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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. A Monday, April 4, If 60 "Everyone tn Southern Ore (ton Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dully except Saturday' by MEDPORD PRINTING CO. 13 North Fir St., Ph SP 2-0 Ml " ROBErtT"w. RUHL, 'Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM, Bui. Mffr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR., Mnff. Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Tele, Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sporti Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'i Editor DALE ERICKSQN, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newipaner Entered ai second dan matter at Medtord, Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copv lOe Daily and Sunday 1 ?ear $19 00 Dally and Sunday mos. S 00 Dally and Sunday 3 mon. 4.35 Sunday Only One year S4 30 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Athland, Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenlir. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er, Talent and on motor rnute. Dally and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Dally and Sunday I mo. 1.50 Carrier and Den 1 era copy 10c AH Terrrn Cash inAdvnnce Official Paper ofYltv ofMedforfl" Official Paper of Jackwon County United Press International Full Leased Wire O.P.I. Telephoto Newsplettire lEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Reorescntntiver WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fice, In New York, Chicago. De. trolt San Francisco. Loft Angelet, Scuttle. Portland. St. Loull, At lanta. Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBIISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIAI n Flight o- Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files The Mall Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 4, 1950 (Tuesday) Kogap Lumber industries files complaint in court asking for picketing injunction and $100,000 In damages from Medford Trades council. State budget director says Oregon will have $32 million budget deficit next year. 20 YEARS AGO April 4, 1940 (Thursday) Three persons narrowly es caped injury yesterday when a bolt of lightning hit their home in Fern Valley causing considerable damage. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There Is talk In Congress about 'freezing' the taxes at their present level. They better, or the taxpayers win. 30 YEARS AGO April 4, 1930 (Friday) Site on east side suggested for new junior high school here. Local farmers urged to moisten ground with overflow water now. 40 YEARS AGO April 4. 1920 (Sunday) Methodist revival meeting here sees 50 new members converted. Hair cuts raise to 75 cents In Klamath Falls; feared they will rise here too. 50 YEARS AGO April 4, 1910 (Monday) George H. 'Williams, one time attorney-general in Pres ident Grant's cabinet, Port land mayor and most promi nent Oregon politician, died today in Portland at age of 87. The First Presbyterian church here celebrated the 25lh anniversary of its found ing yesterday. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct ll lupaileu even or eight ll eicellentf live ei ill it good. 1. For what is "Iron horse' nickname? 2. In whit country was Adolph Hitler born? 3. What river is spanned by the famous London bridge? 4. What United States body has the power to impeach a federal officer? 5. For what was Diogenes searching with a lantern? 6. When "2 bolls" strikes on shipboard, what Is the clock time? 7. A comparatively narrow part of a state projecting away from the main part of the state is called a p ? 8. Is a felony a more ser ious offense than i misde meanor? 0. How many days are in Lent? 10. Where is Howard Uni versity? Answtrst 1. A railroad loco motive. 2. Austria. 3. The Thame. 4. The House ol Rep resentatives. S. An honeit man. 6. One, five, or nine o'clock. 7. Panhandle. 8. Yes. 9. Forty. 10. Washington, D.C. A HARDER QUESTION London - a'PD - The Old Vic Theater, about to produce Jamej M. Barrle'e "What Every Worrian Knows," aaid today it has had several appli cations for tickets to "wha: every woman would like to know." , 4 NATIONAL A Place for Courage (Tills Is National Library Week. In ita recognition, we print below an interesting statement concerning libraries, written by Charles F. Gosnell, New York state librarian and assistant commissioner or libraries, Albany, N.Y.) Has the intellectual world collapsed because we have discovered that the television quiz show was rigged? Has a crime wave risen or fallen be cause the crime shows were rigged? Perry Mason always beats the prosecutor. But Sergeant Friday always gets his man. Whoever thought wrestlers weren't actors, too? One librarian believes that the present an guish is due to the fact not that heroes have fallen, but that many of us have discovered that our over comfortable standards were false in the first place. We are realizing that the basic motive in watching TV is not to improve time but to kill it. The war for the minds of men today is not a war of simple dogmatic facts between robots of memory. It is a war of thinking, of continual change. "UR libraries are rapibly becoming the last refuge of the individual the person who wants to Dursue his own Quiry, at his own speed, ficulty, on his own choice of