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Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 i-iaxi aaa sunaay i to. 1J0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Alfc Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of CItv of Medford Official taper f Jackson County United Press International Full leased ?fre PJl Celephoto Newspictures " 3.11 MB R 0bAUDTT BUREAU dftrtising Renresentative: (JlrfST HOLIDAY" CO.. INC. Of fices in New .York. Chicago. De troft. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. .At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER k PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION l EDITORIAl iva Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files oi The Mail frtburye, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. ft - 10 YEARS AGO . ' March 29, 1950 (Wednesday) Residents of Sams Valley community still interested in ) formation of soil conservation district in (their area -despite jecen defeat, of proposed -eoirftty-wide district at polls Norman Worthley appoint ed -city recreation director and will have charge of swim- v ming and wading pools and recreation in a new city park. 20 YEARS AGO March 29, 1940 (Friday) County reorganization board says it costs oi.iu io eau- cate each grade and high school student in Jackson county, (pompared to $97.87 per student in Klamath county. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Lane county is vexed by the 'juve nile delinquency problem,' ac cordingGto a Eugene newspa per, and it asks: 'Who is main ly If,. blame?' It couldn't be the parents, so it must be the police, or the schoolteach ers.' G 30 YEARS AGO ' -vMarch 29, 1930 (Saturday) w Over 200 Medford autoists are cited in tast few months dtaPhavifg 'faulty headlights on their vehicles. County jail inmate gets his feet blistered when : he " acci dently stepped in some moon shine liquor. 40 YEARSA0.O Jgrch 29, 1920 (Tuesday) - A. couple from Texas and S couple from Arizona moved to Medford yesterday where thv plan to make their per manent . residence. 50 YEARS AGO ' Ofarch 29. 1910 (Tuesday) The Medford Commercial club plans to buy a home at Fifth st. and Central ave., as a site for their new club q building. Baker-Hutchason company here, valued" at $26,000, is forced into bankruptcy by its B stockholders, because they fail to agree on firm's policy of handling business. Ut-fs Yoiir I.Q.? (TAinm Or ten correct is superior; tevaa or eight is excellent; five er lis is food. . 1. What famous actress lost a leg, but nevertheless con tinued to act on the stage? 2. What sort of structure did Harry Truman add to the White House when he had it? 3. Crater Lake is in what state? g. It" is possible to can Jruits without using sugar; true er false? 9. Vas an independent Re public ever proclaimed in CtMfornia? What is an export tax? 7. Which city is farther north "Portland, Maine, or Portland, Of egon? 8. Is the moon a star, a planet, or a satellite? 9.1s a hard-shelled crab ever a soft-shellfid crab? 0 10. Pitcairn Island was set tled b JUlgllsn sauuis who mutinied on what ship? Answers: 1. Sarah Bern hardt. 2. A balcony. 3. Or,e- aon. 4. True. 5. Yes. (July 4, 1864). 6. A duly imposed on goods leaving a country. 7. 'Portland, Oregon. 8. Satellite, 9 Yes. (After it molls.) 10, The "Bounty. ' - -" 9 '"" A "Slight" We Like Oregon has been "slighted", as the : site for expensive military installations. Or so some maintain. This is the sort of slight ing we don't particularly mind, however. For instance, look at Camp Adair, a war time training camp located in the Willamette valley near Corvallis and Albany. After the war it was abandoned, as was Camp White. But with some political pressures, and an active campaign, each later was converted to another kind of activity. . ' DART of Camp White became a Veterans Ad ministration Domiciliary, and the rest was turned over to private enterprise to furnish the nucleus of an industrial manufacturing center. ' Camp Adair became the site for. a SAGE in stallation (one" of the electronic components of our aerial defense warning network), and later for a Bomarc missile base. . , Camp White now is a permanent installation, good for many years. White City is a thriving in dustrial area. But Camp Adair's Bomarc missiles are being phased out work will not be completed on their launching pads, and the whole Willamette valley will suffer thereby both in potential, and through the psychological impact of withdrawn federal money. MO IT may be a slower way to develop our A economy, but we'd rather see the Rogue val ley area grow without the aid of too much de fense-type spending. In these days when solete before they re off when aircraft are being which in turn are obsolescent before their testing is completed, defense-based industry carries with it a large element oi chance, ot boom-and-bust. The Albany-Corvallis which will be affected either. Seattle, home company, which builds the Bomarc, will also feel the impact. As for us, we'd just as soon go slower but surer, in the long run. E.A. " Both Washingoon-(UPD-America's young people were de scribed today as pampered, self-indulgent, materialis tic, milling about without a sense of direction and lacking in high ideals. . . . The same young people also were described as sincere, intelligent, unhypocritical, a m b i t i o u s for. achievement and