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Newspaper Page TextA MAIL TRIBUNI, Mtdfortf, Or. A , Mondiy. April 25, 1960 "Everyone In Southern Oregon RArl. Tha Mill THhunn published Daily except Saturdayby mt-urunu rKinnnu uu. 33 North Fir Jit., Ph BP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HKHB GREY AdvcrtiilnR Manager GERALD T LATHAM. Bui. Mgr. ERIC W. LLEN JR . Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telea. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARC HER, Women'! Editor PALE E RICKSON, Circulation MfT An IndeDendent NewiDaper Sntered as second class matter at meaiora. uregon, unaer aci oi March 3. 18B7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday 6 mos. 8 00 Daitv and flundav 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav On v One vear 54 20 Rv (7arrlorfn Ariuanra Modford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Mill Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor mutes, Daily and Sunday 1 year SIB no Daily and Sunday 1 mo I SO Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance "Official Paper of City of MedforcT Offlclal Paper of Jackaon County United Press International Full Leased Wire IT P.I. Telephoto Newspletures TiemWfr of audit bureau" of circulations AdverHslnir Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of fices In New York. Chicago. Dt. Irrtft Run FranHuco. Los Anveles. Beattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver, B .. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E D I TO R I A I AS(sbc(fATlblh Z J J ami Flight or Time Medford and Jeckson County History from the tile of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 25, 1950 (Tuesday) Central Point - Voters of school district 6 yesterday reaffirmed a $900,000 bond Issue for construction of a new high school. Medford and local business establishments will go on daylight saving time next Sun day but Jackson county of fices say they will stick with standard time unless the gov ernor orders them to do other wise. 20 YEARS AGO April 25, 1940 (Thursday) Seventeen second corps CCC replacements from Ft. Dlx, N.J., arrived here today lor assignment to the Medford district. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sum mer is coming along. Want- ads are appearing offering to swap the family cow for slightly used tires." 30 YEARS AGO April 25, 1930 (Thursday) Mayor Pipes favors com mission plan for Mcdford's city government. County court asked to build road to Hobart lake in south eastern end of county. 40 YEARS AGO April 25, 1920 (Saturday) . Rising prices bring cost of sugar to 23 cents a pound here. Largest moonshine still on record is found in Clackamas county, where 1,700 gallons of mash is confiscated. 50 YEARS AGO April 25, 1910 (Monday) Medford citizens will vote tomorrow on a $50,000 school bond proposal for the pur pose of building an east side school and a Washington school annex. The ladies of the Greater Medford club are collecting contributions for a "library fund which would be used to build a new library. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It tuperler: even or eight if excellent: five e III ll good. 1. A banjo usually has how many strings? 2. "Badger Slate" is the nickname for which State? 3. Who renouccd a British throne "for the woman 1 love ? 4. Which great Italian paint cr was also a sculptor, archi tect, musician, mechanican, engineer and natural philos opher? 5. Maine touches how many oincr siHtes? 6. A book containing the words of an opera Is called e-o? 7. "Fritz" la a nickname for what GormBn given name? 8. The U. S. Secret Service is a division of which ex ecutive department? 9. Recresence would denote that growth has been renewed or retarded? 10. In cattle the dewlap Is on the hlndlegs, near the ud der, or under the neck? Answers: 1. Fire. 2. Wiscon sin. 3. Edward VIII (Now Duke of Windsor). 4. Leo nardo da Vinci. 5. Only on - New Hampshire, 6. Libretto. 7. Frederick. 8. Department of ihe Treasury 9. Renewed. 10. Under tha neck. There Are Washington (Special) Sen. John F. Ken nedy proved himself a bold man this past week when he challenged American editors to see that the Nation s press treats the religious issue of the election campaign as fairly as Kennedy himself was willing to Changing topics at eign policy to the issue of religion in politics, Kennedy was moved to confront members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors with the mounting concentration of attention on the single fact that he is a Catholic dent. Kennedy spoke rather bluntly about what he considered the exaggeration of this fact in some news reporting of the primary campaign in Wis consin and West Virginia. The press, he said, did not create this issue but this issue will be kept in perspective and whether needless fears and suspicions are stilled instead of aroused. IN THE view of this correspondent, Kennedy had a justifiable complaint. Much of the news reporting not all of it hotly contested primary the single contrast between Kennedy and Hum phrey which is easiest news stories. That is the Protestant and Kennedy angle that is constantly before has a Catholic been elected president, and what do the voters think make it? This is an intriguing minor one in the host of the Nation in 1960. It is emphasized beyond justification because it is often a weakness dote upon strategy and recent civil rights fight in the Senate, far more space and headlines were devoted to the filibuster effort how senators were dressed, where they slept, how