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Theodore (Daddy) Penland, 101, last and final commander of the Grand Army of the Re public, will be guest of honor t National GAR day cere monies at Camp White Sun day. 20 YEARS AGO Mh 23. 1940 (Thuridsy) : Arthur E. Powell, editor mayor of Central Point, de feated dairyman ueorge un man in race for county com missioner by 139 votes. 30 YEARS AGO May 23, 1930 (Friday) Straw hat parade to be held here tomorrow. Road to Crater Lake to be cleared of snow, and open to travel next Sunday, the earliest date In hltsory. 40 YEARS AGO May 23. 1920 (Sunday) A married couple who pas ted a large number of cheeks nn nnn lYinrchlintS TCCPntlV have been apprehended in Colorado. Bakery prices soar locally as In rest of nation due to high cost of sugar, but other food prices drop. SO YEARS AGO May 23. 1910 (Monday) A total eclipse of the moon, Haley's comet and a lightn ing storm, treated valley res idents to a celestial show, seldom, if ever, seen by man before. Medford residents gathered In the streets yesterday to watch the approach of a mys terious airplane, but it turned out to be only a large box kite carrying several photo graphers who were taking pictures of the city. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It luperier; seven er eight li cicelltnt; five) er lie ii good. 1. Where Is the headquar ters of the Mormon Church? 2. What is the zodiacal sign for persons born between April 21 and May 21? 3. By weight, does coffee or. tea contain more enffeinc? 4. Who is presently the Sec . retary of Stale in the Presi dent's cabinet? 5. A square mile consists of how many acres? 6. Where was the first per manent English settlement in America? 7. What kind of edible ani mal is sometimes called a ra Jtorback? 8. Socrates died of old age, by drinking a cup of poison hemlock, or by behcnding7 9. According to the old proverb, what plays when the tat s away? 10. Which eastern ctly is particularly noted for its famed cherry blossoms in the spring? Amwerit 1. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2. Taurus. 3. Tea (from 3 to 4 par cant, compared to 1V4 par cent for coffee), 4. Christian Herler. S. 640. 6. Jameifown, Va established May 13, 1607. 7. Hog. 8. By drinking a cup of poison hem lock. 9. The mica. 10. Wash ington, D.C. 4 Yardstick on America Behind the cornucopia of America's industrial abundance has been a people who cared about their neighbor's welfare, a people who hated to be excelled at anything, a people who were proud of their own freedom and who traditionally sought to help all men to greater freedom. But over the past few years these same people have been told and partially convinced that clothes and cars and couches are not only the measure of individual success but the chief pur pose of our slowly expanding national economy. In recent years they have seen a Republican Administration deadlocked with Democratic Congresses to provide the kind of unexciting gov ernment which most of them thought they want ed. With few exceptions they have seen issues that might have caused dissention swept under the mg while public relations specialists set our national mood and purpose. NEARLY every expert warned us that the So viet Union had developed the technical ca pacity to surpass us in the missile race and in scientific and technological research. And when they did, we were told that the Soviet breakthrough into space was a "scientific trick" and a "silly bauble," and that we should not get excited. We were hit by two recessions in five years costing a total of $70 billion in goods and serv ices that we could have produced but didn't. And we were told that we were lucky to get off so easily. Our economic growth rate dropped to less than half that of the Soviet Union. And we were told that Communism nonetheless was a "gigantic failure." For want of funds our schools and univei-sities have lagged behind the clear needs of our fast growing younger generation. And we have been told to relax because education was a "local responsibility." f")UR ablest housing, health, and urban experts have pointed out that millions of Americans were still jammed in slum tenements, that the costs of adequate medical care were skyrocket ing, and that the economic and cultural vitality of our large cities was rotting away. And we were presented with massive statistics to prove that we had never had it so good. As we watched Soviet foreign policy make dramatic new inroads in the Middle East, South American, Africa, and Asia, we were told that American prestige was never higher; and right there on our television sets were the President's global good-will tours to prove it. , On nearly every yardstick by which national power is measured we slumped and fell behind, while anyone who said so was dismissed as a prophet of gloom and doom. (The above Is an excerpt from "Agenda 1981," two lectures presented last month at Grinnell College, Iowa, by Chester Bowles, former Governor of Con necticut, former U.S. Ambassador to India, now Con gressman from Connecticut's Second district.) Clearing the Air A new type of odor control apparatus is be ing installed by Western Kraft Corp. at its Al bany plant. It's to be in service by early