hungry for firm and forthright par ental' guidance. . ' '" -"."' These widely disparate viewpoints, contained in a story from the White House Conference on Children and Youth, are And that isn't a paradox, either. One phrase describes some young people; the other phrase describes For our money, there than there are of the former. . Juvenile delinquency new the last few years. It has been because it IS news; juvenile delinquency has increased; crimes by young people have become more frequent, and sometimes more vicious. . COMETIMES these events tend to obscure the acts of the many fine young people, who are making a real and intelligent effort to become good citizens. Sometimes, in fact, newspapers are accused of "playing up" the bad deeds of young people, and ignoring the good deeds. An impartial reading of most newspapers will reveal far more SDace eriven to Bov and Girl Scout, school, 4-H, FFA, some youth activities than Ti. hnils down to thist dividuals, too. and the report their doings, good fied that most oi them are -a -mm But we'd all be blmd it we didn't acKnowi edge that there are "problem kids," as well. E. A. Voter Registration The Democratic and Republican parties in Jackson county are in a minor, and faintly amus ing, row about the registration of potential voters. We find it difficult to get very interested, or very upset, about such shenanigans. They are Standard Operating Procedure for election years, and the effect they will have on the overall out come of either the primary or general election is problematical. It is good to have a large percentage of the electorate registered to vote, for it indicates a widespread interest : in politics and government, which is the business of everybody. TO BE able to vote, one must make the minor - effort to see he is registered, and if not, do so. If an individual fails to display even that amount of interest, there is a question in our mind as to whether he is really qualified to cast an in formed vote. Maybe it would be just as well if he stayed ,home; v If a resident has to be browbeaten into reg istering, or have a registrar come to his front door, he is likely so little interested in the process es of government that he'll be as apt to vote for or against candidates or measures without know ing anything about them. ' : And that is just as destructive to orderly, dem ocratic procedures as it would be if he stayed home and watched TV. E.A. ' ' ' ' ' . ,1 T new aircraft are ob the drawing boards, arid superseded by missiles, area isn't the only one by the Bomarc phase-out, town of Boeing Aircraft Kinds both absolutely correct. others. are more of the latter has been much in the . YMCA, and other whole the other Kind. 'Youner ryeorjle are in newsnaner "attempts to and bad. We are grati on tne good siae. 1 T , 1 1 Dennis the "fbw 'BOUT SOWS APPLE 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. End of the Beard J To the Editor: Anyway, mine was among the very last of the 1959 centennial beard massacres, that left their vari colored remains all the way from the home backyard to the barber-shop. There was one exception to the pay-as-you-mow-and-go. It was when a prize winning beard award was " presented at the barber-shop, that had guaranteed aU or any surplus face-hair removal. The head hair -trimmer perusing the evening paper, seemed a bit disgruntled over something or other, taking a very dim view of "What is this thing?" to an assistant. Being assured of its authenticity, "Aw, that's too long ago, we can't fool with the thing," and tossed it back my way. Being contused and em barrassed over what had been planned as a bit of jollity, the 'thing' fluttered to the floor, an Abraham Lincoln style first prize beard award at the 100 year of Oregon statehood celebrated by a Cat fish Derby at TouVelle Park last June. So sorry that it was not Kept irom oeing swept with trash to the ever hungry garbage can.' Surging memory of the long line of chairs filled with cus tomers waiting for a two-bit haircut and 15 cent shave, some happily and guiltily perusing -the Police Gazette, much frowned on by do- gooders; some ,'gettin' the key' to a sawed-on shop-fiddle, and others yarnin' and worryin' concerning problems of the day, gave me a sort of Kip Van Winkle complex. Not being able to afford a hair-do in the modern bar ber-shop, we backed out of the unhappy situation and groped our way through the gathering dusk, thinking how there is bound to be some smaU gain in any great loss, for it was the same tall un gainly Lincoln so rebuffed, rejected, denounced and gen erally insulted that he re marked one time that when there was a lull in it, he felt lonely and neglected like, giv ing me at least a misery loves company feelin'. At the home of a good friend we've neighbored lo these many happy years, our much enjoyed and blue-ribbon winning beard feU away with a fine hair-cut and eye brow trim as the eye-surgeon demanded, a sort of eye for a beard. But thanks be, no tooth included as the grim old Mosaic law required, as we have but a few left to help in the pursuit of health and happiness, to the hospital for a brand new eye. F. J. Clifford, Route 2, Box 200F; Central Point, Ore God's Creatures, Too To the Editor: As a former Medford resident, I am con cerned about the proposed dog leash law. Friends-it simply does not work! . Gentle dogs become