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I MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforA Or. Thursday, Feb. 25, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Orefoa. Reads The Mail Tribune" l Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 13 North Fir St. Ph SP2-gl41 ROBERT W. RUHLs Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Xntered as second class matter at MecUord. 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 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $450 -By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. 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Al AS(sbcfoTlf& c w w Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1950 (Saturday) Britain's Labor party wins slim one-seat majority in the 623-seat British parliament in general elections. . - General Motors trimmed workers wages two-cents an hour yesterday and reduced price of cars from $10 to $40 apiece depending on the make. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1940 (Sunday) The movie version of Mar garet Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" opens at the Cra . terian theater. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Some upstate big-bugs had break fast yesterday with Col. Tou Velle of Jacksonville, the emi nent hobnobber." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1930 (Tuesday) A legislative interim com mittee recommended yester day that Oregon adopt the cabinet form of government for state administration. The chairman of the Sen ate Indian Affairs committee condemned on the senate floor the administration of the Klamath Indian reservation as being "disgraceful." ( 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 25, 1920 (Thursday) Government troops were sent yesterday to the trial of I.W.W.'s in Montesano, Wash., who are charged with murder in the Centralia Armistice JDay parade, to prevent mob violence. Flu epidemic closes more schools in state including Eu gene's yesterday. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 25. 1910 (Friday) Construction starts on a railroad from Gold Hill to the lime deposits four miles west of there; hopes are to develop new industry in valley. Rogue fruitgrowers are looking for somebody to be come the first U.S. weather observer in Medford, a job which offers no salary. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or n is good. 1. Are the Federal Reserve banks owned by the U.S. gov ernment? 2. What is a cygnet? 3. The short full skirt worn by Greek men is called a pan tanella, fustanella, or skirret? 4. What is the purpose of the ostrich sticking his head in the sand? 5. In what New England state is Plymouth Rock? 6. A document which shows the transfer of ownership of real estate from one person to another is known as what? 7. Under which President did Henry Wallace serve as vice president? . 8. Do various Insects have varying numbers of legs? 9. In what state are the famed Carlsbad Caverns? 10. What seal appears on the back of a One Dollar Sil ver Certificate? Answers: 1. No. 2. A young man. 3. Fustanella. 4. To took water. . 5. . Massachusetts. ..8. Deed. 7. F. D. Roosevelt. 8. No. (All insects have six legs.) 9. New Mexico. 10. Great Seal 4A . Saving the Wilderness... Throughout the nation, certain lands in fed eral ownership are set areas. . Some of them are of them are wildlife refuges. And some of them are in national forests, est service's concept of the greatest number in Some people argue of the forest service's use" of forest properties. But it isn't. THE "multiple use" concept does not mean that every acre of national forest shall be devoted to grazing, lumbering, recreation and watershed protection, all at once. This isn't pos sible. But it does mean that, in the overall picture, lands should be devoted to their best purposes some for logging, some for recreation, some for grazing, and so on. Thus, multiple use large area, through single-purpose use in smaller areas within the large TTHE "wilderness area" concept receives lip- service from some segments of the lumber in dustry. But these same segments are the ones which are constantly trying to derness we now have; nibble even harder as rises, and the demand creases. Even now this process is under way in the Olympic peninsula, closer to home in the Three Sisters Wilderness area, out the nation. DEFORE the Congress a bill which would areas. Now note : It does NOT call for the creation of new wilderness lands; it merely provides stat utory protection for those in existence. The idea is that the to enter and despoil the successfully resisted if they are designated by law, than if they are designated by agency regu lation. Once gone, the wilderness is gone forever. Let's hold on to it for and children s children. ...And Some may ask, "Why preserve the wilder ness If, in all honesty, they tion, they probably cannot be answered in any way which would satisfy them. But those who have ventured into the un spoiled and uninhabited lands of our great west, who have watched the wildlife and seen the scenery, unmarred by roads or buildings or power lines or billboards these know there are values here which cannot be measured in dollars and cents. TPHEY know that the remaining acres of wilder- ness land, threatened at every