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'JAAIL TRIBUNI, Mtihti, Or. Friday, April 8, 1960 "Kveryone In Southern Orejjon wean i nu jw" "M Published Dally except Saturday by S3 North Fir St..Ph SPa-6141 tiurjr.ni w . nuni HERB CREV Advcrtislns Uanafir UUC W. ALLN JR.. Mn. Editor HARRY CIIIPMAN. Teleg. Editor OLIVE STAItCHEH. Women's Editor En erert ai tecond clasi matter at Jk eQI Or a. wn-iruii. " 1 - March 3. 1697 ...nr-ninTlrIM O 1TTO : By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday I year 15 00 Daily and Sunday fl moi, ,. 8 00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday Only One year 84 20 B Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point ebr; Point. Jacksonville. Cold Hill Phoenix. Shodv Cove, Rogue RiV' r, raieni ana on immr tm-. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Carrier and Dealer copv 10 c JM1 icniw vwbii in nmiiMn Official Paper of City or'Medrord Official Paper of Jarkwii County United Ptpbs Internntional Full leased Wire U.P.l.Telephqto Newspictwrei "TiiEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Henresentaiive: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of flcea in New York, Chteaico. pa- trail, oan r rnncmco. ww niiBsi. Seattle. Portland, St. Louli, At- laria, vuncuuvcrio NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIA ASKOCtMTIOr. v'fliiriijV.'.UAIiiJ Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 8, 1S50 (Saturday) Criticism of Medford'J po lice force methods and lack of enforcement of slot machine laws, was voiced at a meeting of the Jackson County Prop erty Owners association last night. Petitions asking for the re call of the Ashland mayor and a city councilman were filed with the county clerk. iO YEARS AGO i ' April 8, 1940 (Monday) A post of the Regular Vet,' trans association is being fnrmpH hprp former mem bers of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard will Vie plieihlo. From Arthur Perry'i "Ye Rmllrlon Pot" column: " room apartment; completely furnished; nice location; suit- able for nearly married cou pie.' - (Bridgeport (111.) Tri bune) - Business of blushing." 30 YEARS AGO . April 8, 1930 (Wednesday) Frost Dredictcd tonight. Central Point Grange has largest meeting in history of that chapter. 40 YEARS AGO Aoril 8. 1920 (Friday) First local grown spinach, lettuce and green onions put on market. Orchardists prepare for first smudging of season. SO YEARS AGO April 8, 1910 (Friday) City council plans ordi nance to establish yearly wa ter rates for residents based on size of families and homes. The Sisters of Providence plan to start work hero next August on a $100,000 hospi tal. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct Is superior! seven or tight Is excellent; five oi six is good 1. Complete this quotation: "To err is human, to for give . . ." 2. In what year did the American Revolutionary War start? 3. Is an atom made up of molecules? 4. What is the largest pen insula In the world? 5. In liquid measure, how many gills arc in a pint? 6. If 5 cats catch 5 mice in 8 minutes, how many cats will it require to catch 100 mice in 100 minutes? 7. Is a scalped the cover ing of the skull? 8. In mythology, who was the wife of Orpheus? 9. Do the whorls and ridges on human finger tips change with age and growth? 10. British biirristers have tht initials QC after their names; what do the Initials signify? Answers: 1. ". . . divine." 8. 1775. 3. No. (Molecules art made up of atoms.) 4. Arabia. 8. Four. 6. Five cats. 7. No. (Surgeon's knife.) 8. Eurydice. t. No. 10. Queen's Counselor. HOUSING PRICES UP Washington -H'M-Tho Feder al Housing Administration re ports that average monthly payments on new houses In creased about $2 a month Inst year, to $!)8.0B, reflecting an Increase in prices and inter est rates. 4 y4r Pollution Report -I. It's always a nasty you so!" Sometimes the urge And this is such a time.. The report on air pollution in Medford and Jackson county, presented to the Medford city council last nignt ny tne siate sanuary auinomy, confirms what we've been saying on this page for lo. these manv moons. Medford DOES have and it is now confirmed before one had to trust eyes, nose and cleaning "yHE introduction and are earned, in substance, elsewhere in to day's paper. And the rest report will be printed in bunaay s issue. Essentially, it calls for: 1. Enactment of a city anti-pollution ordi nance. 2. County and state which may require additional legislation. 3. Continuation of the voluntary program of heating pot conversion by orchardists. 