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Newspaper Page Text0 0 3 0 o CO G o o 0 o u O o Q O I MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfo.d, Of. 'A MMdty, Msy 30, 1960 M EDFORDjeiKTBIBUKI "Everyone in Southern Oregon Rendi Th Mall Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by 83 North Fir St.. Ph fip 3rtil ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adverting Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bua Mrr ERIC W ALLEN JR . Mng Editor HAKKV t'HIPMAN. Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SoorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor dale EKICKSQN. Clrcuunon MjT An Indatiendeht NewipioeV Entered aa second elasi matter at mediord. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mat) In Advance, Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday J moe. 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 moi 4.55 Sunday Only One year $4 20 Bv Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cova. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Sunday 1 year S18 00 Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo 1-80 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c ah Terms cain in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International PuU Leased Wire U PJ. Tejephoto Newsplcturesi "TlEMBFR Or AUDIT RTTREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO . TNC Of flees In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUrUISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAI 57 Flight o' Time Medford and Jickton Count History from the file ol The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and SO yeart ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 30, 1950 (Tueeday) Some 100 members of the Bakers and Confectionary Workers union No. 404, AFL, went on strike at Medford's two major wholesale bakeries and one retail bakery yester day. Mayor Diamond Flynn has issued a plea to Medford resi dents missed in the census count to make themselves known to the census bureau. 20 YEARS AGO May 30, 1940 (Thursday) The Camp Prescott CCC company will move out of Medford by train tomorrow for transfer to Jenny Lake, Wyo. The city has requested reestabllshment of the com pany at Prescott this fall. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Lark PTA has filed a protest against referring to juvenile escapades as a foolish lark. They contend a lark is niever that way." 30 YEARS AGO May 30, 1930 (Friday) Only five members of the G.A.R. appeared in a parade in downtown Medford yester day to honor the war dead. Diamond lake fishing sea ion to open Sunday. 40 YEARS AGO May 30, 1920 (Sunday) The baccalaureate service for the senior high school will be held today at the Page theater. Fletcher Stout has resumed his duties at the West Side Pharmacy after a six week rest for his health. SO YEARS AGO May 30, 1910 (Monday) Medford will have the big gest airship meet ever held on the west coast outside of Los Angeles next week end I when n Curtiss hlnlnnn flntt.n J by the famed Whipple Hall win join me one nown by Paul Ely at Oak Park. The eniVPA nf AC VAlnrnn, of the Union army and three or the Confederate army Were riecnrntpH In MnHfn, today as part of Memorial ijay ODservances. What's Your 10 ? Nine or ten correct li superior; even or eight il excellent; five Of Hi It food. 1. Which islands are called "The Crossroads of the Pa cific"? 2. Name the three states that begin with the letter "O"? 3. What profession do the initials R. N., signed after a , woman's name denote? , 4. Do nutmeg and mace come from the same fruit? 5. Are there more than 300 cities in the U.S. between 25, 000 and 50,000 population? 6. Is Lincoln's picture on a 4c or Be stamp? 7. Who was the husband of Anne Boleyn? 8. How should a woman who occupies the chair of a meeting be addressed? 9. Finish the quotation, "Where ignorance Is bliss, . . ." 10. Which is the leading dairy state of the U.S.? Antworsi 1. The Hawaiian Islands. 2. Ohio. Oklahoma, Oregon. 3. Rogiilered Nurse, 4. Ytt. S. No 232 cities. (. Four-cent stamp. 7. Honey VIII. 8. Madam Chairman. 