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MONDAY. JUNE 6, 1960 4 JL MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir S, Ph SP 3141. ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM. But. Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMANTeleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'a Editor DALE ERICKSONCirculatlonMBr Arrindcpendcnf Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $1 Dally and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dntlv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.28 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Cnrrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold H 11 Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year 818 no Dn ly and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All TermiCash lnAdvance "bflirlaTPiiper ot city of Medford" official Paper of Jackson County United Press "International Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephoto Newspiettires "llEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising itcpresenieuve: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices In New York, Chicago, De troit. San FranciKCO. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At. lapta. Vancouver. a N ATI O N A I EDITORIAl ASSbCtrATIOM c6Ti' milHIM'.UJIHI Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 6. 1950 (Tuesday) Pnnlra 1 Point A proposal to exceed the six per cent limitation by $4,500 in the city s 1950-51 budget was ae feated by the voters 78-77 yesterday. Mayor Diamond F 1 y n n dressed in western garb yes terday and called upon other residents of Medford to get into the spirit of the Rogue River Roundup of the Jack son County Mounted Sheriff's posse to be held this week end. 20 YEARS AGO June 6. 1940 (Thursday) Delegates from four slates will convene here tomorrow for a conference on fruit and vegetable grades, standards and uniformity. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Qmnrlim Pnt" column: "A nf citizens have re- turnpii from the Oregon const. and report they found no more clams in tne ciam enow dor there, than at home." 30 YEARS AGO June 6, 1930 (Friday) The first California water melons have arrived in local markets. Members of the local Granges are seeking the Ore gon State Grange convention for this city next year. 40 YEARS AGO June 6, 1920 (Sunday) Jackson county banks will close at noon during the sum mer. The price of potatoes, here as elsewhere, has gone up to $11.75 per hundred, the high est price in history. 50 YEARS AGO June 6. 1910 (Monday) For the second straight day high winds have prevented the aviation show from taking place here; will try again to morrow. The forest service is ex perimenting in growing east ern hardwoods in the Crater National reserve to see if the species will grown on the west coast. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct it superior; loven or eight Is excellent five er la is good. 1. In the 10th century the China lea trade brought into development sleek ships, heavily spread with canvass, and designed for speed. What were they called? 2. What was the middle name of Robert E. Lee? 3. By what name was Pales tine originally known? 4. Who, in mythology, was Mercury? 5. The proper scientific word to describe the bending of light is r n? 6. Supply the missing words: "A man is as old as he , a woman is a old as she ". 7. The Romans and Cartha glnans fought the P c W-s? 8. Are whale-sharks man eaters? 9. What is the name of John Bunyan's widely read book? 10. What is the largest species of deer? Answers: 1, "Clipper" ships. 2. Edward, 3, Land of Cana an. 4. Messenger of the Godt. 5. Refraction. 6. Feels; Looks. 7. Punic Wars. 8. No. 9. "Pil grim's Progress." 10. Ameri can moose. Cr8Sv pubushers J ASSOCIATION Past and Future Challenges As our new President shaves to put his de cisions in order in his mind and on paper let us hope above all that he will decide to make his inauguration as Chief Executive the signal for the inauguration of a new era. On January 20th he will know, even as he begins to speak, that the test of this first assignment will rest with what he says, while the success of the second will rest on what he subsequently As he strives to rise he tan draw assurance and support irom the liv incr memories of how his most illustrious pre decessors rose to meet times. For part of the challenge of the New In augural will be his ability to recapture the spirit of inaugurals that have THUS I hope that again next January we will hear something of the prophetic challenge of yv ctoiuiJgLUil o J.UBL uiaugui ai 111 x i -tv . "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered . . . deeply . . . finally, staked on the experiment instrusted to the hands of the Amer ican people." Again next January I hope we wil! hear some thing of the unifying dedication to civil liberties of Jefferson s first inaugural in loUl : "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle . . . We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." I HOPE that once more of that deep and enduring compassion for hu manity which immortalized Lincoln's second in augural in 1865 : "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds ... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Then again I hope we will hear something of the urgency for immediate social action which Wilson expressed in his lirst inaugural in ltUd: "This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedicat ion . . . where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one . . . Men's hearts wait upon us, men's hopes call upon us, to say what we will do." "INCE more we will need a clear reaffirmation of the sense of world mission which Wilson gave us in his second inaugural on the eve of war in 1917 : "We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have Just passed have made us citizens of the world . . . And yet we are not the less Americans on that ac count. We shall be the more American 1 we but re main true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles of a province or of a single continent. We have known and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind." Finally, next January, I hope we hear another summons to join in a resilient national effort of the kind to which Franklin Roosevelt called us in his first inaugural in "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly ... So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear Itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "In every dark hour of our national life a leader ship of frankness and vigor has met with that under standing and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days." A ND let us pray that our new Pesident, on In- " auguration Day and will distill all the best all the best that is in us challenging himself and all Americans to stand boldly for the truths that man's future on earth need not be cancelled, that our political ingenuity can still rescue us from ruin, that our moral standards are still in tact, that some things like war and injustice may seem everlasting, but that these things are everlastingly wrong and that they continue to summon men of good will to action. (Quoted from "Agenda 19(11," two speeches given recently at Grinnell College, Iowa, by Chester Bowles, former governor of Connecticut, former ambassador to India, now a Connecticut congressman.) No Harm Done Two more of the "Little Rock Nine" were graduated from Central High School last week. This brings to three the number of Negroes who have received diplomas from the school that was the center of tne segregation-integration con troversy two years ago. If tl he white students were harmed at all bv the forced association with Negro students, they were harmed because the schools Were closed for so long, not because they studied in the same rooms with Negroes. Eugene Register-Guard. U - The Providence Journal Bulletin provides this definition of a vacation : "It is 2 weeks which are 2 short, after which you are 2 tired 2 return 2 work and 2 broke not 2." does. to the needs of the hour, the tasks of their own gone betore. we will hear something 1933: in the succeeding davs. that is in him and evoke 2? Dennis the 7 kLJ 1 -4J M-l -UJ '-U 'Boy, a REAL horse; Boy.' He's a 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 God Forbid To the Editor: E. A.'s very naive comments Friday, on tax collecting, at first sug gested he be given a heart to heart talk on the birds and bees. Then, a second thought suggested he did it deliberate ly, knowing it would stir up a controversy. A third thought comes more to the truth. E. A.'s past editorials prove the fact that he is one hundred and ten per cent for socialism and with the U.S. govern m e n t jumping in with both feet for federal aid to education. One comment he made may have some truth in it - the fact that Uncle Sam can col lect taxes with less cost than state or local governments. But he failed to reveal that this is done against the bill of rights and the constitution and with near police state meth ods. He also failed to reveal that of the billions the federal gov ernment sucks from each state, most states receive less than half of it back, Oregon being one of the more unfor tunate states in this respect, E. A. and Porter like to juggle figures. Let them jug gle this one. Regarding the present budget, if the federal government can collect from the people and disburse to the people, 80 billion dollars, at total cost of 1.6 per cent, where in h did Ike get his near 5 billion for his idiotic foreign aid. No, E. A. - you and Porter will have to talk a lot faster to convince the majority that Uncle Sam should step in with a big bundle for federal aid to education. Many thinking people are realizing that along with Uncle Sam's billions for education, would go many re strictions and a subtle cnange in teaching procedures, meth ods and a thorough brainwash ing of our children's minds towards more, ana iinauy total embracing of Socialism Could E. A. name one oi two socialistic countries with anything like the living stan dard of capitalistic United States? England is a good ex ample of a capitalistic coun try turning socialistic. If it wasn't for a benevolent stupid Washington, shovelling b i 1- lions into its economy, Eng land would fall flat on her face. Yes, I will admit that. the U.S. is gradually going social istic and it is a pitiful sight to see a once proud nation raised to economic heights undream ed of in the history of the world, raised there by free enterprise, not confiscat 1 n g socialism, gradually crossing the peak and plunging into the abyss awaiting us. God forbid this happens to us, but if it docs, you and all other socialistic editors and writers may take a final grand bow. M. J. Olsen Route 4, Box 325 Medford. Scholars and Writers To the Editor: This USA has benefitted by having had scholars and writers as presi dents. Better than the follow ing cannot be found any where: Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, Q u I n