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MEDFOlfe MAll TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, JUNE 14. 196" MCTF0RD&TRI3UNE Everyone in Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Published Dally except Saturday by MEDFORD PKIMIMI LU S3 North Fir St.. Ph SP2-61 "ju.BKnT w RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mnnnger GERALD T LATHAM Bu Mr ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mne Editor EARL H ADAMS, CltV Editor HARRY CHIPM AN TfleB Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Women'! Ed tor PALE ERICKSOW. ctrcuia:ion vn$T An Independent Newspaper Entered ai second clow matter at Medfof-d. Oregon, unner vci 01 Mnreh 3, 18f7 SITRSCniPTlON RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c Rally and Sunday 1 year $13 00 Dally and Sunday 6 moi 8 00 Daily and Sundav 3 mos 4.25 Kunrtnv Onlv One vear $4 20 Rv farrliip- Tn Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Ea ft 1 e Point, Jacksonville uaia nm Phoenix. Shady Cove. 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The Ashland municipal band will hold the first city band concert of the season tomorrow in the Butler Me morial Band shell, Lithia park. 20 YEARS AGO June 14, 1940 (Friday) Mrs. William Moroncy, 28, can lay claim to the "Chrome Queen of America" today be cause she has just announced that she will soon deliver 25, 000 tons of Alaskan chrome to the government. From Arthur Perry's "Yc Smudge Pot" column: "Bill Morgan, who played football for Medfnrd, Oregon and New York, is here for a few days, as big as ever." 30 YEARS-AGO June 14, 1930 (Sunday) Jackson county was third In state in census gain; total slate population is now 050, 000. 40 YEARS AGO June 14, 1920 (Wednesday) Local farmers are unable to hire men for haying, even though the street corners are lined with idle men. The city of Mcdford plans to spend SS00 for a new air plane landing field. SO YEARS" AGO June 14, 1910 (Tuesday) Portland was second only to New York in total wheat cyports during the last year. Members of the Craler Lake highway commission here re turned from Portland where they say they were successful In getting support, financial and otherwise, for the Crater Lake highway. V hat's Year 1 0.7 Nine or ten correct it superior: tovon or eight li evcellent: five er lie ll good. 1. Name one of the three Presidents who were married while serving as President. 2. Did T. Roosevelt say to people of U.S. that they "had nothing to fear but fear It self?" 3. Has a square mile the eamc shape as a mile square? 4. The act of inhaling and exhaling air, into and from the lungs, is called-? 5. Was the use of anaes thetics known before the ad vent of Jesus? 6. Why are heating units placed nearer to the floor of n room, rather than the cell ing? 7. The union of a cool body of air with one that is warm and humid causes rain or fog? wnat is formed when the pre cipitation of moisture Is Slight? 8. Is the mountainous "Black Forest" In Russia or Germany? B. Name the favorite daugh ter of Mohammed. 10. What is the numismatic name for the front or face of a coin? Answers: 1. Tyler, Cleve land, and Wilton. 2. No. F. D. Roosevelt. 3, Not necesierily. 4, Reipiration (breathing), i. Yes, 6. Because heated air always ascends, 7. Fog. 8. Germany. 9. Fatmia. 10. Ob-verse. Whistling The Kingston Trio, a group of young men who have made a national name for themselves as singers, are also satirists of the first water, when they want to be. One of their songs starts out : "They're rioting in Africa, tra-la-la-la-la-la ..." (The "tra-la-la" bit is the best we could do in the way of reproducing a whistled refrain.) Sometimes it seems that this cheerful ode to a troubled world is an exact replica of the at titude of Americans. MOT only are they rioting in Africa, but also 1 1 in Japan, Korea, and India. Latin American governments, unstable at best, are in trouble. Fidel Castro, once hailed as a welcome con trast to the earlier dictator, Batista, is proving he's not much better, and perhaps worse. The turbulent middle east is relatively quiet at the moment, but the was overtnrown only a and Iraq are plagued The list of trouble runs on and on Libya, rocco, and all the Africa MANY Americans react to this with a shrug, no miinVi no fn doit "On n.lnl 1 Jr. , even "So what?" Others are vaguely can cio nothing as individuals about it, are in clined to dismiss .it all as being far away. Still others, realizing how small the world has shrunk in era of jet planes, missiles and nuclear warheads, know that each trouble spot is a clanger as much of a danger as Danzig was in 1939, and more than Sarajevo was in 1914. More than any other single issue, we believe, foreign policy that is, the way the United States handles these problems will be the big one in the coming election campaign. How