subject, following attractive bypaths as they seem worthwhile with out anyone to schedule things for him to do. With the exception of a few outstanding newspapers and periodicals, our mass media cater to the mentally lazy and slovenly. Worst of all is commercial television, which has enslaved itself to the ratings. Any newspapers can its average and cater to varying tastes. The reader has a choice, and if he is bored, he can skip. IN TELEVISION, such The machine grinds on able pace. There is no chance to skim rapidly over the trivia, or to turn to the next page. All is degraded to the lowest all must be primarily and not stimulation. It is simple to remember a fact, and easy to check the memory. Facts can be found upon which all agree. But life ii. ; , mi upon mis Kina 01 iact. i nere are very lew yes or "no" answers, and very little agreement on really vital issues. "Trust him who is seeking the truth; doubt him who loudly proclaims he has the truth." I ET us leave information retrieval to machines, - and keep our minds active, alert and vigorous in solving the pressing problems of survival today and tomorrow. Why be when libraries are (or should be; so convenient; Let us cease to depend on the fantasy of esenne throuch memorv Let us face the hard realities of life, marshalling facts as we need them, for Let us remember that all the final answers, but places for those of us who have the courage to tiy to work out those answers. Happiness (The Coos Bay World recently asked editorially for letters concerning new goals for living, for those "who were satiated with having reached the age-old goal of material security." Of the many letters received, the one following was picked as the best. It was written by Mrs. Roy Harris Jr., of Myrtle Point, formerly of Medford.) When I first came to Myrtle Point in 1951 I was miserable. I didn't like the city, I didn't like the climate, I just plain didn't like anything. If any neighbors came to see me they very rarely came back because I spent all my time complaining mostly about the rain. Housing was another gripe. We had left a little home in Medford which we had built in 1947, the year we were married, and it was still new and clean and it seemed nothing compared well with it here in this dismal, rain soaked town. THEN, one day my mother asked me if I would visit my aged grandfather in a rest home in Medford, my home town. I hesitated, but Mom said he wanted to see me and my new son. I slowly climbed the stairs of the rest home and entered Grandpa's room thinking I'd prob ably tell him how terrible Myrtle Point was. There sat Grandpa propped up in bed a smile swiftly spread across nis face. I can still see his bright blue eyes how they sparked. He reached out his hand and gave me a strong handshake. Grandpa was thrilled to see us. Grandpa said he'd never seen a prettier baby and how he kept those nurses smiling with his witty remarks. f RANDPA wasn't feeling sorry for himself. He was giving what he could a smile, a hearty handshake, and always pleasant conversation. Now here it is 1900 and I'm still here in Myrtle Point and am I happy? You bot I am. You see I have a secret to share with you "What makes a life worth living?" It's doing things tor others. Little things like taking a neigh bor a plate of cookies when she's ill, or cleaning up the bunday bchool kindergarten room. Yes, let's be concerned not for ourselves but our fellow men, and that, is, my friend, true hap piness. Mrs. Ray Harris Jr. 931 Bonder st. Myrtle Point, Ore. ideas, concepts, of hard course of studv or in at his own level of dif ran a few articles above skipping is impossible. at a slow and in inexor common denominator: entertainment sedation today is not dependent p it it a walking encyclopedia of details of the past. thinking. our libraries do not have they are mighty fine Dennis the ' I TVfcJT KHHAJ MOrniliJ'AA-urr PANAMA WHEN J SEE IT' Communications Letters to the Editor must the writer, although under of a pen name or initial for li-tl -l-.-L . . man iriDune reserves tne 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 or tne paper; in tact Strength In the Right To the Editor: Teamster President Hoffa is quoted on good authority as saying: "Every man has his price. What is yours?" As the devil's counterfeit of God he can hand out physical safety or terror. We need trucks, our children need jobs. He has plenty of goons. Enough people In high places have a price to make it impossible, so far, to prose cute him, although his mis deeds are many. One of his lawyers said that he had al ways found some good in every man he had defended until now, but in Hoffa he could find no good. "And no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast, or the num ber of his name." (Rev. 14:17). Hoffa followed Beck, and a worse could follow Hoffa. When we become just a lit tle more fond of ease, just a little farther from God, this prophecy will come to pass. Labor unions are our demon strations of socialism. It sounds good but won't work without God. I have lived in Jackson county well over half a cen tury, and am convinced that it is one of the world's most favored spots. We have a paper to be proud of. The news coverage is objective articles and editorials are well chosen. The attitude to ward churches seems excel lent. A