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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Friday, March' 18, 1960 MESFORDt&TBIBUNS "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-6141 i ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager girAld t Latham, bus. Mgr. IRIC W. ALLEN JR., Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor -RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women's Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES" By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $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 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 . 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 TJ.P.1. Telephoto Newspictures 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. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS)CJTl(OjN Flight o' Time f History fron the files of The Mail Tribune IU. J.V. JU. 4U and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO w.-u 10 1Q50 fSafurdavi w " Medford woman found dead from bullet wound in her car near Applegate; presumed sui cide. Tucker Sno-Cat announces invention of eight wheel ve hicle; hope to start production here next summer. 20 YEARS AGO March 18, 1940 (Monday) Officers of League of Ore gon Cities met with city offi cials from all valley cities in Medford to iron out city problems. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Poli tics have started to warm up. By the first of the month . every Grange hall dinner will reek with candidates, beating their constituents to the big gest platter of fried chicken." 30 YEARS AGO March 18, 1930 (Wednesday) New city ordinance requires that all store awnings be seven feet, seven inches above sidewalk. Local publisher is acquitted of criminal libel charges by jury- 40 YEARS AGO March 18. 1920 (Friday) Greater Medford club launches "Tag Day" to raise funds for civic improvements. Ashland to get enlarged post office building. 50 YEARS AGO March 18. 1950 (Friday) U.S. government pledges as sistance to build Crater Lake highway if citizens can raise $20,000. Jackson county will get $35,000 from government for sale of timber. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is good. 1. In what State is the great stone face of Hawthorne's tale located? 2. What is the translation of Agnus Dei? 3. Who was the beloved di sciple? 4. How many of the months of the year have 28 days? a. now many times was Harry S. Truman elected as President of the United r . . A ' Old ICS; 6. How many mills are there in a cent? 7. In what year did the Pil grims land at Plymouth Rock? 8. Which is the lighter gas -helium or hydrogen? 9. A sampan is a cooking utensil; true or false? 10. Mt McKinley, elevation 20,300 ft., is the highest point in North America; is it in Can ada. Alaska, Washington, or California? Answers: 1. New Hamp shire. 2. Lamb of God. 3. John. 4. All twelve have 28 or more days. 5. Once. 6. Ten. 7. 1620. 8. Hydrogen. 9. False (an Ori ental boat). 10. Alaska. MONKEY BUSINESS . Zomba, Nyasaland - (LTD -Two game experts said they had identified a strange look ing beast that had been sit ting for hours batting its eyes at a blue tractor. They de scribed the beast as "a sub species of chimpanzee." 4 Neuberger There are "proposals followed through, would not nailed down after Now we're in favor of tor in some significant way. And we'd like to suggest that those who are sincere in their desire to honor the Senator's memoiy, and are not moti vated by a desire for sanctimonious publicity, get together on one project. The most logical one in both the house and a bill to create a national seashore in the Dunes area, and to name it the Richard L. Neuberger National Seashore. fTHER proposals include those to re-name w Green Peter Dam, on Senator Neuberger, and Day after him. These have a certain appropriateness, for Dick Neuberger was a amonp- many other things. - But his greatest interest lay in the outdoors, and in the refreshment to the wilted spirit of At the time of his gaged in attempting to the creation of a national seashore in Oregon. A BILL to establish r it after the senator it, has been introduced by and colleagues in both The suggestion was York Times in an editorial reprinted here the other day. It .should receive widespread report not only in Congress, state. (The "vocal" opposition to the creation of the seashore, incidentally, boils down to one man and a few followers, if what we have heard from western Lane county is accurate.) No memorial could be more fitting in honor ing Dick Neuberger than such a seashore. It is true, at least in part, that he gave his life for it and what it represents. E.A. Saucer "Research " It must be tough to field of flying saucers." They re so elusive. And, unless one is favored with the tip of a space-helmet and the offer of a ride from a little green man, "original" research, as opposed to just asking other people what they saw, would be sort of difficult. This, however, doesn't faze the people and organizations that make almost a cult of flying saucers and, more important, perhaps, of the superior extra-terrestial operate them. DVERYTHING is grist for their research mills. Mysterious happenings as told in the Bible and other ancient writings are interpreted as early-day visits by space ships and their super race operators. And from there on UFO sighting, no object-falling-from-the-sky re port, no mysterious lights, no unexplained phe nomenon, is shrugged off. All are entered in the lexicon of the cult as "evidence." THE OTHER kind of research consists of inter- viewing people of today who have seen mysti fying