creative, how intelligent, how far-seeine and understanding the the world situation, will who will be our next President. If it isn't it certainly ought to be. E.A. Plain Communications beine what thev are. we learned of Governor Rockefeller's statement of June 8 almost as soon as But, communications are, it wasn't until yesterday that we received a copy of the text of his statement. It is printed in full so tnat our readers can study the entire message, rather than just the excerpts transmitted this far west by the wire services. YHETHER one agrees or disagrees with ' Rockefeller's assessment of the iob turned in by the present administration, one cannot dis miss lightly the statement of aims, objectives, national purpose, and national needs. A good many thoughtful Republicans will be impressed. Not that Rockefeller of winning the Republican nomination. Nixon seems to have that pretty well sewed up with his control or the party s protessionals. But the statement in impression we got from that here, at last, is a breath of fresh air in a party whose reactions, too often, have been back ward looking, not forward; whose progress, in recent years, has been measured by the size ot the budget, not by the nation's needs. A LREADY, in less than a week, it has started "a controversy and a ot the Republican party. And this is a net gain for the party, a much healthier situation than con tinued status quo-ism. The Washington Post, the statement as it impresses a hypothetical mem ber oi tne party, as tollows: "But this Rockefeller, now, can be downright annoy ing. Here he Is, acknowledging that Mr. Nixon is likely to win the nomination, yet Insisting that the Republicans must do more than furnish a 'question mark' as an emblem, criticizing the missile lag and bomber vulner ability and calling for a substantial Increase in the de fense program. Apart from making pretty good sense. It's almost enough to force a man to take a position, that's what." It's high time the nation started doing some imnj u;..t,: i l ...u. i. i -i i ... mum uuuMiii; auum wuai ties aneaa in the delicate field of foreign relations (see above) as well as in the crucial areas of national de fense, economic growth, civil rights, education, and on down the list. Rockefeller says it's time for nlain talk. Anrl he furnishes it. E.A. The Greatest Safety A quotation from Woodrow Wilson which we ran across the other day, and like, goes as follows: "The greatest freedom of speech is the great est safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. Conversely, if a man is NOT a fool, he too should be encouraged to sneak, for our nation will never have enough wisdom, and sorely lacks, sometimes, wise and challenging statements by men who are not fools. E.A. O o government of Turkey lew weeks ago, and Iran by recurrent unrest. spots, actual or potential, Tunisia, Algeria, Mor south of the Sahara. worried, but, feeling they major candidates are of be a significant factor in Talk he made it. being employed as thev elsewhere on this page has much of a chance full substantiates the the first news stories discussion in the ranks tomrue in cheek, views I Dennis the 'ICtiHAVElO SfWSH WHEN YA !( rrn Washington Report By WILLIAM THE DUST SETTLES Washington - Now that the emotional storms of the brok en summit conference have largely passed over them, the men whose duty it is to conduct American for eign policy in a professional and unemo tional way are quietly back on the job. Thev are re suming ordinary and normal relations through ordinary and normal diplomatic chan nels with the Soviet Union. They do not expect any mira culous easing of the new ten sions caused by the brutality of Nikita Khrushchev. But they do not go around seeing doom and disaster every where. They don't think, in short, that the cold war has been changed in any fundamental way by the summit fiasco. j Never having been all choked up with ecstasy over the glories to come from sum mitry, these professional dip lomats are not now cast into darkest gloom bj summitry's inevitable failure. MEVER having trusted Kru ' shchev all too far, they are able now to avoid the temp tation oi tearing Khrushchev all too much. Having thought all along - especially because of Khrushchev's own bitter public words long before the summit even met -that the Russians would permit no real conference anyhow, they are able now to avoid the lamen tations that in fact no real conference was held. Never having been emotion ally committed to this or that presidential candidate's ideas, these pros have no need now to join all the clacking design ed to justify this or that can didate. Never having been political partisans, they are able to get on with their work without being desperately concerned over who is to be the next President. For them It is only to carry out the