hand by the pressures of civilization, constitute a national resource of magnificence and high worth. The generation now living is the first in the history of this nation to have any worry about preserving for future generations, wilderness areas. Always before, they've just been there, wait ing for those hardy enough to take advantage of them. But now it has come to a point where it is correct to say, as one conservationist did not long ago: "What we save in the next few years is all that will ever be saved." "NE could expand upon the values of the wil- derness. About how they are the last remaining areas where natural ecology can be observed; about how they are as balm in Gilead to those seeking refreshment from the pressures of a mechanical civilization; and about how these values are go ing to become more, not less, important as popu lation, mechanization and "progress" continue their proliferation. But if anyone needs convincing, he probably couldn't be convinced. So it remains for those who believe these values are important to work to see them pre served against the encroachments which threaten them. X7E'D like to wind up this little "sermon" with y a couple of quotations. The first is from David Brower of the Sierra Club. Speaking of the wilderness, he said : "Never have so few taken so much from so many and so fast. The few is us. The many are the un numbered yet to be born in all the time that may lie ahead for man, and who may remember us, if at all, as the generation which, in four short decades, out exploited all history and entered the fifth decade unsatlated." The other is from Samuel Adams, speaking in 1771: "If the liberties of America are ever completely ruined ... it will in all probability be the consequence of a mistaken notion which leads men to acquiesce in measures of destructive tendency for the sake of pres ent ease." "Present ease" is fine and dandy. But what of the f uturel E. A. aside as "wilderness" .. .'. in national parks. Some dedicated under the for "the greatest good to the long run." that this is in violation dedication to "multiple means many uses in one area. nibble away at the wil and which will try to time passes, population for forest products in and elsewhere through at the moment there is preserve our wilderness pressures which will arise wilderness can be more the use of our children, E. A. Why have to ask that ques Dennis the 'CAN 1 RUN MAY fFOfA HOME Today & Tomorrow By Walter DISARMAMENT TALKS Like the weather, "disarma ment" is a subject about which we ail talk and do noth ing. A new round of talks is to begin next month But there is not now an American plan. There is no Allied plan, and in truth, de spite Mr. K.'s speech at the U. N., there is no Soviet plan. Apart from a few small spe cific proposals, Western think ing is based on a condition which it is impossible to ful fill - namely, that there should be universal and un limited inspection of all arma ments. The Soviet proposals rest on an equally invalid and un real condition, which is that all nations should disarm to tally because they trust one another completely. T'HE UNREALITY of the dis- armament policy arises from an agreement among the powers which flies in the face of the lessons of experience This is the agreement that they will try to negotiate dis armament before they negoti ate settlements of the issues which divide them. This can not be done. The powers will not and cannot disarm while they are in conflict on vital issues, such as the future of Germany and the future of Japan. Since the powers are for va rious reasons unable and un willing to negotiate compro mises on the vital issues, they have to talk about something and so they talk about dis armament. Mr. Khrushchev talks about it. Dr. Adenauer talks about it. President Ei senhower talks about it. But they merely talk about it. For they do not mean to disarm while the vital issues are un resolved, and for the time be ing there is no real prospect that they are ready to nego tiate seriously about the vital issues. The powers are in a traffic jam where they cannot move forward and they will not move backward. The jam has become increasingly snarled owing to the delay in proceed ing with the negotiations which were inaugurated with such fanfare last summer. TN HIS address to the Na- tional Press club last week Secretary Herter stated that we have two major goals. The first is "urgently to try to create a more stable military environment." If that can be done, and only if it can be done, will we proceed to our second goal, which is to cut national armed forces and to build up international machin ery to keep the peace. "A more stable military en vironment" is a new and in teresting phrase in the tired 1 a n g u age of disarmament. What does it mean? It means to establish safeguards against surprise attacks. What safe guards? According to our of ficial doctrine in the field of disarmament, the safeguard would lie in the right and the capacity to inspect, to watch, and to investigate the conduct of the great military estab lishments. This is about as easy to accomplish as it is to estab lish a colony on the moon. THERE is, however, another doctrine, a basic strategic doctrine, which holds that the true safeguard against sur prise attack lies in measures