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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Monday, Feb. 29, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Oregon Keaas rne Man UTiDune" Published Daily except Saturday by MSDFOKD PRINTING CO. S3 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telee. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women' Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav Onlv One year $4.20 Bv 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 uaiiy ana sunaay i mo. i.ou Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire Ofl Telephoto Newspictnrea 7MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS AA-vm-rHttine PpnrpKentntive 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. . NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAt 1 lffiQ enj!gmg..MAi:H-i Flight o' 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. 29, 1950 There wasn't any. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 29, 1940 (Thursday) . Bear Creek overflows, does thousands of dollars damage in Ashland; all train and bus service to California halted because of high waters. - National Perks service re verses stand and decides not to charge for fishing privileges in Crater Lake. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 29. 1930 It came on March 1 year. ' . that 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 29, 1920 (Sunday) Mayor Gates' request for whiskey to use in fighting flu epidemic here denied by Gov ernor. School board raises salaries of local teachers due to rising food costs. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 29, 1910 It wasn't. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or tx is good. 1. What is any year divis ible evenly by four called? 2. What is the capital of Missouri? 3. Is the moon larger, or smaller, than the planet Mer cury? 4. Who was the famous sa loon wrecker, who used the hatchet? 5. Which State was the first to ratify the U.S. Con stitution? 6. In what war did Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant fight on the same side? 7. Are snowflakes four, six, or eight sided? 8. In which State do the Rio Grande and South Plate rivers rise? 9. Is lower California a part of the United States? 10. Who were the first white men known to ; have seen the Mississippi River? Answers: Leap Year. 2. Jefferson City. 3. Smaller. 4. Carrie Nation. 5. Dela ware. 6. Mexican War. 7. Six sided. 8. Colorado. 9. No. 10. De Soto and his fol lowers. Oregon Policemen Attending School Portland - (CPD - Policemen from 18 Oregon cities attend ed a one-day police instruc tor school here today. The school is sponsored by the Oregon . Association of City Police Officers, the FBI and the Portland Police bu reau. Clatskanie Man Smelt Champion Clatskanie (DPD Henry (King) Tepsa of Clatskanie gulped down 84 smelt here to keep his title as the "world's greatest smelt eater." Eleven challengers gave up during the Friday night contest. ... CITIZEN RIGHTS Washington-Citizenship was extended to all Indians in the U. S. by an act of congress dated in 1924. What Is To prove his love of country, must one be callous to the needs of others? Must the true patriot believe that America is all that matters? Or that America can live and be strong, figura tively with a fence around it: In this era of jet tances, one would think these questions. But they are inspired by a recent telephone conservation with an irate reader who strongly resented The Journal s refutation of charges thai Protestant churches are being infiltrated by com munism and its unfavorable reference to Mc- Carthyism. - THE woman caller (who has now canceled her subscription) sounded literate and intelligent But, although herself a Protestant, she resented the churches' concern with "one world" and "brotherhood" ideas. And somehow she equated this concern for other people with communistic thinking. She is interested only in America, bhe believes America is insufficiently aware of the Communist internal threat and that our institu tions and our people who think in international terms are at least dupes of the Communists. It would be easy to say that only an insignific ant minority of our people hold these views, bu this kind of thinking is led by certain publications and writers whose ideas They would have us believe that to be an inter nationalist is not to be a patriot. THE best short answer tc fnm a "Rvnf Viovlinnrl wooV cf atomPTlf. Inv George Romney, president of American Motors Corp. : "Americans cannot selves and leave their brothers around the world in the hell of ignorance, starvation, disease and tyranny. If we seek to do that, the people of the world are going to join destroy us. Even if we wanted her to, America could not possibly live in "splendid isolation." Her safety and security are bound up with the welfare of many otner nations, ana their needs is the surest Those who love America best are the ones who see clearly that she cannot "go it alone," that she must cooperate with other nations and that she must seek to share and brotherhood with them. Oregon Journal, Portland. Newspaper Reading Growing - During the past three or four years we have heard several speakers deplore the fact that news paper circulation is not increasing as fast as the national population. Matter of fact we've heard the story so otten we sort or worried. (Once we even thought of going into the 1. 