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a O O ( ) o o oo o o ) MAIL TRIBUNE. MtdforJ. 0A TuoMlav. M.y 31. 190 "Everyone In Southern Orefj Hods The Mail Tribune" ubflshcl Doily wrvent Saturday Worth iir St.. Ph BP H-1141 RCBERT W IUTBL. Editor W.A GREY Advertiinf MantftV fKRAXU T Bin wr T1IC W Al-LF.N JR. Mn Edit KiMV CHIPMAN. Tclei Editor RICHARD JEWFTT Sport Editor LIVE STARCHF.R. Womm'l Editor PALE JE RICK SON. Circuiiuon M An Independent Newspaper Sintered at second clan matter t Medfod. ureann. unner ci m Marrh S. 1807 ITRQrHIPTtON RATES Bv Mai! In Advance. Cop IQe Ta(y and Sunday 1 year fin to Daily and Sunday fl moa. 8 00 Dailv and Sundav S mm 4.15 Sundew Only One year S4 20 aty Carrier In Advance Medforst Ashland. Central Point Elill Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rofua Rlv p Talent and on motor rou Taily and Sunday 1 year lift no Da.lv and Sunday 1 mo l.ffO Carrier and Dralrra copv tOe AllTerni5 Cah in Advance "official Paper" of City of Mrdfnr Official Papr of Jackson County United Pr IntcrnnUonaJ Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Tejrphoto New pictures "TtfEMBKR OF AUDIT RPREAU- Or CIRCin.ATIONS Advertislne; Renreentallve: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of fices In New York Chlcmo De troit. San Franclwo. Lo Angele. Seattle, Porllsnd St. Louia. At lanta. Vancouver, n t ASSOCIATION NATIONAL E DITORIAI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of Tha Mail Tribuna 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yaari ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 31, 19S0 (Wadnaiday) Edward Canoose, assistant fire chief since 1939, has been promoted to chief of the Med ford fire department. A Naval Reserve electron ics unit is being organized here. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 31, 1940 (Friday) No postal money orders for delivery in Belgium, The Netherlands or Luxembourg are being soid at U.S. post offices because of the Nazi take-over in those countries, Medford Postmaster Frank EeSouza has announced. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: " 'Laid end to end, Eugene's cracked, uneven sidewalks would inv pede even Hitler's blitzkrieg ers.'. (Eugene News)" 30 YEARS AGO Mar 31, 1930 (Saturday) A 100-year-old fifty cent piece was found yesterday in a Medford hotel cigar stand till. Petitions for closing Rogue river to commercial fishing are widely signed. 40 YEARS AGO May 31, 1920 (Monday) More than 150 persons at tend Elks picnic on Rogue river yesterday. Frank Clark, Medford, named member of Oregon board of architects. SO YEARSAGO May 31. 1910 (Tutsday) The flood which damaged the Ainanl dam on the Rogue river last winter destroyed the fish way and literally mil lions of salmon are dying in futile attempts to make their way up the river. The secretary of the sec end annual Land and lrriga tion exposition to be held in Chicago next November, ar rived In Medford today to try and convince local nrchardists and formers that Rogue val ley must be represented. What's Your I.Q.? Nina at ln aorroef It luperlor: avtn ei tight it excellent; fivo at lit ft aood. 1. From which direction is the wind when the arrow on weather vane points north? 2. Is the common food of a garter or ribbon snake animal or vegetable? 3. From whom did Joe Louis win the world's heavy weight boxing championship? 4. What famous document begins "When in the course of human events it is become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands etc? 8. What body of water en circles the North Pole? 6. Is the Panama Canal longvr than 60 miles? 7. Where is Woodrow Wil ton buried? 8. Who was the first woman to swim the English Chan ntl? t. Is nn adjective express ing some quality called an epitaph or an epithet? 10. What is the name of the Jaland from which Paul es caped after he was ship wrecked? Asmara: .. North. 2. An- law). . Jim Braddoek. 4. The Declamiion of Independence, fi. Antic Ocean. 6. No. 50 auks . national Cathedral Waal,iagtin. D. C. 8. Gertrude Batarte. t. f pi that. 10. Mellla 4 o Dams and, When the corps of Amy engineers pets about planning a project, it is limited in the sorts of benefits it can use in determining whether the project is justifiable. Flood control is the corps' chief business in building river projects, but water supply, electric power, and reclamation also can be figured in. Now it is proposed that recreational benefits be named as a specific consideration which the corps can use in planning projects. And it's high time. THE new wildlife and recreation committee of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress has called for just such action. Congressman Ed Edmondson, chairman of the committee, noted that the engineers have not developed, or been given, any "yardstick" by which the dollar value of recreation can be de termined. Several bills