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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Monday, March 28, 1960 HNS "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St.. Ph SF 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 CHtPMAN. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sundav 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 518 no 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 P.P1. Telephoto Newspictures MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCUL ATIONS Advertising Reore entatlve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New Yc 'k, Chicago. De troit. San Franci' co. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At ' lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER 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 28. 1950 (Tuesday) Ashland - A group of 30 citizens met last night to set in motion a recall movement against the mayor and a city councilman. Medford High school's star athlete, Jack Morris, will re ceive the Bill Stern athletic award today. 20 YEARS AGO Ma,rch 28. 1940 (Thursday) A stag banquet will be held tonight in honor of C. E. (Pop) Gates who is retiring after 27 years as a Medford Ford deal er. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Auto roer at the fairgrounds. It will give people a change and a chance to wonder who will be ahead at the first turn, in stead of the next corner." 30 YEARS AGO March 28. 1930 (Friday) ' C. E. (Pop) Gates is renamed state highway commissioner. City dance matron hands in resignation to city council with words that "many false hoods have been told against me. 40 YEARS AGO March 28. 1920 (Sundav) The second crew of the Jacksonville railway is nearly run over by runaway truck at the Laurel st. crossing. Lamport store here is rob bed and no clues are left. 50 YEARS AGO March 28. 1910 (Monday) City fathers having diffi culty in finding suitable place here for evangelist to erect a temporary building for re vival meetings. Sacramento firm is award ed contract to grade and pave nearly 10 miles of Medford streets. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or lix is good. :" 1. Mining is one of Mexi co's principal industries; true or false? : 2. Is genuine imported Roquefort cheese made prin cipally from milk of cows, ewes, or goats? 3. Name the first four Pres idents of the United States. ; 4. Who are the Leather necks? 5. Who founded the origin al Standard Oil Company? ' 6. On what sea is the city of Danzig? 7. When is Pancake Tues day? 8. Are federal taxes on gasoline, cigarettes, liquor, furs, jewelry, etc., known as sales taxes, customs, or excise taxes? Q Tf vnn had the Bealg Street Blues, for what city would you be homesick? 10. What New York base ball stadir has been called "The House that Ruth built"? . Answer: 1. True. 2. Milk of ews. 3. Washington. John Adams, Jefferson. Madison. 4. Men of U. S. Marine Corps. 5. John D. Rockefeller Sr. 6. The Baltic 7. Tuesday be fore Ash Wednesday. 8. Ex cise taxes. 9. Memphis. Tenn. 10. Yankee stadium. Its Essential! I have great faith in representative form of competitive tree enterprise economy. The local tax structure may make for a favor able or unfavorable climate for business. The taxable wealth and the educational load are not necessarily coterminous by school districts, by counties, nor by states. Therefore, in order to have fair and equitable competition, there should not be tax barriers that prevent fair competition. A federal tax is uniform throughout the Unit ed States. This is an aid our free enterprise system of economy. In addi ti'on, the federal tax system is a balance wheel to our economy. The cost of collecting federal taxes is about the lowest 01 any tax revenue source. IN RETURN, Oregon 1 from the federal government for schools in proportion to taxes paid. However, the money raised for public education will help create a market for Oregon products (Oregon is an export ing state) that will create much greater return in additional business gon. If federal aid to public education for school construction and teachers' salaries expands the market for Oregon's building materials, Oregon would gain great benefit were returned irom the Oregon schools. Federal port of public education and indirect beneiit. The people of this United States are a mobile people, and our government is based on the vote of all. Therefore each of the education, or lack of education, in every state in the union. I am a firm believer in democracy, representative government, free competitive en terprise, a high standard ot living, and equal op portunity. Therefore, I belive that federal participation in financeing public education is essential. ( M. K. W inslow, superintendent of schools at Loos Bay, quoted in Oregon Education.) Census If you haven't already received one at your house, you'll soon be getting a special piece of mail, a basic questionnaire from the U. S. Bureau of the Census. You should fill it out the following day the census takers will begin making their rounds to pick up the data and, perhaps, leave you another, more involved ques tionnaire to work on. More than 400 census workers will fan out through this congressional district. It will take them three to" four weeks to make all their calls, but your house might be one of the first they'll approach. ErVERY time the federal census is taken, some citizens grouse about being forced to