July, and that surely won't be too soon for residents of the Albany area or users of the new freeway that passes directly by the plant. Often blowing directly across the freeway, the fumes from the Albany pulp and paper mill are disagreeable, to say the very least. To some, tney re almost sickening. Now, Western Kraft antee that the new equipment will work 100', r, or even 50 ''!. However, the company has "hich hopes." The equipment Kind in Oregon, and its purchase will hike odor control expenditures at the Albany plant, open ed in 1955, to more than $250,000. A LL this is further evidence that pulp and paper "manufacturers who are extending their oper ations in this state are nuisance smells and stream-polluting wastes that make their plants dubious additions to communi ties which would otherwise welcome them with open arms. Notable progress has already been made at many plants, including the Weyer haeuser mill at Springfield. Now it's good to know pnere aiso may be cleared, and through oxidation processes, not merely by piping more pollutants into the Willamette River. Eugene Register Guard. Time for a Change How ludicrous it is that votes still are counted manually by weary counting boards. Los Angeles is testing a ballot where, with a soft pencil, you make a big dot in the card, in this case on heavy paper. Such ballots are not counted in the" precincts but are simply stored in racks which at the end of voting are taken to a central office where they are fed into an electronic machine. A dot in a certain position closes a circuit in the machine, thus registering a vote for Joe Smith. 0 Precinct totals as well as countv totals rrmlH be obtained within several hours rather than the several days it now takes to complete counting. we nope uregon election officials get par ticulars on the experiments. As any counting board veteran will tell you, it s time for a change. capital Journal, balem. reports, there's no guar will be the first of its working hard to reduce that the Albany atmos- Dennis the O t . i 'Jelly doughnuts. WHATte WU twnkin' about? Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and addrees of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. Tha 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 What He Wants To the Editor: Having the primary election out of the way we must now turn to one more important decision - the Medford school district bud get. We have all had our share of going to the polls these past few weeks but we cannot relax. yet, an adequate number of votes is essential on the budget question. There should be no hardship on this budget vote as it is understood ade quate voting places will be had. Lets all get out ana vote once more. It is mv opinion that the previous rejection of the bud get was an expression by the people demanding more econ omy In our school systpm. The "token' reduction 01 jomc $28,000 off a four million dol lar budget manes one wonur if that is "economy." We think, regardless 01 Information as to cost of schools and administration, the people are more interested in the actual and adequate education of the students and in that respect do not want inadequate financing - but, where such a large share of the school tax dollar goes for things other than actual edu caUon - to build up "prestige for the district for instance, and making "inducements' to students so as to have them interested in education seems a waste of money and effort. If an education is worth hav ing it is worth an effort on the part of the student. Why golf and bowling lessons, ex cessive bus service? It is such things as these that the people are getting tired of financing. The "form" or "system of education students is also a matter of concern. Pa"ts who try to assist their chil dren in home work find that the way they were taught is not now the method used and home assistance seems useless to the child. How is one schooled in the "old system to help the present genera tion? Adult education? More wasted tax money. Each of us have our right to "Opinion" and whichever that may be. it should be ex pressed at the polls. Do we give a vote of confidence in our present system, or a de mand for proper education with economy? Let's have a big turn out and let it be known for sure what we want. Ray O. DeMarrs 708 West Second st. Medford. A Tribute To the Editor: Will you please print this little missive in your paper? I lived in Medford many years and loved It there. Was a steady subscriber of your dear little Tribune paper for long time. Most of my people still live in Medford - and they send me all the interest ing clippings. The Caldwell, the Twe dells. the Keeners, and Cleaves are all of my family, and I would also still be liv ing there If my health would permit it. However I spend a lot of time vacationing there. Thanking you kindly. In Memory (In loving memory of my brother Elza Lee Keener, who passed away recently.) We do not know the reason why Dark clouds so often veil the sky. But though our faith be smooth or rough. The Lord knows why and that is enough. We do not know why death should come To take our loved ones from their homes, O Merce often the case. But though our eyes from tears be dimmed The Lord knows why, we trust in Him. Saddened by his departure, a sister, Patsy A. Richardson 719 Poplar ave., Santa Cruz, Calif. Council Praised To the Editor: This Is in the form of an open letter to the Jacksonville City Council in which I wish to compliment them upon their prompt action regard to questionable quality of the water supply. Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop FACTS TO BE FACED Paris-After the ugly scenes of the aborted summit meet ing, it is wise to make up a sort of balance sheet of facts to be faced. The first that needs facing, alas, is the grave loss of pres t i g e and confi dence that President Els- JOSKFH ALSOP ennuwer n a s suffered. As Walter Lipp mann has written, it is right that men of all parties should rally to the President, but it is also wrong to be self-deluding. The affair of the U-2 has caused America's greatest friends in the Western Al liance to conclude that Amer ica's present leadership Is bumbling and maladroit. There is no use arguing about the justice or injustice of this conclusion. It is there, like the weather; and like the weather, it has, to be taken inlo consideration. The second fact to be faced Is less painful to American self - esteem but decidedly more alarming. The leader ship of the other great world bloc is even more dangerous and implacable than all but the worst of pessimists had imagined in their gloomiest moments. AFTER seeing Nlklta S. Khrushchev do everything but froth at the mouth and chew the carpet at his incredi ble press conference, a great many observers in Paris be gan to use the grim adjective, "Hilterian." In this reporter's opinion, the adjective is mis applied. Khrushchev was in tentionally making Hitler like noises, in order to intimi date as Hitler InMmidated. But those who knew the man best believe that he was doing this from calculation, and not because he was carried away as the neurotic Hitler so often used to be. But even if Khrushchev is not .semi-lunatic, as Adolf Hit ler was, the consolation is trifling. The character of his mental processes are not very important, after all, if he is capable of talking as he has talked and acting as he has threatened to act. The Khru shchev seen in Paris was no jolly, proverb - quoting, de tente - seeking peasant. This man was a political carnivore, cheated of his prey. As for the third and final fact to be faced, it flows di rectly from the second. A major effort to strengthen the military defenses of the West is now a matter of great ur gency. This is clearly true, even although the Incident of the U-2 has revealed a current balance of power that seems to be reasonably satisfactory. ( I I'llERE are two reasons why a sirenginrnert nerense fort is now urgent. On the one "Jf ..'ajar Summit Collapse Has World USSR, England, France, Er PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: After tha Summit It is now important to keep eyes peeled on- Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mi- koyan. There has been spec ulation in the West that he has been de moted. Like K h r ushchev L3 Mikoyan has been a public a d v o cate of the theory of Phil Kauiom Deaceful coex istence. If Western reports are correct, and Mikoyan is on his way out, it undoubtedly will be confirmation that a power ful anti-W e s t e r n group is heading toward power in Mos cow. Grants Pass Man Involved in Accident A one-car accident occured about 5:30 p.m. Sunday near the Josephine-Jackson coun ty line, state police said. A car driven by Gifford Ray Harvey,. 36, Grants Pass, was travelling south on High way 99 when it ran off the highway and into a ditch, state police said. I also wish to commend them upon the remarkable amount of improvements and changes made in just three days. If the present policy is main tained I feel assured that the quality of our water will be completely satisfactory. Mrs. Roy Clarke Jacksonville, Ore. Talk Louder To the Editor: Maybe Mr. Khruschev should talk loud er and longer. Hitler and Mus solini tried it, und look vere dey vent. Everett Acklin, Ashland, Ore. hand, no one who has watched Khrushchev's macabre and brutal performance in Paris can doubt that this man is capable of striking at the U.S. and t'ae West with every bomb in his arsenal, if ever he be lieved he can do so with Im punity. On the other hand, the military balance, though still a p parently satisfactory, Is plainly tilting in Khrushchev's favor. Later on, therefore, he may come to believe it is safe to strike. This is what has to be averted at all costs. The main things that need doing are the same things that were discussed during the de bate on national defense at the beginning of the year. Ap propriations are needed to in augurate a maximum airborne alert of the Strategic Air Command's entire force of B-52 bombers. The airborne alert ought to begin now, and continue at full strength until the U.S. striking power in long range guided missiles has been massively augmented. Similarly the buildup of the long range missiles ought to be Increased In every way possible, and every dollar should be appropriated that can be used to speed the two reconnaissance satellite proj ects, Midas and Semos. In ad dition, the affair of the U-2 plainly proves the shortsight