things. - These range from lights in the night to personally-conducted visits to outer space as the guests of the other-worlders. (One man insisted that the latter wore busi ness suits and neckties. A truly superior race would have gotten rid. of business suits and neck ties a long time ago.) " It seems to be a characteristic of this kind of research that the account of the eye-witness is taken at face value, and set down as unchal lengeable gospel. QNE HESITATES to ridicule the beliefs of anyone, so long as they are sincerely and honestly held. . But the "evidence" supporting the existence of extra-terrestial space ships visiting the earth under the command of far-advanced beings (business suits or not) is somewhat less than con vincing. We are told, by reputable scientists ' who should know, that there are billions of 'sun-systems in the universe which may well be the site of intelligent races. We are told,' by reputable theologians who should know, that there is no reason to assume that the human race is a "chosen" one, alone as intelligent beings in all the vastness of crea tion. DO NOT reject "flying saucers" as im " possible, only as improbable. We do so rather sadly, for it tickles our fancy to think of benevolent outworlders of great su periority gazing down upon us from the reaches of space. . - But until the day when we, personally, are invited to inspect an other-world vehicle, and perhaps take a quick jaunt around the moon, we shall remain a doubting skeptic. Until that day we shall be forced to reeard the UFO cult' in the same category as those who are convinced that Lemurians sail their ships in the skies above Mt. Shasta. E.A. ' Seashore going around, which, if name about everything Senator Dick Neuberger. memorializing the sena is already in the works, senate of the Congress the Santiam River, after to name the great John public power supporter, which nature can bring man. death he was actively en work out legislation for such a unit, and to. name who worked so hard for a number of his friends houses. supported by the New but also throughout the - be a "researcher into the beings who, they declare,J down to the present, no Dennis the I - 7US fUU. fit TJ & Y,VADl US 10CW WfU 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 ot the paper; in tact Lord's Word Needed To the Edior: "There ap peared . a ' very interesting poem in the March 9 Tribune entitled "Signs of the Times." Mrs. Name on File with "J. A. M." initials evidently was quite impressed with whatever campaign she has referred to. The title of her letter gives a bit of free pub licity to a well known, world wide prophetic magazine. She mentions that this preacher's "soul was warped and thin," "he never made a convert." How I agree with you, J.A.M. Aren't all our souls warped and thin? We've strayed a long way from Cod's original plan for us. These warped and twisted lives of ours can be renewed by an all-wise Heavenly Fa ther. How He longs to help every' one. , .... No, we can never win a single convert ourselves to God. It is God's holy spirit that wins" hearts.'1 Ministers are only messenger boys, as it were, bringing a- message from God's word to . human hearts. . When God sends to men warnings so important that they are represented as pro claimed by holy angels flying in the midst of heaven, He re quires every person endowed with reasoning powers to heed the message. The fearful judgments denounced against the worship of the beast, and his image should lead all to a diligent study of the prophe cies to learn what the mark of the beast is and how they are to avoid receiving it. But the masses of the peo ple turn away their ears from hearing the truth and are turned to fables, the apostle Paul declared, looking down to the last days, "the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine." (2 Tim: 4:3). That time has fully come. The multitudes do not want Bible truth, because it interferes with the desires of the sinful, world-loving heart; and Satan supplies the decep tions which they love. The opinions of learned men, the deductions of .sci ence, the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, as numerous and discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the ma-jority-not one or all of these should be regarded as evi dence for or against any point of religious faith. Before accepting any doctrine or pre cept, we should demand a plain "thus saith the Lord" in its support. Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Early Birds, etc. To the Editor: This is near ly the time of year when little green sprouts push their tips above ground, long side a plumb night crawler that proves to be the early worm. Pretty combination of col ors, don't you think? That tender, fresh greenness and the rich pinkish-tan of the fishworm that is just the shade a lady's lipstick should be, but isn't. Too - bad an early bird (robin) happens along before we get the creel, bait-box and fishing tackle tumbled outta our replica of Figger McGee'i closet. We did admire that green stem for a day, but forgot to drive a stick beside it,' so stray dogs and cats soon brought it to disaster. Mr. Clifford wrote that cats do not understand boundary lines, but I had one that did. Our baby chicks cuddled over and around him to keep their feet warm, and they never came to harm.; Yep, Bootsie was a fat, Menace mfrMOC JT OPEN!... tha contrary is often the case. happy pussy cat. The reason? He was outside of every other baby . chick in our area. He disappeared just like the early angleworm did, I pre sume because of some eagle eyed early poultryman. One cannot very well place a col lar