to make it impossible to knock out the retaliatory pow er by surprise attack. If, for example, we had a fleet of submarines armed with Po Walter Liigpmann Menace OVZfZ HERE? Lippmann laris missiles, we would have an invulnerable retaliatory power. If we had it, there could be no surprise attack upon this country. It is interesting to note that the military strategic doctrine, which is generally held by the Air Force and by the Navy, is also the Soviet military strategic doctrine. In his re cent speech to the 21st Con gress, Mr. K. discussed at some length the problem of surprise attack. His view was that a surprise attack could not be successful against a very big country. For, said he, there would always be in reserve retaliatory power which the surprise attack could not reach. It is not alto gether clear whether he meant only to reassure the Soviet people that they could not be attacked by surprise, or whether he meant also to warn away some of his own advocates of preventative or preemptive war. TN ANY EVENT, the Soviet doctrine on surprise attack is that the true safeguard against it is to possess an in vulnerable retaliatory power. Whatever we may say in our diplomatic discussion of dis armament, our working doc trine is also based on the in vulnerable deterrent. I have the feeling that we would get on better even with M. K. if we said so. It is a mistake, it seems to me, to treat the discussion ot disarmament as a substitute for the negotiation of our con flicts. The best we can hope for in disarmament is that we can arrive at relatively small agreements which mark a certain accommodation, a certain reduction of friction and tension, in the continuing conflict of our vital interests. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear 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 the case. Keep Looking Up To the Editor: I just won der sometimes what the edi tor of the Mail Tribune real ly thinks about the tone of all these contributions. If every suggestion put forth in these columns were carried out, we'd have some interesting results, I am sure. Our wom enfolk would look different and dress different. Our land scape would be cleared of bill boards. Our smog might be gone. Our channels of com munication might be cleared of the objectionable features now so prominent, and even Mr. Bulman might stop writ ing letters. Speaking of the latter, we've gotten acquainted, that is Bulman and myself. While we may not agree on every point of view we can still converse and act as free thinking Americans. In fact I drove up and vis ited the old gentleman the other day. I happened to have a new garden tractor on board the pickup. Bulman question ed its ability to work virgin, Lpoison oak-covered ground. When I got ready to leave our communications - writing friend was ready to plant his early garden. The next day I found - that his organically grown poison oak had taken effect on yours truly. I'm stUl scratching. Anyone know of a sure cure? We've heard of about 101 so far. Yes, my letters have gotten mt into aome ioterciting ex New Era of Common Market and Economic Independence Dawning in Latin America By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor " Out of the history of revo lutions and rampant, one sided nationalism, a new era is dawning in Latin Amer ica. - Latin Amer- i icans have their eyes fixed on a United States of Latin Amer ica. For the Phi Newiom American bus- inessman operating in South America it means a funda mental change, forerunner of ... West Visits Headquarters For Morse, Tells Impressions By DICK WEST Washington (DPD The "Morse-for-President Club" has set up shop here in a former dis count house next door to a rubber stamp store. I chan hard ly imagine a more incon grouous loca tion. Not even his worst en- ' - 1-1 i Dick West ny is iiKeiy to discount Sen. Wayne Morse, or accuse him of being any body's rubber stamp. I had the pleasure of visit ing the Morse club on the day of its formal opening. This was a new experience in the tour that I have been making of presidential campaign of fices. The other headquarters I have visited already were going concerns. Wind Hampers A brisk wind was whipping across the sidewalk when I arrived at 923 11th street. This made things difficult for three Morse men who were trying to hang a strip of bunt ing across the front of the building. On the inside, a window washer also was having some trouble completing his chores in time for the ceremony. Peo ple kept going in and out of the glass door he was working on, leaving finger marks. One of the bunting-hangers was sporting a lush growth of jet black whiskers. I won dered if this means that Morse had the support of the local beatniks, but he said he grew the beard to dramatize a cam paign to win "statehood" for the District of Columbia. While these preparations were going on, a florist's truck drove up and delivered a big, horseshoe-shaped wreath with a gold ribbon which spelled out the words "Good Luck Senator, This led to some discussion as to whether a horseshoe which pointed downward, as was the case with the wreath, wasn't a symbol of bad luck. Opinion on this point was di vided. There also was some jocu lar - speculation that the wreath was sent over by Sen. John F. Kennedy or some other presidential