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Newspaper Page Text; MAIL TI1IUNL MWfwJ, Or. A Then. Mar It.. 19M "Everyone tn Southern Oreaaa Read! Th MU Trlbum" KblishVrTDally exctpt Salardaj Vr MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S3 North M SU Ph SP3-14s "T ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KTRB GREY Advertising Mnir GERALD T LATHAM. Bus. Mr. Y?l'C w iitrv .TR , Mn Krtltar KARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHII'MAN. Teleg. Edltor RICHARD JE.VItTT, Sportl Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor IEj:n!CJsqNCjrculatlnMjr An Independent Newspaper Entered aa stcond class matter at Medford. Oreuon. under Act ol March 3. 18!7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanco, Copy 10c Dallv and Sunday 1 year SIS no Dally and Funday B mm. 8 00 Dallv and Sunday 3 moa. 4-25 Sundav Only One year Si SO By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point Eal Tolnt. Jarksnnville. Gold HIU Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rosue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday I year SIR no Da'lv and Sunday J mo. 10 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cath In Advanca "offlrlal Paper of City of MedforS Official J'apaLof l$rtmtMinty rnVted Press Intematlonai Full Leased Wlr TI P I Telephoto Newsplcturet "SlElIRiTR or AUDIT BliREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Adverllslne Representative; WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices In New York. Chlcaso. Do troit. San FranclHCO. Los Anuelaa. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lai'la, Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAMI V PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI y y ASpCjiTligh Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies ol The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and SO vears ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 19, 1950 (Friday) , Martial muilc, military fighter planes and numerous marchers will help Medford celebrate Armed Forces day tomorrow. Neil Allen, Grants Pass at torney, was chosen last night to represent lour soutnern Oregon chambers of com winrcf In n nneclal rjresenta- tlon of the area's highway problems and projects Before he stat highway commission tomorrow. ... SO YEARS AGO May 19. 1940 (Sunday) . Medford High school cap- Jure 14th annual state high scnooj iracK ana iieja iruam pionshlp at Corvallls wjth a point total of 22 14; Scappoose finished second. . , From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column; i "The high school track team, the high school band and the Cra ters, along with a number of primary candidates were list ed among the winners today." 30 YEARS AGO May 19. 1930 (Monday) Official count of primary election votes show voters are decisively , In favor of the Washington school site for the new courthouse. . Huge crowd attends Al G. Barnes circus here. 40 YEARS AGO , May 19, 1920 (Wednesday) . County sentiment appears tnuch in favor of "good roads" bonds which will appear on ballot tomorrow for voter con sideration. . Bumper crop of corn ap pears certain at Table Rock. SO YEARS AGO May 19, 1910 (Thursday) Nothing happened when earth passed through comet's tail last night and many per sons locally seem disap pointed. , City council offers use of Its chambers to Commercial club while new quarters on McAndrcws rd. are being mint. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct It suptrier; saven or aighr it excellent; five or ll It good. 1. Name the smallest repub lic in boum America. 2. On "Mother's Day." does a red or a white carnation de note that one's mother is deceased? . 3. The one-humped camel is called a "D . d y"? 4. A pyrnmaniac would have a passion for setting eggs, fires, or shrubs?. 5. Kidli have no eyelids; true or false? . 6. What does the "S" stand for in Sir Winston S. Church ill's name? ,". Criteria Is the plural of What word? 8. In liquid measure, there are a imai of lour, six, or eight Rills in a quart? 9. Today, one would find "Swiss Guards" at which one of those: Buckingham Palnco, The Vatican, or the Kremlin? . 10. A horse can sleep while standing; true or false? . Answers) 1, Uruguay. 2. A while carnation. 3. Droatr dary. 4. Selling fires. 5. True. 6.. Spencer. 7. Criterion, 8. Eighi Sills. 9. The Vetictn. 10. True. N s Measure Recommendations These are the Mail Tribune's rtcommenda tions for the measures on the ballot at the pri mary election Friday: . (Measures Ballot) No. 1 Salaries of state legislator ye;. No. 2-For dogs running at large in the county no recommendation. No. 51 for dogs running at large within the city of Medford No. (Special City Ballot) No. 51 To annex a small area, entirely surrounded by the city of Medford in the Big Y area, to the city Yes. No. 51 To annex a small area, entirely surrounded by the city of Medford in the resi dential area north of Jackson st. and east of Bameburg rd., to the city-Yes. Census Wails of anguish are being heard from cham bers of commerce and city officials the breadth of the state these days. The reason: Census totals aren't coming up to expectation, or even estimates. It hanpened in Medford, too. Our preliminary census figure of 24,246 is more than 2,000 fewer than