on kitty because he will climb, get hung by his neck and die. Oh yes, we do have another: a kitten was dropped, we fed it and we got adopted. We have some dogs, also. They are behind a fence right by our back door where we can talk to each other. A person who loves animals can walk a dog for his health, and get healthfully exercised at the same time, well er- soraetimes; but I have corns now. No dog should exercise on neighbors property. They just won't be friendly toward his owner." Mentioning "friend s" I want to become acquainted with all the Jacksonville Democrats. Of course I have a reason! How about all of the oldsters from both parties visiting the Fifty Plus Club Friday at 12:30, Fifth and Oakdale, so we can study up mean things to say to to'other side on April Fool's day? Visitors welcome. Pearl Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. "Laughable" Logic To the Editor: Governor Hatfield's logic is laughable when he argues that appoint ment of Maurine Neuberger would have been unfair to her candidacy for election to Dick's Senate seat. According to press reports, the Governor is quoted as saying that several candidates do not now "have any advan tage by being here on the scene to campaign while she would be 3,000 miles away. This makes both the primary and general election campaign a 'fair play' affair with no ad vantages to either side." How ridiculous can the Governor be? It is a foregone conclusion that Maurine will win the Democratic nomina tion. Congress will be ad journed during the general election campaign and Maur ine would be in Oregon, just as every other U. S. Senator up for election would 'be in his state, waging a vigorous campaign. . Fair play is indeed an issue. But the fair play involved the people of Oregon, not the var ious candidates for U. S. Sen ate. Maurine's background compelled her appointment. She is the only person who can effectively represent Ore gon and the nation during the current session of Con gress. And as even the Gov ernor has admitted, many im portant issues of vital con cern to the people of Oregon wiU be acted on during this session. Given this admission on his part, how could he ap point anyone other than Mau rine? ' Ronald K. Walker 6614A S. W. Canyon Lane Portland 25, Ore. Registration Battle To the Editor: Joe Walsh certainly must be a frivolous leader of his party when he says that such a serious thing as a voter registration drive is just a peanut-throwing con test. The original challenge to" process more registration cards seems to have gone by the boards, for we notice that not one single Republican volunteer is registering in any market in the Jackson county area. True, there are a number of registrars in business hous es and real estate offices, but I knew of not a single Repub lican volunteer working, as Spring to the Contrary, West Declares Capital Founders Geefed on Location . . . . T5 TTS-W 11Tr.n . Wernmark says, in a contest of "volunteer effort of public service ... to register work ers who cannot get to the court house before 5 p. m. . . . five days a week." I personally know how much effort is going into this drive on the part of the Dem ocratic volunteer on. the reg istration committee and the organizing chairman. Also I know personally of the hours I have spent so far and those I expect to put in. To do a real job in the reg istration drive is going to re quire work. Since March 11, I have personally filled in 171 registration cards. A. C Lewis P. O. Box 1442 . ; , ' Medford Magdalenes and Pharisees To the Editor: In the past few weeks I have read many letter in "Our Column" con cerning various subjects, mainly people and dogs. Some have been words of praise, many critical and some almost insulting. But, as far as I can see, none has put the fin ger on the core of the prob lem. Lopping off ears or fingers or some other part of the an atomy of the offender may be a way of preventing the individual from repeating that particular offense and salving the conscience of just ice, but it does not remove the cause of the trouble. We should face the fact that we are all a part of what we may call the social entity. Each one has a part to play in the theater of life and none is completely 'independent of the others. Tennyson's Ulys ses says, "I am a part of all that I have met." The reverse is just as true. I give a part of myself to all I meet. We who compose the com munity, state, nation or world are in part responsible for the condition, good or ill, of all, That is the core of the prob lem. In the Book we read in Genesis 4:7, "Sin lieth at the door. Also in Psalms 14 and Romans 3, "All have sinned." If we would have a com munity free of immorality, whatever the form it may take, we must have a new conception of the meaning of civic righteousness, a resurg ence of moral values that will enable each one to realize that he is his brother's keep er. Would the criminal that was acquitted have been con victed if good people were not averse to serving on a jury?- ,,- . Now, don't get excited, I am not pleading innocent so that I may throw stones at someone else. Rather, I ask myself wherein have I failed to do my part? If each one of us, great or small, will purge out the self ishness and sin from our own heart, we will go a long way toward solving the problems of dogs and people, Magdal enes and Pharisees. Magdalenes The World has many Magdalenes forlorn, Daughters of Eve, whose beauty is their doom. But we must not forget it was a Magdalene, Saved and purified, who first looked ' into the empty tomb; Who saw and heard the glorious risen King On that resurrection morn. Yes, the world has many Magdalenes, Wayward children of selfish, sinful men. But ere I stoop to hurl a stone, Let me read the writing in . the dust again, Lest among those names, I read my very own. L. G. Weaver . 