candidate name and address of the writer, periences. The wife is tired of it and of about anyone else who writes. Some of the rela tives don't like it and so on. In spite of it all, we've made a host of new friends. At least they are friendly to my face. (I did hear of one gentleman a while back who told an other friend that Johnson's letters were . . .?! etc., etc. To my face he told me how much he enjoyed them.) There are a lot of things I don't like either. At this point we follow about the same procedure outlined by your editor sometime ago. He has found a knob which turns off certain programs. When we note a saturation of beer ads on Foster and Kleiser's billboards as one approaches Ashland, we take the advice of one of them. It says, "It's the water." So we drink the water, as it implies. Yes, one needs to use some common horse sense in his journey through life. Let's not get all tied up in knots jumping at individuals. Let's set our sights upward and above the sordid and debas ing things of earth. God still rules above it all. Henry Johnson Jr., 2400 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. Operators Praised To the Editor: I would like to take this means of express ing my appreciation for the Quick and prompt tervict by which was last week's seven- nation agreement in Monte video, Uruguay, looking to ward formation of a common market in South America. William L. F. Horsey, UPI chief correspondent in Buenos Aires, reports that the day is gone when any kind of man ufactured product can be shipped to Latin American countries and find an immed iate and ready market. Most lines now are manufactured in the countries themselves. Cites Expansion An example is the current expansion of a DuPont affil iate's production capacity for nylon yarn and cellophane. with a card reading "Rest In Peace." I learned, however, that the floral tribute was ordered by Al Foreman, a Portland, Ore., theater owner and long-time Morse supporter who happen ed to be in here on business. The Oregon senator, as you know, is noted for his forensic ability. One of the Senate's most frequent and enduring speakers, he holds the current record for long-distance debate. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE EISENHOWER PUZZLE Washington - This city is full, these days, of stories il lustrating the markedly in creased touchiness of Presi- d e n t Eisen hower's temp er. One of the Presiden's ab lest and most loyal support ers on Capitol Hill, Sen. Styles Bridges of New Hamp- iOSEPH ALSOP Shlre tries t0 tell him that the country is worried by the weaknesses of the national defense program. The President turns crimson, then white, with fury, and launches into a volcanic tirade against the presumptuous per sons who have dared to sug gest that such weaknesses ex ist. And the same subject triggers the same reflexes again, at subsequent Presi dential meetings with Con gressional leaders and others Or at the White House pre sentation of the request for foreign aid funds. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn ven tures to suggest the country cannot understand skimping our own public works and our own defenses, while we are so generous in our assist ance to the public works and defenses of other nations Once more the President shows the same successive re- actions-the quick, hot flash, then the whiteness along the jaw, and then the spate of angry words. Or these same reactions might be caused by a quite ordinary question at a press conference. It has hap pened twice, indeed, in the last month. ri A MAN no longer young, who is the obiect of the Byzantine adulation of the Eisenhower White House, there is nothing abnormal or the telephone operator on the morning of Jan. 3, when I fell and broke my leg. I live alone and had to crawl to the telephone. I reached up to the stand but was unable to see the dial numbers so just dialed for the operator. She answered immediately and I asked her to call my doctor for me. She not only called him promptly and had him on his way, she also called a neign bor and had them come to stay with me until the doctor arrived. I am now resting in a nurs ing home. I can say our oper ators are not only efficient and courteous, but are prov ing they are on the job and not sitting around drinking coffee as some previous let ters have indicated. Mrs. Ada Dunham 16 Misletoe st. Medford Living Foods Again To the Editor: When we sent in our letters last week, describing our standards for living foods, it was our in tention to advertise these pro ducers in the Tribune as a community service. This ad will appear in the Tribune for Friday, Feb. 26. Anyone interested should cut out this ad and file it for reference. We realize there must be others who also produce foods that meet our standards but we could not include you this time because we do not know who you are. This we regret so very much Anna M. S treed 36 North Peach st. Medford i The new machinery was built entirely in Argentina and on a staff of 4,000 only five are North Americans. In 1937, there were 50 U.S. foremen and technicians and 400 workers. Heavy machinery, inven tions, patent rights and gen eral know-how are now the greatest commodities that U.S. businessmen now have to sell to their South American coun terparts. Lack of faith in