future direc tives of that President, who ever he may be. And in the meantime their obligation is not to explain away the past but to keep open the lines of communication with the Rus sians for the present and the immediate future. Parenthetically, however, for those who still insist all would have been well If only we hadn't made Khrushchev terribly, terribly mad with the "spy plane," there William S. White Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF "q-HE MIRACLE WORKER," Broadway hit of major -- proportions, calls lor a knock-down drag-out fight between star Anne Bancroft and wonderful 10-year-old Patty Duke, in which food, plates, spoons and forks fly all over th stage, and sometimes into the front rows of the or chestra. One night, the ihow's press agent re ports, "A lady dressed to the teeth was splattered with water, a slice of bread, and a piece of sil verware. In the intermis sion she told the house manager, 'With this show I think you should serve the audience bibs'!" e e e A practical Joker tent the girls of a sorority house at Iowa State a box containing eleven white mice. The next dav he cent a note saying. "I hope, you're enjoying the antics of those twelve mischievous little devlle." The gtrle spent the next two daya searching frantically for the "mlMtng" mouse. Wrote a forlorn college youth to hit hard-hearted father: "Dad, X love to be treated witn kindness, but oh, my parent, not with unremitting kindness!" O IMA Bjr Beaaett Cert, DUtrleuUd by King futures S)-adJct 00 1KB DOS PADDLE STROKE'' S. WHITE available plenty of interesting documentation to the con trary. WHAT, then, Is the factual situation now concerning the Soviet Union? So far as this correspondent can learn, this is about it: (1.) Speculations that Khru shchev is in deep trouble at home are not realistic. It is true, however, that he has been embarrassed before his people. He had let them sup pose he held Mr. Eisenhower in the palm of his hand. The summit outcome showed this to be far from the case. (2.) K's insistent threats to use rockets against our allies have not accomplished their aim of splitting the West. We have reason to think, indeed that the western alliance is more unified militarily than before. (3.) In spite of K's own ex cessively belligerent manner, our diplomatic people are finding Soviet diplomatic peo ple to be acting in a reason able and normal way. This is the case both in Moscow and in other foreign capitals where representatives of West and East regularly meet, (4.) There is actually some small possibility that before the next American President has been installed some low- voiced progress may have been made toward solving some American-Russian prob lems through this kind of dip lomatic exchange. THIS progress, if it comes at nil Is InnkpH fnr nmr Ror. lin, K wants most of all to drive the western allies from Berlin. And the western allies simply are not going to be so driven. There is an authori tative view here that the de liberate exposition before the summit met of a strong Amer can position on this point by Under Secretary of State Dil lon and others was far more unsettling to K than any num ber of "spy plane s." It is reckoned that he dared not go home without a Berlin vic tory, and that he became aware he could not have one. Thus no summit - on the ex cuse of the "spy plane." The hope is that having got a great deal of bile out of his system in a very public way, Khrushchev may now permit some lower-level secret dip lomatic negotiations on Ber lin. His agents conceivably could make rational conces sions in private diplomacy that he could not afford to make, for the sake of "face," in a highly public summit. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Here Is Text of Rockefeller Statement Here is the text of the June 8 statement issued by New York's Gov. Nelson Rockefel ler: We have come to a time that calls for plain talk It is a difficult and testing time. It is so for the world-with the forces of freedom chal lenged as never before. It is so for the nation-with the hope and strength of free dom everywhere reliant upon us. It is so, therefore, for the Republican party - with the vigor of our own democracy at stake. The vitality and integrity of the Republican party, at so critical a time as the present, become matters of national concern. Without a two-party system that works with can dor and courage, the Ameri can republic -the very proc esses of democratic govern ment - cannot work responsi bly. Without the Republican party displaying such candor and courage, the two-party system cannot work creative ly. A responsible patriotism thus does not deny-but does demand - a responsible parti sanship. For the way a party speaks and acts can -and should-inspire the way a na tion speaks and acts. I am deeply convinced and deeply