c y Adams, Franklin Roosevelt, Madison and Lincoln, the lat ter a self-taught logician, who as of K1B0, lacking "papers," would be unacceptable to even a fourth rate college. These top-notchcrs were of the type that our budding America craved. And they stood at the vanguard of the world just as fitly as they stood alerted to needs of the growing states. But, so sad, too bad, we also Menace 6-4, BAUjyW!im ...YOU GO FIRST. often the case. had our motley of obscuran tists, semi-illiterates, so called practical men that served not at all before the bar of world estimation. How we managed to "miss beats" and, in mass, voted for this weird type is still a mystery. The incum bent, presently to end his term of "stewardship," will prob ably end up with being rated in the category with the latter group. In his first campaign, contending the learned Gov ernor S., after being handed a bit of bad news in the polls, replied, "We'll drop all pre tense of matching this man In rhetoric, well appeal to emotion (hero worship)." Thus seven years we have painfully listed to his remarks . . . "Lay it on the line" . . . "clean as a hound's tooth" , . . "Gim micks" . . . "coek and bull." These expressions are impos sible to translate and there fore serve us illy in foreign relations where exactitude of language is imperative. Afresh we have candidates. This time all of them are fully accredited university gradu ates. There is balm in this fact. One of them, Syming ton, in a speech - "The ulti mate future of the world whether it is to be free or slave, will not be settled on battlefields, but rather in the minds of men. We have not matched the Soviets in train ing men for diplomacy andor to write out the high-lights of our way of life." This is the .type folks, we will have to rely upon here after. Dulles and Herter are easy marks for the wily Russo- Chino trained misanthropes. Walter Gabriel Howells, Nebr. Monoxide Miasma To the Editor: When first coming to Medford nigh 40 years ago, it was easy enough to figure out why, as a rule, the fine old two-storied houses in west Medford were built with the first floor some four feet above ground level. Fear of flooding from Dead-Bear creek (as it was first known)? But why have all bedrooms up at least one story high? "No, it was not fear of flood waters," Old-Timer Homer Harvey (now some two years gone from the earthly scene) told me. "It was fear of the unseen and unexplained dread 'miasma.' Newcomers were advised not to build to the west because of it. If they did so, then to build the first floor high and all sleeping rooms upstairs, as those doing so were less plagued with the 'thing' and less loss of work ing time. Homer went on to explain that it was the pestiferous 'skcetcr, a malaria carrier that brought to the hard working pioneers the series of fever and chills, that was bad enough, but the loss of time in getting things done for shelters and harvest was the most heartbreaking. But why bring this up now, with malaria controlled? Be cause it is a valuable guide- post, tying in as it does with a most serious problem con fronting us as a nation. It was featured in a science news re lease in Thursday's M-T, that research is proving more and more, monoxide poisoning from gasoline - burning vehi cles is tied In with the top killers, heart attack and can cer. A builder from down Cali fornia way tells me the city dads In L.A. arc fixing up building permits that rule out sleeping rooms on the ground floor that border freeways and heavy traveled streets. Seems that houses breathe Russ Income Tax End Eyed, Phony or By LYLE C. WILSON Washington-IUPB-Who would have thought that Nikita S. Khrushchev would junk num ber two of the Commun ist Ten Com mandments? That Mr. K. now has done so is almost as astonishing as the fact that the United States reveres and practices Lrie c. Wilson ;C?fj Foreign Notebook: Would-Be Arm Talks BY PHIL NEWSON UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook. Destpite seeming official de termination to go ahead with President Ei s e n h o w er's visit to Japan and despite vast security arrange- ments, anxiety persists in Tokyo that PAJward event I'llll, Kl.WHUN ,w a j l a n c place. One fear is that hot headed demonstrators may force Secret Service men ac companying the President to take some drastic protective step. Many of the fanatic stu dents who have been demon strating against the U.S.-Ja-pan mutual security treaty would like to become mar tyrs, and should such an event occur, the left-wingers would seize on the issue with a ven geance. Test At The Polls Japanese Socialist leaders claim that the majority of the Japanese people are against ratification of the TJ.S.-Japan treaty but they are not yet ready to take their fight against Premier Nobusuke Kishi's government. The rea son: Voters may not see eye to eye with them on "other issues." Talkfest Western diplomats in Lon don now expect the Geneva disarmament talks to stretch out longer than had been ex pected right after the summit like we do, only much slower. As the air cools with the set ting sun, the house inhales the ground laying monoxide fumes. As the air' warms, the house exhales. It's just that simple, deadly so. Oddly enough, the one time shunned West Medford is favored now. Prevailing westerly winds hereabouts press ear fumes eastward. Seems like our health authori ties should have had this more in mind when they went along with demands of the big freeway overpass with its roaring traffic of truck and car right through and