4. Professional administration of a contin uing pollution-control program. X7E SINCERELY believe there is adequate nnrilip cunnnrr. fnt .hv..v ... i v . It is moderate. It is jure no one unduly, if administered with restraint and good sense. And in its purpose clean air in It will, obviously, require the cooperation of everyone involved, including the leaf burners, or, lacking that, sufficiently tough administration to enforce compliance. Ihe point is this: We with "dirty air" and now our determination not to. Dream That was an interesting article Walter Lipp- mann had on this page yesterday. If you missed it, he came to the conclusion that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York may not, after all, be entirely out of the running for the Republican presidential nomination. : lhis thought was predicated on the rather delicate situation which M. Nixon faces between vention. He must, Mr. Lippman points out, refrain from alienating the far-right in his party, on which his present strength is based, but at the same time must make himselt sumcientiy attrac tive to middle-of-the-road and liberal Republi cans, and to independents and enough independent-minded Democrats, so that he will not fore close his chances for election in November. pt IF HE fails to walk this tightrope with sufficient skill, there could be an upsurge of opinion among moderate and nominal Republicans to force the nomination of Rockefeller his "with drawal" notwithstanding. Coincidentally, Joe Alsop in his colmun yes day dealt with the same general situation, point ing out that Sen. Barry to make hay out of Nixon s necessity to court the liberal elements of the party. And the Eugene Register-Guard this week gave some advice to Nixon, which was to ignore the advice given him which was to ignore the "us conservatives." A ND so the wheels of grind on. But it is manifestly true that a large segment of the Republican voters thing less than bedazzled enchantment And it is not outside the realm of possibility that Nixon, shrewd as he is, will not be able to thread his way between the booby-traps of the right wing, and the threat of desertion from the middle. The Guard comments: y "Mr, Nixon must win, If he wins, ... by picking .tip the Mugwumps and a few dissident Democrats. 1 He'll get the Republicans anyhow, even the Texas oilmen who will be happy to support him Instead of ' any Democrat. As a place to start wooing this im portant, floating body of voters, we suggest Mr. Nixon start by ignoring Sonntor Goldwater." The only thing wrong with that advice is that if he ignores the Goldwaters, he will disaffect the conservative "pros," who by and large control the party machinery, and thus jeopardize his convention "nomination by acclamation." THE relatively quiet body of GOP voters who still VrAA t.,;.,L (Unf 0l,,sf 1I.. U oi.ui mini Atiiui, iiujca iiiab ivirtrtcxi'iiei tan lie- come their man, have a counterpart body in the Democratic party those who believe that Adlai Stevenson is the only fully-qualified man the Democrats have, and who nurture faint hopes that he might come out of a deadlocked conven tion as the party nominee for the third time. And to a considerable body of independent voters (it matters not what their nominal reg istration may be), the "dream election" would pit Rockefeller against Stevenson. That way, they figure, the country would be bound to have a good President, no matter who won. But that, right now dream stuff. E.A. temptation to say "I told is irresistible, though an air pollution problem, scientifically, whereas the evidence of one s own bills. summary of the report of the full text of the cooperation, some of siiph a nrnornm " " I' - - reasonable. It would in time it would accomplish this valley. do JMOr have to live is the time to reinforce E.R. Stuff Vice President Richard now and the GOP con Goldwater is attempting by Senator Goldwater, liberals and hold on to pre-convention politics view Nixon with some- anyway, is nothing but 1 Dennis the Dote via m.MXA'B,tu.T.)A(g 4-0 ' DO YA HAVTA STARE LIKE THAT? ir'SM! IfSME! 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 necessarijy represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Graduation To the Editor: Attention, please, all parents of upper- classmen, all teachers, and all principals. As a parent of five young men, who is greaty concerned with how our younger genera tion will, in the future, handle the affairs of our nation, I am interested in constr u c t i v e ideas that will help these young folks mature into think ing individuals. We have today an economic situation which leaves little time for the average parent to devote enough time to his own progency. It is my opinion that the average high school graduate of today is entering a highly competitive world without the proper tools - the most important tools to carve themselves a niche of happi ness and peace of mind. Too many of our children of 18 years (and under) offer excuses instead of reasons, when asked why they fail to do certain important things! Too many of our modern younger generation are strang ers to tho assets termed logic, reasoning, and initiative. If we are going to help make this country strong we must build more character into our young people, because tomor row it will be these same young folks who are shaping the destiny of this nationl Because this is Library Week, I wish to offer one sug gestion that parents, and teachers, recommend certain valuable books, or material, for REQUIRED reading by the upper classmen of our high schools. Two subjects that might prove invaluable are: The series of articles recently car ried in our own Mall Tribune, entitled "New Frontiers for Living," and Bob Kennedy's book called "The Enemy With in." How many of us adults