reveal personal information. Remember, before you are tempted to join the grousers, that all census an swers are confidential. In taking the census Sam isn't attempting to pry into your private life. The answers he gets will never be available to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, nor except in certain justifiable instances, even to your close relatives. It is a federal offense for you to refuse to co operate in the census or to lie willfully to the enumerators. But fear of prosecution shouldn't be the basis of your participation. The informa tion that Uncle, Sam gains from each census is important for the planning of our nation's future. CUR military defense, school systems, high- ways, and a hundred other public matters can be handled more intelligently in light of census findings. As a nation, the more we know about ourselves, the better able we are to cope with rising problems and the more costly mistakes we are able to avoid. So don't cuss. You have nothing to fear from it, and your personal future is wrapped in its success. In a democratic nation, no census can be 100 per cent perfect, but the more nearly that goal can be approached, the greater the benefit to the nation and to the citizens whose coopera tion is the basis of is plans and purpose.- Eu gene Register-Guard. State Measure Usually bills referred Legislature come up for a year one relerred measure will be voted on in May. This is the amendment to the constitution proposed by the 1959 Assembly. It would increase salaries of state legislators from $600 a year to $2100. Just why this measure was submitted for a primary election balloting is not clear. Perhaps the Legislature felt its chance of approval was better then than in November when the number of bills to be voted on is ures were referred. by the acuon m jovemDer. Whatever the reason the bill is on the ballot Presnt compensation is very inadequate consider ing the lenth of sessions amount of labor expected sessions, ine increase sought is not excessive if we are to get and retain able legisltors. But org anization and promotion will be needed to insure a favorable vote. Oregon Statesman, Salem. our. democratic society, government, and in our to fair competition and may not receive revenue and employment in Ore' even though no money iederal government to participation m the sup has an important direct us will be affected by Facts before March 31, for every 10 years, Uncle to the people by the vote in November. This much larger 14 meas Legislature for popular in these times, and the of legislators between Dennis the 'OlOMW NOTICE HOW INTERESTED DfMlS WA5 INTfC VOCfOKS CCtf YWSATlON I ACTUXLW THINK WG PICKING UP A FEW THINGS! 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. Voter Registration To the Editor: Mr. A. C Lewis has recently charged in this column that Jackson County Republicans are lag ging in the drive for voter registrations. Speaking for the Young Re publican club, I can state that several of our members are registrars. Besides serving in various locations downtown, such as the public library, they helped other Republi cans maintain a special regis tration booth at the well- populated Sportsfair, offering this service 12 hours a day. Other methods are being employed to reach the unreg istered voter in time for the primary election.. In fact, our entire membership is working in some way to further the registration drive, even though they are not all offi cial registrars. Naturally, this is only one segment of the county organization, and does not take into account any of the projects being carried out by the Republican County Committee and the Republi can Women's Club. In closing I would like to make one comment on Mr. Lewis' letter. Certainly, in registering 171 residents and in planning to spend more time on this work, he should be commended for helping these residents to claim their right to vote. If we do not exercise this privilege, it may be gradually lost. On the oth er nana, in taKing such a lofty view of the "volunteer effort of public service" put forth by the county Demo crats in registering more vot ers, Mr. Lewis neglected to add that this effort was com pensated at the rate of 10 per cent per registration, or $17.10 for the 171 registra tions cited. Mrs. Richard Kyle, President, Jackson County Young Republican club, 42 South Keene Way, Medford Hero Hounded To the Editor: After read ing the Tribune, which ap peared in the issue of March 24, Friday, concerning our Number One hero of World "War I, I would like to add to the statement of General Pershing, which cited Sgt. Al- vin C. York as "the greatest civilian soldier of the war by saying, using the rule of individual accomplishme n t s, that he was the greatest of any war the U.S. has ever been engaged in. , It is my belief that, inso far as the government is able to donate large funds for the benefit of nations, and citi zens of nations against which such heroes as Sergeant York did fight, it would not be too far out of order if the Con gress would pass a forgive ness act in the case of the claim against him for the $85, 442 of taxes from the life story movie of 1941. To us, it looks like a life of torment is all the apprecia tion shown this super hero from the hills, who was al ready past draft age, but en listed against the scruples of his religion, and came out of the mountains to fight for and protect this nation, which