newspaper should be dedicated to truth. There is no truth like Gospel truth. No man can really stand whose heart is not right with his God. Billy Graham dem onstrates that one who Is right can do a tremendous lot. Pe trillo seemed invincible in the music world but one man who had no price but who put God first found a chink in his armor. "But rather seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you." (Luke 12:31 and Matt. 6:33). God can give us the the the strength for our lives, strength to stand for right again any evil or any odds. Waldo P. Nye, Star Route, Box 130, Prospect, Ore. How Come? To the Editor: People say that In Southern California a terrific number of homes have private swimming pools, My mother says that Los Angeles gets their water from Central California and from way up close to Oregon. Central Point says they haven't enough water for a public swimming pool. How come? And don't most of the motels have swimming pools for tourists? Without a car or bus to take us kids, we have no place to swim. Joyce Arnold (Age 10), Route 1, Box 270AA, Central Point, Ore. Compuier Questions To the Editor: There is an article on Friday's 'comics' page which is not funny. When Inquiry was made of your office concerning the ac curacy In the item, "Motor Vehicles Adding Computer." any responsibility of The Mail Tribune was politely disclaim ed. One tenth of the installation cost is $37,600. One year's rent is 535,200. One year's "saving" Is 75,000. One year total $647,500 If 75 persons are displaced they must now each average $8,630 per year: if 100. an average of $6,470. (A hlRh average for clerks, as It can be assumed there will be more Menace At?r atvrr luaia a bear the name and address of certain circumstances the use publication is permissible. The .... ... . the contrary is often the case. Indians than Chiefs 'displac ed'). Well over one-half million dollars of hard-paid Oregon tax funds per year will be sent to Minneapolis. Four per cent of $572,700 ($37,500 plus $535,200) is $22,908.; practi cally a third of the annual 'saving'. Perhaps it would be bet ter to pay the $572,700 In wag es to Oregonians . . . during the course of a year it would be "turned" many times and better the economy more than $75,000. We all are for economy, and for modernization; but we should avoid the radical in any situation. Personally, I would like to see in the community a new plant or business with a $572, 000 annual pay-roll, 110 em ployees at more than $5,000 a year. Max Wimmer 1115 West Second st. Medford (Editor's note: We question ed the item ourselves, and queried United Press Interna tional about it. The UPI's Sa lem man said it was correct as announced by state offi cials.) He's Concerned To the Editor: I am concern ed about this dog leash law. Although it is quite obvious that we should have the law, on the other hand it Is nothing but a lot of nonsense. Due to the fact of having a leash and licenses. I feel and am quite sure that there are a lot of other residents in this town and county that feel the same way. Why should we buy li censes if we keep our dog or does on a leash, in the house or yard all the time, where the dog is unable to roam arouna the neighborhood? I am concerned mostly about how cattlemen or sheep herders are going to move or herd their animals with a dog on a leash. What about sports men who use dogs for nuni-Inn- bobcats, cougar, coyote, etc.T I believe that residents of our county who live in the country on farms and ranches that have always had a dog at their heels would be against leashing their dog. Ana tney would be willing to buy a license so their dog may run loose. On the otlier hand residents nf nnr town would be willing their dogs on a leash while out side of their yards If they wouldn't have to buy a license for them. But why should they be on a leash if thev have a license? The dog catcher should pick up all dogs that are on the loose in town and pick up all dogs that are over six or eight months old in the county without licenses. Henry I. Pech P. O. Box 320 Lake Creek, Ore, nn.rJ Thanked To the Editor: Many thanks to the Medford School Board nri m Dr. Mavfleld for the manner in which they dis seminated Information to the general public pertaining lo t f.750.000 bond issue. The people attending the public meetings were few, but the fact thai mere were mi-r inn. to attend Is a good thing There Is a possibility fiat the ovi-oilent coverage given by Earl Adams was one of the main reasons for the small lurn.niit. The editorial on "Questions About Schools" has been saved for my regular fiie. The provocative Item. "A Ques tion." has bee-n put into my special file. Wish I knew what Kennedy Himself, and His Religion, Seen Main Issues in Wisconsin Primary Voting By LYLE C. WILSON Milwaukee CUPD The ba sic issue In Wisconsin's bang bang presidential primary is rrrri jl a sen. joim f. Kennedy (D Mass.) - also h i s religion and his cous ins and his aunts. Ken nedy's religion, R o man Catholic, is very much Wll.on an issue, uui the best advertised issue is Kennedy, himself. Samuel Lubell, pollster and political analyst, and a good one, has been here. Lubell rang door bells all over. In a Wisconsin speech he summed It up neat ly. Washington Report By William S. White THE CRACK Washington - The biggest crack in the