1 J.T J. i 1 L 3 i diaper Dusmess, since mat, at least, eemeu w have a guaranteed market for years.) But, the worries have used by speakers turn than valid. i T IS time that the national population is growing faster than the number But the large increase course at an early age. the other mght and asked our favorite two-year-old to read it. She tried, but the results were pretty horrible. In other words, it's not surprising that the daily newspaper circulations have not grown as the population because newborn babies don't im mediately become readers. A better yardstick to measure the vitality of daily newspapers is the increase of adult popula tion over 18 years of age. When this comparison is made, it becomes clear that the rate of news paper circulation growth substantially exceeds the growth of the adult population. OINCE 1940, the number of U.S. adults increased 24 per cent. Newspaper circulation (daily) in that period increased 43 per cent. That,- we feel, is a much better comparison. We feel much better On any given day, many read a newspaper than listen to the radio, read a magazine, or watch television. There s apparently no sider the diaper or baby Bulletin. . Why Furnish That collision of a U. Brazilian airliner over Rio de Janiero was sad dening to the people of both countries, and de pressing for the current tour of President Eisen hower in Brazil and elsewhere in Souths Amer ica. Of the 64 aboard 61 them from the U. S. plane. One wonders, though, orchestra were being flown to Brazil, just to pro vide music for the President's reception to Presi dent Kubitschek of Brazil. It looks like rather an expensive addition to the cost. The tour itself will be expensive, but well ing good relations with our Latin American neighbors. But why do we have to furnish the music, too? Oregon Statesman, Salem. A Patriot? travel and shrinking dis it unnecessary to ask are accepted as gospel to this that we have seen build a heaven for them with our enemies and a semsn mauierence w path to destruction. the blessings ot Ireedom people who hunger for vanished. The figures out to be somewnat less of newspaper readers in population comes of We took home the paper about the whole thing. more millions of . persons need to further con food business. Bend the Music? S. Naw plane and a lost their lives, 35 of why the Navy band and worth while in cement Dennis the 1 DON'T lVANTk RED COWSOY SHIRT' YA CANT" SEB THE BLOOD r 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 Use Kind Words To the Editor: I didn't vote for Eisenhower because feared that one so highly trained along certain lines might jump us into war. Since, I have wondered at the wonderful patience he has shown when a leader of an other country has heaped in sults upon us. Now some of our own citi zens nave made remarks against our president, that make me mad in the face! He has been a good leader, and he is ours. We should stand behind him. How can other countries believe in us if we do not respect our head officials and ourselves? I want to ask all voters to be fair: mud-slinging, slurs and sneers only mark the speaker to be other than a gentleman or lady. It is best to bring out the good points in your choice, then should your side lose be a good loser, and accept the other choice. He will like his job better if people help him instead of finding fault. Be the work big, or little, the worker must like his job if he is to do his best. That goes for raising young sters, too. Praise them when they do well, and when they make mistakes, talk and rea son with them. Oldsters and youngsters wish to please others, and both thrive on love, not swatted like flies, Call a child "brat," "pest" or a "meany" and he 11 do his best to live up to it. Stinkers are made, not born. How do know? I refuse to talk! Mrs. John C. Spackman, Jacksonville, Ore. Let's Have More To the Editor: Must tell you how. much our family enjoyed Dottie Harbison's article on 88-year-old George Putman Just that brief peek into such an active and prolific life puts most of us to shame. What a breeze it is to mi grate to Oregon nowadays' in our foam-padded station-wagon with a continuous string of restaurants and motels to ease our aches along the way. Don t misunderstand - this isn't a crack-pot letter saying down with progress - let's wire our wheels and stop fix ing highways." No, no! I'm just a product of modern easy times and can't help but feel overwhelmed with respect for these old-timers who helped smooth the path. We're from back East where history is dished up to school children in cold glass museum-cases and the people who made it are long en tombed under gleaming mar ble. But here you can FEEL it. The past seems to encircle this valley with a warmth and tangibility that gives us "youngsters" the courage to carry on the best we can. Oh, please, let's hear about more Dad futmans. mere must be all sorts of oldsters here who have a story to tell. Let's hear more of them-be-fore it's too late. Mrs. Gordon Peck, Route 1, Box 631, Eagle Point, Ore. Porter's Record To the Editor: Historically, when a serious charge is made and is not answered, the lack of a reply is equal to an' ad mission of the truth of the charge. Congressman Porter did not reply to my last letter to the Editor. "(As you know, he has answered each and every other letter to .the edi tors written by his constitu ents.) i Although, he originally de nied each point, we may now Menace the case- asume that he admits the fol- lowing: (a) He has gone from im mediate recognition of Red China to future recognition after a series of stages, and back to immediate recogni tion. (b) The principal source of information for his speech to Congress entitled "Iron Cur tain Made in U.S.A." was from a Red Chinese official. (c) At one time he endorsed Castro's justice by a statement to the press that "there have been no innocent men exe cuted in Cuba." (d) Most serious, he person ally would have to acknowl edge that his speech to the Dominican exiles on Dec. 19, and telling them that Trujillo would be thrown out of of fice by the first of the year (I960), was the encoragement or incitement of a revolution, and hardly becoming a mem ber of Congress. Now, in his January 1960 Newsletter, he is taking cred it for the construction funds appropriated for the Green Peter Dam and reservoir. The record would show that Congressman Porter's efforts have contributed absolutely nothing to the Green Peter Dam project. Green Peter Dam was on the program for construction in 1954, but had to wait its turn because other projects in the . Willamette Valley flood control system were higher in priority from the standpoint of total bene fits to be derived. In fact, if it had not been for his prede cessor, both Green Peter and Cougar dams might have been included as simple flood con trol dams. After the "benefit to cost" ratio was applied, there was demonstrated the advisability,-of reauthorizing the two dams as projects in cluding power generation to be fed into the great power system. Is this the record "that speaks for itself"? Joe B. Richards, 2820 Elinor St., Eugene, Ore. Auction Success To the Editor: The Phoenix Lions express their apprecia tion to everyone who attended our Cemetery Project auction, and made it a huge success. Work has already started to beautify the Phoenix cem etery. J. G. Klassen, President Phoenix Lions Club, Phoenix, Ore. Can't Please Them To the Editor: Try as hard as we can, we Republicans are having the greatest difficulty pleasing the Democrats this campaign. Since Nixon has no appar ent competition for presiden tial nomination, the Demo crats assert that the "old guard bosses" are running the party. If we had several men in the race, as when Eisen hower and Taf t ran, that would be proof the GOP is hopelessly divided. ' The Democrats point to the democracy" in their party in that half a dozen men are competing for the prize, ig noring the fact that most are running in opposite direc tions, .pausing only long enough to assail their fellows. Morse of course is mainly standing still and throwing hatchets into the backs of the real contenders. What is the status of the Democrats? Factional fights up North-the ADA-New Deal Humphrey is opposing the Roosevelt, clan -backed Ken nedy while the Truman -supported Symington hopes to pick up the pieces. The anti- civil rights and anti-integra- West Does Research To Find Why Leap Year Day Needed; Here's the Result By DICK WEST Washington -(DPD I have decided to throw caution to the winds and explain to you why this is 1 e a p year day. I do so de spite a lesson I should have learned a few weeks ago when I came to grips with Dick West another calendar peculiarity. On that occasion, someone brought to my attention that 1959 had 53 weekly paydays instead of 52, which I under stand is par for the course. Washington Report By WILLIAM TO THE INDEPENDENTS Washington - Vice-President Richard Nixon has already marked off the one truly criti cal battle area dential cam paign. He is i moving into it with no effort at concealing either his pur- As heir-ap- WiwhHeS- Parent to the Republican presidential nomi nation, Mr. Nixon is openly tion branch of the Democrats is running Johnson. Morse of course is running himself with some piffling labor endorse ment as in Portland. The fact is that Nixon has received training in the duties of the presidency as no other candidate has been indoctrin ated by his chief since per haps in the early days of the Republic when Jefferson trained Madison and Madison educated Monroe; It has been reported that Truman had not even been told of the atom bomb by FDR. The Democratic party actu ally consists of two or more, generally more, parties mas querading as one. The East-land-Sparkman "solid South" faction has nothing in com mon with the Northern ADA New Deal group, which is it self split hopelessly among Trumanites, Rooseveltites, Stevensonites and other smal ler ADA minorities and big spenders. The only thing :hat holds them in a loose confed eration is love of office and desire to hold congressional committee chairmanships. Let congress ever elect chairman on merit instead of seniority and thelast bonds of Demo cratic party cohesion would be severed. Arthur L. Crookham, 2005 NE 38th st. Portland, Ore. ' All Adult's Fault To the Editor: How much worse must juvenile delin quency get before we adults admit it's all our fault and change our ways? We are their teachers. They pattern their lives after ours. In trying to be broadmind- ed. the world discarded all its standards and about all its morals. You do what you can get by with. No one frowns on anybody. They just do a lot of talking behind your back So the youngsters take their