301 Haven St. Medford Blood Appeal To the Editor, ana my gooa fellow-citizens: This is an appeal to you, please turn out at the next Bloodmobile visit, or request, or go to the hospital and give blood. I just returned from Port land. While there I visited the University of Oregon hos pital. Because of the lack of blood they sometimes have to nostDone operations a week or 10 days, sometimes more. Would you like to be one of these people, or a relative or friend? God cave his Son Jesus Christ, who died on the cross of Calvary, shed his blood for us that we may have eternal life, regardless of color or creed. Do you want these poor people to lie, maybe to suffer, because of the lack of blood? You give a pint, God gave His all. What would happen if we had a disaster here? People would die before there was time to get someone to give blood. Believe me, this is a time of need. I hadn t given for over 10 years, but if I can, I am going to give more often now. Gerald Quinlin P.O. Box 265, : ; , Shady Cove, Ore. By DICK WEST Washington-WPD-If this he treason you can shoot me at sunrise, but it is something I have to say. When our fore fathers pick ed the loca tion for the national capi tal, they geef ed (goofed twice). The first mistake they Dick west made was rut- tine the capital too far north. The second mistake was put ting it too far south. This may have struck a delicate geo-political balance, but it left the capital at the mercy of both the Yankee and Dixie climates, and ill pre pared for both. Lately we have been suffering from the first mistake. I suppose most cities are disconcerted to some extent by a blizzard but this is the only place I know of where every snowfall is a traumatic experience. A wave of apprehension Durable Rhee Still Confident orea Some Day Will Re-Unify By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man - of - the - week: President Syngman Rhee of the Republic of Korea. The place: Seoul. The quote: "... I am certain that unification is bound to come before long because I know the forces of evil may not win out." Three things have dominat ed the life of Korea's Syng man Rhee-hatred of the Com- m u n i'sts, ha tred of Japan, and a deter mination that Korea shall be u n i f ied and free. Compromise on any one of the three is impossible. Phil Newsom This week Korean voters overwhelming ly returned Rhee to office for his fourth term. It was less than two weeks before his 85th birthday, making him already the world's oldest head of state and 89 should he live out his term of office. wkt ''It J Washington Report By WILLIAM MODERATE CAMPAIGN Washington The coming final victory for the middle- roader on civil rights all but proves that the presidenti a 1 campaign will be more near ly one of talk- ing things out than o f screaming out things. "M o d e r a- wbite way been de spised by those who believe it is somehow evil on hot is sues to take any position hav ing any practical chance of producing action instead of fine rhetoric. They have never grasped that all politics is compromise and that to give a little ground is not to aban don all "principle." The extremists really reck on that no public man is any good unless he is constantly shouting the total Tightness of his own views. Not all the massive evidence of five con secutive national elections -two for the presidency and three for congress - had been enough to convince them that their notion has no substance in fact. . . BUT even they will now be compelled to recognize that moderation has tri umphed all over the scene of political reality, if not in the angry dream world in which they live. The life of the moderate, whether as politician or cora mentator, is not an easy one. All violent partisans, Repub lican or Democratic, detest the moderate. One of the changeless laws of politics is that no matter how much the right-winger dislikes the left winger, and vice versa, the special dislike of both is re served for the man who re fuses to pay overmuch atten tion to either. Permit a personal reference. This correspondent for years has been trying to report the central fact of political life that for these years has been evident - the steadily grow ing strength of the middle way. He has thus had his small share of the slings and arrows from the ultra -righteous among both lots of extremists. Therefore, this column has an admitted touch of "I-told-you- so." sweeps over Washington as soon as the Weather Bureau mentions the word. The fact that the forecast is often wrong brings no comfort but rather makes everyone more jittery. People gather in little clus ters to watch the darkling sky. If the sky starts flaking, panic sets in. Even those who came here from areas where snow holds no terror are gripped by the feeling of im pending doom. Downtown workers rush to the telephone to call their loved ones at home. Suburban housewives call downtown for anxious conferences with their husbands. Then everyone sits by a ra dio to wait for the word that the District of Columbia has proclaimed a state of emer gency. As I understand it, the district has three emergency snow plans, any one of which is sufficient to evacuate the city. Schools shut down; the wheels of commerce, unless equipped with snow tires, skid to a halt; the machinery The voting was only an impression of confidence so far as Rhee was concerned. Death Gives Victory For the second time in his history as first and only presi dent of the