9. "Tit folly to be wise." 10. Wisconsin. Convictions of Freedoip As he ponders the many claims on his leader ship in the months ahead, the new President can not fail to conclude that the area of personal freedom will demand from him a special effort. Let us hope that his decisions will be made with a confidence, depth of insight and breadth of judgment which will enable him to communi cate to Americans everywhere these basic con victions: That life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap piness must again become all Americans, and that portunities for equal talents are essencial if our democracy is to thrive; That freedom and dignity are inseparable, and are essential to all men, whether in Peking, Budapest, Johannesburg or in the segregated slums of Chicago and Detroit; That men aspiring to freedom and dignity will always achieve it in the end whether in South America, or at North Carolina lunch count ers; That intcllecutal ferment, a product of the right to doubt and disagree, is the very heart of democracy; it is what our way of life is all about; That educated men, secure in their own rights, are less likely to impose their will on others or to deny to others the rights that they them selves revere, whether in the United States or the Soviet Union; That any man who wants personal liberties for himself and his children must help all other men to enjoy them, whether the men are Algerians in North Africa or Puerto Ricans in New York City; That prosperity in America comes from the healthy, purposeful, and free society of our fore fathers, and that if we prosperity on to our children, we must work as diligently as our forefathers did to promote the expansion of knowledge which keeps that society alive. (Quoted from "Agenda 1061," speeches given rec ently at Grinnell College, Iowa, by Chester Bowles, former governor, former Ambassador to India, now Congressman from Connecticut.) What We Can Afford "We will never again be in a position to af ford anything if we cannot afford education now. Graduating Time The graduate is prone to think His wisdom is complete. He's but to ask the world will lay Its trophies at his feet. But school days done and work begun, He learns to his regret The college of experience He has not mastered This is the rule of life today, As it has ever been: The world bestows its smile on those Who have the strength Beneath all outward semblances It looks for merit true. It little cares how much But asks, what can you do I From the graduation announcement of the special education class of Jackson couuly. Democracy Couldn 7 Survive Whenever we hear somebody say that every citizen should register and vote our bristles rise. This country has many citizens who should never vote. 1 hev shouldn t because thev re too darned lazy to inform themselves to the extent that they would be intelligent voters. Drive a parade of uninformed voters to the polls and you'll regret the results to your dying day. Goodness knows there's ample evidence at every election of the dirty work of the uninform ed voter. Increase his numbers and you'll be in real trouble. I OOK at what happened last week in Oregon's Lu 1st congressional district. The Democratic candidates for Representative were Steve Ander son, a Salem lawyer, and Marv Owens, a 24-year-old Jeep driver in the Army at Camp Roberts, Calif. Owens won. There was absolutely no pvnlnnntimi far this until Owens came up torn me Associated 1'i ess ne was sure the voters thought they were marking their ballots for Marv Owen, the former American League base ball star who managed the Portland Beavers. We can't think of a better (or worse) explan ation. Soldiers at Camp Roberts thought Owens filed for Representative in Congress as a lark. We suspect his comrades are right. "THIS is a case close at hand. You've seen hun dreds of votes cast for deceased candidates. Four Veai'S airn Villi K'lw T.pvv Wnll.mo nftor ho had publicly withdrawn from the race, get almost enough votes to beat Bob Holmes in the Dem ocratic primary for governor of Oregon. It's a frichtpnimr sihi'itimi WoVo n-ninn- in meet the do-gooders at the gap with a six-shooter i u cvn vi-uis mi-y may get a law passed uuti would require everybody to vote. Democracy Couldn't survive that ordeal. Ppnrllntnn F.mt Uregonian. realistic objectives for equal educational op wish to pass the gift of Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, President of the University of Oregon. yet. to win. you know, with one this week .lie Dennis the Ypu eer, Dennis. I'll tell 'all the other coiapunchers' Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necossarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. How About It? To the Editor: On the issue of dog control, I haven't seen anything about how this would affect dog licensing. How can we be forced to buy license for our dog to cover livestock killed, when there are no dogs running loose to kill anything? Georgia McKillop Prospect, Ore, Waiting to Hear To the Editor: In regard to the dog law: I am very sure many voted in the op posite. It seems to me it was not worded, because they evi dently ran out of words just before they got to it. Dogs yes - Dogs no. Very plain yes - Dogs no. Very plain for everyone. Who was responsible for this? I know there were some letters before but, when I got up there I simply couldn't be lieve or remember-just plain confused. From the standpoint of owners, who love their pets many of them small fry-many heartaches over the loss of companionship. From the tax payers