tips from us. They do not see much real honesty. They soon get the idea, it is what you can get by with. They do not see much sincerity. So in what can they put their trust? They are shocked at first at the things they see oldsters do, but grad ually come to it themselves It's accepted. The adults al low filthy literature, films and institutions exist. Why be better than the adults? Didn't hoodlism begin after T.V. shows began showing bar room brawls that wrecked everything in sight? And hasn't killing increased since we are fed a constant diet of it on T.V.? Juvenile delinquency will keep getting worse until adult delinquency decreases. May be we adults are asking for something we aren't going to like. Maybe we better think it over and begin doing some thing before it is any later. Frances Ray , Ralston, Wash. Poisoned Water To the Editor: Reading items of news and informa tion you and other publishers put out has made many a housewife and . mother per turbed over the water we have" to drink from either bur wells or even our city water. There are so many chem icals being put oh the soil, so many different sprays, insec ticides, pesticides, weed kill ers, brush killers and other agricultural chemicals being used on land and plants. These will dissolve in water and enter the soil and can in time reach. our underground water streams, which are the Things like that make me nervous so I went to consid erable trouble to determine where the extra payday came from. This information I pass ed along to my readers. I wish now that I had let them shift for themselves. Some readers claimed they had a clear understanding of the situation until they read my explanation. Others said they hadn't been aware that the situation existed and pre ferred it that way. Quotes Mountain Climber That being the case, you may well ask why I am now undertaking to explain about leap year. I can only answer in the oft-quoted words of the S. WHITE centering all his planning on the so-called Independent vote. He seeks also, of course, such help as may, be had from rebellious Democrats. ' He is not really bothering much about the regular Re publican voters. For, though he himself would never put it so baldly, the plain fact is that he has got the orthodox and old guard Republicans al ready. His whole basic strategy frankly accepts that he can not win simply with the votes of these traditional Republi cans. In the country at large more - or - less Democrats out number more-or-less Republi cans by the millions. The In dependents are the swing forces. That is the operative fact which Nixon is confront ing with characteristically cool realism. TIE word is being passed that a Nixon presidency would be in some ways more "modern" even than the "modern Republican" presi dency of Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon himself is going out of his way to beard and to per suade the liberal Independent in his very den. He is taking every, opportunity to talk to university faculty and student groups, which tend to regard themselves as simply too Inde pendent for words. The Nixon campaign policy, moreover, Increasingly en courages pro-Nixon groups in which political Independents (people who claim no allegi ance to either party) occupy the top places. Disappointed or angry Democrats are warm ly welcomed, too. Now, 500 campaign "clubs" are already quietly operating over the . country-and more than 400 of these don't even use the word "Republican." They simply use the words "For Nixon." One of the most important of these, in terms of potential, is "Midwestern ers for Nixon." This organiza tion, which is based in Chi cago, covers five states - Illi nois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. rpHE late "Mr. Republican," Sen. Robt A. Taft, of Ohio, always glumly claimed that an "Independent" was really only a concealed Democrat anyhow and would vote that way on election day. Nixon, a far abler political operator, takes precisely the opposite view. He assumes-and Mr. Eisen hower's two overwhelming victories sustain him in theory at least-that the Independ ents, in fact, form the great key to presidential success for the Republicans. Thus, day by day Nixon is moving farther and farther away from an close identifi cation with the old guard. In the latest of many recent ex amples of this, he has come out against the double oath source of water for our wells, Soon will be the season when sprays, dangerously poi son, will be sprayed along highways and our water ditch es, they say to keep the weeds down. The breeze carries a lot of this into our irrigation water. When this poison water runs through our pasture, the cow will drink of this run ning water, even if a tank of pure water is close by. They don't know about 2-4-D. We hate to see our stock, land and ourselves exposed to this poison. I would like to quote from, These Precious Days," New Yorker magazine, Dec. 12, 1959, pg. 194-195, "Water pol luted by - chemicals was dis covered in wells in a small area of Adams County, Colo rado, last month.. The source of the contamination was the Rocky Mountain arsenal three miles away, which produce a weed killer called 2,4,D," Residents of the area are now drinking water Irom tank trucks. It is time for an all-out public effort to protect our water supply from these poi sons. Water is ; vital to our health and we want it pure. - . Mabel Harmon 1035 Cherry st,' .