have actually read these? Philip L. Burns 121 Bush St. Ashland Reprints Planned To the Editor: Because of an overwhelming demand from readers across the coun try for reprints of "New Frontiers In Living" by How ard Whitman, we now have in preparation an attrac 1 1 v e booklet containing the com plete series. It will sell for 50 cents. Wo will let you know when the bookets are ready so you may offer them to your read ers if you wish. The Register and Tribune syndicate Des Moines 4, Iowa Live and Let Live To the Editor: A while back there was an article agitating the "dog control and uncon trolled dog menace." What was It we had last year, when little Johnnie and Mary lost their puppy dog because their parents neglect ed to purchase a dog license in time? Seems like they were pret ty well weeded out last year. Why so Eager Denver so soon? Last summer wc had the pretty centennial flower boxes which stopped much of the dog traffic, as they were something new on the street tor the dogs to Investi gate. My Cocker Spaniel stopped at most every one, but he didn't bother car wheels so much because there is a limit, you know. My doggy stopped at car today, and the owner Said "Let the car alone; don't bother the car." The dog didn't seem to hear, so I Just tapped him with my handbag, and he let the car alone be Menace fore any great damage was done. There is also the cat men ace. Certain seasons of the year they catawawl on your back fence or under the house, keeping you awake. And if you let your little dog gy out to clear the yard, he chases your cat up the tree and the fire department has to get him down and my dog gy is in Dutch again. I dug a place to plant some flowers, and fertilized it good, so they ought to do fine. Then the ornery thought entered my mind, What is the use of it, those kids next door will just trample them down. But I controlled myself with the idea, maybe I can give the children some flowers if they are good, and let them grow. The point of all this is, ex ercise charity and see the others' side of it, too. I don't think anyone wants their own animal to be a men ace to gardens, tires-or boxes. But we have to live in the world together. So let us "live and let live." ' Mrs. Mary Morgan 618 East Ninth st. Medford For Oldsters To the Editor: This letter Is a personal appeal to all old sters who are interested in re placing want and uncertainty with a measure of peace and comfort during their declin ing years. Senator Morse and Rep. Porter are sponsoring legisla tion that, if passed, will do just that, as it provides each social security retiree up to 60 days hospitalization, cer tain medical care, and an ad ditional 60 days rest home care when necessary. This pre paid insurance would be fi nanced by a fractional in crease in the social security tax on employers and em ployees. The administration, insur ance companies and medical associations are fighting these bills just as bitterly as they have all previous legislation designed to help the retirees. So it's necessary that these gentlemen have a lot of sup port from you folks when these bills come up in com mittee. Write Senator Wayne Morse, Senate Office Build ing, Washington 25, D. C. and Rep. Charles Porter, House Office Building, Washington 25, D.C. Not tomorrow, next week or next month, but now, today. And have your friends and neighbors do the same. Tell them in your own words Just what it will mean to you, emphasizing the fact that you paid 100 cent dollars into the fund and give them some concrete examples as to how the 47 cent dollars you are receiving have lowered your standard of living. A closing line of sincere ap preciation for their efforts wouldn't be amiss, and if I can be of any assistance tall me, my time Is yours. Claude M. Hall, 2860 Hartley Lane, Grants Pass, Ore. Valley ef the Bitten To the Editor: I laugh out loud every time I hear one of the "Come to the Beautiful Rogue Valley" and "Write 'em. Invite 'cm" slogans. Yes, come and be eaten alive by the mosquitoes with the rest of us. The valley is beautiful but you can't enjoy, nor scarcely see, the scenery for the swarms ot mosquitoes. Chil dren can't play out even dur ing hot midday during sum mer without being covered by USIA Fail Of Committee; Fights, Pay Questioned By DICK WEST Washington-IUPD-It's a good thing that most employees of the U. S. Information Agency are peaceable men. I don't think we can afford many $20,000 fist fights. , This is what it cost us tax payers for one u n i dentified info rmation Uick west specialist to take a swing at a colleague during a drinking bout at some unnamed foreign post. Members of a House appro priations subcommittee ran Washington Report By William S. White DIRKSEN GROWS UP Washington - If there were any real justice in politics -as of course there isn't - the Republicans would now be Senator Everett M. Dirksen as their legisla tive man of the year. Dirksen has now entered tile last lap of his first ses sion as the G.O.P. senale leader. Simde iairness compels this report, from a correspondent who once had no dffficutty in re straining his admiration. This senator is doing a good job, a responsible job, for his