they looked at 4 a.m., and how long each man spoke than to what they contended about the bill itself or the substance of guaran teeing or denying civil rights. " e e e e POLITICAL reporters relish fresh knowlelge of the maneuvers that can be expected from competing politicians; and when the battle is for the White House each move and counter-move, each danger or pitfall that looms ahead takes on importance from a news standpoint because it represents conflict or the threat of failure. Al though the candidates may be debating larm sur pluses, defense readiness, rocket lailures and ur ban congestion, there is an almost irresistible attraction away from these relative dry issues to something with a little more of what is euphemis tically called "reader interest." While there has been considerable attention in news dispatches to the big question of whether voters will go for a Catholic presidential candi date, there has been relatively little attention to where the candidates all of them stand on the substantive issues related to religion or the ques tion of clerical power in government affairs. Kennedy agrees there are legitimate issues in this area such as federal assistance to paro chial schools which he said he opposes because "I believe it is clearly unconstitutional. I voted against it on the Senate floor this year, when offered by Senator (Wayne) Morse. But inter estingly enough, I was the only announced candi date in the Senate who did so. Nevertheless I have not yet charged my opponents with taking orders from Rome." THAT vote was on Morse's proposal for federal Inoiic tr, nriiratn cnhnnla fnr aphnnl pnnHr.lMlP- tion. Besides Morse, Sen. Hubert Humphrey sup ported it. Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Kennedy opposed it. Sen. Stuart Symington didn't vote on it. Kennedy reiterated his opposition to sending an ambassador to the Vatican, but noted it was last proposed by a Baptist president, Harry S. Truman. "I do not speak for the Catholic Church on issues of public policy and no one in that church speaks for me. My record on aid to education, aid to Tito, the Conant nomination and other issues has displeased some prominent Catholic clergymen and organizations; and it has been approved by others. The fact is that the Catholic Church is not a monolith it is committed in this country to the principles of individual liberty and it has no claim over my conduct as a public officer sworn to do the public interest," Kennedy declared. IN ONE respect, Kennedy was in a weak position 1 to be urging that religion be shoved to the sidelines for the remainder of the presidential campaign. In his speech to the editors he asked : "What, then, is the so-called relgious issue in American politics today? It is not, it seems to me, my actual religious convictions but a misunder standing of what those convictions actually are. It is not the actual existence of religious voting blocs but a suspicion that such voting blocs may exist. Ami when we deal with such public fears and suspicious, the American press has a very grave responsibility." So, indeed, do politicians. 1X711 EN Kennedy made his first bid for a place ?? on the national ticket at the Democratic con vention in 19515, his associates circulated the hard-headed political analysis that a Catholic on the ticket as Adlai Stevenson's runninsr mate would strengthen the Democratic chances of cap- Other Issues meet it squarely. the last moment from for who is running for presi it will determine whether coming out of these elections has belabored to exploit into readable fact that Humphrey is a a Catholic and the exploited is that never about it, and will he Question, but it is a issues which confront of political reporting to neglect substance. In the Dennis the ' Were are four pwtes because tww is twiNsiNa a wicnd HOVe rOK vINNcK. KUFF IS AJ? INVITED J Communications Letters to the Editor must the writer, althouah under of a pen name or initial for Mail Tribune reserves the 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 Mayor io "Taxpayer" To the Editor: In reply to Mr. Taxpayer s' letter of April 21. Mr. Taxpayer, you ask for suggestions from the Council of Jacksonville or anyone else regarding the betterment of Jacksonville. You must be new to our town or you would realize that the things that have been done in the past are things that have been set up to bene fit the citizens now and in the future. Of course it is not possible for me to contact you person ally regarding your sugges tions because I do not know your name. Please feel free to call any member of the Council or my self and we will be delighted to enlighten you on many things which we feel the citi zens are happy for and benefit by. Also, Mr. Taxpayer, you are welcome to attend all Council and planning commission meetings. They are open to the public. The Council meets every first and third Tuesday of each month. The planning commission meets each third Thursday of each month. Perhaps you were not with us last spring and summer when the citizens came to our town meetings to have a cup of coffee, visit with friends and suggest ideas to better our little town, Jacksonville is a town of friends and neighbors and no person has ever been refused the privilege to speak before the Council. May I have the privilege of meeting you and helping with your problems? E. O. Graham Mayor Jacksonville, Ore. Tall Tale To the Editor: The follow ing fantasy was one of the stories told by nlmrods when the old muzzle loader scatter gun was giving