edness of the policymakers who have cut back production of the B-52-H bomber almost to zero. 1 1 ERE it a bomber with the "range, speed, and altitude characteristics that will allow it to imitate the U-2's perform ance. It can go almost where it will in the skies above the Soviet Union, just as the U-2 did for so long. It Is not men aced, so far as is known, by improvements in the Soviet air defense system, whereas the B-52, flying at lower speeds and at somewhat low er altitudes, may well be menaced later on. It is hard to understand how any policymaker can have all but slopped produc tion of the B-52-H bomber, with the example of the U-2 before his eyes. But this is what was done. And tl.is is what should now be undone as far as possible. More costly defense pro grams; still deeper distrust of the Kremlin; apologies need ed for our own leadership's performance - they make an unpleasant list. But ve have been warned. It can be very dangerous if the warning is ignored. -(c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Gassy? Stop Heart Gas 3 Times Fitter CMiSrt llMralMTlslts am SIU-l!5 tat kti sfatraim 5 tiwtt arh rtosuc a acidity la sat stiitsti ai suav hurfHNj ifntvt Uslfti. (it BE LL NS Mar ft tH tntrt tow iSt It OiM'tts. SM aatlal n BELL US trsnH. V. tat Ustfal tna tsaaM. Labor Party H!p4 The wreckage of the Sum mit and the renewal of the Cold War may have saved British Labor Party leader Hugh Galtskell. For months he has been fighting a losing battle to keep his party from going pacifist, or at least ad vocating unilateral renuncia tion of nuclear weapons. With the world situation now dras tically changed, Gaitskell's "keep Britain strong" policies probably will prevail. Trip Delayed French President Charles De Gaulle has not abandoned his plans to visit Russia de spite the Summit breakdown. But insiders in Paris say it will not be before the sum mer of 1961 at the earliest. Originally, he had planned to go some time this summer. Congressional Wives Advice; West Just Blushes By DICK WEST Washington -d'PD- One of the more exclusive organiza tions here in the capital Is a group of wo men who call thems elves the congres sional club. All a wom an has to do to join the club Is get her husband elect ed to Con gress. Consid ering the material most wo men have to work with, this is no easy job. Washington Report By WILLIAM FRESH PURPOSE Washington- A new matur ity, a fresh sense of strong pur. pose, runs through Washing ton today in the afterlight of the Inevit able collapse rt enmmUrit S as a means of r e c 0 nclling the irreconcil table. So dies the Hrnnm-n twiv William a. . " wnite " that somehow by "goodwill and by splendid presidential travels here and there about thq earth all could be put aright between Imperialist Communism and the free wes tern alliance. It was a noble ideal. And in that sense it is a pity that itis now a broken ideal. But in a more Important sense, It is a good thing that the vision has vanished. For, however fine, it was always a cloudy dream-and a quite irrational one which unduly lifted men's hopes and rejected the cen tral lesson of this century. THIS lesson is and has been that free peoples cannot negotiate with the totalitar ians no more with Khru shchev in the '60s than with Hitler in the '30s unless they negotiate not from hope and good intentions but from hon estly naked power. Actually, we have for two years put ourselves in a false position. Our allies, and the most articulate of our people at home, endlessly and at last successfully, pressed this gov ernment to take up a line of "flexibility" to replace what was pictured as a bad, sterile "inflexibility." From the sound if admittedly negative position of trusting Khru shchev not an Inch and keep ing our powder dry. we turn ed to trusting Khrushchev far too much while we let our arsenal run rather low. Those who tried to ques tion this new policy found the going hard and lonely. They were held to be -at best stupidly intensitive; at worst to be the stooges of Wall Street and the munitions-1 makers. And don't look for partisan scapegroats now; there are plenty and enough to spare in both parties. rpODAY, both parties and S- their leaders at last fully accept the facts of life and this alone Is an Immense gain from the tragedy of the sum mitthat genuine settlements with the Soviet Union will be made If and when the West Is on 1 rising and not a declining arc of power rel ative to that of the Soviet Union. Kleig-lit top-level di plomacy is an unrealistic de How To Hold FALSE TEETH More Firmly in Plact Do jour fftlM teoth nnoy and em bttms br tllDDlnc. droDDlnjx or vob- bl.Qf when you Mt, Uugh or talk? ju spnnKi a unit rAaittin do yournlatea Tbli alkaline (non-acid) powder hold false teetb mora firmly and more comfortably. No gummy, gooey, pwtjr Ute nr fel!nf . Does not tour. Check- "plate odor (demur breath) Oet FAS TUTU today a svt drui counter Effect Throughout German Force Watch for Germany's arm ed forces to Increase in power as result of the resumed Cold War. Restrictions preventing Germany from building de stroyers of more than 3,000 tons have been lifted, with a new limit of 6,000 tons set. The tonnage limit on subma. rines also has been raised. Germany