old American British wall of partnership does not ln- I volve the dra I matic issues I o f the cold i war with the ''W r-'J What really divides us - and Prime Minister Har- rt 1 H lVTntmil. William 8. - , . " ' white lans visit has produced no improvement might in the end be the great est of all dangers to Anglo- American solidarity. It comes to this: The Unit ed States is supporting a Eu ropean trading association, called the Inner Six, which is dominated by France and Germany. And we are acting with marked coolness to ward a rival British-dominat ed trade group called the Out er Seven. The Six are not only squeez ing the British in a dollars-and-cents way. They are also raising in English eyes the specter of a new continental monolith which might at length crush the British Isles economically and, conceiv ably, even politically. THE Six are France, Free nnrmnnv. Upleinm Tho Netherlands, Italy and Lux embourg. Against this phal anx the British organized the Outer Seven-Britain, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland. The Six stand in the middle of the European continent. Basically, they are land powers. The Seven, to the contrary, are on the whole ancient mari time powers, the blue-water nations whose fleets have kept them alive through all his tory. But there is much more here than a potentially immense war for trade. The heart of the problem is far more than merely mercantile. The Outer Seven are simply pro-trade, and nothing else. To them ore, lumber, whatnot are just it ems in commerce. To them steel has no politics. But to the Six trade is more than trade. It Is also wrapped up, closely or loosely, with a con cept for progressive integra tion of the Six in all ways - including the political. THE British, of course, had nmA nnrplv Annnnmlp reasons for staying out of the Six. They had, for illustration, their responsibility to give special treatment to the Brit ish commonwealth nations. But they also had a deeper reason. They cannot believe that In order to trade usefully with another fellow you must be long to the same or a similar political movement or, so to speak, to the same club. They fear as a practical matter (and recoil from as a matter of tra dition) an Intimacy of alliance that is based on mere ship ment of goods back and forth. They don't care to mix busl. ness with sentiment. Moreov er, they don't want their poli tical institutions to be in any way dependent upon some oth er nations Ideas, however good a customer that nation might be for British goods. Economically they are strictly business; but political ly they retain a feeling of exclusivonoss that has per sisted for a thousand years. And they know that the Unit ed States itself has held exact ly the same Idea for two cen turies. They know we never would join any economic-political "integration" and are quite satisfied with our own constitution and so on. HJiHUS thoy don't see why wc have such stars In our eyes about the Integration E.A. had In mind when he wrote It. William Doernbach 143 Mace rd. Medford. mm "Most people," Lubell said, "are going to vote for or against Kennedy. He is the is sue." Has Good Organisation Kennedy's relatives have been campaigning state-wide. Kennedy money has been spent in substantial amounts. How much? One answer to that question is this: Enough Kennedy money has been spent to establish and to nourish a crack state-wide organization. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) has spent money too. Probably not so much as Kennedy. Humphrey is campaigning as the poor man's candidate. If Humphrey has spent as much as Ken nedy, much must have been misspent. Tears Beneficial, West Told; So Go Ahead, Cry You Men By DICK WEST Washington -UPD- Thrust a man and a woman into a tense situation and what hap- 9H-iNfc.'"l Dens? The tT. .A - woman weeps the man d e v e lops an i ulcer. If you doubt tins, ask any doctor. And send the bill to the Nation al Geographic Dick wait society, mey won't pay it but they may put you on their mailing list. I am on the society's mail ing list and I receive all sorts f: ' . f & 155 and A 1 Foreign Notebook: French A-Bombs; Guerrilla Forces By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: More French Atom Blasts French atomic sources have indicated they have enough Plutonium for three or four fairly small bombs. At the moment, the experts are con centrating on getting the French de vices down to a manageable size. The first two French kii Neora Diasis were sei off on the surface, but the next one likely will be dropped from a plane. East German Guerrillas Western intelligence circles in Berlin are checking still unconfirmed reports that East German Communists are training special army units Beverly Aadland's Mother Beaten Hollywood -HJTD- Beverly Aadland, 17, said Sunday night two young toughs at tacked and beat up her moth er after the young singer re fused to go to Las Vegas and marry one of them. Mrs. Florence Adland, 42, who only has one leg, check ed into Presbyterian Hospital Sunday and said she feared her jaw was broken. Beverly, the former girl friend of the late Errol Flynn, told UPI reporter Joe Finn! gan Sunday night the attack occurred outside a restaurant Wednesday in one of the near by beach cities. "The bo ywho wanted to get married started shaking me. Then this