now hounds him for a tax share of the amount he re ceived for the production of his life story in movies. Pensions to some of our retired generals, who would have made a sorry mess of trying to accomplish the feats of Sgt. Alvin York, amount to more in one year than the $85,442 taxes they are after from the greatest indi vidual hero of our nation. Pat Graham, 175 Jeanette st., Medford. Menace Intolerable Burden To the Editor: In all this hullabaloo about a Negro moving into the hitherto lily white city of Medford, some thing of vital importance has been neglected to the point of absurdity. The vital thing that has been neglected and conspicu ously so by those who are for him, is Mr. Smith himself. This person who is moving here is not "a Negro." That is, he isn't if by "a Negro" we mean something that is to be hated or loved just on prin ciple. "A Negro" in this sense is only a fiction, as unreal as a unicorn. What is happening is that a real, live, unique individual (different in some degree, as you and I are different in some degree, from all other individuals) has moved into this region. The only things we know about him to date are that he is employed at the weather bureau, that the cen sus taker will classify him as a Negro and that he is named Smith. Now the absurd part of this is that the defenders of Mr Smith's right to move here seem to imply that he is a paragon of all the virtues. The logic seems to be that the man's right to come here is dependent on his attainments I submit to you, my fellow citizens, that his right to come here is based solely on the law of this land and not on any virtues, attainments or abilities. Friends and neighbors, let us face the cruel truth. Many of us are unregenerate slobs, Why should Mr. Smith have to be any better than the rest of us? ' Give the man a break. It is going to be hard enough for him to deal with the stu pidities and affronts that will be inflicted by the unfortu nates among us. Let us not lay on Mr. Smith an additional and possibly in tolerable burden of standards of citizenship, ability and just general goodness that few if any of the rest of us show. Jim Selleck 130 Hargadine, Apt. 4 Ashland, Ore. Nothing New To the Editor: It's a won derful world, after aU the dis coveries large and small. Here we reside and wonder, on a spinning terrestial ball, some where along with tne perpetu al stars, "what is next?" to imbue the intellect in us aU? We read about astronomers of old, who reported there was no life on Mars. That is just simple plain "old stuff" today, regardless of au the assumed speculation so far. Why should an aU-wise Crea tor form so many worlds and leave some devoid of crea tures? In that case it would be only an accidental chance. Even the abominable snow man's existence has been ac tually recorded ror the past 230,000 years in natural his tory. The next 40 years will be filled with ever increasing pleasure, health and riches, in the advancement of human knowledge if used intelli gently. The present state of con sternation will all end in due process of "being weighed in the balance" and found want ing. There is no new thmg un der the sun. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. The YMCA's Role To the Editor: The implica tions, to YMCA physical pro gram, of the city recreation department holding a free physical fitness ' course for women, as outlined in an ar Humphrey Gets Rough; Could Aid Republicans By LYLE C. WILSON Washington- (CPD -The Kennedy-Humphrey campaign in Wisconsin is getting rough, rough enough to be useful to the Republi cans when the national cam paign is on. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D - Minn.) is spelling out for the 1960 Vvle C. Wilson rs. e p u outuu presidential candidate some campaign arguments which would be useful if the Demo crats nominate Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) for presi dent. Humphrey challenges Ken nedy's good faith as a friend of the farmer. Put another ticle of Wednesday the 23 rd, raises a question in the minds of some persons who have found this service at the YMCA. Will it cause the YMCA program to fade? Or are the two compatible? The same questions were asked when the city opened a fine new swimming pool at Hawthorne Park. Will an in door pool get any use? The fact was that usage doubled at the Y' pool that same sum mer, because of attention to instruction and training which was essential to enjoyable rec reations. The YMCA seeks to use its facilities for training persons to have enough skill to enjoy recreational pro grams wherever they find them, whether they are run by public or private groups. I understand the expense of the news program is being borne jointly by the city bud get and, in use of expensive, facilities of the new program is being borne by the school district budget, and it be comes free to participants. This is probably a wise use of funds, because healthy, happy mothers and working women can have a far-reaching effect on the character and happi ness of our homes. The YMCA board believes that most of the expense of adult programs would be borne by the one benefited. Thus, dues in the YMCA have been a necessary sharing of operating expense. Where childrens' and youth programs are concerned, subsidy funds from the United Medford Cru sade have helped give them a a full scale club and physical education program, including year -around swimming, for