cross, desperately unhappy, they howl day and night. Invari ably, the owners turn them out at night; they have- to, for no dog can endure -24 hours captivity, after having been free. Try and . find enough workers to stop them! Tied in the sun, often with out shade or. water, and cold and wet in winter their suf fering is " pitiful; teased by children whose parents ; and teachers have failed to teach kindness, misery continues endlessly. - - Let's find some better way, some, more humane way, for these creatures belong to God. "Concerned" Mrs. Paula Sorenson, 4205 Browne St., Omaha, Neb. Menace pig WITH THISAULK? Fix the Frying Pan . To the Editor: "On Dec. 16, 1952, at the Jackson Hotel, Medford, one Richard Smith, U.S. Chamber of Commerce secretary, and a companion, treated all who came for the much-advertised lecture on Conservation of Natural Re sources to whatever one named in the semi-dark bar, Smith remarked "we should ask for . opinions now-all would agree with us." Later Mr. Smith delivered his message to the seven-per son audience. Few in Jackson county seemed interested in the. USCC lecture. Mr. Smith named National Forests, Parks, etc., which, by USCC standards, should be turned over to big private special interests. Definite plans were to flood America's .schools, the public, with propaganda, "to teach school children, teachers, parents, the public to believe our plan."'; Propaganda has ; been, is being, spread from coast to coast. .Sua ye, s convincing speakers will expound, (per haps not as from' the; USCC) to show the sins of the- peo ple's ownership of . National Parks, etc. And by . statistics, gorgeous pictures, cleverly written stories, convince some that America's oil should go to Rockefeller, timber 'to Weyr erhaeuser, etc. America's first citizens' lands" are already liquidated. v ' How did R. get America's oil, W, . Americans timber, Huntington- et al America's railroad lands, etc.? Jay Gould said, "We own the land. How we got it God knows. And we're going to keep it if we have to bribe every Senator and feed the hungry Con gressmen." Coins Huntington said: "Whoever I bribe I make forever my slave:" Read "The Robber Barons," "Looters of the Public Domain," Meach am's -"Wigwam and War path," to get you interested. What did private special interests do with those mil lions of acres?, Weyerhaueser, Long-Bell et al skimmed the forest cream from the Great Lakes states, left " a scorched earth, and through .the proc ess described in "Looters of the Public Domain," moved West and' continued destruc tion of America's "inexhausti ble" forests. Other natural re sources have been, liquidated, likewise hi-graded for big profits. The "Friendly SP" is ah example "of what private special interests have done and will do the public. Visualize America if public-spirited men and' women with vision had been at the helm of America's ; Ship of State. America needs to be stabilized. Cut out the greed, bribery and graft,, and USCC influences, and America will be the people's, not greedy minorities' Let us fix-the fry- uigpan, not jump into the fire. ' , .' John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood,. Medford. v Bible Interpretation To the Editorr Edifh Rode's Feb. 21st letter sent me think ing. I appreciated . her en deavor to - r e c oji c i 1 e oc currences of Gen. .9 by offer ing two possible : answers as to Canaan's curse, incident to Noah's drunkeness. As one. of the local group,' of the Lay men's Home Missionary Movement, whose purpose is to . encourage Bible study, I began searching;. and, if I may, I should like to present the following findings. First as to Noah's drunken ness. There are many theories concerning" Earth's creation but the Vailian theory holds more closely to the Bible.; It assumes Saturn's rings, Jupi ter's belts illustrate Earth's. West Finds Armed Forces Give From Capitalist Overproduction Theory By DICK WEST Washington (DPD I don't know much more about Karl Marx than the average Russian knows about Groucho. But one of his eco nomic t h e o- rJ ries seems to have stuck in my memory. I recall reading some place that Dick west Marx preaicr- ed capitalism would eventu ally fall of its own weight by producing more than it could consume. Thoughts like this made Marx nervous. So he locked himself up in his study, told his wife to keep the kids quiet, then invented Commu nism. The Marxian doctrine has been pretty well picked to pieces by now and I think I have spotted still another flaw in his theory. Marx fail ed to reckon with U. S. arm ed services. I mean some of our war- planet development; that wa ter and mineral rings follow ed each other in deluges upon the Earth; that the Deluge of Noah's day was the last and was of pure water. The Scriptures speak of it as a flood. Prior to the flood, the sun's rays penetrating the water-canopy before striking the Earth made conditions there on like a hothouse. There were no rains, floods, doughts, thunderstorms, tornadoes, ex tremes of hot and cold AND no fermentation. So, when Noah drank the vine's first fruits after the flood, he, un aware, of this change, natur ally became intoxicated. As to Canaan's curse, here the word "curse", I would suggest, is used in the penalty sense as in the curse put upon man and the Earth after Adam's fall. Ham's conduct toward Noah, related, in Gen. 9, was evidently disrespect ful and