standpoint - six more men on the force besides cars for their use and the vehicle to collect the dogs in. Seems like a quite an expense for people who are groaning un der high taxes now. The complainers didn't want the dogs to have free dom - not to be muzzled but still loose. To nie, to muzzle all dogs is like demanding all people to wear hand cuffs when they leave their yard, because some might steal. We pay dog taxes and buy our license. It's the same as if we bought our car license and were forbidden the use of the road. I have been disgusted over my garbage can being tipped over - but I am also disgusted at seeing dogs hungry. To muzzle takes away their privilege of eating, drinking licking their wounds and with the warm weather coin ing on would seem to me to indicate an untold amount of misery. We have a Humane Society to prevent cruelly and tation and camouflage) to use tation and camoflouge) to use cruel and inhuman treatment. This was not an honest opinion as to the people's wishes throughout the county and I would surely like to see it put to a vote at the general election or a special - or by petition. We would rather have our good dog put to sleep than see him punished in this way. Hoping some way can be made to live, and let live, we remain waiting to hear some thing new on this. Mrs. Roy Clark Talent. Ore. Measure Questioned To the Editor: I am deeply concerned about the degree of merit of which certain meas ures brought before the pub lic vote contain. It seems to nie t hat we ate spinning our wheels as far as progress is concerned. I refer mainly to the recent measure that was voted upon regarding dogs. I agree that there are many dogs running loose particular ly around our school play grounds that should be pick ed up and impounded; and the owners dealt with on a first, second, and third offense basis. But it seems to nie that we already pay a fee for a dog license, and that the receipts from that fee are supposed to maintain a pound and the services of a persoms) to police the city for strays that arc causing trouble. What we h.vc done in this last election is to Ignorantly vote into exis tence a more complex version ot the original law. If this Menace original law and its duties had been strictly enforced, there would have been no need for this last measure. I also wonder what has hap pened to the receipts of the past few years derived from dog licenses? One can almost assume that this money has been thrown into the general fund along with the rest of the booty the city collects. It is apparent that the effort of the people, who have pro posed and petitioned this last dog measure, could have been put to better use had they di rected their time and effort to Hie enforcing of the present dog licensing law. To say the least, the measure was illy worded and misconstrued by the public, and undoubtedly will have to go before the vot ing public again. Robert J. Morris 240 Sunrise Medford. Memorial Day To the Editor: The coming of this morning's sun marked Memorial Day, born of the Civil War and dedicated so by that immortal four minute address by then President Lincoln, that marked the set ting aside of a portion of the Gettysburg battle-field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that this nation, of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. And all too soon, the kindly Lincoln gave his life, as he vowed he was willing to do, that all men shall be free and sovereign, no matter how humble theirstation in life. But Lincoln had dedicated his life to a still higher ob jective than that just men tioned: the preservation of the Union, regardless of the stopping of slavery or its spread to territorial conti guous lands. All this, we the living, should keep in mind as we do homage to the brave men and women who paid their last full measure of de votion to their country and those maimed and broken by savagery of war who now make their lot in life at home or the governmental ward and hospital. All this, not only on Mem orial Day, but all through the year, with the Stars and Stripes displayed in front of the home, half-masted when need be, or flying high and free in the winds of a free man's land. A land made so by sacrifice of those how long gone. And It is our privilege and duty to take the torch and ever march onward in peace ful pursuits, strong and de fiant of any enemy bluster, bluff and threat. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 2000 Central Point, Ore. It's The Truth To the Editor: Unhappily, the farmer who telephoned radio station KDOV announc ccr. Johnnie Linn, that he did not paint his barn because "the tax assessor would come around and Increase his prop erty tax" spoke a mighty word of truth. Several years ago a new county home extension agent spoke to a group of niral women from all over the county saying she was going to start a campaign to "paint- up" the rural buildings and fences. Her good idea died aborning when more than half the women spoke up and explained that to paint fen ces and buildings would im mediately raise the already high taxes. Rural people like pretty surroundings as do the city i people and the tourists from distant points, but until the tax situation changes, they are going to content them- Foreign Notebook: Japan's Troubles, Sino-Russ Conflict? By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Ike's Visit Still On In Tokyo It is felt that President Eis enhower will visit Japan as sch e d u 1 e d next month, despite threats and a steady run oi dem onstra 1 1 o n s "mi srwioin against t n e U.S.-Japan mutual assistance treaty recently rammed through Parliament by the Kishi government. For Japan to withdraw the invitation or to advise against it would be an admission that Japan is governed by mob rule, which it isn't. Nonetheless, the visit is likely to cause embarrass ment on both sides of the Pa cific. Not Anti-American Anti-American slogans have popped up during Japan's selves with frontier-day the "nester" or appearances of their farms ages. and small acre- Practicaly speaking, tne paint buyer pays the hidden merchandise taxes on the product; does his own paint ing, then pays the tax on his own effort for several years after doing the work - and then becomes a better target for air attack. So, Mr. Linn, as you say, "Something should be looked into." Naomi Fredenburg Box 135 Butte Falls, Ore. She Still Has Questions To the Editor: I wish to con gratulate you on your front page editoral in Wednesday's Mail Tribune. It undoubtedly convinced many voters they should vole "yes" in Thurs day's school budget election. The school board is very fortunate to have such a cham pion. Otherwise, they too, might have had to limit each article published to 400 words. It is deplorable that school districts can't publish com plete budgets such as the county budget published in Wednesday's paper. This shouldn't cost any more than the 19 page pamphlet put out by the school board and it would save members of the board all the time they now spend in explanation tours of the district. It might even eliminate the need for pres sure through our school chil dren and through telephone and mailing committees that some districts resort to. Since my letter was my first letter to the editor I was amused by your heading, "She still has questions." No of fence was taken nor is any intended, but you certainly are a master in the art of evasion through ridicule. Now that the answer cannot sway the voters I am repeat ing on question. "How much money, if any, will be left from the current budget at the end of this school year?" Or is there another reason why this cannot be answered publicly? I would also like to know whether the statement in your editorial "The superinten dent's salary has been cut by $1200," is true or, to be kind, meant to be misleading? You surely know many of your readers accept your state ments as the absolute truth. Will the school board go along with your statement and cut Dr. Mayfield's salary, which is $15,500 to $14,300? The voters this sentence influen ced expect it. Verna Flowers 355 Berrydale ave. Medford. Editor's note: 1. All school districts in Oregon publish their budgets in full. The proposed budget for school district 549C for the 1960-61 school year was published not once, but twice, in the Mail Tribune, on March IS and March 28. 2. State law permits the amount of money carried over from one school year to the next to approximate 2Vi per cent of the budget, accumula tive up to 10 per cent. This is to allow the district to pay interim expenses before re ceipts come in. This year the amount shown in the budget for this purpose is an estima ted $97,000. If it happens to be more, the excess will go for tax reduction next year. The law allows this procedure so districts can avoid borrowing and paying interest charges. 3. The superintendent's sal ary in the original budget was set at $18,000. In the revised budget it was cut to $16,800, or below the amount which has been offered him else where. (While on the Subject, it might be pointed out his efforts alone have resulted in additional income to the dis trict of some $15,000 to $17, 000 per year, because of a VP anti-treaty demonstrations in the past week, but there is no sign of antl-Arr.cricaniom on a personal level. There has been no report of any American being bothered in any way. Sino Red-Soviet Conflict? Some Asian observers see Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai's visit to Mongolia as a sign of minor conflict of interests between Russia and Red China. Onetime Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo tov has been posted in Mon