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J MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford, Or. A Monday, March 21, 1960 MEDF01fflQiSfcTaBU!iS "Iveryone In Southern Oregon - Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mgr ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng. Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 U .P.1. Telephoto Newspictnres MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reoresentative: 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 EDITORIAI 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 21. 1950 (Tuesday) Heads of Medford, Rogue River and Talent Irrigation districts urge water users in this area to vote in favor of soil conservation district at election tomorrow. A four - year - old Medford boy died in a Portland hos pital yesterday from a brain hemorrahage. 20 YEARS AGO March 21. 1940 (Thursday) Fifteen CCC enrollees of Camp Gasquet were injured yesterday, several critically, in a truck accident near Gold Hill. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "It is reported a higher type of can didate is running for Congress this year. It appears qualifi cations other than the strength to grab and hang onto the presidential coat-tails and feel sorry for the poor, are now necessary." 30 YEARS AGO March 21. 1930 (Friday) Publisher of local weekly here is acquitted of two crim inal libel charges, but jury recommends he "tone down" his writing. Local fruitment lighted smudgepots last night for first time this season. 40 YEARS AGO March 21, 1920 (Sunday) Logging has reopened the Butte Falls district. in Nine inches of snow are reported on the ground near Prospect. SO YEARS AGO Much 21. 1910 (Monday) One result of popularity of auto here is sale yesterday of Union Livery and Feed Sta ble, on Riverside ave. between Eight and Ninth sts., for S9.200: will be turned into storehouse. Only 50 votes cast by noon in today's election to grant gas plant franchise here. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or fan correct is superier! seven or eight is excellent; fiva (is is OOfl. 1. What beloved American humorist said: "I never met a man I didn't like?" 2. In baseball, which base is called the "keystone" sack? 3. In what western state is Zion National park? 4. Besides Noah, what hu man beings were taken in the ark? 5. Are there more Chris tians, or more non-Christians, in the world? 6. Who wrote the novel "Gone With the Wind?" 7. Is Dale Carnegie best known for his course in steel technology, public speaking, or dry farming? 8. How did the Carthagin ian general Hannibal die? 9. What are the five posi tions on a man's basketball team? 10. In the Biblical story, what baby was hidden in a basket of rushes? Answers: 1. Will Rogers. 2. Second base. 3. Utah. 4. Noah's wife, his three ions and their wives. 5. More non Christians. 6. Margaret Mit chell. 7. Public speaking. 8. By poison. 9. Center, two guards and two forwards. 10. Moses. The Modem Babylon? There is an uncomfortable amount of truth in Senator Fullbright's charge that during the Ei senhower Administration the United States has become "a Twentieth Century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target for the ably-led Communist world and the clamoring poverty-ridden underdeveloped nations." It is humiliating, as he further observes, that the United States, with an income nearly double that of any other country, should be "debating the extent to which our armed forces may be in ferior to those of the Soviet Union." "I17HAT is the cause? Senator Fulbright com- plains that because of President Eisenhow er s attitude toward national problems few men of ideas come to Washington." This is a point that may well be marked down by history as the great debit against the Eisenhower era. Mr. Eisenhower personally prefers to associate with successful business men and his approach, as, in indeed, he promised in 1952, is that of a business man. This is not to disparage business, but the art and the science of leadership in the latter half of the twentieth century require the best and most imaginative brains in the countiy, wherever they may be found, and the will to use them. TTrlOSE whose memories go back to the depres- sion have noted the contrast between the dar ing schemes President Roosevelt employed to pull the country out of a desperate domestic crisis and the tepid budget-minded measures of today. And yet many wise men who see through the current fog of complacency believe that the United States now faces an international crisis of the greatest moment. Bold plans are needed. Such men as Wallace, Ickes, Frankfurter, Hopkins, TugweH and Cor coran arid Cohen were bitterly criticized in the 1930s, but they had ideas and enthusiasm. Where are today's .counterparts? I T IS too late for this action. But the next President, whether Democrat or Republican, will inherit the formidable task of reinvigorating American leadership. He will need idea men, and to attract them to Washington he will have to establish the atmosphere of dynamic forward motion that has years. This