unseeming, resulting from a wrong heart attitude. Thus when Noah stated, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be . . .", he seems, merely, to have been prophesying the wrong qualities displayed by Ham would be inherited by Canaan and later found cropping out in the degeneracy marking Canaan's posterity. As far as the Ransom is concerned, Noah's other two sons siend in need just as does Ham. I trust others will agree the foregoing vindicates Noah's character, honors God's perfect attributes and is compatible with Scripture, reason. It" is interesting that other scientists claim Earth has still another ring. electrical -which, falling, will in a few years destroy fermentation, microbes and parasites, great ly assist plant and animal life. ". i . The heaven is my throne ... the earth is my footstool .,. ." ". . .1 will make the place of my feet glorious." Isa.66:l;60:13. (Mrs.) Irene Moreland, 3146 Hanley rd., Medford 'Sticky Fingers' To the Editor:' I enjoyed the letter written by Mr. Acklin about the little girl and her interest in the stock market A little boy in my Sunday school class has a similar in terest in airplanes. JWe worked on a project about six months ago, where the children made small bee hives, and every Sunday they came, they tried to make an airplane look as though it was flying around the bee hive. They had a terrible time gluing the, airplanes together as all :we had was plain glue, instead of airplane glue, and they would fall apart. All the children except one boy start ed another project. Every Sunday he comes, looking for one of those discarded air planes to work on. Last Sunday he came, still determined to put one togeth er. His fingers would have more glue on them than the airplane.. They would stick to the airplane and I would have to pull the airplane loose. To end a long story, the air plane has fallen apart again. As the little boy was leav ing the church, I said "Good bye, Glen." He said, "Just caU me sticky fingers." I laughed. If he was an adult and someone called him that, he would be insulted. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. . 25 Quince . . t v .:t 1 nors are domg more than merely protecting us from the military threat of Commu nism. They also are patrioti cally doing their bit to pro tect us from over-production. Expendable Flashlights Some of the ways in which this is done are described in a report prepared "by the staff of the House Appropriations Committee. However, from the tone of the report I gath ered that the committee feels we would be better off with out this extra protection. Take, for example, the case of the expendable flashlights, which the Armed Signal Corps purchased for a West Coast air base. They were so defective, the report said, "they were locally known as Grimmer Khrushchev Opens Wounds in European Partners By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor A little less bouncy, grim more often than smiling, So viet Premier Nikita Khru shchev was doing his best to reopen old wounds this last week. Scarcely had he set foot on French soil than he re minded his hosts of "the u n e x ploded Phtl Newsom Washington Report By WILLIAM A LITTLE CLARITY Washington-The long, con fused and many-headed race for the Democratic presiden tial nomina tion a race being largely run from the floor of the U.S. Senate -is at last tak ing on some touch of clar ity here and there. William s. ,, white Three sena tors - John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Stuart Symington of Missouri - are announced candidates, now that Symington has made his entry official. A fourth senator, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, remains highly available but still not in open competition. A fifth possi bility outside the Senate, Ad- lai E. Stevenson, is being prodded hopefully by friends "without his knowledge or consent." The situation is both assist ing and endangering Demo cratic chances for November. On the credit side is the ris ing public interest the Demo crats are creating by their free-for-all. The Republicans are being lost in the spring political Headlines. Xnere is no suspense and thus no dra ma in tneir position, rneir nominee, but for the formali ties, is already chosen-Richard M. Nixon. '.. AN THE debit side for the Democrats is that their ri valries are opening party wounds and will open yet more. The race, however, has at least evolved to the point where some things may be described as fairly plain: 1. Kennedy is increasingly the man to beat. If he wins the April 5 Wisconsin preferential presidential primary against Humphrey, the Kennedy bandwagon win begin to roll at hurtling speed. And Hum phrey will be out of it. 2. Johnson is now moving up and so reducing Kennedy's commanding lead-slowly and somewhat. The Texan's bril liant victories in the Senate for a strong civil rights vote protection bUl have blunted the most damaging old com plaint against him. This was his southern geography. 