Korean republic, death had presented him vic tory by default. Dr. Chough Pyung Ok, can didate of the Demc;.atic Par ty which forms the only effec tive opposition to Rhee's Lib eral Party, died in the United States a month before the March 15 elections. It was too late to name another candi date. In 1956 his opponent died only 10 days before the bal loting was to start It is doubtful that . South Koreans can, and it is certain that Rhee himself cannot, imagine Korea with any other president. Rhee became a profession al revolutionary in a cause for free Korea at the age of 20, and for it underwent pris on, torture and exile. He has been called despotic, inefficient, irresponsible, ruth less, a man who demanded, and got, his own way. But S. WHITE WHAT, then are the facts now demonstrating the general victory for political moderation - which is to say, for common sense? Item. The inability of the professional pro-civil rights extremists, like Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, to pro duce a single bare majority at any significant juncture against the moderates. Item. The inability of the professional anti-civil rights extremists, like Senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, to marshal at any point any effective resistance against reasonable protections for Negro voting rights. Item. The repeated refusal of the coming Republican presidential nominee, Vice- President Nixon, to make or to condone empurpled charges against his Democratic oppo sition. Earlier in his career Nixon used such charges. Some he now regrets. At all events, the point is that the whole national atmosphere now makes such accusations useless. Item. The refusal of all ma jor Democratic presiaenuai aspirants - and not merely the original moderate, Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas - to act toward Nixon as an enemy of the Republic. SENATOR JOHN F. KENNE DY of Massachusetts, the front-runner for the nomina tion, has been quite as defin ite in this sensible position as has Johnson. Sen. Stuart Sy mington of Missouri is edging into that position. And even Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, the one advanced liberal among Democratic presidential aspirants, is put ting some check on those who demand that he "get in there and tear Nixon apart." So, no f orseeable Democrat ic nominee is going to open a small civil war on the stump against the Republicans. Nix on will' not do anything of the kind against the Democrats, either. , The election will be fought bn actually measurable issues and decided by voters able to think free of the ap palling - and quite silly - din that overly "principled" polit ical immoderation would sure ly raise. , (Copyright 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) of government cluinpe along on one cylinder. Still in Danger I have before m am ill timed press relea frcw. the National Geographic society predicting that spriag vill ar rive at 9:43 ajn. (eU Sun day. But I don't believe it and I don't think anyone bere does either. We have just gone ttireugh our third snowfall of March. The crisis has passed Wt we are still in the recuperation period. We fear we ace not yet out of danger. The National Geographic releases speaks lyrically of "buds of duck-weed" rising to the surface of thawing ponds, of earthworms pushing up from below the frost line and of sap rising in leafless trees. Spring, it says, has been re turning north "at a leisurely pace of about 15 miles per day." If the society will check again, I suspect it will find that spring was last seen parked at an intersection near Tallahassee, Fla., consulting a road map. his sincerity has never been questioned. Controversial for U.S. He has been one of the United States' most loyal and at the same time most trou blesome allies. By arbitrarily releasing thousands of prisoners taken from the Chinese, he almost wrecked the Korean armi stice, which he always has despised, anyway. Repeatedly he has demand ed that United Nations forces resume their attack north ward, or, failing in that, that his own South Korean forces be given arms to go it alone. Believing implicitly in his own correctness, Rhee's con cept of democracy also has a strong tinge of despotism. In this last election, bully boys of Rhee's Liberal Party at tacked and terrorized opposi tion forces with seeming im punity. Opposition forces who resisted went to jail. Lusk May Take Seal Wednesday Salem, Ore. -OJPD -Hall S. Lusk, appointed to the U.S. Senate this week by Gov. Mark Hatfield to succeed the late Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.), said today he has been advised he will prob ably be seated in the Senate next Wednesday. Lusk, 76-year-old Demo crat, and his wife, Sara, plan to fly to Washington Tuesday morning. He said his brother, Rufus, a Washington, D.C., real estate dealer and tax ex pert, is lining up an apart ment for them. He said since the appoint ment Tuesday he received "a warm and wonderful" tele gram from Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson offer ing congratulations and "help in any way." Lusk said he received a similar telegram from Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), head of the Oregon congressional delegation, in which Morse indicated he probably will present the former Oregon Supreme Court justice to the Senate. Lusk, who will serve until Oregon voters elect a succes sor in November, said he is anxious to get to Washington in time to cast a vote for civil rights legislation. a beautiful "new room" in just one day with THE DE LUXE LATEX WALL PAINT SPECIALISTS IW HOME WAtf f I 245 S. Central at 10th i