is something for the voters to ponder. St. Louis Post-Distpatch. For Best Results It won't be long before Lane county's board of commissioners and have selected a committee to study and, perhaps, propose local usage of the "home rule" powers granted county governments by the 1959 Oregon Legislature. Under the home rule are to select four committeemen. The incumbent legislators also will select choose a ninth member. It goes without saving should be top-flight. All ed in the problems of our county government and sufficiently well-informed to evaluate Lane Coun ty's needs for governmental changes via a new charter. IT GOES without saying, too, that partisanship should play no part in the committee's selec tion, nor its operation. There should, for instance, be no arbitrary deadline set on the committee's service simply because candidates of either party might be benefited by a report issued prior to the November elections. There should be no in herent taint upon what the committee is to do, nor should any be inferred: There should be a careful balancing of the political affiliations of the committeemen. What the charter committee faces is sure to an arduous and involved task. And a highly im portant one. It is impossible to believe there is no room for improvement in our present form of county government. At the same time, it is im possible to believe that anyone connected with the charter study processes will view their re sonsibilities as any less than those of providing future residents of Lane county with a govern mental form as sound as men can now conceive. Eugene Register-Guard. Eye for an Eye , On reading of the murder of three wives of Chicago business leaders who had gone hiking in a state park not far from Chicago and of the murder of a woman living near Ashland who had been shot nine times, one wonders if the human race has progressed very far from its animal origins. Such brutality is quite incomprehensible to normal minds. It is crimes like these which keep so many persons convinced of the need to retain capital punishment, not that it accomplishes much by way of deterrence, but it satisfies the instinct of punishment, an "eye for an eye," itself an in heritance from the law of the jungle. Oregon Statesman, Salem. administration to take been absent in recent its legislative delegates law, the commissioners four. These eight will that all nine members should be keenly interest Dennis the ,lMONlQa 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. Space Visitors To the Editor: After 13 years of reading the pros and cons of admittedly unidenti fied objects seen in space, I have never ruled out the pos sibility "the things' have been identified as being real, or only some mechanical in vention of an inhabitant of the modern age. On returning from the Sis kiyou summit, from work on Highway 99 around 4:30 p.m. on July 6, 1947, in company of four other persons, we all sighted an unusual object that was opaline in color, being round in shape, traveling north at a moderate rate of speed, apparently a mile high, looking to be the size of a polo ball in diameter. At that particular moment there ws a rather long lone white cloud hovering over Emigrant lake east of Ashland. The whirling o b j e c t heading straight into the lone cloud went out of sight. Afterward the cloud turned a dark color. On reaching Ashland we all decided to report the unusual sighting of the object to the manager and editor of the Ashland Daily Tidings who gave it a story in the issue next day. After returning home the same evening I kept on a look out for the slowly, ever- lengthening dark cloud drift ing leisurely in a northwest erly direction. The next morn ing rather early the same cloud was visible yet, appar ently right over Medford. That same evening of the second day, looking in the editorial column of the Med ford Mail Tribune, I read a letter to the editor, some Med ford resident had reported having seen the same uniden tified object moving along side the cloud in a northwest erly direction. I asked one of the weather station observ ers then employed at the top of the Siskiyous if anyone un leashed a weather balloon that day, and he replied no, so that part of the probable theory was dismissed as a clue of the unexplained mystery. The lone dark cloud was a most unusual coincidence that made a screen for the space visitor. Bert Kissinger, , 520 Boardman st., ' Medford. From Athletic Club To the Editor: We, of the Medford Athletic Club, have followed with interest the newspaper articles and letters pertaining to the Pal Club. We received the definite impression the Police Depart ment is most anxious to re activate the Pal Club. As a result, we offered, free of any charge, to allow them to place their equipment in the Medford Athletic Club building located at 843 South Riverside. As a matter of fact, we of the Medford Athletic Club were willing to physi cally transport all of the Pal Club's equipment to our build ing and set it up. We further had an agreement drawn where we would take out a fire insurance policy in the name