3. Symington's decision to get openly - but liot riskily into -the race has been pre sented as dictated by worry that . Kennedy , was getting much too far ahead. This, however, is too simple an in terpretation. . THE j operative factor for Symington was Nmore iiear- lyfear of Johnson than of Kennedy. For Johnson and Symington are : by- .circum Bob Rucker Counsellor OREGON FUNERAL PLAN The Only FUNERAL PLAN Sponsored by Oregon Funeral Directors Ass'n . SP 2-9210 single-use items, to be thrown away the first time the switch failed to work instantly." You can see how this clashes with the Marxian theory- By throwing away flashlights aft er using them once, we need never worry about over-production. Nor did Marx ever dream that the Philadelphia Quar termaster Depot could cut 752 items off of its shoe in ventory and still have 339 different kinds of military footwear left. Saves On Paperwork The report said the stock could be further reduced at a saving of $50,000 on paper work alone "if the Marine Corps can be persuaded to abandon its requirement for delayed action mines and bombs still on Soviet and French territory." The Soviet news agency Tass, reporting Khrushchev's first day in Paris, made point ed reference to the "Nazi butchers" who killed resist ance fighters. Before a French-Soviet friendship group he accused West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of trying to upset the results of World War II. If the French had hoped by jam-packing Khrushchev's of- S. WHITE stances far more natural rivals than are Symington and Ken nedy. Both Johnson and Sy mington had been following a policy of standing back and lettmg Kennedy and Hum phrey cut each other up. Both are still doing exacUy the same. Neither ever had much chance except as a com promise nominee. So each must fill his cup out of more or less the same barrel at the convention. Symington is the second choice of very many and the first choice of rather few Johnson is the second choice of far fewer than is Syming ton but the first choice, of far more than is Symington. Ken nedy is strictly a first-choice man; he is that or he is noth ing. . And where one of Johnson's handicaps is the emotional and automatic hostility of the advanced liberals, Syming ton's is the too-bland fact that he is not hated at all-or much iovea, eitner. bo, his imme diate problem was to seek more first - choice support without disturbing the second- choice support that is like ne gotiable bonds in the bank rpHUS, he has taken a step -- just long enough to solicit new first-choice support with out losing any of that second choice support. He has be come an admitted candidate, But he has not gone so far as to enter any primary contest, witn its inevitable conse quence of making enemies. At the moment he is prob ably the third-most likely man to succeed at the convention- behind, first, Kennedy, and second, Johnson. It would be a mistake, however, to under rate the value of his second line backing. And it would be mistake to under-estimate the great skill of his old-pro advisers. (Copyright, I960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) i The highest peak in eastern Canada is Cirque Mountain, which rises to. 6,500 feet in northern Labrador. Counsel With . Mr. Insurance . Fred Brennan' ; or call : Mr. Friendly , Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD insurance' AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. Protection a special mahogany finish shoe leather." But I think we can count on the Marine Corps to con found Marx by remaining dis tinctively shod. Where Marx really under rated us was in the field of footlockers. He couldn't have known that an air base in Ger many would order 300 foot lockers from the United States when they were available at a supply depot nearby. - Certainly he couldn't have foreseen the mix-up that caus ed 30,000, instead of 300, foot lockers to be shipped to the base at a cost of $100,000. All of this is further evi dence that Marx was off base. I just hope we don't go broke proving it. fici.al schedule to prevent his using his French visit as a propaganda platform, they had failed. For Khrushchev made public speeches at every opportunity, even find ing special groups to address during official "rest" periods. His theme: Europe is living under the menace of militar ism and new aggression: a German peace treaty is ne cessary to peace; and military groupings such as NATO must go. In a nation which had fought three major wars against Germany in less than 100 years, it was impossible for him not to strike some re sponsive chords. French suspicion of a resur gent Germany had delayed organization of NATO, and the West European Common Market in which West Ger many and France now are the major partners. Gaullist Policy Tough But whatever effect Khru shchev might be having with the French man in the street, President Charles de Gaulle was the man with whom he had to deal. i It was the f ifst. meeting be tween the two and it had its interesting aspects. , De Gaulle ha? worked more closely with Adenauer than with any other statesman.. Be tween them they see the emergence of a third force in Western Europe, with a popu lation . and productivity as great as that of either the United States or Russia. ; , , And on the Allied tough line . toward . Communist de signs on Berlin, Adenauer and de Gaulle see eye to eye. This meeting between de Gaulle and Khrushchev would be a sounding out pro cess, with : the results more likely to be frustrating to Mr. K than to de Gaulle. LET'S ALL REGISTER LET'S ALL VOTE e e Fred Brennan BOOK OF THE DAY! That's our inventory booklet showing how to get rid of, SECURATUS INADEQUATUS, The "underinsurance pest" that ' can ruin an average household. Bill Fish f TOM ..... . , j Ik?- A