a small annual dues. We be lieve children can appreciate more what they get in service because they, or their fami lies, make some contribution toward it. The YMCA wishes to help enthuse women, and in fact aU persons, to put more em phasis on 'fitness.' Certainly the comparison of physical fitness index of our total pop ulation is nothing to crow about. This is not a job which is peculiarly the property of any group or agency. . The YMCA will continue to place as its emphasis the de velopment of total Christian personality, of which physical fitness is a part." It will not give up its programs for wom en, but perhaps will emphasize new developments in the use of equipment of the nature found in many health clubs and salons, and it will con tinue to ask adults to share in the expense through member ship dues. Robert L. Jones General Secretary Medford YMCA Experiences To the Editor: When an aged Negress, arms full of bundles, got into an over crowded bus in San Antonio, I gave her my seat. She seemed so old and tired. I didn't mind the sneers, for I am a Christian. I have helped a blind Ne gro across a busy street, and I ve fed colored tramps. In Waskum, Texas, when an old Negro woman came for my laundry I gave her a cup of tea and some cookies. She took them gratefuUy, but ad vised me not to do that again, Cause," she said, 'Yo is fum de nort and doan know bet- tah, but folks will call you 'white trash'." You see my mistake was, I should have kept her in the kitchen. Instead I gave her the most comfortable chair in my living room. Once, while headed south on horseback, my chum and I wer held up stranded by the Mississippi river. It be came 15 miles wide and we had. to make camp. Our pack horse carried our meager sup plies blankets, small tent, and chuck box. We had a lan tern, some matches, and oat meal. Gamp set, we pulled some bark from fence posts and built a small fire. We looked up to see a biz Negro smiling down at us. Esther and I didn't feel afraid. That man had seen us making camp and brought po tatoes, bread, butter, milk and eggs. He would take no pay. A while later, he brought bis shepherd dog down to stay - Kennedy way, Humphrey challenges Kennedy's good faith as an enemy of Secretary of Agri culture Ezra Taft Benson. This is a serious challenge to any potential Democratic nominee. Farmer's Friend Necessary The 1960 Democratic nom inee for President, whoever he may be, must seek elec tion on a platform of friend ship for the fanner and of enmity to Benson. That is basic in Democratic campaign strategy. Available evidence indi cates that Vice President Washington Report By WILLIAM MR. K'S BOON Washington - Some chilling seconds thoughts are running through Washington now about P r e s i- dent E 1 s e n hower's fate ful decision to open 'he way for N i k i t a K hrushchev's free - wheel ing propagan d a tours through the Allied West. Great risks from the start were involved in Mr. Eisen hower's reluctant agreement to follow Britain's lead in ne gotiating under neon lights with Khrushchev at - and be fore the coming May sum mit meeting. These risks are now becoming plainer and plaine For once we abandoned the old careful diplomacy, through which professionals worked in private to reach limited but solid agreements, we gave a great propaganda weapon to Nikita Khrushchev. Having at home or abroad no critic to check him, he is able to appeal above the heads of western governments to all that is uninformed and senti mentally ''hopeful" among their peoples. TIE IS THE BENEFICIARY "of a priceless boon - he can be as irresponsible and demagogic as he pleases. The western leaders, cannot. This the process of going over the head of the government of this country - is what Khru shchev did in his tour of the United States last fall. It is no good denying that he won a considerable propa g a n d a triumph here. And this is what he is doing now in his visit to France. He is again scoring victories, this time over the lawful head of France, Charles de Gaulle. Retaliatory Tax Discussion Set Salem -DPD- Oregon Insur ance Commissioner Dean Mus ser planned today to meet with representatives of the secretary of state and attor ney general to discuss collec tion of retaliatory taxes from out-of-state insurance firms doing business in the state. State Rep. Vernon Cook (D- Troutdale) charged that an opinion by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton backed up his claim that insurance commissioners for 13 years have failed to collect enough retaliatory taxes. Cook said the loss may amount to $1 million a year. Musser said Cook's charges were "not a fair statement." He said that if the retaliatory law, . as now interpreted, had been enforced in 1958 the amount collected would have been about $119,000 for that year. , "I am not convinced the missioners have been negli commissioners have been neg ligent," Musser said. "An opin sioner Hugh Earle was not the same as the one given this (time) and the whole question hasn't been clari fied." Johannesburg, South Africa - (UPD - Heavily armed police stood guard in native town- ships throughout bouin Airi ca today to watch the black man mourn his dead. African leaders labeled this a day of sorrow and called on natives to remain in their homes throughout the nation in a massive demonstration of grief. the night with us. Esther tied his leash to the chuck . box, and we slept soundly; no skunks or