way to the newer breech-loader gun. In that era I was only about knee high to a Kansas grass hopper, but the vivid picture was a memory never to be forgotten. The tale went something like this: A hunter shot all the feath ers out of a duck on the wing, but the scared duck kept fly ing on, the old gun kicked the hunter backwards near a small river, killing a half dozen jackrabblts In his rear before the hunter fell in the water, splashing out a dozen catfish which he picked up on the opposite bank of the stream. We do not recall any pre varicators club in those days, but tall tales were rampant just the same. One version was that one swashbuckler said he could side-step a bullet fired from the old Springfield black powder rifle at a dis tance of one fourth mile away when he saw the smoke emerge from the muzzle end of the barrel. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman St. Medford. luring key states in which there are substantial numbers of Catholic voters. The implication was that there would be some bloc voting along re ligious lines if Kennedy were on the ticket. Embarrassing as this is now to Kennedy, and true as this analysis probably remains in 1960, the question of whether the next president is a Protestant or a Catholic is hardly foremost among the great decisions which will determine whether this country, its freedom and its Chris tianity, survive the challenge to come. A. Robert Smith. Menace bear the name and address of certain circumstances the use publication is permissible. The riaht to edit all letters with a the contrary is otten the cast. Tha Brass Rod To the Editor: We are living in a lawless age! Every day an army of over 400,000 crimi nals walks the streets of these United States. Our "crime wave," of which we used to speak, has emerged into a con tinuous crime storm. Figures for a few years ago show that crime costs every inhabitant of this coun try on the average of $100 each, or about $300 for each family. This loss to the Ameri can people each year would build and furnish more than 1,700,000 middle-class homes. It would put an automobile in two out of every three homes in the U. S. It would give 10, 000,000 unemployed $100 a month the year around. Crime and violence truly are America's disgrace. Every time 19 seconds tick off a very serious crime is committed. Each day 255 victims are as saulted or raped. Another 150 are robbed. Every 24 hours more than 1,000 places are burglarized, more than 460 automobiles are stolen, be sides 2,600 miscellaneous lar cenies are committed. Every day 36 persons are murdered - that means more than 13,000 murders a yearl These figures are for a few years ago. The totals are high er now. The crime bill of the U.S. runs each year to be tween 12 and 18 billion dol lars, a sum in excess of Uncle Sam's still unpaid war loans. If 12 billion one dollar bills were sewed end to end, they would reach from the earth to the moon five times. They would make a highway nine feet wide across the U.S. from the Atlantic to the Pacific. High as this sum is, it is dwarfed Into insignificance when compared with the aw ful toll in human life extract ed by the criminal. I don't know how you feet about it, but I believe that this terrific cost in life and money Is too high a price to pay simply because some peo Dle refuse to keep the laws of our land and the law of God. Man was given a 10-point golden rule by which to measure and interpret God's blue-print for good citizenship upon this earth. Somehow, somewhere, It was mislaid. In its place man employs a brass rod, Its warped measure read ing: lust, greed, selfishness, lawlessness. Henry Johnson 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Hospital Praised To the Editor: After read ing so many letters In the paper criticizing the hospitals 1 want to tell my experience which is the other side of the story. The kindness and care I received at the Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital is only what hundreds of grateful pa tients have received but I guess the story needs to be told again. I was very sick when I came to the hospital and I was immediately taken to a room, given medication which had been prescribed by my GSA; Jack-of-AII-Trac.es, Licked by Problem of Licking Government's Stamps By DICK WEST Washington - (UPl - The General Services Administra tion is a federal agency whose precise m 1 s sion in life, if it has one, re mains a mys tery to me, As near as I can figure it, the GSA acts as a tort of govern mental Jack of all trades, do ing such odd jobs as auction ing off 40,000 pounds of duck leathers, The feather auction will be held May 5 In New York where this week the GSA put on the block some 56,000 carats of surplus diamonds- Let us all stand now and ex claim in unison "What a won derful country this is!" I mean blondes the world over have long regarded dia monds as "critical and strat egic materials." But where else, pray tell, can you find diamonds In government stockpiles? Must Dispose of Forms Another odd job assigned to GSA is to get rid of all of those millions of census forms that we have been filling out this month. As you know, the information on the forms is confidential and this compli cates the disposal problem. But the GSA anticipates no difficulties. When the census doctor, and put to bed. Only after that did my husband go to the office to give the In formation needed for neces sary hospital records, for dur ing the pressure of arrival no one had asked him a question, other than my name. After being in