concerned, that those now assuming control of the Republican party have failed to make clear where this par ty is heading and where it proposes to lead the nation. Now is the time to face and weigh these facts. We, as Republicans, have much to give us pride in our history. This history reaches from the principles of a Lin coln to the principles of an Eisenhower. No attack or abuse from any quarter can diminish-it can only drama-tize-the dignity and the in tegrity of the leadership that President Eisenhower has giv en to both nation and party. This man who led us to vic tory over the Nazi menace has steadfastly faced me Com munist tyranny in tireless pursuit of a peace. He thus has won a place unique in our age and in the hearts of free men everywhere. As he lays down his bur dens, this historic term of service comes to its end. A new period now begins, It summons new men. New problems demand new ideas, new actions. They begin, I believe, with tnis awareness: We cannot and we must not confuse tak ing pride in the past with tak ing measure of the future. What-and who-is this fu ture? It is a host of men and nations, problems and forces. to be ignored or evaded only at deadly peril to our own na tional life and freedom. It is: Nuclear power, either serving to better lives and to defend peoples-or serving to shatter nations and shake the planet. It is: The rise of new na tions across the earth, either to learn and to enjoy the ways of f reedom-or to suffer and to serve the ways of tyranny. It Is: A great technological revolution changing the lives of all men, for better or for worse, as it is disciplined and directed. It is: An Immensely com plex problem of national de fense for an exposed America -a problem either to be re solved by strong action or to be evaded by strong slogans. It is: The need for the American economy to grow faster-to prove that freedom will not become static or ster ile, but forever be fertile and creative. It is: The proving by politi cal action (or the disproving by partisan evasion) that we do love and respect the dig nity of man-as we assure civil rights for all our people, edu cation for our young, health for the aged. The people, confronting these great and basic chal lenges, look to their political parties. They need an assurance and a strategy - of national purpose for the future. 1 deeply believe they are asking for this. They cannot be answered by either political party-with mere petty designs of partisan maneuver. The challenge this poses to the Republican party is made more urgent by the state of the leadership of the Demo cratic party. This leadership can inspire no citizen with great hope. It has been con fused and uncertain, It has seemed to answer-it has mechanically-great questions of the future with worn answers from the past. In all the area of foreign policy, it has contributed little or no force or relevance to even the discussion ot foreign affairs-through eight years of vocal opposition. In all the area of domestic policy, no matter is more critical than civil rights-and no matter so deeply divides the Democratic party. v These facts do not make the task and the duty of the Re publican party more easy. They make Uni duty more stern and demandlng-for the Nation s sake. I cannot pretend to believe that the Republican party has fully met this duty. I know it is unconvention- al-on the political scene-to mention lacks or lapses in one's own party. But the times we live in are not conventional. And the scene we must view is not simply one of par tisan politics, but the politics -perhaps the destiny -of all the world. This is not extreme. It is merely realistic. In this spirit, I am com pelled to say two things bluntly. One: I find it unreasonable -in these times-that the lead ing Republican candidate for the presidential nomination has firmly insisted upon mak ing known his program and his policies not before, but only after, nomination by his party. Two: I find it reasonable- and urgently necessary - that the new spokesmen of the Re publican party declare now and not at some later date precisely what they believe and what they propose, to meet the great matters before the nation. I had hoped-ln months past -that anyone aspiring to lead the party would do precisely this: I have been waiting for this It has not been done. I can no longer be silent We cannot, as r. nation or as a party, proceed - nor should anyone presume to ask us to proceed - to march to meet the future with a banner aloft whose only emblem is a question mark. The duty of this time is no less binding on myself than upon others-this duty to talk plainly. In this spirit, I wish to state a number of problems, con crete and crucial, on which the Republican party-and any of its leaders-must state their stands. 