golia for some time and the Communist satellite has been under strong Russian influ ence. Tokyo observers say there are signs that China wants to change this. Fair Trial British officials expect Adolf Eichmann, alleged mass murderer of six million Jews, to get a fair trial. The former Gestapo official is likely to be brought before an Israeli court in about two months. All pronouncements by Israeli authorities since Eichmann's arrest was announced indicate determination to make this sensational trial a scrupulous ly fair one. Contact In the absence of evidence to the contrary, Western dip lomats expect the Soviets to turn up at the conference table around June 7 to resume the 10 - nation disarmament talks despite the Summit de bacle and N i k i t a Khrush chev's threat to break up that conference, too. Any hopes of concrete results are as doubt ful as ever. Westerners expect the Soviets to use the meeting for a new tirade against the United States and to exploit the U-2 spy plane Incident as an argument against the West- demanded controls. The West intends to suggest matter-of- fact discussions on specific dis armament issues which the Russians have thus far op posed. The main point is the belief the Russians don't want now to break off all contacts with the West. new transportation cost form ula for state assistance, based on research he did for his thesis for the degree of doctor of education.) 4. If you think all readers accept our statements as "the absolute truth," you should see some of the letters we get! Flowers? Yesl To the Editor: Flowers, flowers on graves-millions of them, placed there by loving hands in tender memory of brave boys and girls dragged away from home once more to democratize the world. Flowery words, millions of them flung at us in an effort to explain why the world is as far away from democracy as ever. With the world dedicated to the philosophy of greed and with a politico-capitalist class in the saddle, it seems entire ly out of the realm of possi bility ever again to realize even a semblance of an ex cuse for peace. Unless some day, before too late, we find that we have hitched our wag on to the wrong star and turn about face, following the advice stamped on our coins, "In God We Trust," and make the rest of the world pay cash, we will, even as we are now, be paying all the debts of the world with no thanks for "Uncle Shylock." When we think of the loved ones who will never return- when we think of those who have returned in body but minus lim I . crippled for life, and those with minds and souis seared beyond any chance of redemption, then let our minds and hearts touch those of the mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers and wives of loved ones gone to a country "from whose bourne no traveler e're re turns," or living with and for war casualties cripple and insane-it should not be too dif ficult to make a deep, endur ing vow to dedicate our lives to creating conditions under which such carnage can never again take place. Let us be strong and firm in our actions and attitudes looking toward the attainment of the true, unshackled, free dom for which our fore fathers fought, bled and died, and for the preservation of which, within a comparative ly few fleeting years, mil lions more have sacrificed life, health and loved ones in carnage impossible of con ception to any but those who have been through the ampli fied hell of those last two world wars. Flowers? Oh, yes! Yes! And prayers, too, amid toll and sweat, that we may be free of wars and the selfish greed that is the mother of wars. W. A. McKettrlck, 336 Crater Lake ave., Medford Washington Report By WILLIAM IKE'S SPEECH o Washington - In a neighbor hood bar in suburban Mary land 20 men were present and tw men listened - at first. Laiei on, lb of the 20 were listening. This corres pondent had picked this place to near P resident E i s e nhower report to the country on the broken sum mit conference and what he nroDosed now to do. Here was a place where one might gain some small impression of what one very, very small sec tion of "the public" thought of the President. It is not. of course, clear and never can be clear in ad vance as to how our relation ship with the Soviet Union and with the world will now develop. One thing that is all too clear, however, is that the President has been deeply saddened by the failure of a conference toward which, in the twilight of his public life, he had looked so hopefully to crown his administration witn gift of peace to the people of this nation and of every where. MANY will argue about what the President said - about the degree of candor and the degree of leadership he showed. But the view of one man - and of one man who has not been enthusiastic about Mr. Eisenhower - is that this was the best speech he ever made. Here