of the Pal Club and permit and welcome any boy under the age of 21 years, to have full use of our facilities without charge or restriction of any kind. This offer was rejected by the officials of the Pal Club. Why, we do not know. We regret that Pal Club officials, apparently did not feel they should take advantage of our offer since it would mean the almost immediate re-opening of the Pal Club for the boys of the community, without cost of any kind to Pal or its sponsors. - The Medford Athletic Club Menace NV3W no, iMON. will be open for its members by April 15, 1960, and we wish to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to any boy to use our training equip ment without charge of any kind. We, as a group of local business men, have the inter est of boys at heart and wish to aid them any way we prop erly can. We hope they will avail themselves of our fa cilifies. In closing, let me quote one paragraph from the by-laws of our non-profit club: "To conduct amateur boxing and wrestling in Southern Ore gon". K. E. Myers, President Medford Athletic Club 843 South Riverside ave Medford Post Office Defended To the Editor: I want to come to the defense of the Medford post office depart ment. In the four years since we moved to the valley, we've had as many different ad dresses, the present one since last summer. Adding to this confusion, the last change was a different number and town . . . but SAME ROAD. Cou pled with the frequent mis spelling of our name, and "wrong number s," we've marveled that we have never "lost" any mail. Because I was late in get ting out my Christmas cards and notes with our new ad dress, we feared, this year, many of our incoming cards would go astray. But as busy as the Medford crew was, they always took the time to cross out our old address and write in the new ... so that not one of our "once-a-year" greetings was missing. That's the kind of neglect we like! May I also toss a bouquet to the Central Point post office, for their correct in terpretation (there's no other word for it) on some of our mail, for the above reasons. I wonder if "Aggravated" (March 17, Communications) always adds "Oregon" after Phoenix, on his return ad dress? It does seem a bit superfluous when one lives so near the destination of their mail; but it might be worth the effort. Thanks again to both postal crews. Mrs. Alfred Gallocci Central Point, Ore. 4297 Table Rock rd. Times Change To the Editor: Has it come to the point where a United States citizen has to get a pass port to" travel from one state to another, or to accept em ployment? Why. should there be ten sions in a land supposed to be of "liberty and justice for an"? - Mr. Wilson writes of the New" York professdr's daugh ter wanting to marry a Negro ball player. Well, it hasn't taken place, and the incident is so unique that the story has been told and retold "From Dan "even to Beer sheba." Intermarriage has never been a problem in the U.S. or any 'country, it isn't intermarriage but intercourse which is the problem. . A speaker once said, "The white man has ' been a very bad boy when he gets away from home." He has not taken wife, but has left his progeny throughout the world, where ever he went. Everywhere is a "Melting pot," races have and always will mix. Some scien tists claim there are few pure blooded negroes in U. S., and sociologists, ant hropologists and psychologists have prov en there is no difference in races; the ' members ' of any race can take on the culture TV Violence Seen As Easing Juvenile Frustrations, Bachelor Doctor Opines By DICK WEST Washington (UPD A friend of mine in the baby doctoring game nearly startled me out S of my romp ers the other night by say ing a few kind words about television. I was star tled because nearly all the com ments I have heard or read about TV dick west shows recently have been critical. Much of it was direct ed at the steady stream of shoot-em-ups and whodunits flowing from the tiny screen. There seems to be a strong body of opinion which holds that the cowboys and the pri vate eyes are corrupting our young by glorifying violence. For all I know, these critics may be right. I am not trying to pick a quarrel with them in quoting my pediatric friend or to hold out his words as the gospel. Keeps Minds Busy I take the position that as long as little minds are occu pied with western gun duels, little hands aren't going to be and adapt themselves to the environment of the commu nity in which they happen to be born or located, if not pre vented by prejudiced, igno rant people. Now we come to the "Founding Fathers." Our Dec laration of Independence and our Constitution, etc., were very great documents, but they didn't cover enough, hence the many amendments. Had these "Founding Fathers" listened to Thomas Paine (his "Common Sense" has been re cently put at the head of the list of great books) and put in a clause abolishing slavery, we would have avoided the catastrophe of the Civil War and its consequences. John Adams should have pondered his wife Abigail's letter, ask ing him and associates to the convention, "To do something for the ladies," instead of laughing it off, as the "Found ing Mothers," (including my grandmothers) endured every thing the Founding Fathers endured, then they endured the Founding Fathers. I am still indignant when I think of being disenfranchised when I went to Nevada from Wyoming, the first place in the world to give women the franchise. No, you can't sweep the ocean tide back with a brook. The colored races, which are far in the majority, are on the march all over the world. We can't even condemn their vio lence in some countries. "We weren't so gentle when we kicked the behinds of our op pressors out of Yorktown to the time of Yankee Doodle." (Mrs.) Charity R. Sander 408 Oak Grove rd. Medford. Swallows To the Editor: Well, as usual the Los Angeles Times and other California publicity promotes bannered" the re turn of the swallows to the old San Juan Capistrano mis sion, and well they might, as is their custom, but unlikely to be on March 19th or an other man-specified day. No more possible than Medford Pear Blossom Festival offi cials who try so hard to have it come when the pear trees are in full bloom, the same as the Wenatchee Apple Blos som Festival attempts that way. Both are dependent on the weather the same as the swal lows, who can only feed in flight on insects that hatch out with warming days. The California publicity lads at first reported how St. Joseph some 160 years ago fed starving swallows on March 19th, and in grateful appre ciation they, have since been coming on that day. But when it was pointed out' to them that this was utterly, impos sible, they announced a year ago that old St. Joseph found the swallows driven from old nesting . places and that he (St. Joseph) told the fluttering tribe they could nest at the old mission, and so they did and are still doing. Now, as the pesky sparrows have taken all my first -planting of peas, and we have scold ed, threatened and begged the little feathered raiders in Eng lish and Chinook Jargon to desist forthwith, and they have paid not the least heed, would a massive upbraiding in Old Spanish or Portugese be understood and heeded? This is of high importance to we old-ones, considering our limited income and rising price of eatables 'from the markets; would our good and kindly neighbors down Cali fornia Way let us know pronto, afore the second plant ing is all et? F.J.Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. out stripping cars or little feet running through the room where daddy is trying to read the paper. Much to my surprise, when I made my feelings known to tne medico who staunches runny noses around mv house. he didn't threaten to have me arrested, or even lift an eye brow. As a matter of fact, he said a certain amount of exposure to televised violence probab ly is good for the juvenile race. This was so abrupt a de parture from what I presum ed to be the conventional out look, I urged the good doctor Foreign Notebook: Plebiscite Proposal; Aging Presidents Ey PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editors notebook: To Be or Not To Be West German Socialists are not happy with Chancel lor K o n r a d Aden auer's proposal that B e r liners be allowed to vote to decide I their own fu ture - whether to go over to the East ihl Newsnm German Communists or retain their links with the West. However, the Socialists still have not decided whether to go on record formally oppos ing it. Meanwhile, there is no doubt about the Communist attitude. They oppose it be cause the vote certainly would go to the West. Adenauer's personal prestige at home al Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington - There was a time when Vice President Richard Nixon desperately needed the all-out backing of President Eisenhower, but that time has long since gone. And now that he does not really need a full Eisenhow er endorse ment is exact ly what Nixon at last has been given. This is the the short and ironical story nf lVTr TTico.i. William s. " ; " , ; White hower s belat ed declaration of unqualified support for the vice president for the 1960 G. O. P. presiden tial nomination. To have had such support only three months agOr-before Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York bowed out as a presidential challenger, t o him-would have been a great boon to Nixon. To have had it .years before would have been an even greater help. For Nixon was then walk ing alone in the Eisenhower wing of the G. O. P., shunned by most of the "Eisenhower Republicans." He was left to row his own boat-upstream all the way. HE IS not the first man to have worked his own passage only to receive at length the very assistance which once would have meant so much but which comes too late. The truth, to this corres pondent's knowledge, is that Nixon long ago privately de cided he would be content if the White House simply stay ed neutral at the Republican National convention. He fig ured neutrality was all he needed while he was still be ing opposed by Rockefeller for the nomination. He is bound to figure now that, speaking bluntly, he now does not real ly require anything at all from the Eisenhower adminis tration. This is why he cooly offer ed no thanks when Mr. Eisen hower announced he would be a Nixon man all the way. (It is also possible that Nixon had a wry secondary motive in saying that he always re fused to comment "on state ments by the president, even when they involve me." This tone was very similar to Mr. Eisenhower's own tone on past occasions in refusing comment when Nixon was in trouble. The president would say he did not wish to com ment on the statement of oth er people.) HPHERE is another reason why Nixon is not dancing in glee. The effect of the pres ident's statement (and perhaps his intention) was to tie Nixon ever closer to the outgoing ad ministration. The vice presi dent does not care to be tied quite so closely. He cannot, for example. stand 100 per cent with an to elaborate-on his own time, of course. As I understand his thesis, the average child, deep down in his pure little heart, is nursing a grudge against his old man. Suppose your sibling is engaged in some innocent pursuit, such as using your favorite pipe as a launching pad for soap bubbles. You naturally tell him to knock it off and get to bed. Junior's immediate instinct is to pounce upon dear old dad and commit mayhem. This he realizes is impractical, you being bigger than he is and very likely stronger. Be- ready has been considerably enhanced by his U.S. visit, Heirs Apparent With Nationalist Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek's return to office a foreeone conclusion, political sources are predicting a cabinet shake up. Primary result would be to increase the duties of vice president and Premier Chen Cheng to prepare the way for the day he may eventually take over from the aging Chiang. It also is believed a possi bility that Syngman Rhee, 84-year-old president of the Re public of Korea, might step aside for his heir-apparent, Vice President-elect Lee Ki Poong. Lee has been hand- picked by Rhee and would be expected to go down the line for Rhee's program. Air Rights The U. S.-Philippines nego tiations for a new air treaty S. WHITE Eisenhower farm program against which many farm-belt Republicans are crying, "No, No!" He does not propose to be bound in advance to every possible evolution in an Eisen hower policy of negotiation with the Russians which might go farther in accommo dation than Nixon himself would go. And a final truth is this: It is not Mr. Nixon who at this point owes Eisenhower a debt. The vice president today is incomparably the stronger within the Republican party organization, though not in the country. And it is the vice president who for seven years has done the slogging, front line fighting for the G. O. P. which the president has so consistently avoided. TNDEED, the Eisenhower- Nixon relationship has been oddly mixed from the start. On the president's side, it has been alternately cordial and chilly. On Nixon's side, it has been simply correct. He has been failthful to his chief, but there is no deep warmth between these two. inere never has oeen since the 1952 campaign when Nix on got into difficulty over po litical contributions. He got no sympathy from Mr. Eisen hower until in his celebrated broadcast with his dog Check ers he swept the country by emotional storm. He won the nation's forgive-iess-and, only then, Mr. Eis enhower's. (Copyright, 1960, By United Feature Snydicaie, Inc.) Every service we conduct is a result of infinite attention to details and your per- sonal wishes. Planned with devoted care even modestly priced services are brought to a single im pression of reverent beauty. j sides that, patricide is illegal m most states. Unable to use you as an out let for his hostility, the child becomes frustrated. Frustra tions can lead to big trouble and this is where television comes in. Seeing all those outlaws be ing gunned down by the mar shal provides him a means of releasing pent - up emotions. Subconsciously, he is aiming the slugs at you-know-who. This all sounds logical to me but perhaps I should add a qualifying sentence. The pe diatrician I quote is a bachelor who never watches television himself. may develop into another no table squabble. The Philip pines cancelled the old treaty as one-sided earlier this year and think they have every thing to gain and nothing to lose by being tough. They fig ure they have have the United States over a barrel-particularly Pan American Airways whose franchise to operate in the Philippines expires soon. Brass Tacks This week two international conferences get down to tough bargaining in Geneva, Switz erland. But at least in the case of the 10-nation disarmament conference no firm results are expected soon. Predictions are that it will take a year, and possibly years, before the dis armament conferees can reach any sort of conclusion. The other meeting is the 89-nation law of the sea conference which, among other things, in volves important fishing rights. ATTORNEY NOMINATED Eugene - (UPD - Joe A. 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