1. I believe that the future development of our foreign policy must begin with the fact that our position in the world is dramatically weaker tnHnv than IS voare aan at I the end of World War II. The blame for this can be placed on no one party, on no one administration. The fact is that world upheaval, exploit ed by communism, now chal lenges America and the West more gravely than at any time in our history. These facts must be honest ly faced. To speak of them to confess neither weakness nor fear. Strength begins with truth, Future pretenses could damage us far more than past reverses. We can begin clearly to succeed in the future only as we begin to know clearly where we failed in the past. We, as a people, must act with firmer knowledge of the dynamic nature and aggres sive purpose of Communist imperialism. We must quickly strength en the forces of freedom and the unity and common effort of free peoples. 2. I believe our national de fense needs great strengthen ing to meet the physical dan ger in which America lives. This danger has to be made completely clear to the people whose freedom-and lives-are at stake. And this danger is measured by such plain facts as these: A. Our longe-range missiles are not only inferior in num ber to those at Soviet disposal, but also are dangerously vul nerable to Soviet attack. B. Our strategic bombers, though reasonably large in number, are concentrated on less than SO bases, all clearly identified by the Soviets, every one defenseless against a direct missile hit. C. For all our reliance upon Polaris submarines, not one is operational now, and only two will be operational by the start of 1961. D. For all the dangers of lo cal aggression, our forces for limited war are inadequate in strength and mobility. Every one of these facta is known to the Soviet Union. 3. I believe these facts re quire immediate actions to in crease both the strength and the efficiency of our defenses -including: A. An additional $3 billion for Immediate defense needs, including additional and im proved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles, more Po laris submarines, modernized equipment for our ground forces. B. A SOO-million dollar pro gram for civil defense. C. A more flexible and bal-1 anced military establishment and doctrine to meet all con-j tingencies, including local ag-1 gression. i D. A more tightly organized Department of Defense. 4. 1 believe the needs of our defense structure reflect the still wider need of our whole government structure for an i organization adapted to meet! modern problems and threats j in all their complexity and : swiftness. This is essential for effective conduct ot both our - O international relations and our national affairs. This need found instant and sobering proof in the conduct of gov ernment departments during the U-2 incident. S. I believe in the urgent need for adequate and formal international inspection and control of arms. Never before in history have nations been armed and able to devastate one another-in mere minutes. Yet we, as a nation, have seemed, on occasions, no bet ter prepared to meet this criti cal and continuing challenge than to confront sudden acci dent or crisis. Thus one month before the start of the ten nations disarmament confer ence in Geneva there simply did not exist a prepared American position. The machinery of free gov ernment can and must be geared to do better than this. 6. 1 believe that, as our eco nomic strength must match and sustain our military pow er, we must quicken the growth of the American econ omy to meet all challenges and needs, domestic and for eign. This demands raising of sights-and of effort by both labor and management throughout the private econo my that is the mainspring of our growth. It further re quires that we gear our eco nomic policies and practices to work toward an annual rate of growth of 3 to 6 per cent. And these policies will have to include: A. Revision of tax policies to encourage investment; B. Elimination of all feath erbedding or restrictive prac tices by labor or management; (J. Kedelinltlon of our farm program to make low-income farmers more productive members of the economy, 7. 1 believe this economic strength further requires firm discipline upon forces threat ening' to unleash inflation, weaken defense production, and disrupt our economy. The administration of President Eisenhower has written a no table record in the field of fis cal Integrity. Yet our economy must not be tormented by periodic cri ses or clashes that invite solu tion by political pressure or political expediency. I believe firmly in the dem ocratic process of collective bargaining, and I am firmly opposed to automatic or gen eral use of compulsory arbi tration. Yet I believe the Pres ident should be given discre tionary authority to use com pulsory arbitration if an eco nomic conflict reacnes tne point of clearly endangering the national welfare ana an honest attempts at collective bargaining, mediation and ar bitration have been ex hausted. Such a procedure would help avoid the kind of sur render to forces of Inflation that marked the long-delayed settlement of the steel strike last year. This settlement carefully postponed until af ther next election day the cost of its consequences-a rise in steel costs of more than $1 billion annually. For this, the people must pay the price. 