the hospital I realize some of the problems that go with caring for the patients and the administra tion of the hospital, so that even more if possible, I want to say thanks to all for being so good to me. Alta McDougall (Mrs. J. A.) 315 Perrydale ave. Medford. Still Waiting To the Editor: On Feb. 15, 1960, I went to Camp White and contacted a Mr. Bran nock to find out about hospit alization. After answering the usual form of Questions that Mr. Brannock asked my wife and myself, he very promptly sent in my application. The Portland office notmea me by mail that -my request had been approved. But I am still waiting for them to find ma a bed. Leo J. Townsend Route 1, Box 620, Eagle Point, Ore. Words of Thanks To the Editor: There are a few words I would like to say, In the way of praise and thanks, thanks to tne gooa women that come to this con valescent home to spread good cheer and good will among the patients here, mostly aged men and women that are ap proaching pretty close to 80, 90 and 100 years. Some are homeless, feeble minded; some can walk with great difficulty, some are about deaf and blind, one is speechless with one leg and useless arm. And I, with the rest of the patients, deeply appreciate their visits every week, as hands that help are better than lips that pray. Hope and cheer are wonder ful words of life. Preacher White and wife are appreci ated by most of us Sunday evenings. This community should feel proud of such people. J. P. Wlrth 120 Laurel St., Medford. Lyckol To the Editor: While I ex pected some kickbacks to my letter advocating medical ben efits for retirees, I wasn't pre pared for the deluge of letters I've received. Have enjoyed them Immensely. Too many to answer individually so am taking this means of saying 'Thanks. From these communications I find myself a person of many characters, gentleman to knave. I can't understand, though, why those who placed me in the latter class 'forgot' to sign their letters. No need to hide, as the handle of my old pitchfork is too weak to stand any brush popping. The gentleman who called me a bum must have been in the group who bummed our way from Portland to LA. in De cember, 1908. He probably recalls the swell chicken mul ligan we had Xmat day at Lathrop Junction, aorta short on vegetables due to the big brindle dog chasing me out of a garden before I'd gathered enough to go around more than four times. In return for his amusing denunciations all I can say is, LYCKO! Claude M. Hall 28 Hartley Lane Grant Pass, Ore. It Pick west people are through with them, it will sell the forms as waste paper and send security agents into the pulping plants to make cetrain that no one peeks. In view of this record as a handyman de luxe, It is with regret that I report that the GSA has finally found one task that Is beyond its ken. It has thrown in the towel on trading stamps. Under a ruling issued last year by the comptroller gen eral, federal employees werelo pass Foreign Notebook: Germany's Refugees; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: New Pressure on Berlin? Even with tighter Commu nist controls to stop the flow of ref u gees from East G e r many to West Berlin, it is expected that about 300 a day still will be able to make good their escape from the So- Phll Newtom viei iou e, adding to the three million who have fled since 1945. The new refugee tiow orougnt about by collectivization of East German farms is expect ed to increase Communist de termination for changes in West Berlin's status. South Africa Adamant Diplomats in London do not expect much to result from United Nations Secre tary General Dag Hammar- skjold's meeting with South African External Affairs Minister Eric Louw during the commonwealth conference in London next month. Hammar- skjold is under United Na tions orders to do what he can to ease the situation brought about by South Afri ca's white supermacy policies. Louw will talk with Hammar skjold to impress world opinion but will stick to the line that no one has a right to interfere in his county's in ternal affairs. Israeli Arms It will draw Arab protests but you can expect Israel to get more modern arms from the West, particularly France which gave it jet planes in 1956. The weapons will be primarily defensive - radar, anti-submarine devices and the like. No missiles. And there will be none in the fore seeable future. The Arabs al ready have warned that if Israel gets rockets, they will seek the same from Russia. Red Chance Italy's Communist Party, Hatfield Cites Educational Needs Portland -WTO- Public and private Institutions of higher learning must be willing to try daring innovations to keep up with educational needs in the years ahead, Gov. Mark Hatfield said Saturday night. Hatfield, addressing the Lu theran Education Society here, said the new methods should be aimed at eliminat ing waste in curriculum, plant and administrative and instructional procedures. 