pending in Congress fix $1 per person per visit as the annual value of such bene fits. "This is an arbitrary figure," Edmondson is quoted in the Washington Post as saying, "but so is the engineers' estimate of flood damages avoided by an approved project." THE Washington Post stoiy continues: "Edmondson said that when a reservoir floods out part of a town . . ., the engineers located new town sites and help the displaced persons move. "He argued that the same responsibility exists 'when a reservoir covers up a lot of land formerly available for recreation . . . Otherwise the sportsmen and other recreation seekers are short-changed.' "The Oklahoman said it was inevitable that federal appropriations for water resources development would soon have to be doubled . . . "In another resolution, the committee urged that it be federal policy to buy enough adjacent acreage to guarantee access and use of the recreational bene fits by the public. "The committee also urged continuation of the fed eral anti pollution control program, with its provisions for matching funds, 'so as to preserve and protect the recreational and wildlife facilities we now enjoy'." A NYONE with half an eye these days knows the extent of use which recreation-seekers give to federal river development projects. bhasta Jake, for instance, was designed pri marily as a reclamation project, with power gen eration a secondary benefit. But its principal value to thousands upon thousands of people in northern California and southern Oregon is its recreational potential camping, lisning, swimming, skin-diving. The big dams along marily built for power generation, created reser voirs and these have in turn resulted in a revo lution in recreation in where yacht clubs are are along the ocean coast. CVERYONE, of course, is affected by the flood control, power and irrigation aspects of river development. But they are not affected as personally, nor are they as conscious of it, reational potential. As the amount of leisure time Americans enjoy increases, and as the liv ing standard continues to mount, pressures for more recreational facilities also will mount. Recognizing: this in the laws trovernine- nlan- ning of new river projects would simply be rec ognizing the needs and desires of a majority of tne people. h. A. Write Human beings ate perverse creatures. After each election, counting boards and county clerk's deputies put in long hours not only counting votes, but also recording written-in votes lor Matt Union, Donald Duck, and other non candidates, actual and fictional. This costs money, it delays the compilation of results, and is a practice deplored by sober sided citizens who view the franchise as a sacred responsibility. But there's another side of the coin, too. It indicates that the citizen-voter in America. while exercising his franchise responsibility, is not, aoove a toucn or numor now and then. A vote for Donald Duck for, say, president, can be construed as on tne number, or quality, of the candidate or candidates whose name or names appear on the ballot, Other write-ins, serious ones, oftentimes can effect the outcome of times, they can have a considerable psychological effect. (It will, for instance, be interesting to see the number of write-ins. when thev are all unaiiy tallied, for Kockefeller and Stevenson neither of them candidates on the Oregon ballots. If the number is considerable, it could be used to some effect at the two party conventions.) in any event, tne write-in anoras one way to blow off a little steam, and is the right of any sceptical American voter. Ei-Medford Man Gets Donald M Bowr n u. i,l uate of Medford High school, has been awarded a Graduate Fellowship from the Nation al Science Foundation to at tend a graduate summer in situtitr in science and math ematics at DePauw univers ity, Qreencastle, lnd. The institute will be held between June 27 and Aug. 5. Bowers, son of Mr snj'U-jIn. ; ..' Mrs. Dana W. Bowers, 48 Hose ave, Medford, was graduated Recreation boating, water - skiing, the Columbia river, rjn- the mid-Columbia area, now as frequent as they as they are bv the rec - ins a voter's wry comment an election. At other & A. Fellowship from Medford High school in 143. He is now a sixth grade teacher at Antioch, Calif., where his wife also teaches. The Graduate Fellowship Includes a stipend sufficient to cover all expenses for the summer of study in the most recent methods of teaching science and mathematics in the elementary school. Fol Mrs. Bowers plan to vacation An the east. Dewnfc the l f ' I THINK I GOT SOverHIN' ON My SHOE Communications Letters to lho Editor must bear the name and address of tha writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen nam or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reterres the right to edit all letters with a viw