the estimate as of last July. (Final and "of- fical" figures may boost if those missed by enumerators will make them selves known.) THE reason for the anguished howls is prosaic enough money. Certain funds collected at the state level are distributed to both cities and counties on a per capita basis. Thus, the more people a city (or counts has. the more the state without the agonizing process of ex tracting it from local taxation. For this reason, each citv provides an esti mate of its own Population iust as bie as it can possibly . justify. And certified" by the state the basis for the distribution of funds. "THIS is one of the reasons why overestimates were almost universal throughout the state- some of them far more optimistic than Medford s, incidentally.. . Eucrene. Salem. Portland. Pendleton. Klamath Falls all of these and expectations.. As & result, rid one much.. If .one city fell short all others were1 on the Hurt. But when alii or almost all, are short, and bv about. the same percentage, it simply means that all will wind ub with df money they have been receiving. E ARE awaiting with interest the results of the count in Jackson county as a whole. Last July, the board of census estimated the county's population at 72,000. This may be high, 1m... .nM-14 nM -t 1 , . ' 1 1 1. O (.rt ln 11T.lt ui luw, vi nguu uii me iiiai n yc u nave lu won. and see. , But on the basis of some of the comments of census enumerators, we'll the figure is low. One enumerator told us that the count was considerably, delayed in one suburban .area, sim ply because there were "about four times as many rJeople" as had been estimated previously. This seems to reflect the nationwide trend to suburban living and these figures will show up in county loiais, not, mose oi incoi -uoiaieu ciues, E.A. .... Ashland and Medford Over the fca'st dozen with pleasure as Ashland and Medford have gradually shed their old ever-increasing community or interest. This old city rivalry bit is sort of stupid. Bach, of Jackson county's two major com munities has much to offer, and much to be proud of. There is no occasion and these emotions have Medford strongly supported Ashland, as an example, during the fund drive a year ago to build a new Shakespearean Theater building. Support for Southern Oregon college is strong in MedfordAnd citizens of both communities work side by side on a variety of committees and groups seeking to improve the over-all communi ty, of which both .arc a part. TOR this reason it is a bit irritating to watch as a newcomer to this area attempts .to stir up the old. somewhat stupid, arguments as to which city is the "best." . .. We are exceedingly fond of both cities, but for different reasons. . Ashland's accomoplishments over the past dozen -years have been great, and have been a source of pleasure to residents of both cities who realize that both of them, as well as all others in the county, and the unincorporated areas, too,, are important, and have their own distinctive merit and advantages. ' " ... . And fbr the Jbhnoy-come-lately Ashlander to sneer at Medford as "Smfeggy Bottom" doesn't alter thisl facte; !ither.E.A. Figures to state board of census this a bit particularly monev it receives from these estimates, when board of census, become others fell short of their is going to gel hurt too of its estlrna'tes,. while button, it WOULD be about the same amount be mildly surprised if years, we. have watched hostilities, and formed an for rivalry or jealousy, been fading. Dermi tM 'HOWS MX1R HEAD FEEl.,MS.Wll50N? 0A0 SAVS THAIS WHffKE AVSr OF yOUR TPOUBCE IS." Communications Letters to the Editor mult 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 pub lication 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. Strange Creatures To the Editor: We humans are strange creatures. We make a big to-do about a few dogs coming in the yard, and many of us can remember when we rode in a horse and buggy behind a horse that had just been brought in from green pas ture. We were forced to cover our laps to keep our clothes clean, and thought nothing of It.. It seems as If the milk of human kindness and toler ance is fast drying up in many pf us and we are becoming a nation of chronic bellyachers. (Name of file) Medford Morse Support . To the Editor: Let us put pregon on the political map pf the United States as being more than a way station. Oregon and the northwest can boast of the most pro- feressive thinking, politically and socially, and economical ly, It has tremendous possi bilities. To make the rest of me country more aware oi this most Important area of ?ur great nation, let Us give resounding vote of confi dence to Oregon's favorite son, Wayne Morse. David Frisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Confusing Measure To the Editor: It's been called to my attention that the dog control measure can be misinterpreted as I did. . Vote X yes" if you are opposed to dogs being muz zled In the county. They could starve or get caught in brush Or die of thirst and not pro tect us. vote "X No" if you are not against them being muzzled whenever you let them out of the house even if in your own yard. Helen Morris, Barnett rd. Medford PREDICTS SUPERSONIC Washington -0IPD- Tile head Of the Federal Aviation Agen cy predicts that before 1970 a U.S. supersonic commercial airliner will fly between New York and Paris In about two hours. Elwood R. Quesada told reporters Wednesday that he thought a government-indus try team would have the su personic transport in opera tion in seven to 10 years. Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A COUPLE OF female golfers had taken two hours to play seven holes, and their caddy not to mention the Jnale foursome behind them was on the verge of an apop lectic fit. The eisth was B d-par water note, une woman dribbled her ball down the hill to the foot of the pond (it was forty .yards across) and asked the caddy, "What club should I use!" "Tliats the green right ever the pond," said the caddy. "A number htne Should get you, there. , The lady didn't think too much of this sugges tion. First she pulled a number seven iron out of . her bag, then a spoon and then she finally made up her mind. , ,. - , . , "You know what Tm going to do?" she announced. Tra going to earn; my ball across." And she did. Cecax Weybrlgnt broke bis cocker spaniel of the habit of kae trig around the kitchen while hie wife was cooking dinner. lie l&vb the dog a taste of It. Mentee - I I M . i, W aV'J-Afi V'X II I MSKir-::ll k If His Money 'Stolen' ( To the Editor: Boating Is a family sport for all ages. Fish ing, skiing, cruising, or just plain rowing, it is still fun. It is a sport that almost anyone can partake of, in some way. . I have foreseen this boating law for several years. I felt we needed a tax of some sort to. help enforce boating regu lations and to improve our recreational areas. After all, gas tax and license fees go for Improving and maintaining roads and law enforcement. I don't think the county court has the right to put this boat money in the general fund. I don't think the license fee was designated for this purpose; it was intended to go for marine recreational im provements and law "enforce ment. I do know one thing-when the next election comes up I will be there, to vote against the ones that have stolen my pqat taxes and put them in the general fund! . I would like to hear other opinions on this subject. Leroy D. Glass, 2424 Obispo dr., Medford, Ore. River and Lake Fishing To the Editor: The Rogue river and surrounding lakes ? Why do we of the upper Rogue have to reel in our lines on Oct. 2, and then let the guides fish the Rogue with their fat passengers from the mouth of the Applegate until the last day of February? Let s have one opening and one closing date for the whole river up here. Our best fishing Was through December and January, until the guides took over the river. Eliminate the guides. Let the big bellies find the fish on their own or go to market and buy one. ( Many years ago I fought the Copco to save the salmon at Gold Ray dam. . , I secured many affidavits from the fishermen that saw the electrocuted salmon. In one afternoon I person ally counted 250 electrocuted salmon. Could not get any coopera tion from the sheriff's office nor at humane society. Went to letters to the Editor and got results. Bert Noblitt was secrteary pf Sportsman's Club, also a neighbor. He said, can you prove It? Showed Stop Me Is IC In Trouble at Home? Malinovsky's Appearance in Paris Bt PHIL NEWSOM . UP! Foreign Editor To Soviet Premier NIklta Khrushchev's suggestion that he v.'culd freffr to des! with President EI- Aj s e n ho w e r's successor rain er than with the President himself, a middle road Paris newspa per has raised a provocative question: l mb . "Who will represent the Soviet Union at such a future conference?" . The question arises because of speculation over circum stances surrounding Khrush Today & Tomorrow By Walter THE U-2 IN PARIS , The summit meeting has broken up. the President will not go to Russia, the the invitation ?i-''4J having been w 1 1 h d rawn. Thus the at tempts to ar r 1 v e at a truce In the cold war and to relax the tensions has a n a A In . Wilier I , ".. ' " Lippmann tragic fiasco. The issue on which the con ference has been disrupted is the flight of the U-2, or more precisely the position taken by the President and his Ad ministration. We must remem ber that when the plane was captured, Mr. Khrushchev op ened the door to the President for a diplomatic exit from his quandary: He did not be lieve, said Mr. K-, that Mr. Eisenhower was responsible for ordering the flight. Undoubtedly Mr. K. knew that Mr. Eisenhower must have authorized the general plan of the flights but he preferred to let the Presi dent say, what in fact was a sorry kind of truth,, that he did not authorize this par ticular flight. The diplomatic answer would . have been to say nothing at the time or at the most to promise an adequate investigation Df the whole affair. Instead, Mr.. Ei senhower replied that he WAS responsible, that such flights were necessary, and then he let the world think, even if he did not say so In exact words, that the flights would continue. This locked the door which Mr. Khrushchev had opened. It transformed the embarrassment of being caught in a spying operation into a direct challenge to the sovereignty of the Soviet Union. HIS avowel, this refusal to - use the convention of .di plomacy was a fatal mistake. For it made it