. I am also sending a copy of this letter to our local news paper with the request that other television viewers also write to you. (Mrs.) Thomasina F. Rush 285 Beach st. Ashland, Ore. Dallas H.S. GradtT .To the Editor: Calling all graduates of Dallas High School, Dallas, Ore. Please send information on yourself and a stamped en velope for a list of grads in your area. Don Seibert ('50) 829 North Fourth st Springfield, Ore. Lipstick or Death To the Editor: I have en titled this my "State of the Union Message," or "Give Me Lipstick or Give Me Death:" Women of the world, unite! Express your righteous Indig nation; Gird up -your loins, for we must fight The Food and Drug Adminis tration. The Union's in an awful state! That is all that I can say. I can fortell our female fate If we don't squelch the FDA. Fetch feathers, girls; and get some tar. We'll get those guys the s ,' high and low. This time, by gum," they've gone too far . . . They must recant, or out they gO! : They've served us well, we i long have had Food free from foul adultera tion. . Truman thinks he is confus ing or baffling by his coquet tish behavior. Not since Oct. 29, 1957 has Truman answered up to a di rect question with a direct an swer about his 1960 choice. The 1957 exchange took place in Omaha, Neb. Truman, said he would support Sen. Stuart Symington (D-MoO if the sen ator were a candidate in 1960. It is 1960 and Symington is a candidate, although un announced. Truman, however, ain't sayin'. Simple Pedictien Reporters caught up with him in Memphis and North Miami a couple of days ago, Arthur Watkinson it was his first policy pronouncement since last November's cabinet shift which moved him into the tough defense post from his previous assignment as minister of transport and civil aviation. It revealed some change in British defensive thinking and emphasized anew Brit ain's close military ties with the United States. Boost Defense Spending It came in connection. with announcement of a boost in Britain's defense spending to more than three and a half billion dollars, or nearly a third of her entire budget. As in the United States, it had not been produced with out painful pressure upon the new minister from each of the armed services intent upon their own needs and desires. But in the end it was Wat kinson who had to make the recommendation and his maid en announcement disclosed both his businessman s ap proach to the problem and his reluctance to put all his eggs In the Day's Hews By FRANK President Eisenhower asks for $4,175,000,000 (four bil lion, 175 million dollars) in new foreign aid funds "to safeguard," he says in mak ing the request, "the free world against the enormous power bloc of communist im perialism." That is about a billion dol lars more than the congress voted for foreign aid last year. rpHE BIG question: Is it IMPERATIVELY needed? Their labels tell us good from bad, And we give due apprecia tion. . But we have come to bury them! Not to praise and give them roses. Cast lots for collars, sash and hem; . Bear home their bureaucratic noses'! The world is ruled, the cradle rocked By woman's hand, it's said. But bureaucrats rush in, like fools, Where angels fear to tread. So now at last, they've gone ' and trod Oh woman's pride forsooth! Forgetting that they're men, not God, And seeking power, not the truth. Lipsticks contain c o a Wars, : they say. - Amounts are small, but they say "Tsk." SOj that's a price we women pay; - It's called a calculated risk. Why don't they go and smite the smog. Or chase the tars from filter- tips; Clean up a nice cranoerry bog. We'll decide what's for our .-;lips! . ;. ; Our lipsticks are our own red badge " ; Of courage, which they give. To fight the battle, defeat, age, And help us daily just to live. Yes, women's name in Vanity And she is pretty primitive. Lipstick's an aid to sanity Without it. Lord, who wants , to live?! : - . i I say, let's face reality; I'm not crying for the moon. Just give my lipstick back to - - me, .- And let me die a little soon. Helen M. Ashley 851 Wabash ave. Medford. P.S. to Mr. Bulman: And to "you Bible' quoting males Whose . quotes confuse and lend no light. : .- Why weigh all things with your poor scales? " Why don't you go and fly a kite?!! -. H.M.A.- - t i and Truman limited himself to a claim that 1960 was a Democratic victory year, no matter whom the Democrats nominate for President. That kind of talk will not help Symington's candidacy any when the time comes to per suade convening delegations that this candidate or that one alone has what it takes to win. - There is not much doubt among politicians that when such a time arrives, Truman will be where the trades are being made in an effort to ob tain Symington's nomination. There are straws in the wind on that. The most significant straw was announcement in in one basket. He once said: "If we had unlimited funds, we could buy out the shop. But we don't. So we have to be careful shoppers making certain that we are buying goods of proven value." Switch To Mobility The switch in British de fense thinking paralleled a similar switch in the United States. It was away from fixed bases for missile launchings and toward mobile bases which could not be knocked out in the event of surprise at tacks. This development of Brit ain's 3,000-mile Blue Streak missile will continue, but em phasis also will be placed upon deveopment of nuclear powered missile-carrying sub marines, bolstered by long range manned air-ait The call for an increase in conventional weapons empha sized that nuclear power is "only one component of the deterrent," and further indi cated that Britain's defense planners do not believe the day of the foot slogger is past JENKINS PERSONALLY, I don't know. I doubt if any read er of this newspaper knows. But It MIGHT be needed. rpHERE'S CUBA, for ex--- ample. In Cuba, Russia's Mr. Mi koyan has been busily sowing seeds of trouble for us. He has been telling the Cubans that if wicked capitalist U.S. A. doesn't buy Cuba's sugar pious, ver-helpful communist Russia WILL. So He says "DON'T WORRY. We'll buy your sugar. If you don't have American dollars (gain ed by selling your sugar to the U.S.) to buy the things you've been buying in Amer ica, we'll sell you RUSSIAN goods and take in payment whatever kind of money you have. Russia is YOUR FRIEND." j And so on. i rT'S AN ALLURING picture he paints. And we mustn't forget that whatever Russian agents are telling the Cubans other Russian agents are tell ing the people of other Latin- American countries. Our relations with Latin America are none to cordial. Talk like this can do us an immense amount of harm. It could easily be true that we, More thrilling than Indianapolis racing because you are the Driver in America's Newest, Safest Sport. . Safety Helmets Visit ut end set these finely engineered.; machines. 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The Republican pres idential nominee almost sure ly will be Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Licking Nixon is something Truman wants very much to do. need more foreign aid money with which to counteract this dangerous communist drive to gain a foothold in the Western Hemisphere. We mustn't forget that un der the Monroe Doctrine we are pledged to keep such dangerous foreign influences out of the Western Hemis phere. If we can't do it by peaceful means, we'll have to do it by war. 0 Co- 3 You see We may need this extra bil lion dollars for foreign aid money. If so, we should ask ourselves this question. - WHAT CAN WE DO WITH OUT? WHEN YOU are very deeply " in debt, but just HAVE to have something, what do you do? You know what you do. You DO WITHOUT some thing you have been having. So If we have to have another billion dollars of foreign aid money, LETS DO WITHOUT SOME OF THE WASTE WE HAVE BECOME ACCUS TOMED TO. ' . 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