'They must display more Im agination, more readiness for innovation to met the needs before them," he said. Cosmic Harmony To the Editor: Your editor ial comment on Project Ozma la speculatiely interestl n g; but, early contact with other Space Travelers could end with some sour notes. Before we tune In on other Cosmic Creatures and display our cultural attainments, it is to be hoped, we first will have learned to Harmonize among ourselves. H. W. Robertson, 103 North Central ave., Medford. P. S. Spacemonition: Our Radars tune to scan the skies. With Cosmic Friends we'll Ozma-tze. Yet Space Folk must these Clods despise, 'Til Earthlings learn to harmonize. toiTtNtfkctSnpplM FALSE TEETH tV fell. His or vobbto tats you uik. Don. b tnootratT tnd embimMH Wh MntttcapiL PASTF.KTH, u IkeUtDt foM-tetd) pevdw to iprtn U oo row plttM. k fiitt tMta firm m. ot?M M.fldeot (Mi ni Of MCurttT tB ttiAti tnmfoeX n nmmt . ikkxt, pwtt uit nr ftk L .'WaJWil 3l r0iiii Irpri tn turn In to tne GSA any trading stamps they picked up while making gov ernment purchases. Asks Ruling Change For months now, the stamps have been pouring in faster than the GSA could lick them and stick them into books. Recently, In desperation, it asked the comptroller general to cancel the ruling. He refused to relent en tirely, but he did indicate it would be okay for the GSA along the stamps to Africans Adamant largest in the West, sees a chance to upstage the ruling Christian Democratic Party and grab some middle class support. The Reds already have started a campaign to show they are simply a for Washington Report By WIUIAM GANGING UP Washington - It is difficult to tell who is now ganging up most on whom in the increas ingly bitter struggle for the D e m o cratic Pre sidential nomination. Senator John F. Ken- n e d y com- plains that in the West Vir ginia primary his rivals are pnmhininff in WwwTe tricky ways to stop him. Only one of them, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, is openly con testing the state with Ken nedy. But now all these rivals - Humphrey and Senators Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas and Stuart Symington of Missouri - themselves have a "heavy beef," as they say in the po litical trade. A new and tough gang-upism is being practiced on the other side by Kennedy partisans. The ill-masked Kennedy backer, Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, is packing the officialdom of the Democratic National conven tion with Kennedy men. Un der Butler's direction one val uable post, the chairmanship of the platform committee, al ready has been handed out. This goes to Rep. Chester Bowles of Connecticut, an old and candid Kennedy backer. UTLER is said to intend also to put another Ken- nedyite in a top spot. Gov. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin is slated to be the conven tion's keynote speaker. The Kennedy movement, through Butler, had already controlled the whole complex pre-convention machinery. It will now control nearly the whole tone of the convention itself, except for the perma nent chairmanship. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is understood to be Butler's probable choice for that place. Gore is uncom mitted as among the Presi dential candidates. A border stater, he would normally be put down as a partisan of Senator Johnson, whose main strength lies in the border states and the South, ' But Gore can by no means be counted upon by Johnson. Planned with devoted care even modestly priced services are brought to a single impression of reverent beauty. PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT government hospitals and other institutions which may have use for them. Personally, I think it would be better to turn the stamps over to the Internal Revenue Service. Under my plan, each time a citizen paid his income tax, he would receive an equivalent batch of stamps. This would do more than merely solve the problem of what to do with the stamps. Unless I am badly mistaken, it would virtually wipe out tax delinquency overnight. ward-looking bunch of Boy Scouts and not a tool of Rus sia at all. Watch for this cam paign to wax stronger as the Christian Democrats flounder deeper in the current govern ment crisis. S. WHITE He is widely believed to have Presidential - or at least Vive Presidential - ambitions of his own. Nobody knows to whom he will go in the end. IiHUS Kennedy's fellow seekers of the Presidency can only hope that Butler will overeach himself in his pur pose to have absolute domi nation of the convention. The two points of real crisis for the Butler plan to blitz the convention for Kennedy will be in the platform committee and in the permanent chair manship, Bowles himself Is an able and tolerant man. Though lib eral on Civil Rights, he Is not seen even by the conserva tives as dedicated to torment ing a North-South Civil war within the party. Butler demonstrably Is so dedicated, however. He will surround Bowles with men who really think the Battle Hymn of the Republic is the true expression of the Amer ica of 1960. The real question, there fore, will be whether Bowles and Kennedy will be able to prevent the Butlerltes from carrying the Civil Rights plank so far as to injure rath er than promote Kennedy's interests. The Senator himself certainly has no desire to take a punitive line outlawing the South and alienating all mod erate opinion outside the South. And he has excellent reasons not even to seem to do so. THE permanent chairman makes vital rulings on con vention procedure. Here again the rest of the Democratic field will hope Butler will try to push too hard. For one thing, Gore does not push easily. And here again, as one of the other candidates puts it, "those Kennedy fellows can easily tear their britches" - meaning to go so very far as to provoke a convention rebellion quite outside the South. In short, there is great ques tion whether Kennedy will profit from Butler's extreme partiality, just as there is preat question that those ganging up on Kennedy in West Virginia will profit from it in the end. (Copyright 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)