impossible for Mr. Khrushchev to bypass the affair. Had he done that, he would have been in a po sition of acknowledging to the world, to the Soviet peo ple, to his critics within the Soviet Union, and to his Com munist allies, that he had sur rendered to the United States the rights to violate Soviet territory. No statesman can live in any country after making such an admission. The news from . Paris on Monday shows that Mr. Eisen hower had already realized him the dope. In two days the electrodes were pulled. We way up here have got to get together and see to it that on this hundred miles of river we would like to have a right to go fishing too. Now I again stick my neck out. Eliminate the chummers. Use the license fees collect ed on boats and hire or ap point someone with enough Intestinal fortitude to check the fishermen who go equip ped with corn and eggs, to squeeze liver ground up. ready to miik the water. The four trips I have made to .the lakes to now show why the fish are going. . , Charles Edgar Rose, 643 Pierce rd., Medford, . Vote ior E. The People's Candidate tor State Representative Honest efficient if CAPABLE An Experienced Legislator With Sound Judgment chev at the Paris meeting One such circumstance Is the belief that Khrushchev acted as he did because he Is In trouble at home. ..Another was the presence at Khrushchev's side ot a burly marshal of the Red Army who is one of the So viet Union's most decorated soldiers. He is Ridlon Yakov levich Malinovsky, Soviet de fense minister. Stalin Party Man Malinovsky was a strong factor In the speculation that Khrushchev no longer Is the master of his house. Paris observers believed that Malinovsky, representing the diehard Stalinists, may have been the force which lippmann that his making an avowed policy of the flight was a crucial mistake which had to be corrected. On Saturday there was, it appears, a brief ing of the correspondents to tell them what we had never meant to say that the flights would continue. On Sunday, in a broadcast in this coun try Mr. George V. Allen said the same thing. And on Mon day the President told Mr. Khrushchev that the flights over Russia have been sus pended "and are not to be re sumed." . A week ago . this might have sufficed to quiet down the affair. HpHE withdrawal was, how ever, late, and it may prove to have been too little. For during the past week the flight and .the way.it was handled had given the. Soviet government . a rich opportu nity to weaken the ring of America's allies around Rus sia. Those who say that Mr. K...has seized upon the op portunity solely In order to make propaganda have not, I think, realized the gravity of the disaster which has be fallen us. For the Soviet Un ion there Is in this much more than propaganda. There is an instrument for disturbing if not disrupting the encircling alliance. It would be wishful think ing to. suppose that the So viet government will not seize this opportunity to push countries like Norway, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, and Japan into pledges and Into, meas ures which in some consid erable degree neutralize them as American air bases. Moral ly and legally these allies of ours are defenseless, against these Soviet demands. The Soviet government is at least as Interested in neu tralizing our allies around her borders as she is In neutral izing West Berlin. We dare not hope that the Soviet gov ernment will not make the most of the opportunity which has so unexpectedly and so unnecessarily been opened to her. BEFORE the affair of the plane, there had been, as Mr. Reston wrote, on Monday from Paris, a strong indica tion that Mr. Khrushchev was very tin'easy about the pros pects of the summit meeting. I myself was one of those who talked to his personal emis sary, Mr. Zhukov; when he came to Washington in April. The burden of I.I '. Zhukov's complaint was that about March 15 American policy had suddenly hardened against a negotiation about the status of West Berlin, and that this was a reversal of the understanding . given to Mr. K. by the President at Camp David.. Almost certainly, therefore, the affair of the plane offered Mr. K. an opportunity to make a diplomatic gain against the small, encircling allies from Norway to Japan. If he was. stymied in Berlin, he had the chance to recoup elsewhere. We have not heard the last of the troubles of the encircling allies. , There .is hot much .'comfort for us in this. For our own blunders provided Mr. K with his opportunity, (c) I960 New York Herald Tribune TnC. H. MAIM v2m Pd. Pol. Adv. E. H. Mann P.O. Box 1587 Indicates He May Be caused Khrushchev to reverse his so-called "mlr miru" peace in the world campaign for a revival of the cold war. Malinovsky v.as close to Stalin, and although, not a member of the f party, his presence in Paris suggested he was there for one purpose only-to keep a firm hand on Khrushchev. Malinovsky, World War II "liberator" of the Ukraine and Crimea, has lived the rough and tumble life of a soldier since he was 16. He joined the army by the sim ple expedient of hopping a troop train. Malinovsky once turned to an American reporter during stormy day and said: "It's not bad weather. It's good for war." . That Malinovsky would ac company Khrushchev to