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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.
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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
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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.
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