8. I believe we must prac tice at home such a respect for law and equity as we wish to preach-and serve-in the world at large. The record of the Republican party on civil rights is a very creditable one certainly on any comparable basis. But no record can claim to be good enough so long as discrimination, s e g regation, and disenfranchisement per sist on almost massive scale. The Supreme court has called for respect of the basic laws and principles of our na tion "with all deliberate speed." The deliberateness must not be sabotage. The time has come for progress. And this can come with the summoning of cooperative ef fort by leaders in communi ties throughout the nation. Counsel With . . . Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred R. Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3 7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 17 NORTH HOUY ST. 9. I believe that, for a na tion traditionally passionate about the need for good and general education, we have seemed singularly slow to assure-through Federal aid to needy areas-equality of edu cational opportunity for all. This can be done-without in terfering with local control of education-by Federal aid for school construction and in creased Federal scholarships. If the Democratic party has done little or nothing in this area, the fact is no less true that a number of Republican leaders have managed, one way or another, to join with Democrats to block off effec tive action. A whole genera tion should not be asked to wait much longer. Even a hugely prosperous country cannot afford such invest ment in purely partisan ma neuvering - with the price paid in citizenship. 10. I believe that we must meet the growing problem of medical help for the aged. The formula recently propos ed by the ' administration, while admirable in purpose, is basically unsound from a fiscal viewpoint. It is based largely on a concept of sub sidy. It would be both costly and cumbersome to adminis ter. We have a long-established contributory system of so cial insurance. Its soundness is proven. We should build on it. As we meet and weigh them, we need realize that the very life of our democratic system requires the Republi can party to speak and to ar gue its views with vigor-but also with responsibility and reason. I accordingly deplora any voices suggesting, by in ference or innuendo, that our national unity requires any stifling of debate. We should remember, too. that one vital sign of our na tional political health is given not only by full debate be tween our two parties - but also by open debate within each of our political parties. Each party Itself serves as a forum-preceding the great er forum that is the national electorate. Real party unity and strength can be based only on honest debate. And in the watcning eyes ot the peo ple, such debate will be un derstood as a sign not of dis unity but of vitality. All these specific things I firmly believe. This is not just another election year. The stakes are historically high. The occasional, or frequent, trappings of a political cam paign cannot suffice for eith er party-the resounding plati tudes, the hollow cliches, the eloquent evasions, the slick slogans. t he time calls for plain talk. The talk must be of speci fic problems, specific actions, specific purposes. A century ago, in the shad ow of civil war, the Republi can party proved itself mas ter of the challenge it met. It must prove itself again in no less historic a way. There remains less than two months before the Re publican party assembles in convention to set its course and to choose its leaders. This time must be spent in one way: in placing the facts before the people and in sum moning the people to the great endeavors that these facts demand. This is the way-the only way - a living democracy works. The people-I am convinced -are ready. The question remains: It the party ready? The path of great leader ship does not lie along the top of a fence. It climbs heights. It speaks truths. The people want and need one thing above all others: A leadership of clear purpose, candidly proclaimed. CERTIFIED INSURANCE AGENT You can buy with confi dence from the insurance agent who has the Initials C. I. A. after his name. Certified Insurance Agent attests to his credentials In the property and casualty fields. O o o 0 o o o o