to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent th views of the paper; in fact th contrary is often th cat. Sunday and Sabbath To the Editor: One thing that I have come to learn is not to argue religion and pol itics. In fact it doesn t pay to argue about any matter. That doesn't prohibit free discus sion of matters where differ ences arise. I once had a preacher friend who entered into a public debate with a group opposed to his views. "I'll hang their hide on a fence rail," he had said. There was hide on the fence rail, all right, before it was over, but I believe part of it was his. I don't believe our Blessed Lord went around with any such views in mind. And His followers are to imitate His example. The following is not being brought up for the sake of argument or debate. In the May 1 issue of "This Week" under "Words to Live By" appeared a one-page spread entitled "Isn't Sunday Won derful." Under this heading appear ed the following lines: "Sun day in America is a day of rest, worship, relaxation, a day of sociability. It is a round of golden hours that form a kind of halo for a week of busyness and care. It is the time to stop, to re flect, to refresh and to regain our perspective. It is a day apart-both an end and a be ginning. What more is there to say about Sunday? Here in the words of the Bible, writers, thinkers, poets, are some answers. Perhaps now some of your Tribune readers could throw some light on what the au thor of the above lines meant in what he put as answers. He was plainly speaking of Sunday, the general day of worship for most people. His first Bible text was Exodus 20, 8-10. I read it and it said the Sabbath, referring to the seventh day, was to be kept holy. Then his next text was Mark 2, 27. Here it says the Sabbath was made for man. These were the only two Bible texts given and the con fusing part for me, they did not prove the position he was taking. Part of the poet's quota tions referred to Sunday, but not any Bible texts. Now I know that surely among its 18.000 subscribers the Tri bune will have some good Bible students who can help classify the position of the writer of the article in "This Week." views. I'd appreciate their Henry Johnson Jr. 2400 Highway 66 Ashland, Ore. Climbers Criticised To the Editor: Since I am an ex-Mcdford citizen, I am sending you a copy of the edi torial that appeared in our paper pertaining to your Mr. John Day I can truthfully say that this is the unanimous senti ment of all of us who live here and hive observed this foolhardy climb. I trust that your newspaper will reflect some of this sen timent rather than make a hero of him. The real heroes are those men who died and those who risked death to get these men off the moun tain. Mrs. D. J. Bailey Anchorage, Alaska (formerly 2808 Cottonwood St., Medford) The editorial from The An chorage Daily Times follows: WHAT PRICE OLORY rOR THESE CLIMBERS? The tragedy on Mount Mc- Kinley last week resulted from the antics of men moti vated by vanity, immature. Menace courage or some other frivo lous self-purpose. A trail of death and loss of property has been left behind. All because a small group of men sought fame and glory by attempting the fastest climb up and down the high est peak in North America. The tragedy is a permanent blotch on the record of the men involved. They should have known better. The members of the party had much experience with mountain climbing. They had participated in rescue work on lesser peaks in other parts of the nation. They had seen the bloody and often fatal re sults that come from miscal culations. Yet they brazenly came to Alaska and for their own vain purposes tried to make the fastest climb to the top of Mount McKinley and down again. Many heroes were made as mankind responded to save them. The story of the rescue was, indeed, a thrilling one. But it should not be overlooked that the entire episode was the re sult of the small and selfish thinking of the group of high speed artists who caused it. It is always gratifying when man demonstrates that hu man values are still held high, and that one is ready and willing to risk his life and his property to help his fellow man. More than 60 persons join ed the volunteer groups that braved the hazards of climb ing the mountain for the res cue. There was no thought in their minds of the Heedless ness of the incident in the first place. There was no moti vation such as vanity or pub licity or some other small purpose that prompted them to participate. They acted in behalf of those in trouble without regard to themselves. The rescuers were symbols of the highest qualities of hu manity. They earned the ad miration and esteem of all who followed their exploits. The villians of this story were the hot-footed climbers who thought they would make themselves great by set ting a speed record for climb ing the highest peak of North