Latin American stability - both po litical and economic-has been a factor up to now in prevent ing many firms from invest ing in the area. Fortunately for those of us who enjoy a good stump per formance, the candidate him self showed up for the head quarters opening and treated us to a 30-minute sample of his oratory. For Morse, this wasn't even a good warm-up. As I was leaving, I noticed there was a church across the street. On its bulletin board was the following announce ment: "Quiet hour here every Wednesday." surprising in this quick testi ness, this angry response to any hint of doubt or dissent. But it demands notice, be cause it is also a significant fact of our current political life. It helps to explain, for instance, why the President's farewell speech before his South American journey con tained at least one flat mis statement of fact. Speaking of our nuclear de terrent, the President assert ed, with great emphasis and with no qualification what ever, that this "force (was) not subject to elimination by any sudden attack." Made without qualification, that statement is wholly mislead ing if not plainly untrue. ' If the National Intelligence Estimates correctly depict So viet power, to be sure, the statement is precariously true But if the estimates are just a little bit wrong, as they have invariably been in the past, the statement is quite false. In the latter case, surprise immeasurably more terrible than the surprise of Pearl Harbor may well be possible, perhaps already and more probably in a year or so f)N THIS point, the facts "speak for themselves. The brilliant man the President has put in charge of the Amer ican deterrent, the U. S. Stra tegic Air Commander, Gen. Thomas Power, has stated un der oath that the entire de terrent can be "virtually wip ed out" by surprise attack, if the Soviets merely possess 150 operational ICBMs. If the National Estimates are only wrong by a margin of 150 ICBMs, by no means a large number of these weapons, then the error is far from unprecedented. It is also not beyond the limits of normal error in any nation's intelli gence estimates. No one can suppose that Dwight D. Eisenhower would knowingly make a statement to the nation without quali ' knm turn RANK MOtGAN - HMOLD DAY Ot NfSHT k - 'ft 4 x-'y : fit South Americans say these conditions rapidly are disap pearing, and they cite exam ples. For instance: With U. S. help, Chile, Ar gentina, Uruguay. Paraguay, Peru and other Latin Ameri can nations have halted gal loping inflation and started the painful road back to fi nancial stability. Trade and private enterprise both have been given a freer hand to develop. The Wilson Meat Packing Co. in Buenos Aires has been able to streamline its opera tion and rid itself of needless intervention under the old dictatorship of Juan Peron. American mining compa nies long have nad confidence in South American business. The common market wid ens the field for American businessmen and their associ ates. Kaiser automobiles went into Brazil and Argentina with local interests. The Bra zilian plant already is export ing to Paraguay and Chile, and the Argentina plant can not keep up with local de mand. fication, while he also knew the statements truth depended on such vitally important qualifications. Yet the most honorable man can unknowingly make an un true statement. He is too like ly to do so, in fact, if he is a President who has never enjoyed digging into the de tails of problems, who is serv ed and secluded by his staff as though he were an icon, who grows frighteningly an gry, too, when his settled opinions are challenged. Thus the President's irritability, which has always existed but has grown noticeably greater, is seen to be a key part of a major puzzle. rpHERE are other part of -- the same puzzle. There is the deep displeasure that the President has always visited on overly independent, in conveniently outspoken mili tary leaders. There is the curi ous contrast, so suggestive oi character differences, be tween the subsequent career of the military leaders who have left the service under a cloud with Eisenhower and their comrades who have de parted in high favor. AU members of the former group are now earning their civilian livings with distinguished pro priety. Too many of the lat ter are in profitable, flagrant practice as lobbyists. There is the further fact that the President never seri ously consults, face to face, the men who have direct re sponsibility for our deterrent. for our missile programs, and for the other most important parts of the defense machine. There is the still further fact that the judgments of these men with direct responsibility have always weighed less heavily, with all Eisenhower- era Secretaries of .Defense, than the carefully compro mised, politically conscious judgment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-that body both warp ed by inter-service rivalries and too full of men respon sive to the higher pressures 'not to stick your neck out." Look, for a moment, at these parts of the puzzle. You can then see why the coun try ought to look, not at the President on a television, screen, but at the hard reali ties of the national situation. Copyright I960, New York '. Herald Tribune Inc. tha Cmnmm. SNOOGCASS, FUMIAl MKTOK PHONE SP 2-8030