Paris startled many observers In Moscow. Matter of Fad sy THE BALANCE RE-EMPHASIZED Paris - At this highly emo tional moment, It is both so bering and reassuring to take a quick look at the present balance of ter r o r between the Soviet and Western world blocs. .. Nikita S. K hrushchev's explosion . a t the summit in fact underlin es the continuing vulnerabil ity of the Soviet Union, which was so dramatically revealed by the fall of the U-2 recon naissance plane. What Khruschev did .was not the sort of thing any sane national leader would do about unwelcome overflights oi his national territory, If he genuinely had the capability of shooting down the overfly ers. Any national leader having this capability would have contented himself with a cold or angry annotiniement that all oveifly'ers would be promptly shot down hereafter. He would not have demanded needless guarantees that the overflights would be halted. i CONFESSION of lack of V capability was clearly im plied by the scene Khrushchev made.. This deduction is con firmed, moreover, by the ad ditional information about the fall, of the U-2 that is now available. There was always a fishy smell about the claim that the reconnaissance plane was shot down by a rocket at Its nor mal operating altitude of 65,- 000 feet. After all, if the So viet air defense system is equipped with great numbers of rockets that can reach 65 000 feet, why was the U-2 not shot down until It reached Sverdlovsk, which Is about like reaching Kansas City? The fishiness of this claim is now confirmed. It can be stat ed, on undoubted authority that the American analysts have convincing evidence that the U-2 was shot down at be tween 25,000 and 30,000 feet, instead of the claimed 65.000, Engine failure , p r ob a b 1 y brought the plane down to this lower altitude. . Most . probably, too, the plane was brought down by a Soviet fighter aircraft rather than a rocket. A rocket would have blown the U-2 to little bits. A fighter, would have left what the Soviets recov ered. to service JWms Irwi RANK MOtOAN . H At OlO DAYOftMGHT jnSKl'Ii ALSUI' All boinHng ', l Ask us about the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN which we hftity rec&mmend end endorse. On the day before Khru shchev's departure, the all powerful presidium of the central committee met in what was described as a rou tine session. But It was on that day that Western diplomats learned that Malinovsky would be at Khrushchev's right hand In Paris and felt the advance chill of. the cold war. In .1953, Malinovsky waj one of six marshals Who stood honor guard at Stalin's bier. He succeeded Marshal Georgl K. Zhukov as defense minis ter in October 1957. Presumably, Malinovsky is one of those who views with alarm Khrushchev's lopping off of troop strength in favor of a rocket defense. Giving him strong support outside the party would be a reported 100,000 Soviet officers now living on half-pay after the demobilization orders. Joseph Alsop N ANY case it is plain that the Soviet air defense is extremely incomplete at high altitude. The operating alti; tude of the B-52 bombers of the Strategic Air Command is of course belotv the 65,000 feet of the U-2. But the B-52's, pone the less operate at alti tudes far above that at whirh me u-2 was really hit. , , There is no doubt at all, bf course, that the Soviet, air de fense system includes some anti-aircraft rockets. And these uhdoubtedlv rearh th B-52's operating altitude. Yet these rockets are emplaced in hedge-like formations around Moscow, Leningrad, and a small number bf other major targets. B-52's equipped with the "Hound Dog" aiStc ground missile can lob their bombs through the rocket hedge. In sum, the Strategic Air Command can do its full job If it gets the fatal order. As alreadv nnlntpri n,tf in this space; the very fact that U-2's. have been regularly overflying .and photographing the Soviet land mass also has another'meaning. It gives me oest possime confirmation of the very .low American in telligence . estimates .of the numbers of operational Soviet intercontinental rockets. . If the estimates are correct, the Soviets have enough of these rockets to do .severe-damage in the United States. But they have Nothing like enough bt them to prevent a Stratefeie Air Command counter-strike. Which would, do far more terrible damaee to the Soviet Union. ' TPHESE ARE tn'e reasons Whv - one can rather .confidently hope that Khrushchev will do nothing that really risks war at this time. He is not in fact ready for war, unless he Is also ready for suicide. But one can also be confident that Khrushchev is making great efforts .to . increase , his mili tary, power,, especially in long range . rockets. He , may well believe that, he will be better able . to bully ,the.Westerp al lies six to eight months from npw, at the time pf the re newed i summit he mentioned in .his statement. r . thus it, is more urgent than ever to inaugurate a , maxi mum, air-bbtne alert of the Strategic A i r Command's B-52's, ,so that, SAC's great plpnes will, surely be out of reach before . the , moment comes when Khrushchev may think he has enough iCBM's to destroy SAC on the ground. Copyright 1960, New York Herald Tribune Inc. tisi Cawtihswt SNOOOtASS, MNKAl MKtOtS PHONE SP 2-8030