America. These foolhardy climbers should blush with shame every time it is mentioned they were the ones who figur ed in the mountain tragedy. They cannot possibly com pensate their rescuers mone tarily for their efforts. But worst of all, they have caused two good men to sacrifice the right to live on this earth. The climbers are entitled to no hero's welcome when they get home from this expedi tion. Instead of being heroes they should be viewed as curiosities. Fortunately, the world has few such characters who will pull such a stunt. They would be more desir able citizens of today's society if they were to sit on flag poles seeking publicity and fame, rather than create a situation where others must pay for their frivolities. For Ftdtral Aid To the Editor: Your editor ial in Friday s Mail Tribune is noted. The opinions you ex press concerning the property j tax In Oregon are the same opinions which have been ex pressed to me repeatedly since I filed as a candidate for the Oregon legislature. For the benefit of those un familiar with the tax expen ditures in Oregon, taxes are; spent thus: .1 per cent for sani- j tary districts: .2 per cent for water districts; l.S per cent! j Mcftcr of FflCf v THE LOifDOK VIEWPOINT London - As usual after a fairly harrowing experience, the Western leaders are mak ing a great to do about their past solidari ty and pres ent identity of views. The p rostestations are loudest in London, per -haps because the views of London are the furtherist from being iden tical with the views of the other allies. There is a single basic rea son why Prime Minister Mac millan's views differ from the views of President Eisen hower, and differ even more widely with the views of Gen. De Gaulle. Macmillan's calcu lations of the risks of the cold war is decidely more som bre than Eisenhower's calcu lation, and very much more sombre than De Gaulle's. The difference was neatly expressed by the contrasting French, American and Brit ish reactions in the period of uncertainty just prior to Nikl ta Khrushchev's Berlin speech announcing that he would do nothing for six to eight months, when another summit conference might be conven ed. TN this brief moment after X the explosion at the summit the French were blandly un concerned, because they were for rural fire districts; 16.8 per cent for cities; 81.6 per cent for schools. Please note that four-fifths of the tax dollar is required for the sup port of schools, and yet, would you vote to close public schools in order to cut taxes? The proposed Federal Aid to Education program could cut your taxes approximately 40 per cent, and under this plan, schools would be sup ported in a manner similar to the Public Welfare Pro gram. States where per capita income is low, as it is now in Oregon, would be supple mented through federal funds acquired from taxetion in all states and paid on a basis of ability of that state to pay. Such a program would not only aid our tax problem in Oregon, but it would aid many other states, and it would serve to stabilize edu cation across our nation, guaranteeing that all chil dren in all areas would have the same opportunities for public schooling. Opponents of this plan label it 'socialistic' It is no more socialistic than the Public Welfare Program, the Social Security Act, compulsory mil itary training and armaments programs, or other similar federal agencies. As a candidate, I would like to announce publicly that I am in favor of Federal Aid to schools and I plan to do every thing in my power to see that such aid is assured, not only for the building of schools and the hiring of teachers, but for the training of more teachers of better qualifica tions, and the provision of implements of learning neces sary to the child in school. To go further, I will also work to bring about the facilities for continued education for adults on the basis of my be lief that a better educated America will, in the future, be able to solve its problems and avoid such undesirable situa tions as we are now in, a minor example of which is this lax burden which we have acquired without due consideration to ways and means of paying for services we vote for. I welcome letters to me pre senting readers' suggestions and any reasonable plan which they feel might offer a solution to this inequitable property tax. Inez Holcomb P.O. Box 14S Medford Forsightd Man To the Editor: It was in 1906 when I invested in a small ranch near Medfdrd, and for over 35 years I have been a reader of the Medford Mail Tribune. I believp it would be good if in the Mail Tribune space could be found once in a while to remind people God created those mountain springs of water that now supply Medford, in every home and building, for every need, and thanks to the far- sighted, progressive people of Medford m the early days. Carl J. Brommer 235 South Oakdalc ave. Medford. 