-' Medford. mountainclimber: "because It is there." Let us begin the ascent to leap year understanding by examining the basic rule used to determine which year leaps. Briefly stated, the rule re quires that an extra day be added to every year which is represented by a number div isible by four, except those divisible by 100 but not by 400. Anyone who can under stand that will have no trou ble reaching the summit. This brings us to the year 45 B.C. and Julius Caesar, who wanted his name on a calendar and drew up one based on an Egyptian calcula tion. After that, the Romans nev er trusted the Egyptians again. The Egyptians figured that Foreign Notebook: Spanish Bases, Algerian Problem By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Castles In Spain Allied diplomats with a sense of humor now are refer ring to West Germany's pro posed military bases in Spain as "castles in Spain"-mean- itltf 4hav s. i m never come to pass. Germans feel they are being blamed unfairly for 1 1 e m p ting Phil Newxom somethino to which they were incited by NATO military planners. But they do hope that as result of uie uproar. France mav now offer Bonn exclusive use of an air base somewhere in southern France when ther is good flying weather about J00 days yearly. . Chips Down President de flaull nnur embarked on the most deli cate phase of his plan for solving France's uroblem in Algeria. It will not catch of loyalty required of students seeking college loans from the federal government One oath, ne suggests, is enough. This, of course, is the pre ferred position of nearly all Independents-not to mention a majority of the Democrats The fact that Nixon has taken it up has not been lost on the Democrats-or on the Re publican organization people, eitner. rpHE current monthly Demc cratic Digest uses 14 pages in an attack on what it calls "Nimble Nixon." The effort is to show that the vice-president is presenting himself as "a liberal Republican" but at heart is an old guardist. At the same time, the editor of the Republican National Committee publication, called "Battle Line," Jack McDon ald, is Circulating a roundup of public opinion polls seeking to show the reverse. These polls try to suggest that far from being bad news to the Independents Nixon is good news to them, indeed. McDon ald describes this as his own personal effort, and not that of the national committee. But, of course, the point is made just the same. (Copyright, 1960, Br United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 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 fin funeral service need not be expensive. V V la the earth revolved around the sun in 365 days and six hours. Caesar thus made his calen dar 365 days long, threw in an extra day every fourth year to take up the slack and let it go at that. He tacked the extra day on to February because that was then the last month in the Roman year But let's not go into that. Along about the 16th cen tury Pope Gregory VIII notic ed that spring seemed to be coming a little early and, up on investigation, discovered that the Julian Calendar was 11 days ahead of schedule. He told everybody to for get about the 11 days and de vised a new calendar which dropped one leap year every four centuries. This still was not precisely accurate but at least it gave us something we can live with. headlines but, with his moral victory over rebellious French settlers behind him, de Gaulle now is working at building up a pro-French "middle force" in Algeria. He does believe that by hammering away at the economic and moral facts, he can win support of the bulk of the nine million Mos lems and a good part of the one million colons. Passing Parade West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer may be the next of the high ranking dig nitaries to visit India in an attempt to sway Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru. Presi dent Eisenhower was there in December, Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov in Janu ary, Khrushchev in February and now it may be Adenauer in March on his way back from Japan. Both East and West recog nize Nehru's importance as a neutral spokesman and both have left no stone unturned to place their views before him in advance of this spring's summit meeting. Parliamentary Storm Great Britain's Laborite op position is in an uproar over the $325 million hike in Brit ain's defense spending. They will offer censure motion against the government when debate on the big defense bill comes up this week. . Willamette Manor Plans Expansion Portland - (OPD - Willamette View Manor, a Milwaukie re tirement home, Saturday an nounced plans for a new 10 story 400-apartment unit at a cost of between $5 million and $6 million. The present Manor and its recently built Court annex have 361 apartments and houses 487 persons. The Manor has options on about six acres on which to erect the new building. New Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Llttlt Worry Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without (ear of Insecure falae teeth dropping, lipping or wobbling. PASTEETH hold plates firmer and more com fortably. This pleasant powder has no rummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline (non-add). Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). 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