party and even for his country. Dirksen Is actually a better floor leader than was either of his far more famous im mediate predecessors, Sena tors Robert A. Taft and Wil liam F. Knowland. Old cliches die htrd, per haps because a cliche usually only becomes one because it is based on the truth. Dirksen was long seen by most Wash ington observers as a man of few mixed convictions and many thousands of purplish words - an overripe Shakes pearean actor tossing his gray- the biting insects. People can't go fishing, picnic, garden nor enjoy their yards. Away back In the dark ages it was discovered that drain ing and treating breeding holes, and spraying, killed or at least controlled mosquitoes - and most of our misery could be done away with thus ly. Everywhere but here, that is. Our Health (big joke) De partment never heard of it evidently, or else they live in a little Heaven of their own and haven't seen their chil dren's bodies and faces swol len and infected by mosquito bites. The head of the insect con trol department should be chopped off and a live one that functions put in its place. I would have enjoyed tying him to a tree in my yard last summer - his yelping would have been music to my ears. People should be able to take it for granted that their health department is a work ing one. We shouldn't have to beg for action against so com monplace a nuisance. Many people telephoned in last spring asking for relief from the mosquitoes; they got the same old run around. I know I called in too. In the first place the man that answered can't talk and when he did say something-it was nothing. If you follow me. It boiled down to thls-they like to wait and see how many mosquitoes there are-if there's not too many (he declined to state just how many that was) one can put up with them. On the other hand if there's a lot they can't afford to spray them, so he sits back and goes back to sleep (under mosquito netting, no doubt). It stands to reason that if there's an Intol erable number one year there's bound to be even more the ncxt-or did I read my biology wrong? May I suggest that while we wait for our health (?) depart ment to waken, we change the name of the valley to "Mos quito Haven" or "Valley of the Bitten" and our tourist slogans to "Come Itch and Be Scratched-' or "Come Have a Happy Infection." Mrs. Doris L. Webster, 64 Orr drive, Central Point, Ore. .. designating William S. ivhlte Would You Like to Know More about Sleep Teaching! A program ef special interest ta Students, Tetchers and Parents will be presented in the Pioneer Room ef the Jackson Hotel. TONIGHT, 8 P.M. To Convey ran across the incident while holding hearings on the new USIA budget. They seemed a trifle dismayed by the ex pense of intramural fisticuffs. According to USIA Director George V. Allen, the agency spent more than $4,000 train ing the tipsy battler for an overseas assignment and more than $8,000 getting him there. After the dust-up, it ordered him home again at a cost of almost $9,000. "Why did you not sober him up and teU him to apolo gize?" asked Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes (D-Fla.). "That is con siderably cheaper." Allen replied that the USIA wanted to rehabilitate the em ployee if possible because he had "almost bilingual ability in five languages." This im pressed me as a rare ability indeed. I have 'trouble being Tough Russian Delegate for Disarmament Talks Described By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor The man - of the weekt Valerian A, Zorinr chief So viet delegate to the 10-na-lion disarmament confer ence. The place: Geneva. The quote: United States disarmament policy is de signed only to "complement its defense policy." It was a clumsy distortion of a speech made three weeks earlier by U.S. Secretary of State Chris tian H e r t e r that the Soviet delegate used his bitter est attack yet against the United States at the Geneva Conference. Herter, in a vim Newsom speech before the National Press Club in Washington on March 15, ac- ing locks and skipping nim bly about among the issues. AS A member of the House of ReDresentatives from Il linois, he had been an isola tionist and then an interna tionalist and then an isolation ist again through eight terms in Congress. When in 1951, he came to the Senate this was the blunt but wide estimate: his promotion could be des cribed as the Senate's loss and the House's gain. Even in a body, the Senate, which relishes a good deal of what Is called corn, Everett McKinley Dirksen was con sidered to be quite too abun dantly blessed with that com modity. On nearly any "insid er's" list of those new sen ators who were not going far, the name of Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illiols would sure ly have led most, if not all the rest. Thus when last January the Senate Republicans set out to make Dirksen their new. leader there was much shaking of heads. Both 'laft and Knowland, whatever might be said abort them otherwise, had been leaders of extraordinary strength o f character. It was suggested, not too delicately, that this quality - strength of charac ter - was notably absent in Dirksen, TVT WHAT has since hap- 1J pend? The Dirksen who had so long been thought so weak began repeatedly to show undeniable strength, both In his convictions and his work. Soon the Senate, at least, was aware that the new G.O.P. spokesman was an ab ler tactician than either Taft or Knowland. Moreover, once he had given his word he stood with it as bravely as either of them ever did. The plain truth today may seem surprising. Dirksen has behaved with efficiency, with courage, with honor, with faithfulness to his partisan ob ligations, but with a higher faithfulness to the interests of the United States of America. The latest of many instan ces was in the Senate's Civil Rights fight. Dirksen stood for a reasonable bill. Stoical ly he resisted all pressure from other Republicans for a punitive measure for which the south, of course, would mostly have blamed the Democrats. He was unwilling to play that kind of politics with that kind of an issue - an issue involving the unity t'iiisr."a Message to bilingual in even one lan guage. The subcommittee also was disturbed over the upkeep of some of the non-belligerents in the USIA. It found one lady who is being paid $14,190 a year to spread culture in Ice land. The job is rated at $9,093 to $11,550 and the man she re placed was drawing only $8,800. Not only that, the lady is making $2,420 a year more than her boss. Allen and his assistants did their best to explain how this came about but I don't think those Congressmen ever un derstood it. They were equally unclear as to why the USIA was pay ing above-rated salaries to employees in Germany, Brit land, Italy, Austria, Canada, France, Mexico and Brazil. tually had argued that dis armament complements the American policy of keeping the world free and secure from aggression. Both Reject Plans Zorin's tirade came near the end of the third week of Geneva debate and before the of the United States in a world of peril. WERE his detractors ever right in the past? Having been one of them, this colum nist cannot with good taste at tempt an answer. But one thinr is sure. Either they were wrong all along; or Everett McKinley Dirksen is another living ill ustration of one of the saving things about the American political system. This is that men thrown into positions of high responsibilities have a remarkable capacity to grow up to those responsibilities and ably to discharge them in the showdown. Such a man is Everett Mc Kinley Dirksen. And while the Republican party may hardly pause this year to sa lute him, he has this anyhow: the awareness of the earned respect of one of the most acute judges of men in this world - the collective mem bership of the United States Senate. (Copyright. 1960, by Uni ted Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TUNNER TO RETIRE Washington ICPD Lt. Gen. William H. Tunner, comman der of the Military Air Trans pert Service who ran the 1949 Berlin airlift, will retire from the Air Force late this spring after 32 years' service, it was announced. Like to Save Some Money On Your FIRE INSURANCE? 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Rooney (D-N.Y.) said he kept think ing during the hearing about a former subcommittee mem ber, now dead, who had been one of the agency's sharpest critics. "If that gentleman were liv ing with us now and he were to read this testimony this afternoon during this past hour, he would surely have a heart attack and pass on once again," Rooney said. If the USIA wants to hire me for one of those $14,190-a-year Jobs, I think I can spare it a lot of difficulty. My plan Is to start beaming a spe cial "Voice of America" pro gram to Capitol Hill. , I mean, the agency may be making its point overseas all right but some of our ' con gressmen aren't getting, the message. week was out both sides flat ly had rejected each other's disarmament proposals. Now would follow a period of marking time, with a re cess a probability, and some dramatic Soviet move a possi bility just before the Paris summit meeting in May. Zorin's flat refusal to con sider the U.S. proposal for outlawing outer space weap ons and his insistence that the only plan that could be discussed was Khrushchev's sweeping proposal for world disarmament in four years marked him clearly as a man operating under rigid orders. When the West rejected the Khrushchev proposal as im practical, Zorin was left to await new orders. Reputation Precedes Him Zorin, unsmiling, heavy-set and nearlng eo, was preceded to Geneva by his reputation. "Butcher of Prague" was one tag attached to him. It came from his assign ment as Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1949. He was accused of directing the Communist coup that led to the Red take-over of that once-democratic nation. After that demonstration of effective intrigue, he became a deputy foreign minister in Moscow during one of the harshest periods of the Stalin ist cold war. In 1952 he became chief So viet delegate to the United Nations where he is remem bered as poker-faced and un imaginative. From the caution with which members of his own delegation treated him, there also was a suspicion that he was a member of the Soviet Secret Police. good hands with