was a tired and elderly man saying, as it seemed to me, all that could be properly said of the past, and offering all that could be honestly promised for the future. The people scattered about the beer bar were first re sentful that the juke box had been turned off in order to permit the President to ap pear on the TV screen in the back of the room. They were at no point wildly elated that this change had been made. But as the speech went on they began to turn, one by one, to the image that now filled the room. At the very end, when the National An them was played, they shuf fled their feet a bit. And then, here and there, a man got up and stood raggedly and in an embarrassed way at attention. No doubt it did not prove very much. It did not establish that the President's policies had been the right policies. It certainly did not suggest to a watcher that this was a knot of Eisenhower worshippers. It did seem to this watcher, however, that this man on the screen - however wrong he may have been in some as pects of his world leadership - had carried this small and unimportant room along with what he was trying to say. IN SOME strange way it seemed that what he was saying had put this country back on the track and that from here on it might be very difficult for those who now wish to destroy him over this issue of the summit. It was not that the people in this shabby little tavern either fully un derstood or fully approved the words of the President. Rather, it was a case in which, uncaring and uninter ested as they first had been, they began to recognize that we are, after all, not either Republicans or Democrats when crisis is upon us. We are then only Americans, per haps fearful, certainly hesi tant, and perhaps confused, but still Americans whose real party is the United States. William 8. Gratifying Assurance - A ' i To lighten the burden of care at time of sorrow Nothing is left undone to relieve the family of all worry and care as to the competent handling of all details of a service. S. WHITE Beyond question, Uie Presi dent did not appear for po litical purposes. Beyond ques tion, he gave a summary not of a winning policy but rather cf a thus far losing one. But beyond question, too, unless this correspondent wholly misses his guess, the President also made a profundly success ful address in political terms because it was not political at all. THE debate about it all will go on and on. The winner, in terms of the next Presi dential election, may or may not be the Republicans. But there is one absolutely certain winner in the minds of ordinary people. This win ner is a man named Eisen hower and this winner is tha United States of America. For, whatever else may ba in doubt, one thing surely can not be in doubt. We hava made mistakes as a nation and. we went too soon and too un prepared to the summit. But in the last end we are, in tha human sense at least, in a much stronger position than we were before the President spoke. Diagnostic Images Viewed On TV Screen New York - (Science Serv-ice)-A patient can now watch his own X-ray fluoroscopy ex amination !f he wishes. A new technique also makes it pos sible for teams of consulting doctors and medical students to view diagnostic images on a television-like screen. Dr. Russell H. Morgan, pro fessor of radiology at tha Johns Hopkins university. Baltimore, Md., predicted that the new equipment will ba used increasingly in all hos pitals, large and small, in tha future. Speaking at the second of a series of X-ray forums for science writers sponsored by the American College of Radi ology, Dr. Morgan said less radiation was needed for cine fluorography (X-ray motion pictures) with the new system. The Johns Hopkins method, which converts X-rays to light rays and displays them on a fluoroscopic screen, is one of four systems investigated for X-ray image intensification. Dr. Morgan said it is the one of greatest interest in the U.S. today. Other methods include tele vision systems optically cou pled to conventional fluoro scopic screens, "flying spot" television and television sys tems with X-ray sensitive de tection tubes. One advantage of the TV method is that examinations do not have to be made in a totally blacked-out room. This is easier on the eyes and saves the time required for adapt ing the eyes to darkness. Washington Seeks Buyer for Bonds Olympia -lUPD-The state toll bridge authority will meet Tuesday to receive a report on efforts of its financial con sultant to find a buyer for $3.5 million in bonds which must be sold if the proposed Biggs Rapids toll bridge on the Co lumbia is to be built. The consultant, Paul Speer, Chicago, previously was un able to negotiate a sale. The TBA extended the bid open ing deadline to give him mora time. PERU Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT )