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v MAIL TRIBUNE. Maihti. Or. Monday, March 7, 1960 1 UESFORDtkwTBIBUIfB "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" IubUshed Daily except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 3 North Fir St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RXJHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAxp t Latham, bus. Mgr EMC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL HDAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor MCHARD JEWJTT. Sports Editor STARCITER, Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An IndpnpnHpnt Vmnnow 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 S not. 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, Talent and on motor routes, . Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 , Dally and Sunday 1 mo. 150 ' Carrier and Dealers copy 10c m ah xerms cash m Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wiro tfl Telephoto Newsplctures . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO- INC. Of- t fices in New York. Chicago Tie. ', troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. oeaiue. rortiana. st. Louis. At- - lania. Vancouver, ba;. V NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS -ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E0ITORI At LSfpKgkTlQl 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 March 7. 1950 (Tuesday) Rogue Basin development project reportedly well on way to being approved; local delegation now in Washing ton conferring with interior officials. Medford city councilmen may discuss the daylight sav ing time issue at tonight's council meeting, Mayor Dia mond Flynn announces. 20 YEARS AGO Much 7. 1940 (Thursday) City police are arresting traffic regulation violators and making them put up $1 in bail before releasing them at a result of recent crack down. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Spring is brightening up the valley, and it's time to clean the al ley, via a proclamation by the Mayor." 30 YEARS AGO ' ' March 7. 1930 (Friday) Work has begun on Crater Lake road to eliminate "death curve" near Prospect. Petitions circulating here and in Portland for banning of cigarettes from state. 40 YEARS AGO March 7. 1920 (Sunday) Greater Medford club will hold tag day to raise funds for free auto camp grounds. County teachers are indig nant at refusal of school board to hire a number of veteran teachers. 50 YEARS AGO March 7. 1910 (Monday) Medford office of Postal Telegraph . and Cable com pany announces it will begin rendering night letter serv ices up to 50 words, starting tonight. Rise in meat prices on local market brings price of prime beef to 4 to 4V4 cents a pound, steers 5 to 5V4 cents and hogs 8 to 8V4 cents. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or in is good. 1. Coffee grows in pods; true or false? 2. Is reveille a morning, or an evening, bugle call? 3. wnicn weigns more, a gallon of salt water, or a gal lon of fresh water? 4. In what country is the Ti ber river? 5. What is the capital of Ne vada? 6. A tribunal that exercises arbitrary powers behind closed doors is sometimes called a star . 7. Where are the ruins of the famous Parthenon of the Acropolis? 8. What European nation has maintained its indepen dence for more than six hun dred and sixty five years? 9. How many, divisions, or signs has the Zodiac? 10. What important metal is obtained from bauxite ore? Answers: 1. Falsa. 2. Morn ing. 3. Salt water. 4. Italy. 5. Carson City. 6. "Star Cham ber." 7. Athens. Greece. 8. Switzerland. 9. Twelve. 10. Aluminum. 'Odd Set A recent contributor to the Letters to the Editor Column complains, "What an odd set of values we must have if we insist our schools must avoid the slightest tax increase in spite of in creased enrollment .. The public's support of education doesn't necessarily reflect its attitude towards education, strange as that sounds. If all school districts had to do to get financial support was to arouse pub lic sympathy, their job would be easy. In "sell ing" benefits for children, school districts are offering a highly marketable product. The Amer ican public enjoys nothing more than indulging its children. ' In order to understand the school tax squeeze, however, we must look at the entire tax picture. Starting at the top, we don't vote directly on federal taxes, so we have no chance to reject them. What's more, President Eisenhower prom ises us a four billion dollar surplus this year, if Congress will go along. ' ; . . "VT THE state-level, the people don't vote on , the state budget. Through the referendum procedure, the people have delayed imposing of the latest tax increases ordered by the Legisla ture. Despite this, the general fund shows a grow ing surplus. . .. . - The city and county are keeping within the 6 per cent limitation on their budgets and there fore are exempt from public vote. The county has hundreds of thousands of dollars tucked away, so wealthy are they. The city boasts in can finance a six-year improvement program without raising the tax levy. Then we come to the school districts. Here is the one unit of government which must, go to the public directly, year after year, to get ap proval of its budget. To make matters more dif ficult, this unit of government, faced with an ex ploding enrollment, is the only one with a major financial crisis. DESENTMENT against high taxes by all units of government tends to funnel itself down to the school budget ballot, nearly the only place people may vote on taxes for current operation. This poses an extra burden on the friends of education. They must not only gain public sup port for their own cause, sentment against situations over which they have no control. . This accounts in part, for our "odd set of values" toward our schools. When the public comes to understand this situation clearly, they will agree that it is not fair to express resentment i i i i i it.j against taxes in general merely uy pumsmng uiu schools. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Promising Pattern The idea that federal dav added to Eugene's to gain validity with news last week from Med ford. There, pending only proval, Uncle Sam is planning to build a $2,365, 000 facility for use by a. multitude of federal agencies, including the postal service. Medford, perhaps, is new postoffice and having a concurrent need for consolidating the locations of a dozen or so other federal offices. Consideration of all of these needs has led to plans for a new federal struc ture to contain a total of 81,7000 square feet of floor space. ; . V , , . UERE in Eugene we have a relatively modern ""and recently expanded postoffice. A number . " i , ii. i t ;i j: or iederai agencies nave oiiiees m mat Duuaing, and others are located in the county courthouse. Even so, there are many more scattered around town in rented quarters. As apparently is to will make sense for the gather all of these into one location in Eugene but no one can say when that will happen. Federal authorities have indicated interest in Eugene's civic center as a possible location for a new federal office building. At the "same time, they've said there are other cities in Oregon including Medford where the government's building needs are greater. DATIENCE, in this case, may be it's own re- ward. Half a block is being reserved for a federal building in the Eugene civic center plan. It should be noted, however, that current time tables call for the reallocation of the civic center lands within three years after they are acquired and cleared of existing structures by the Eugene urban renewal agency. There is time to wait for the federal govern ment to make up its mind what it plans to do in Eugene but not too much time. Eugene Register-Guard. Five Students Die In Globe, Ariz.-(CPD-Five stu dents at the American Insti tute for Foreign Trade, Glen dale, Ariz, were killed in a one-car accident on the scenic Apache .Trail Sunday night.. The victims were riding in a convertible which failed to negotiate a sharp curve and rolled 150 feet down a cliff. The vcitims have been identified as Thomas M. Con nell, 26, Miami, Fla.; Billy N. Pierce, 24, of Phoenix, Don ald E. Davis, 21, Phoenix; Hal of Values' but must overcome re building may be one civic center area seems final congressional ap fortunate in needing a .be done in Medford, it federal government to Plunge of Auto D. Burckhartt, 25, of Phoenix, and Walter Hugh Honaman, 25, of the American Institute for Foreign Trade. Arizona Highway Patrol man Ralph McCellan said the car, owned and driven by Con nell, was demolished as it rumbled end over end down the cliff 20 miles northwest of here. The car apparently had been traveling at a high rate of speed and the driver was unable to make the sharp curve on the dangerous high- way. Dennis the i -n ' fteny eooo horn for a little Washington Report By WILLIAM A FADING MYTH Washington An extraordi nary change in our political folklore is unfolding as genu ine simmers of heat now begin to rise from the pre c o n v e ntion pre sidential campaign. A tradition which long has been tee- Williams. "s white seems to be falling right to the ground. This is the notion that the log cabin, or its equivalent, was really the most desirable scene of birth for a candidate. . Though,, -of course t he r e were occasional exceptions, the poor-man mystique used to be almost a religion. It was generally felt that any presi dential candidate who was no ticeably rich started under an automatic, handicap. "' rYOUR party simply had to pick an obviously well heeled fellow, the least you could do was to play down this inconvenient fact. You would dig frantically for evi dence that he had come up the hard way in ' some ' re spects, anyhow. If as -a ,boy he had not walked three miles in the snow to school, per haps it could be shown that when he went to college he was properly scornful of fra ternity dances and all other such frivolities. . And if your man was a world sophisticate, you point ed out that at any rate he had a good, sound rural back ground. Thus Herbert Hoover, to whom the wide earth was familiar, was presented as an man whose real roots were back in West Branch, Iowa. Thus WendeU Willkie, a cosmopolitan corpora tion lawyer, turned out to be basically just a boy from somewhere near the banks of the Wabash in Elwood, Ind. Harry Truman was a country boy from Independence, Mo not from wicKed Kansas City. Dwight Eisenhower was real ly . from the dusty frontier town of Abilene, Kan., and so on. NOW, however, to be open ly, unashamedly and even en joy ably rich is by no means an inevitable handicap. Three of the four present major democratic presidental possi bilities Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF - TpREQUENTLY, I am asked, "Of all the contestants who A have appeared on the What's My Line TV panel show, which do you remember best?" Well, that would have to be the elephant trainer from a Jones Beach out- , door show who appeared during the summer of 1955. The owner of .the outdoor spectacle MADE him appear for the pub licity; Lord knows he didn't WANT to come. His reluctance became clear -an hour after he -appeared. He was wanted in several states for car stealing, and the FBI nabbed him before he left the theater. Since we hadn't guessed his occupation he won $50, which was for warded to him in care of the warden of a federal peniten tiary.. Other well-remembered "What's My Line" guests include a gent who made eyeglasses for chickens, another who made false teeth for cows, a lady who counted whales, and a lovely old girl Of 80 or thereabouts who crocheted pockets for pool tables. A veteran lighthouse keeper on the rocky coast of Maine had to be handed his walking papers last month. He kept dousing the light to watch TV! " 0.196(i y Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate Menace car, huh, pad? S. WHITE and Stuart Symington of Mis souri don't have to worry where the next hundred thousand dollars is coming from. They are all millionaires, or so close to it that it makes no difference. The fourth democratic challenger, Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey of Min nesota, is relatively "poor" and he is determinedly pre senting himself as "the poor man's candidate." Even Hum phrey, however, is not exact ly required to ride the street cars. He goes about in a Cad iliac when he chooses. Moreover and this is the main point the Humphrey attack of the man he has pick ed as "the rich-man candi date," Kennedy, is not pro ducing much return. All old fears die , hard.. So nobody running for president is eager to come right out and say that he is quite happy to be rich, Without violating any con fidence, however, this cor respondent can report the fol lowing: A certain candidate whose ; initials are J.F.K. is not worried about the Hum phrey charge. ... rpHIS J.F.K. figures that peo- A pie no longer automatical ly dislike a man who happens to have a good deal of the folding stuff.; Indeed, it is pos sible that this J.FJK. not to mention a .. man initialed L. B. J. and another initialed S.S. may actually feel that voters like . to see a feilow who has got it made financial ly. For eight decades' the Re publican party was inevitably reckoned to be "the party of the rich." The ironical truth now is that this party's next presidential . nominee, vice- president Richard Nixon, , is probably the least-rich man -in the race.: Certainly : he , is so but for the possible excep tion of Humphrey. i Thus passes one of our small and cherished preju dices. Why has it gone? Per haps it is because nearly everybody has more money than nearly every body used to have. But perhaps, even better, it is because we have grown up a bit and decided that competence for public office is not relayed to wheth er or not a man is given the "A" treatment at the bank. (Copyright, 1960, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Brimfield, England - (DPD - The name of a woman who celebrated her 100th birth day here Sunday is Mrs. Julia A. Tough. Foreign Desk: Middle East Policy; Urugua y's Fund Need By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: New Approach The Allied powers once JNM$t I again are in a quandary over their Middle East policy. In 1950 the Unit ed States, Britain and France pledg ed to block any attempt to change b o r- pwi Newsom . aers in xne troubled area by force. Since then there has been a consid erable power shift in the Mid dle East, with Russia now a vital factor. With the United Arab Republic's Nasser telling the West to keep hands off the area, no matter what, some Western diplomats believe the time has come for a new ap proach. And they have advis ed their governments there is not much time. Me Too Tiny Uruguay, last country President Eisenhower visited on his South American tour, is reported thinking of asking Washington for $100 million in credits to build up its local industry. The decision appar ently is a last-minute one, in fluenced by reports that the first three countries on the Eisenhower tour-Brazil, Ar gentina and Chile -put the bite on the U.S. Chief Execu tive for more aid. Voice of the People United States overseas poli- In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS , What's the big news today? . I think maybe it's the wea ther. As everybody knows, big news tends to involve the ujn u&uaws wnen a man bites a dog. Normally, a big storm is a. local , show. The storm; of the past few days appears to have been a nation al hook-up. ' i . It took a swipe at EVERY BODY. Among other inci dents of .the' storm, three Canadian Eskimos who are visiting in- the East- Coast area got snowed in in West Virginia! -, . WASHINGTON, the nation's " : capital city, got eight inches of wet snow. It snarled traffic to a standstill.-It -kept people from, getting to work which in these days is a TER RIBLE hardship. Especially in .Washington. It blistered the hands of innumerable gov ernment workers who had jto get out and shovel, the snow off their walks. T3UT- In Washington There was an exception to the general suffering caused by the unseasonable storm, The exception was the august senate of the United States of America, whose members were required by the exigen cies of what is known as a JOLIBUSTER to be present and available in the senate chambers at ALL times-both day and night. So- , When' came the storm- The members of the senate (excepting only those who were TALKING and those who were compelled by the circumstances of the filibuster to be present and awake and alert to head off any sudden shennanigans) were all curled np in their little cots as snug as a Dug in a rug. WITH THE ; storm at its ' height, a little after midnight, there came a dra matic interruption of the fili bustering process. Senator Morse of Oregon strode ma jestically up to the senate clerk's desk and PLACED THEREON A CLOTURE PE TITION. A cloture petition is a petition to choke off the talking. If enough senators sign it, the filibuster, under the senate rules, it BUSTED. He invited senators to walk up and sign it. The incident so ' shocked Senator Thurston B. Morton of Kentucky that he grabbed up the petition, tore the paper to shreds and dropped the shreds into the waste basket. HOW COME his outburst? suposes that- the dis tinguished senator from Ken tucky just couldn't see what on earth Senator Morse, the distinguished former holder of the WORLD'S FILIBUS- TERING TALKATHON REC ORD, would be doing with a CLOTURE petition. It so astounded him that he blew up-like the chameleon that was unexpectedly depos ited upon a Scotch tartan. Out here in Oregon, where we know our senior senator, we can understand it: He just HAS to be DIFFER tiled ENT. No matter what it costs. cies could be put to a popular test soon in Japan. Premier Nobuske Kishi is heading for a' showdown with his opposi tion over parliamentary rati fication of the U.S.-Japan se curity treaty. If the going gets too rough Kishi might call snap elections and the basic issue would be whether Japan should stick with the West or go neutral. Kishi feels the country would vote strongly for his present policies and show up the vocal opposition. 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 the case. Off-Base To the Editor: I believe the sterilization subject is getting away off-base. It was not sug gested that ALL women be sterilized. Heaven forbid. But let's not sound as though we condoned the unwed mother. I am all for taking care of the children, of course, but there are so many orphans and legitimate children cry ing for homes and help, that the time to stop this increase is before conception. - Minnie G. forgets that the God-given priviledge of bearing children isn't all there . is to it. They have to be cared for, suppos edly by the mother,, not oth ers. You can't tell me that a woman enjoys bearing a child never to see it again. It wouldn't be hard to weed out these undesirables. I know a man with 14 chil dren and another on the way Only four are with him, the others are scattered around in various welfare homes and schools. He, himself, is on wel fare. This is the type to stop. I also know a mother with four children" on . welfare whose husband left her and is now raising another family in another state.' Our district at torney refuses to have him brought back and pay for his family's keep. Recently, the mother was forced to go to work and the children scat tered in welfare homes. I thought bigamy was the same anywhere in the U.S. This is the type man to stop. We neither need to : play God nor be a Hitler to know that there are some laws and privileges that cannot" be abused. I believe $80,000 is too much to gay. Maybe those who. . have written deploring the suggestion have money to help these folks but I would like toido more for my own that I had the legitimate way, by marriage. Mrs. Ross Route 1, Box 525 Medford Sugar Questions To the Editor: Copies of this letter have been sent to our representatives - in Con gress. Dear Sir: In this letter I am asking for clarification of a subject I do not understand. I know that you are: busy with Congressional duties, but a clarification is needed in order that I and others will be guided in our thinking this election year. " As we understand it the Sugar Act was passed in 1937 in order to create the idea of scarcity. From a study of the act and its effects since, the following facts emerge: 1. The cost of sugar to the housewife at that time was 5 cents per lb. It "is 'now '15 cents per lb. 2. : The .-U. S. produced its own sugar. There were . no imports. - 3. The act curtailed the home production to 54 per cent of the amount needed, 46 . per cent must be pur chased elsewhere. 4. Our international cartel now handles the commerce in sugar. Is this cartel a group of nations or group of men? In either case, who are they?. 5. In 1958, $72,200,000 was appropriated by Congress to administer the act. Last year $80,000,000 was appropriated. Who administers this act and what does the work entail? What is the 'budget request for this year? - f 6. The act was renewed for four years in 1956. Is it to be renewed again this year? Why? . 7. The cartel buys sugar in Cuba and elsewhere at $64 a ton and sells it for $128 a ton. Who pockets this profit? 8. If we must have this act why not pay the cost of ad ministering it out of the prof its? - -'" " .". . An j. early, reply to: these queries will be much appre ciated. From the tenor of these questions it is evident that we believe it would be to the ad vantage of the American peo ple to discontinue the act this year. Anna M. Streed 36 North Peach st. Medford. The Jones Boy There is a lot of popular feeling in Britain for Antony Armstrong-Jones to remain a commoner' but the informed speculation is that he will be given some title. He already is surrounded by titles-his sis ter a viscountess, his mother a countess, stepfather an earl, half brother a baron. Mean time, crown agents are quiet ly hunting for a cozy palace for two for the newlyweds to live in. Precinct Politics To the Editor: Urging mem bers to take part in politics has been occupying various civic organizations' time the past few months. Elaborate schools on political activities are being held by the various Chambers of Commerce and other business groups. The simplest way for both men and women to exert an influence in politics is in the precinct. Becoming a precinct committeeman or woman in either party is the backbone of educating the public, per forming a public service, be ing neighborly and having fun promoting candidates and the political part of their choice. Women particularly should heed the call to this type of civic duty-they not only be come effective in national and state elections but can be the decisive factor in winning school district, water district, fire district, etc., elections. Precinct committeemen and women work, with approxi mately 400 people - their neighbors. V , . Effective . precinct workers are wooed by presidential candidates as., well as state and county hopefuls. Being a precinct worker takes very-little time for the rewards involved. By rewards I mean seeing the effects of your work in' votes for the party for which you've la bored. : You may file for precinct worker at your county court house, but the deadline is March 11; there's no charge. Your name will be printed on the primary ballot in your precinct and you'll run for the office just as candidates for other offices do. If you've ne glected to file,' write your own name in on the ballot May 20 at the polls under "Precinct Committeeman or woman' and ask 8 or 10 of your friends to do the same for you. If no one has filed you'll make it! When you're elected you'll be an influential factor for good government and there's no better security than that in the world. Beulah Hand Vice-Chairman Democratic Party of Oregon 429 Governor Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. Freedom vs.' Socialism To the Editor: The Forand Bill (H. R. 4700) is a proposal to amend the Social Security Act to provide all persons eli gible for Social Security ben efits, hospitalization, surgical and Nursing Home care, un der governmen t-run pro grams. In other words, Mr. Wage Earner, the proponents of the Forand Bill propose to, again, A Gratifying jsurance rnAADiPTP 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 not be expensive. ArFun Students Eligible For Scholarships Five students, one from Crater and four from Med ford High school, are among 21 Oregon students declared eligible for Harvard college scholarships this year. A college spokesman said the total represents more than half the 39 Oregon students enrolled in the college. Students receiving scholar ship aid are David Lyle Mack, 1015 Oak st., Central Point, Crater High school; Robert Edwin Allen, 951 South Stage rd.; James G. Corum, 30 Wil lamette ave.; Richard George Corum, 30 Willamette ave.; and William Howard Frake, 22 Richmond st., all of Med ford High school. Students are eligible for two types of scholarships at Harvard, a spokesman ex plained scholarship aid for needy students with high aca demic promise, and honorary scholarships for equally out standing students who do not need financial assistance. Other Oregon undergraduates also received aid in meeting educational costs through long-term loans and part-time employment at the university. raid your take home pay check to the estimated in creased tune of 11 per cent (which is not even a rational estimate). There is no limit on how much your wages can be taxed. The proponents of this leg islation are not asking your permission, nor are they tell ing you that, already, legisla tion has been passed increas ing these taxes up to 9 per cent by 1969, regardless of whether the Forand Bill pass es or not. The addition of health care benefits could seriously weak en, if not destroy, the Social Security structure and the continual increase in cost of the benefits would be a pro hibitive burden on the work ing population. How much more can the wage earner afford to have taken from his pay check, paying other peoples bills and at the expense of his own family's welfare? Speak up, Mr. Wage Earn er. Write to your Representa tive NOW, for when he comes home it will be too late. Will your Representative vote to protect your Freedom or will he vote for Socialism? Edith Phetteplace 2086 Potter st -Eugene, Ore. Sex Crimes To the Editor: TJiere seems to be some confusion concern ing the male sterilization tech nique and its results. The operation renders the subject unable to father chil dren, true, but by no meani does it deter his sex drive. And since the operation is reputed to be relatively pain less, I fail to see how it would help to deter sex crimes. The only way to ensure the stop page of sex crimes is castra tion. And now I think I had better duck before the blows start coming, . Reminds me of an incident Bertrand Russell relates. A certain book, which was writ ten to explain reproduction to the working women of Bri tain, was banned in that state some years ago. me reason? The working women of Bri tain could understand it. Brian Jefferson 2448 Edgemont dr. Medford Stop Heart Gas 3 Times Faster Certified laboratory tests prow BELL-ANS tak 'tts neutralizes times as much stomach acidity in one minute as many leadini digest in tablets. Get BELL-ANS today for the fastest known relief. 35 at druggists. Send postal to BELL ANS, Orani iiurf, N. Y. for liberal frat sunlit. . eral Home W Ski N 1 r-ntri s SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
