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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. 1980 MBDFORDtWntlBUNI "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mftll Tribune'' FubUihed Dnity except Saturday by 33 North Fir St.. Ph 8P 3-8U1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertieing Manager GKHALU T LnTHAIil BUi. Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. MnR Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telea Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDOrt Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Ed .tor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation MJT An IndeDehdent NewinBiier Jntercd aa second data matter at jneaiora, uregon. unaer aci oi March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $tS00 pailv and Sunday J moi 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos 4.23 Sunday Onlv One vear $4 20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Aihlnnd. Central Point Easla Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove. 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Randies, of the Medford Safety coun cil , will Judge entries In .the annual bicycle safety parade here tomorrow. 20 YEARS AGO June 15, 1940 (Saturday) The Oregon state highway commission last night honored Col. Frank TouVelle, Jack sonville, a former member of the commission, with a spe cial banauet In Portland. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudae Pot" column: "The Prospect ball team is no more. Dewey Hill, its manager, catcher, tresurer, coach, cheer leader and spark-plug, wearied of the struggle and folded up after smacking out a farewell homerun." 30 YEARS AGO 1 June IS, 1930 (Sunday) George W. Joseph, Repub lican gubernatorial candidate, died unexpectedly yesterday at Camp Clatsop. California creamery opera tors will visit the valley Wednesday to see if they want to build creameries here. 40 YEARS AGO June 15, 1920 (Wedneiday) Price of fruit Jars goes up locally which irritates house wives. Medford city council votes money for eight city park band councerts. SO YEARS AGO June 15. 1910 (Wednesday) At a meeting of the Crater Lake Highway commission here yesterday It was decided to begin an active canvass ot the rest of the state at once for support and funds to build the Crater Lake highway. Twenty Medford women were stranded over night at Gold Rey after forgetting to catch the last train home. What's Your I.Q.? Nine et lee aarreet II lupeilari lavan er eight la eacellent; Hve ei li la good, 1. Who was the last Czar of Russia? 2. What Is the tallest mam. mal? 3. What was the name of the 1000 anti-foreign uprising in China? 4. What Is called the "staff of life 5. With what invention is the mime George H. Pullman Identified? 6. Can the leg of an ostrich only rip vertical objects? 7. In what principality is Monte Carlo? 6. In the Mother Goose rhyme at what time does the "ten o'clock scholar" report? 0. The Battle of Lake Erie occurred during the War of 1812; true or false? 10. What naval hero snld. 'I've Just begun to fight."? Ant warn 1. Nicholaa II. 2. Giraffe. 3. Boxer Rebellion. 4. Bread. S. Pullman cara. 6. Yea. 7. Monaco, 8. "At noon". 9. True. 10. John Paul Jones. HIGHER EDUCATION London-d'PD-A survey con ducted among British teach ers' college student showed today that one fifth were un able to divide by eight. State Building Needs In last Sunday's Mail Tribune was a rather long story detailing the findings of the legislative fiscal committee, to the effect that better utiliza tion of classroom space will make it unecessary to build new instructional buildings for several years on Oregon's campuses of higher learning. The report, prepared by Kenneth Bragg, leg islative iiscal oliicer, makes a lot of sense, par ticularly in view of the fact that Oregon's fiscal needs are in excess of the sight Governor Hatfield's blithe assurances to the contrary notwithstanding. If more efficient space use can postpone class room building needs without at the same time damaging educational quality, well and good. DUT there is a danger, " Rep. Robert Duncan tne nouse and chairman He is fearful that confusion about building needs on Oregon's campuses might react against ALL state building plans. And that would put a serious crimp in Uregon s program of construc tion to meet the needs of both institutions and campuses. Specifically, he is report might have on appear on the November election ballot meas ures designed to make further construction dob. sible, as the need arises. THE measures are Nos. No. 6 is entitled "State Bonds for Higher Education Facilities." And the purpose is de scribed thus: "To amend tne state to increase its construct additional self cation iacuities. The key phrase here is All this measure does of bonds the state system may issue to pay for construction of buildings tnemseives caretenas, dormitories, sports facili ties, and so on. It is not a tax measure. And it does NOT refer to classroom space. Classroom space is paid for from tne iiscal committee report refers to classroom and instructional space entirely. "THE other measure, No. 8, is entitled "Author 1 izing Bonds for State Building Program." Purpose: "To amend Constitution