25 Quinc . M 4ttn just about dead carta in Khru shchev would do nothing ugly. The Americans thought there was possibility that Khru shchev, in Berlin, would pro claim a separate peace treaty with East Germany, and there by start a truly warlike crisis. But the Americans were also nut greatly concerned because this possibility seemed to them very slim. The British, in contrast, thought there was a very good possibility Khrushchev would take the extreme step he has so often threatened to take. The professional for eign office staff believe and said the odds were against it, but their estimate of the odds was at least rather more pessi mistic than the American esti mate. The British Foreign Secre tary, Selwyn Lloyd, mean while gave even odds that Khrushchev would proclaim a separate peace treaty: but added that it was also an even bet that Khrushchev would proclaim his treaty in a way that would avoid a warlike crisis. In other words, Lloyd saw one chance in four of the worst outcome. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan evidently took a darker view than his foreign secretary, at least just after the first ex plosion at the summit and before Khrushchev left Paris, Macmillan is known to have been deeply disturbed by the scene at the first meeting on Monday. THERE was nothing new in these divergences in cal culating the Berlin risks. The differences in calculation ap peared especially clearly in the moment of time when the whole world waited to hear what Khrushchev would say in Berlin. But the same dif ferences in calculation in fact marked French and American and British thinking about the Berlin crisis, from the first moment when Khrushchev be gan to roar his threats against Berlin in November, 1958. General De Gaulle always stood at one end of the spec trum, stoutly asserting that Khrushchev would not carry out his threats if the West merely stood firm, and Issued the warning, "we'll fight if you move." He did not oppose negotiating with the Russians, but his ideas about the right way to negotiate were un bending, to say the least. They were best summed up in the famous speech at Geneva, last spring, when Foreign Minis ter Maurice Couve De Mur ville in effect told Andrei Gromyko: "You are the one who is asking for changes in a Ber lin situation which is entirely satisfactory to us; and its therefore up to you to pro pose new arrangements which will, first of all, suit us." By the same token, Prime Binister Macmillan always stood at the other end of the spectrum, warning from the first that Khrushchev's threats had to be taken seriously, and pointing out the impossible difficulty of any defense of Berlin except by an H-bomb war. Holding this view, the Prime Minister was not mere ly urgent to negotiate. He was also ready to make con siderable concessions at Ber lin, in the hope of finding new arrangements that would suit the Russians without sacrific ing the West Berliner's free dom. PRESI DENT Eisenhower, meanwhile, from the first stood at about the middle of the spectrum. In other words, he thought that Khrushchev just might mean what he kept saying. After some initial re luctance, he was ready and finally eager to negotiate. And he too was willing to make some concessions at Berlin, although not so many conces sions as Prime Minister Mac millan might have wished. The styles of behavior, the policy judgements and the actions of the three Western leaders were in truth deter mined, throughout the Berlin crisis, by their different risk calculations. They worked to gether as loyal allies, but they approached each problem from a different point of de parture. It must be added that the fact that Prime Minister Mac millan's point of departure was the most sombre of the three risk-calculations by no means implies weakness, or timorousness, or disloyalty to the alliance. It merely im plies that Macmillan takes the cold war more seriously than either of his other partners. In the outcome, at least thus far, the viewpoint of Gen. De Gaulle has been justified Bob Ruckcr CtwMeJIif OREGtt FUKERiL FUN The Only FUNERAL PLAN to fesami ' glial Dirlia Aas' . . SP 2-9210 Washington Report r WILLIAM RESPONSIBLE INQUIRY Washington - A man named William Fullbright is perched now on a high and swaying n wire as tne a Senate inquir es into the col lapse of the summit c o n ference. As chairman of the investi gating group, the Senate Wllllua S. wait tions commit tee, Fulbright carries responsi bilities of a weight not carried by any other senator within a decade. The last parallel case to the job he confronts was in 1850 when another senate committee headed by Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia conducted an in quest on President Truman's recall of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur from command in the Korean war. Fullbright himself sees his mission as