snakes. Most colored people - are kind , and good Christians. They want and need educa tion and chance to live graci ously. Their color won't rub off, and they not only believe in doing as they'd be done by, but they know Christ's rule, "Love thy neighbor." Mrs. John Spackman Jacksonville, Ore. . Correspondent Secre tary of Fifty Plus Club. 1 tees Ali William . White Battle in Wisconsin Richard M. Nixon is unhap pily aware of this and is do ing something about it. That something is the preparation of his own farm program to be written into the Republi can campaign platform. The purpose is to enable Nixon, also, to run as the farmer's friend. Nixon, in fact, will be run ning for President and run ning away from Benson be cause the idea grows that the secretary is a liability in the farm states. To run success fully for President while run ning away from Benson with S. WHITE Here is the chief of inter national Communism openly and with unexampled impu dence "receiving" in the heart of France calls from so-called Frenchmen who are openly in the service not of France but of the Soviet Union. Such a delegation of fellow-travelers publicly visits Khrushchev in quarters provided for him by the French government in the Quai D'Orsay - the French foreign office. Another truth is not spoken out loud here by anybody who wants to win a popularity con test. It is this: the White House itself is increasingly defensive about the obvious fact that the President is go ing to the summit with little real possibility of controlling its docket of business and even less hope of accomplish ing anything much in our in terest. rpHIS is essentially what has -- just been acknowledged to the Senate by Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, whose Bostonian Yankee can dor is part of his character. And White House sensiti vity has been plainly shown by the belligerent attitude of the President's press secre tary, James Hagerty. Hagerty has used the words "a lot of nonsense" to try to destroy the interpretation put upon Herter's Senate testimony by Senators who actually heard him, as Hagerty did not. These Senators, men like Albert Gore of Tennessee, are not blind, stubborn advocates of "rigidity." On the contrary, they have supported the prin ciple of negotiation with the Soviet Union. But they are alarmed at how far the ad ministration has carried "flex ibility." IN THE SMALL and literal sense we are, perhaps, not going "unprepared" to the summit. That is, three special state department committees are at work on this and that. But 30 such committees could not alter the basic truth al ready publicly stated by Her ter: "One doesn't know what actually will be discussed. We have no formal agenda." The less control there is over what Khrushchev is al lowed to bring up the more opportunity for him to use the meeting just as he has used his visit abroad: as a sounding board for every har angue, relevant or not, he may wish to make. Can't our leaders use it that way, too? In theory, yes. But the crucial difference is that our men have got to talk re sponsibly. Khrushchev can talk just as he pleases, heed less of the long tradition of reasonable conduct that will limit the western leaders from first to last. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, 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.' whom he has been associated politically for eight years will be a good trick if the vice president can do it. It will be less difficult for Nixon to do that against Ken nedy however, if Humphrey succeeds in firmly tagging Kennedy as a one-time col laborator in the Benson farm program. Humphrey pulled the record on Kennedy in the Wisconsin campaign. The rec cord showed that Kennedy had cast some early votes for flexible price supports and otherwise was a late comer to the blood brotherhood of politicians committed to the destruction of Benson and of all his works. The best answer Nixon could have to the charge that he is no friend of the farmer but a friend of Benson would be to quote Humphrey's charge that Kennedy was a friend of Benson's, too. That would be the best answer, as suming that Kennedy were nominated for President. Humphrey has further charged that Kennedy's vot ing record is so similar to the vice president's policy, positions that the senator from Massachusetts would be "soft on Nixon" in a presidential campaign. Wisconsin's Demo cratic governor Gaylord Nel son called a foul on Hum phrey for that. Humphrey is not backing down, however, although he seems to have abandoned an earlier cam paign theme which was to challenge Kennedy on charges of great expenditure of money. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) is thumping the money theme. Morse is a candidate of sorts for the Democratic president ial nomination although his admitted first choice is Adlai E. Stevenson. Morse estimated this month that Kennedy was spending $300,000 in Wisconsin. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was like minded but less specific some time ago when she estimated that Kennedy and his family were spending "oodles" of money to obtain the senator's presidential nomination. How much is an oodle? Kennedy is getting what a front runner must expect: Abuse fro mall sides. More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here Is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. 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