other guy start ed hitting Mom. I scratched one guy and kicked the other and they finally went away," Beverly explained. Rodeo Stock Man Dies of Vancouver Vancouver, Wash. (UPO Harlcy Monroe Tucker, 52, Joseph, Ore., who supplied stock for numerous rodeos, including the Pendleton Round-Up, died Saturday night. The coroner's office said Tucker suffered a heart at tack at the fairgrounds here. drive that lies within the In ner Six. And. finally, the British have long memories. They can recall when Napoleon "inte grated'' the continent, and left the British Isles in a bad way until the Battel of Wa terloo. A people living in a lit tel island kingdom, they are not pleased to contemplate an other continental "Integra tion," however noble In pur-poso-and certainly not if the chief integrator is going to turn out to be a strongly re vived Germany. (Copyright. I960, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) The Minnesotan'i campaign organization Is not In the same class with Kennedy's. No question about that. The type of Kennedy orga nization which brought out a remarkable Democratic vote in the uncontested New Hampshire primary Is ticking here like an expensive watch. Religion Time Bomb Buried like a time bomb tn this campaign has been the issue of a man's religion, Ken nedy's. The bomb boomed four days ago with publication in Wisconsin weekly newspa pers of an advertisement com plaining that Catholic voters, regardless of party, were ganging up on Humphrey. The ad called on Protestant voters of goodies. If it weren't for the society, I wouldn't have known that the earth s rota tion is slowing down at the rate of about one-thousandth of a second every hundred years. Forewarned is forearmed, I always say, and I am grate ful to the society for tipping me off about this rotational slippage. It may help me get an ulcer. The latest National Geo graphic "news bulletin" to fall into my hands is a trea tise on the origin of tears. Since everybody knows that a good cry makes you feel better, I thought I would pass for partisan activity behind tne West s lines in the event of war. The units reportedly are composed of 18 soldier volunteers, one non-com and one officer, all speaking per fect English. They would be dropped behind the lines wearing Western uniforms. This is a technique reminis cent of the Nazis "operation grief" during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Gorman-Arab Feud Relations between West Germany and the Arab states are deteriorating and will get worse before they get better. The Arab states are furious about the meeting in New York between West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and their sworn enemy, David Ben-Gurion of Israel. Making matters worse is a report-still unconfirmed-of an Adenauer economic aid offer to Israel. On the other side of the coin, Adenauer's government is fed up with Arab states trying to pressure it by threat ening to recognize the gov ernment of Communist East Germany. Red Council The Communists are getting ready to stage one of their world peace council meetings, this time in Sofia, Bulgaria. Some insiders believe the council meeting will be a front to camouflage a skull session of Communist leaders from the Balkans. Moscow is said to be unhappy about "in dependence" tendencies in the Balkan satellites. The peace council is scheduled for later this month. Planned with devoted care even modestly priced serv ice! are brought to a tingle impression of reverent beauty. PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS to give Humphrey a square deal. In effect, it said: Catho lics will vote their religion; Protestants should vote their's. Humphrey and other re sponsible politicians emphati cally repudiated the weekly newspaper advertisement and the whole concept of religion as an issue here. Kennedy freely says that he knows Humphrey had nothing to do with raising It. But the Issue is up. Returns Tuesday will be analyzed in large part on the basis of Kennedy's show ing in various counties in re lation to the religious com plexion of those counties. Wisconsin reluctantly 1 s showing the way. along Its findings on the chance It might brighten your day, as it did mine. The society seems to be de ploring the tendency of males to regard tears as unmanlv. pointing out that lachrymation can be of real therapeutic value. In outlining the reasons why men should turn on the water works, the society leans heavily on Ashley Montagu, who, as you may have guessed from the name, is a British anthropologist. Montagu offers the theory that babies in the long ago signalled their need for a dry loin cloth, or whatever they used for diapers then, by means of dry sobs. The tears dripped into baby's nose and moistened the membranes which released a bacteria-killing secretion. This worked so well that all babies have done it ever since. Leaving Montagu's theory sinking slowly into the brine, we now take our way to the chemical composition of tears. Tears are not just salty wa ter, you know, but a complex solution that changes in for mula according to thfj emo tions that produce them. More than that, the welling of tears is relaxing. I don t know about you but I feel better already. So get in there, men, and cryl NORCROSS RELIGIOUS faster aris See our fine selection PARKING LOT rc--