over Medford city center. F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. DAV Plans To the Editor: In less than a month, July 4th, the 50 star flag will become officially our emblem. Jackson county chapter No. Eight, Disabled American Veterans, has enter ed upon a project of selling the new 50 star flag at the rediculously low price of $1.50 each. There is a small profit from the sales, which will go into the rehabilitation fund of the organization. These flags are 3 by 5 feet in size, made of waterproof and stainless dacron material, will fold to a very compact size for handling and trans porting from place to place. A large number of orders have been received so far for the flags, which have been order ed from an eastern firm in large quantity. It has been requested they arrive before Flag Day, June 14. Those in terested contact Pat Graham, 175 Jeanette st phone SPring 2-4192, in charge of the proj ect. The price, $1.50, has been set at that low mark for fast handling of the product. The state convention of De partment of Oregon, Disabled American Veterans, will be held this year in Bend, Ore., June 23, 24 and 25. The next business meeting of the local chapter will be held in connection with a social gathering June 20, in the Girls Community club building, 229 North Bartlett St. Convention plans of the chapter arc scheduled for formulation at that time. Pat Graham Publicity Chairman 175 Jeanette st. Jackson Chapter 8, DAV Medford. mm No, It Sounds Good C o m m u nist Commandment number two with religious fervor. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels compiled the Commun ist Ten Commandments in their Communist manifesto of 1848. The ten commandments laid out the program for com munization of any nation after it became eligibl by revolu tionary class warfare. Num ber two states that the crea tors of Communist states must lay on: Martyrs, Continue fiasco. Although the West does not like Nikita Khrushchev's latest disarmament proposals, they contain enough conces sions to compel the West to sit down and talk about them instead of turning them down cold. Cold Shoulder The United States and Britain will politely turn down French President Char les de Gaulle's renewed call for a three-power directorate composed of the United States, Britain and France to dictate the policies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organ ization (NATO). The U.S. and Britain are telling De Gaulle that they are anxious for close consultation with him on all major international problems, but not at the ex pense of other NATO mem bers, including West Ger many and Italy. De Gaulle, meanwhile, will press his drive to put France as near as possible on an equal nuclear footing with the U.S., Russia and Britain. The fail ure of the summit conference strengthened his determina tion, and now he also hopes that Washington will come through with the know-how France needs to catch up quickly. The U.S. U2 spy planes based at Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan have become a big political football and both foreign and Japanese re porters have tried to see the planes. But, it was learned, not even the two top Navy ad mirals in Japan have clear ance to enter the restricted area where the planes are kept. Playing the Game To the Editor: The big game of international politics now-a-days a life and death matter to all South Euro peans. It has become that since the shattering of the old "balance of power" strate gy that existed prior to to World War I days. Into that arena of power politics, our nation has been unnecessarily but most certainly, drawn. The old European strategy had, actually, led to the bor derland of annihilation and despair. The mutual mistrust and suspicion that belonged to that era resulted in the col lapse that came to these gov ernments, and from which they would not have recov ered but for the intervention of America. That, too, is where we were drawn into this whirlpool of politics, that is now international in extent, In other words, we are in vited and baited into aligning ourselves with one side or another of this many-sided game, and it is here that we also know that it may mean our Waterloo, but we do not know any means of escape. Europeans are weak, because they will not work together, and no one can trust the other. It is, therefore, left for Amer ica to "carry the ball," one that may easily turn out to be an "atomic bomb" ready to ex plode at any minute. South Europeans and West ern Europeans have the strength, the power and the know-how to render them selves invincible to the Tar tar, Mongal or Russian hordes that so often threaten their borders, and their lands. It is because they "mis-played" the game among themselves so long, that now they will not anneal for their continental security. Besides, "playing the game" against us is, undoubt edly, now a part of the earlier game. To bring us into the combine they have given us the "ball to carry." O, my good friends, how we take to it! But let us beware that it may not be our undoing. Fee Clifford Esteb, P. O. Box 1022, Medford. Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel utat eaue because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. an Improved alka line inonacld powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer en the feel more comfortable Avoid em bar. rnssnient caused by loose plates Get lA3T&ETtt todaj ataajdru oouataa "A heavy progressive or graduated Income tax." Some of the other com mandments are: Abolishment of Taxes -"Abolition of private prop erty In land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 'Abolition of all rights of inheritance. "Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of indus trial armies, especially for agriculture." The slick paper magazine which the Soviet Union pub lishes and distributes in the United States is out with a cover headline: "Income Tax Abolished." This repudiation of the basic Marxist economic dogma may or may not be phony. Phony or not, it beats anything in the tax line accomplished Dy the United States and, for that matter, by any of the Free World allies. It long has been an amusing field of speculation to ponder the methods by which the in dustrial revolution in the United States and elsewhere could have developed into the welfare state revolution with out adopti: g the heavy gradu ated income tax gimmick of the Communist manifesto. There wouldn't be any wel fare state if there were no heavy graduated income tax. Taxpayers Foot the Bill There would be consider ably less welfare state, any way, if the income tax payers- the little fellows-realized that they were not getting something for nothing but were paying the bill them selves. Khrushchev announced the abolition of the income tax in his May 5 speech before the Supreme Soviet in Moscow. That also was the speech in which Mr. K shook up his fellow citizens by re vealing that the U.S. U-2 had been overflying the Soviet Union for some time but fi nally had been knocked down. The knowledge that an Ameri can airplane could penetrate their air space must have jar red the Russians. Perhaps the good word on taxes softened the blow. Phony or not, the tax plan sounds pretty good. The So viet magazine further report ed something planned by Khrushchev which reads like a squirrel chasing its tail, like this: "This abolition of taxes also is In line with general govern ment policy-to bridge existing wage gaps by gradually bring ing the wages of the lower paid categories of industrial and office workers up to the level of those in the middle categories and bringing the wages of those in the middle categories up to the level of the higher paid people. This is a fair and equitable pro cedure." How was that again, Mr. K? Hearing Waived In Neotsu Shooting Newport -IUPD- Raul Flores, 33, Neotsu, has waived pre liminary hearings here in the gunshot slaying of Al Curl, 55, Neotsu, and was bound over to the Lincoln county grand jury. The Lincoln county district attorney has charged Flores with first degree murder. Flores surrendered to po lice early Friday and told them he had shot Curl at the Curl residence. Flores said he went to the Curl home look ing for his wife. A. in? Assurance Gratify 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. In Ihe Days News By FRANK JENKINS Question: What makes Americans happiest? O This-according to a namin- wide mental health inventory of average U.S. citizens just completed by the University of Michigan's Survey Re search Center - is the answer: PLENTY OF MONEY AND A BIG-ENOUGH HOUSE. ODD sidelight of the study: Only 14 per cent of the allegedly "average Americans interviewed by the research ers from coast to coast gave credit to their JOBS as a ma jor source of the enjoyment they get out of life. HMMMMM. If more of us got more fun out of our jobs, might it not be possible that more of us would have more money io spend? How can you get ahead in your job, with re sulting increases in your pay check, if you don't ENJOY your job? And What could be worse than DRIVING yourself to work in the morning and spending the day wishing that quitting time would hurry up and get here? ON THE question of how Americans handle their personal crises (meaning the times when everything seems to go wrong) the report says: "Many do nothing at all . , , just let the situation run its course and take the conse quences. Those who TRY to do something about it turn to their spouses, other mem bers of their families or friends for help. "Another sizable group turns to prayer as a means o handling daily worries. Of these, 16 per cent pray in the hope of finding a solution of their problems and 33 per cent turn to prayer as a child cries in its mother's arms -for consolation." THIS one is interesting: Only FOUR per cent ot those interviewed by the Uni versity of Michigan resear V ers said they were unhar y at any time during the year ;is a result of world tensions and the possibility of war. THE mental health research ers conclude their study with this observation: "Rarely did anyone inter viewed in the course of this survey admit putting faith in bartenders, taxi drivers, for tune tellers or other sup posedly popular, but unoilho dox, confidants." I wouldn't know abou' fortune tellers, but a bartender or a capable driver can provide a lc exceedlingly good a d v Why? Well, maybe it's cause they see so much i' way of human frailty they know nearly all answers. se Ni e, e- iie iat ha Drowning Claims Former Oregonian San Juan, Puerto Rico, -(UPI) - Lloyd Jorgenson, 45, immi gration superintendent at San Juan International airport, was drowned Sunday while skindiving at the Army beach club. The body was taken to Rodriguez Army hospital, for an autopsy. A native of Mabel, Ore., Jorgenson was a retired navy officer and had lived here for the past eight years as an em ployee of the immigration service. He is survived by his wid ow, Helen, and three children, Mabel is north of Marcola in Lane county PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