has just announced the purchase from France of 20,000 antitank rockets. Fur ther strengthening of German forces is expected and efforts to reach the 350,000-man arm ed forces goal are being stepped up. Blame Soviet With the out-and-out Com munist newspapers the only exceptions, the entire Italian press has placed the blame squarely on Soviet Premier As you might Imagine, the club is in a posiUon to exert a certain amount of influence in Congress. For this reason, it is known In some circles as the "Kitchen Lobby." A few weeks ago, the ladies had their husbands all primed to pass a bill donating to them a slice of government owned land as a site for a new clubhouse. Then an unfortun ate thing happened. Bill Disappears News stories about the proj ect began to appear in the papers and the clubhouse bill suddenly disappeared into a pigeonhole. I assume the fact S. WHITE vice. There is no short ana easy road to survival in this sixth decade of the 20th cen tury. So, the country can now confidently expect these things: -A concerted and full ef fort to improve our defensive capacities, here and all over the world. - A realy quite decent at titude among the major pol iticians in both parties to get the country into shape before seeking partisan gain out of our troubles. -Willingness to attempt new negotiations with Khrushchev probably not until a new president has been inaugurat ed in January but only after K has shown he really wants a cold-war easement, and only in far more disciplined cir cumstances than the recent fiasco in Paris. VTOT even the shrillest critics ''of the famous incident of the unarmed "spy plane" over Russia can now seriously ar gue that, plane incident or no plane incident, Khrushchev would never have allowed the summit conference to pro ceed. He reckoned that time was running with him and up to this point, so it was. The President is back in the White House, or shortly will be, where he belongs. He is free at last and the next president will be even freer- of an unwise policy that he never really wanted but adopted because men's hopes and decent instincts outrun their grasp of harsh reality. The Communists used to tell "the workers" that they Services at Perl's are a sacred responsibility. The smallest details are cared for by competent hands. i 1 r PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKINQ LOT o Italy I Nikita Khrushchev for failure of the Summit conference. The result is expected to be a blow to Italy's Communist Party whose membership drive is ex pected to suffer accordingly. The Italian Communists have been emphasizing their peace ful intentions, but now even border-line Reds are placing the blame for the summit fias co on Khrushchev. Diversionary Action In the Far East, observers would not be surprised to sea some "diversionary" Commu nist action in the wake of the Summit meeting. It could come in a stepped-up Commu nist attack against the Nationalist-held islands of Quemoy off the Red China mainland. But it could just as well come against South Viet Nam or Laos. Given that this is an election year had something to do with its demise. However much they might fear to cross their wives, our congressmen apparently de cided that in this case valor was the better part of discre tion. After all, they don't have to be reelected as hus bands. At any rate, their wives are having to make-do with their old clubhouse. I am pleased to report that on the occasion of my latest visit there, they seemed to be bearing up very well. Hear Performer Talk The ladies were gathered in the club auditorium to hear a talk by Bess Myerson, a New York television performer. As I interpreted it, she was pass-, ing along tips on fashions and makeup which congressional wives might find handy when they join their husbands on the campaign trail this sum mer. A candidate's wife, Miss Myerson said, should behave as though she were "on stage all the time." Then she told about the time she failed to follow this rule. While delivering a refrig erator commercial, she said,, she "went fishing for a bra strap" in the belief that she was off camera. As It turned out, the cameraman had miss ed his cue to focus on the re frigerator door and 80 million people saw her making the adjustment. Apologizes for Mentioning -Noticing that I seemed to be blushing as she related this episode, Miss Myerson apolo gized for mentioning unmen-: tlonables, but she mistook th reason for my crimson hue. I always turn red when I concentrate and in this case I was trying to figure out why it is that television audiences always consist of 80,000,000 people. Some day only 79, 999,999 viewers are going to tune in and then I think the entire TV industry will fall apart. Distracted by this thought, I missed the point Miss Myer son was making. I don't know whether she was warning her audience not to trust camera men or not to trust brassieres. Either way, I'll bet she sold a lot of refrigerators that day. had nothing to lose but their chains. We can honestly tell ourselves this: We have noth ing to lose but our dangerous illusions. (Copyright, 1960, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) G o or: O r3 O yj'-1--; o 3 ! 6ass-E3 GO C .;c ) 0;:.) t ;.-.0 css:-iO 0 tXs a a St s