to bring out the facts about the abortive sum mit but not to bring them out in such a way as further to divide the country or to in flame an already harsh parti san argument. HIS committee's investiga gation will, however, test more than whether he can prevail in this hope. It will also test whether the right to know can be upheld without serious injury to national in terest and without making the committee room a launch ing pad for rival Presidential candidacies. It is not altogether a coinci dence that this investigation, like the one in the MacArthur issue, is headed by a Souther ner. Rightly or wrongly, the Southerners control all the Senate's inner processes - and set all its inner tone. There may be many occas ions when this circumstance is a bad thing. In the present set of facta it can only be des cribed as a very good thing. The country's purposes would surely not be served by a slashing, headline-happy in quiry into this affair. AND Southerner Fulbright like Southerner Russell before him - can be depended by events. But the future real ly depends on calculations of risk made in the recesses of the Kremlin; and in these cir cumstances, it is only prudent to take the cold war very seriously indeed, (c) 1860, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me ty BENNETT CERF rpHE HEADMASTER of a Connecticut school had one st- dent on his rails who was a hopeless addict of murder tories and whodunits. This kid knew all about Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler, but precious little about Shelley and Keats. The- exasperated head master yanked a wild and wooley paperback out of the kid's hands one day and handed him a dic tionary. "Study this for the remainder of the period," he suggested dryly. At the hour's end the unabashed boy hand ed the dictionary back and remarked cheerfully, "This is pretty corny stuff, Professor. I glanced at the las page, and as I suspected, the zebra did it!" A very fat, very noisy, very objectionable woman took it upon herself to heckle night club comedian Jack B. Leonard from a, ringside table. Leonard squelched her beautifully to the delight of th enUr audience by having the spotlight turned on her and asking her tenderly, "Didn't I wrestle you in Toledo last Tuesday?" I860, by BeaiMtt Cat. Distributes: ay Ktm Fetbm Braalcat Counsel With... Mr. InsuranceFred Brennan I Pi?? i Fred Brennan or call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 9-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUV ST. S. WHITE on not to run that sort of a show. He is actually more concerned with doing this thing properly than doing it for political gain. It is not, of course, that he is especially noble. It is mainly that com ing from a one-party state, he is able to enjoy the luxury of operating an inquiry that will neither make nor break him politically. So, in this sense, he can put politics en tirely aside. Many bad things have been said about the process of in vestigation in the Senate, and some of those bad things have been justified. But this cur rent investigation is likely to show the Senate in its best rather than its worst light as an agency of inquisition. It is going to pin down whatever this government did - in the "spy plane" episode - which may have been foolish or harmful. But it is not - if Ful bright is able to have his way - going to become a mere sounding board for extrava gant charges or extravagant counter-charges. CH3R THE Foreign Relations " committee, and most dis tinguished panel in all of con gress, really does, most of the time and on the whole, for get all about small partisan ship. It operates on a biparti san basis far more often than not. And it takes seriously its obligation to sit in review on the foreign policy of the Uni ted States. If such an agency did no exist it would have to be in vented. And Fulbright's chair manship of it is one good practical argument for the seniority system by which the southerners are able to hold so many powerful places in the Senate. They have, singly arid collectively, many faults. But one fault they do not have, either singly or collec tively: they do not operate in an irresponsible way in mat ters involving this country abroad. For them, politics really does stop at the ocean's edge. (Copright. 1380, By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ESCORT SNAKE VICTIM Pomona, Calif. IUPD A 17-year-old youth got a police escort instead of a traffic ci tation Monday when he was stopped for speeding and ex-plained-'Tve been bitten by a rattlesnake." Rickie Graci ano of Ontario, Calif., who said he was bitten in front of his home, was reported in good condition today. ARE YOU JUST ANOTHER NUMBER? Not with usl By patroniz ing your local Independent Insurance Agent you'll learn that we consider you a friend and individual personality, not just a policy number. m Fish -
