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A MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. !A Monday, Feb. 22. 1960 "Everyone in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 38 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. Citv 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 Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copv 10c Daily and Sunday 1 vear $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and o? motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copv 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of Citvof "Medford" Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire P-PJ. Telephoto Newspictures T 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. Ikes Good Will Tour fSflV NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORIAI AS(p)CjjjkTl(o)f Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. President Eisenhower today departed in a direction traveled by few of his predecessors. Only President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office made a comparably extensive tour of Latin America, and that was almost a quarter of a cen tury ago. The earlier Roosevelt and President Taft had inspected Panama in 1906 and 1910 respectively. President Coolidge on Jan. 16, 1928, had address ed the Sixth Pan-American Conference, which was held in Havana. Herbert Hoover did make an extensive tour in November, 1928, but only as President-elect. His itinerary included Argen tina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Equa- dor, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Uruguay. THE second Roosevelt sailed from Norfolk on spoke at a joint session of the Congress and Su preme Court of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 27, and addressed the opening session of the Inter American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace at Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 1. He was the guest of the Republic of Uruguay in Mon tevideo on Dec. 3, and 12 days later landed at Charleston, S.C. President Tinman visited Mexico City in March, 1947, and Rio de Janeiro the following September. President Eisenhower previously has crossed the border for a Mexican festival in Oc tober, 1953, attended the Presidents' Conference in Panama in July, 1956, and visited President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico at Acapulco m mid-February, 1959. Dennis the Menace 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 th case. XLLBE PSOy 805,ftU 5S 80 6ART, W'AR WUSONU RE TOP fAT GUY WO SAVS 'THEY WENT mATAMV''' mLUNU Dfc fe ' Washington Report By WILLIAM S. WHITE 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1950 (Wednesday) President Truman warns "world communism" that this country will use force to de fend democracy if it must. State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, announced candidacy for democratic nomination for governor of Oregon. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1910 (Tuesday) Senator Truman (D-Mo.) criticizes British censorship of U. S. mail and says English planes should be barred from landing in U. S. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Today is the birthday of George Washington, first president, who helped found the nation and start it in two terms in the White House, and an swered 'No' the first time he was asked to have a third one." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1930 (Saturday) Ashland high cinches south ern Oregon basketball title by defeating Grants Pass 36 to 21. A 42-mile-per-hour gale hit Medford last night causing city -wide electrical power outages. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 22. 1920 (Monday) Warren G- Harding, GOP presidential hopeful, opposes compulsory military training for American youths. Mayor Gates starts investi gation to see if all local flu cases are being reported. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 22, 1010 (Tuesday) Manager of local Savoy theater plans to take moving pictures of Medford and Rogue river valley and show them in moving-picture houses all over country to publicize area. Mayor Snell survives Ash land recall election by 665 to 218 vote. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; even of eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Who was known as the "Apostle to the Gentiles"? 2. What sportsman calls out "track" when he wishes others to clear the way? 3. What notable Naval event took place in 1588? 4. What is another name for Hoover Dam? 5. What movie actress was affectionately called "Amer ica's Sweetheart"? 6. In the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who was mortal ly wounded? 7. Which of these is not a variety of cheese: Edam, Cheddar, Cheltenham, Cam embert. Brie? 8. Which early American was all of these: philosopher, scientist, statesman, inventor, publisher, author, printer? 9. What is an invoice? 10. Of what actress do you think when a sarong is men tioned as a costume? Answers: 1. Paul. 2. A skier. 3. Destruction of Span ish. Armada. 4. Boulder Dam. 5. Mary Pickford. 6. Hamil ton. 7. Chellham. 8. Benjamin Franklin. 9. A bill for mer chandise. . 10. Dorothy La-niour. TOE PRESIDENT has two aims. The White House reports his hopes that his visit will "publicly reflect his deep interest in all the coun tries of the JMew World" ana "encourage iurener development of the inter-American system, not only as a means 01 meeting tne aspirations 01 the peoples of the Americas but also as a further example of the way all peoples may live in peace ful cooperation." The visit also reflects a new concern for Latin American opinion that has characterized U. S. policy since the unpleasantness that met Vice President Nixon on his tour south of the border almost two vears aero. While there is no lormal connection with the Eisenhower mission, similar concern is demonstrated by Latin American stu dies of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a just completed tour by a Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce group headed by Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.), and a recent study of Latin American aid programs by a House Foreign Af fairs subcommittee. ATIN AMERICAN desires for more economic security are beginning to be partly satisfied bv the new Inter-American Development Bank, created under an agreement of Aug. 8, 1959, which the United States was the first to ratify. When all subscriptions are met by September, 1962 the bank will have a capitalization oi $i billion. Of this. $850 million will be for hard loans, $150 million for" a Fund for Special Operations. The United States will contribute 41 per cent of the whole. But, rightly or wrongly, to many Latinos who have watched this nation pour goods and treasure into European recovery and develop ment programs elsewhere throughout the world, even this much seems veiy little and very late. E.R.R. Cutting Air Fares Lower fares for passengers on international airlines flights is the expected result of a special meeting of the International Air Transport As sociation's traffic conference to be held Tues day, Feb. 23, in Paris. Some of the earners have hinted that if there are no reductions by negotia tion, they'll wage a rate war when present fare agreements expire on March 31. Representatives of 90 airlines flying the flags of 50 nations met at the regular I.A.T.A. traffic conference last October at Honolulu but were not able to agree on fares to be charged on many of the world routes. The I.A.T.A. at its annual meet ing, in progress at Tokyo during the same period, issued a statement expressing "the greatest regret and disappoinment" over the Honolulu confer ence's failure to vote lower fares. THHE conflict is between the big jet operators, which want to reduce fares, and the compa nies without jets, which have wanted to keep charges higher on the new faster service until they were able to get competitive aircraft. Much of this conversion now has been accomplished and some industry sources expect the Paris meet ing to eliminate jet surcharges, which reach $20 to $30 on long international flights. Prospective world travelers can draw some en couragement from one agreement that the Hon olulu rates conference did reach. Airlines flying between Paris and London will be permitted, ef fective April 1, to reduce the regular tourist rate during the off-peak hours (11 p.m. to 8 a.m.) on certain flights by 39 per cent. The present round trip tourist rate is $44.60. E.R.R. ONE THING GOING Washington - The Republi cans will have one thing go ing for them in the presiden- tial campaign wiuuu, in uie words of the Broadway theater, is "strictly hokey." What is "hokey" is i m p o s s ibly o I d-fashioned and very far William S. wmte from cool"- cool meaning sharp and up-to- date. This small and dusty but sturdy and traditional polit ical weapon is the decennial census. This national count ot noses will begin April 1. It will provide a great deal of useful information for busi ness and industrial planning. Moreover, it will gather up the population statistics on which to determine congres sional reapportionment with in the states. Some areas which have shrunk in popu lation in the past 10 years will lose congressional seats. Others will gain them . All these results of the 1960 census, however, will be only the frosting on the cake. Po litically, the cake itself lies in the fact that the Republi cans will control 170,000 tem porary and non-civil service jobs, making up a patronage slice worth $45,000,000 in pay rolls. It will be the biggest census outlay in history. NOT since 1940 has a decen nial census fallen in the presidential election year. Thus, the Republican politi cians, mainly representatives and senators, will have avail able for handing out to the faithful enough short-term positions to make a good many little people very happy. Nobody, to be sure, is go ing to get rich working for the census for four or five months. The highest pay that for supervisor-will be $500 a month. All the same, many men and women, partic ularly in rural communities, love to go about as officials of the United States govern ment asking questions of their neighbors. It gives them a status beyond money. This surviving example of old "spoils system" is at tractive to other people for other reasons. It is like hear ing again a brass band con cert on the courthouse square. Vividly, and nostalgically, it recalls the gaslight era of long ago when the census man, in the little towns of this correspondent's own memory at least, was a pretty big shot. NOW, because all this is part of the game, some of the more excitable Democrats are howling about the dread ful political advantage the census will give to the Repub licans. Howling is standard operating procedure. Just 10 years ago, when the census was in Democratic control, the Republicans were solemnly protesting the Demo cratic monkeyshines then go ing on. Len Hall of New York, then a Republican member of con gress and later chairman of the GOP national committee, deplored the "open recruit ing" of census-takers at a democratic rally in Wis consin. There isn't much doubt he was telling the plain truth then. And there isn't much doubt that much the same thing will go on this time under GOP control. Sermon Without Words To the Editor: This Sermon Without Words from "Lav- man's Voice" may tie in with recent scripture quotations appearing in Communications the last few days. SERMON WITHOUT WORDS Big Bill was humble and quiet And very slow of speech, But he touched the hearts of several His pastor couldn't reach Because he lived the sermon He knew he couldn't preach. M. A. J., (Name on File) Medford. fF course, the u would be Republicans in a bad way indeed if it really were true that the difference between defeat and victory in Novem ber lay solely in 170,000 census people. The jobs will amount to something polit ically, all right, but they could hardly be decisive in any circumstances. There is in this census, how ever, one genuine and basic political opportunity. It is open to young men and women who would like to be professional politicians. Any youngster who can wangle local control of these census jobs-say through an elderly and friendly congressman who isn't too keen about tak ing the trouble to hand them out himself-can build him self the core of a political or ganization by which he him self might one day go to con gress. There isn't any better way for a young man to start. And this political counsel is here offered absolutely with out charge. (Copyright, I960, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Planning Ahead To the Editor: Congratula tions on the excellent editor ial ("On Good - Neighborli ness") which appeared in the Jan. 20 edition of the Med ford Mail Tribune. My wife's parents in Medford mailed us a copy several weeks ago, as well as subsequent clippings showing your community's growing awareness of the value of far-sighted planning. For the same reason that a citizen carefully plans and budgets for his home before investing his money and his family's future in a lot and house, so should a city con sider the importance of plan ning tailored to fit the pres ent and future needs of that particular municipality. Al though change and growth can often benefit a city, im minent change also demands a responsibility to be met by farseeing, compreh ensive planning, taking into consid eration numerous complex factors. Recommendations for streets, parks, zoning, schools, water supply and sewage dis posal are but a few of the ele ments which must be support ed by factual data justifying them and their cost. Conclu sions as to the probable char acter of future growth, and the extent and kind of its re quirements must be based on thorough population, eco nomic, and land use studies. The experiences of large and small communities throughout the nation have proven that the cost to a com munity of having a sound planning program will be realized over and over again in the savings which accrue to a community because of competent advance planning, mutually developed by re sponsible citizens and profes sional planners. Best wishes to you and the Valley community for con tinued success in your growth and progress. If our firm can be of any assistance to you, please call upon us at your convenience. Robert S. Clark, Clark-Coleman Associates, 2266 NW Lovejoy, Portland 10, Ore. to it, but those who do have no more time for the Bible as God's word than they have for Li'l Abner. The NCC de liberately translated the latest Revised Version of the Bible to evade the Divinity of Christ and play it down. In the 1930's many liberal churchmen thought Commu nism was a good place to start to bring in this Kingdom of God. They accepted Russia's Constitution of 1937, which is more liberal than our own in guaranteeing freedom, and chose to believe Stalin when he said that as soon as he killed off the peasants who opposed the State (over 15 million killed in about two years) he would give these freedoms. Now, 25 years later, few who supported Commu nism do so. They are trusting the UN instead. The aim is the same. One World in Peace under one leader. The Bible says they won't make it. Parker Bailey, 542 V2 'A' St., Ashland, Ore. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS In New York the other day, Dean Edward Barrett of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, offered the inter esting opinion that in the average newspaper of today the public gets too much froth and too little substance. Why? Well, he says, the public gets too much froth because too few people WANT sub stance. The newspaper is a private business enterprise. Like the grocery store or the apparel shop, it has to give its customers what they want. Otherwise, they won t buy. HE ADDS: "In too many American cities, the newspaper is me diocre at best, radio news is available chiefly in an end less repetition of five-minute capsules and television news is often non-existent at norm al evening listening hours. "As a result, the thoughtful citizen who seeks to be rea sonably well informed must make EXTRAORDINARY ef forts to do so." Foreign Notebook: Cardinal's Health, Leaders Traveling By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Concern Church scources very re cently in Rome report anxiety over the state of health of 5fcjpS Vatican Secre tary of State D o m e n i c o Cardinal Tar dini. Official ly, he is suf fering from influenza. But private re ports s a y he QWl also has a hii Kewsnm n e a r t condi tion that is causing concern. Tardini is compa r a t i v e 1 y young for a cardinal - he will be 72 on Feb. 29; 18 of the 78 cardinals are 80 years or old er. Three are 88. 3 Naming The Issues With the East-West summit meeting still three months away, chief spokesmen for both sides are on the road - President Eisenhower in South America and Soviet Premier Nikfta Khrushchev touring Asia. Neither side is losing any opportunity to place its case before the pub lic. As the London economist said, "this is the time for the statesmanlike stiffening of terms, less to frighten the enemy than to stifle critics at home." Thornton Rules on School Tax Base Salem - OIPD - The tax base for an administration school district formed under the school reorganization law is determined by the tax base of the most populous district among the districts that make up the new one. This opinion has been an nounced by Attorney Gener al Robert Y. Thornton. The question was raised by re organization of school districts in Coos county. When a new district is form ed out of various previous school districts, Thornton said, the latter are "deemed to be annexed" by the most populous district. If the boundaries of the most populous district are not expanded by the inclusion of a union high school district, then the old tax base of the union high school would be disregarded, he said. Politics The death of Korean Presi dent Syngman Rhee's only op ponent in the March 15 presi dential election, rather than making it a one-sided battle, has added heat to the race. With Rhee's age as a factor, the vice presidential race now is just that much more im portant since the Koreans do not elect president and vice president on a single ticket. Rhee's running mate, Lee Ki-, Poog, is given the edge by most observers but his op ponents are going all out to re-elect Vice President John Myun Chang. JACK PAAR 'UPSET' Hong Kong-(UPD-Television star Jack Paar, enjoying a vacation after his tiff with the National Broadcasting Co., ar rived here Sunday from Hono lulu and immediately called for a doctor to treat him for an upset stomach. Paar and his wife planned to stay here until Thursday when they will go to Tokyo. Secret Weapons An important new weapon is to be added to U. S. de fenses in Korea shortly. De tails cannot be revealed but its introduction into the Kore an theater will make Ameri can commanders breath a lot easier. Catastrophes Kill Over 1,400 Persons in 1959 w MANY DEFECTIVE SHOES Moscow - (UPD - Of 672,000 pairs of boots and shoes checked from a Moscow shop recently, nearly 50,000 "were found to be defective," the government newspaper Iz cestia reported. FLIGHT VETERAN DIES New York-(UPD-John Carisi, 75, who helped organize the first Transatlantic passenger flight, died Sunday. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- HOWARD SMITH tells about two old golfing pals who took the game so seriously, and worried so because neither could break 110, that they had to consult a psycho analyst. Lroii is sup posed to be a relaxation, not a cause of more ten sion," said the analyst "Now the next time you play, don't use a ball. Swing your clubs, get the exercise, and walk 18 pleasant holes under the sunny skies." The two followed his advice, and had a won derful time for about two weeks, comparing imaginary scores that im p roved steadily. Then they came back to the analyst, more upset than ever. "What do we do now?!" they implored. Both of us are scoring 18 for 18 holes. We know one of us is a liar, but we can't find out who!" . A 9-year-old. boy signalled the driver of a Fifth Avenue bus, who obligingly brought hie vehicle to a stop, law or no law, in the middle of the block. "I just want to be sure," said the boy. "Is this the bus that goes to the dentist's?" 1960, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by Kin Features Syndicate The Bible Says . . . To the Editor: The latest Congressional publicity stunt concerning the Air Force Re serve manual on Communism and Churches contains a great amount of truth. While the author undoubtedly will be court-martialled, the state ments I read in UPI's account are true. However, they should not be interpreted in the way most people would interpret them. The author claims the press prints only what government allows it to print. Regarding national and world issues, this is true. "Security" can cover anything the brass find handy to stamp. He likes this. I don't. The present missile debate is a good example. Only those who resign from government can tell the truth. Trevor Gardner was fired in 1956 for "violating security." He dis agreed with his superiors. He "leaked" information to re porters. He had to "resign." Others have followed and written books they never could in uniform. - Liberal church leaders have supported and in ome cases joined the Communist party. They did not support Com munism as such, but saw a means to an end. Shortly after 1900 "educated" churchmen decided the Bible no longer was adequate. They claimed Science and especially Evolu tion outdated it. Therefore, it was no more divine than the Medford Mail Tribune, but had an inaccurate and dis torted history of Israel, plus a reasonably accurate biogra phy of one Jesus of Nazareth who lived and taught and was crucified and died and stayed in the grave. Period. End of story. They did approve of a few of His teachings, however, and took it upon themselves to usher in the Kingdom of God on Earth all by themselves by just getting people to fi nance their program through church contributions. The Na tional Council of Churches carries out this program to day. Not all churches belong HY this situation? Dean Barrett thinks the fundamental reason is that modern mankind wants acute ly to be ENTERTAINED but isn't too much concerned with gaining useful knowledge. So He says in effect Modern man tends to buy those newspapers that enter tain him and to refrain from buying those that insist on feeding him with a diet of useful information. And, in creasingly, he turns to radio and television which feed him entertainment with a soup ladle and give him use ful information with an eye dropper. HE CONCLUDES that the newspaper that concen trates prime attention on re porting and interpreting the news has a much better chance than the one that strives to make entertainment its main appeal, and adds: "The paper that overem phasizes entertainment values will be in for trouble because it is bound to fall behind television and radio in enter tainment values." The point he makes is that ! entertainment is the business of TV and radio. Reporting and interpreting the news is the business of the newspaper. What he is saying to his journalistic brethren is: "Shoemaker, stick to your last." IN CONCLUSION, I'd like to add a word. j Dean Barrett lives in a huge i city. He reads the newspapers j of a huge city. Like the rest j of us, he is inclined to be in- I fluenced by his environment. ! The news is based on peo- ' pie - people and what they do. ! News about people we KNOW is immensely more interesting j than news about people we j don't know and never even I heard of. In our huge cities, j people really know very few j other people. Their acquain tance is apt to be confined to those with whom they are as sociated in their day-to-day jobs. In the big cities, people seldom know even their next door neighbors. OO- The big metropolitan news papers can tell interestingly only of the kind of people whose names are known to everybody - high society peo ple, show people, night spot entertainers, the criminal and the shady type of people who get frequently into the courts. The kind of people who fur nish the FLUFF in the news. In the smaller communities, we know all kinds of people. Not just the people who live in our block. Because we know them, what they do is NEWS to us. For this reason, the news that is reported and interpreted by the smaller newspapers leans much less to entertainment and much more to constructive achievement. It is MEATIER. T'D LIKE to suggest to Dean -Barrett that, for a while, at least, he do more reading of the so - called country press and less reading of the big metropolitans. I think he'll find that out in the country we print BET TER newspapers-newspapers with less fluff and more solid NEWS. New York (UPD "Catastro phes," accidents in which five or more persons lose their lives, killed more than 1,400 persons in 1959, about 150 fewer than in the preceding year, the Metropolitan Life Insurance company reports. Company statisticians said the improved record for 1959 was me resuii oi ine aecreasea number of fatalities in "ma jor catastrophes," accidents in which 25 or more people are killed. Loss of life in major catas trophes dropped from nearly 430 in 1958 to about 175 last year, a toll appreciably low er than for any year since 1941. Four Air Crashes Four of the five major ca tastrophes in 1959 were civil air crashes. A plane plunged into New York City's East river last February, killing 65. Another plane disintegrat ed during a thunderstorm near Baltimore last May. taking 31 lives. A crash near Charlottes ville, Va., in October killed 26. Twenty-five died when a plane rammed a mountain near Williamsport, Pa., in De cember. The fifth major catastrophe was a series of earthquakes last August near West Yellow stone, Mont., in which 29 per sons lost their lives. Fires Blamed Motor vehicles were re sponsible for about two-fifths of the lives lost in all catastro phes last year. Fires and ex plosions were responsible for about one-fourth, and civil aviation for less than one fifth of such deaths. Remaining fatalities were largely due to natural catas trophes and to accidents in volving military aviation, wa ter transportation and railroads. tn'iNe,l.efSI!ppli4 FALSE TEETH Do Mm taetk orae. Hip or wobbla hep you uik. JHiugh or 225 Wkajine (noMda, powder to irta Ue on your pltee. keen tlftM A Gratifying Assurance COMPLETE When your world is turned upside down, turn with confidence to us, where every provision is made for complete service. A fine funeral service need net be expensive. 4HW r I rAi'.Xv. 8 PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