to permit is suance of state bonds to construct buildings for state institutions, office buildings and for high er education. This measure, passed referred to a vote of the range lax-unancea $4u,uuu,uuu Donoing program to pay for construction of state-owned buildings A J? J 1 A 1 A AAft AA 1 i , i.:i..t-i j'jv ait UIBWI.UUUIIB, mr uiuce purposes, ana, n nec essary, on college and university campuses. It is a major step in the legislative program for orderly, planned construction of needed build ings. TJJft ARE willing to accept the judgment of " the legislature that the building program No. 8 is necessary. But we know for sure that the other measure No. 6 is necessary. Dormitory space, cafeterias, and other aux iliary buildings which pay for themselves, will need to be doubled in the next ten years to ac commodate the Hood of students who will be en tering Oregon's colleges and universities. ihese are students junior high, and high state system of higher education is permitted to borrow tne money to build the bui diners to house them,' they will be denied the education they want, need and deserve. "THE pinch is here already. At the University of when school starts next will be in such short supply that only 89 students other than freshmen will be allowed to live in dormitories. The rest? Some will be able to afford, and to join, fraternities or sororities. The others will have to scratch around campusto the detriment of their finances and their education. Some of them won't be able to, and will thus be denied a a a IN A nation and a state, which are prideful of 1 educational excellence, and are determined to continue and improve on that record, the simple matter of loaning the state's credit to build build ings which will cost no ll,.j f The danger arises The fact that the two 8 are worded similarly of confusion in the mind And the criticism of classroom planning, while very possibly salutory in itself, creates another confusion hazard even though it is on an entirely different matter. It is to be hoped the electorate will be ad equately advised on these distinctions before they cast their ballots. E.A. Thanks to an anticipated balance over ex penditures this year and an Increase in receipts from O & C lands Polk.County will not have to levy any property tax for general fund purposes for next year. With these revenues rolling in from O & C and national forest lands no com plaint seems to be raised on this venture into public ownership (socialism). Oregon States man, iaaiem. tax income presently in too, and it was voiced by of Medford, speaker of of the committee. worried what effect this two measures which will 6 and 8. Constitution to permit bonded indebtedness to - liquidating higher edu SELF-LIQUIDATING. is to increase the amount which will then pay for state tax revenues, and bv the legislature and people, calls for a loner- i . m who are now in grade, school. And unless the Oregon, for instance, vear. dormitorv snace trying to find rooms off additional schooling. a tax funds shouldn't be in misunderstanding. measures Nos. 6 and creates one such hazard of the voter. Dennis the 'Better poll up ioor pamtscuffs if raufce ccwunc? IN HERE! - Today & Tomorrow By Walter AFTER ROCKEFELLER. Once again we are seeing how the American party sys tem works to prevent a clear debate on Issues of prin ' 'O I ciple. Within t h e R e p u blican party we now have Gover nor Rockefel ler, who on the central is sues of the Walter Llnamann c a mpalgn Is to Stevenson, much closer Kennedy, and Symington than he is to Elsenhower and Nixon. And within the Demo cratic party, we have Sen. Lyndon Johnson who thinks and feels more like Elsenhow: er than like the other leadng Democrats. Both Rockefeller and John son speak for minorities with in their respective parties. But both are respected and have influence, and each, though his ideological home it in the opposite party, remains in good standing within his own party. This is a normal condition in American politics. It la Il logical, it blunts and flattens party debate, it puzzles for eign observers to the point of despair, and it causes great anguish to the ideologists, But, so many of us have long thought, It works against ir reparable divisions within the nation, and It la one of the reasons, perhaps the cmei reason, why for a century the American people have been able to operate a democratic system on a continental scale. Never before and nowhere else has a country so big and so diverse in Its population been able to make democracy work. a THE central issue of the cam naien Is whether it shall be the policy of the next Ad ministration to take measures in order to Increase produc tion - to do this in order to do more for the national de fense and for other public needs. The lending Democrats and Governor Rockefeller are on the same side of this issue. The President and the Vice President are committed to the view that measures to In crease the rate of economic growth are perforce inflation ary and Inherently socialistic, and that a larger public spending out of a larger na tional income Is financially unsound and a threat to the stability of the dollar. Sen ator Johnson, who Is a bril liant legislative leader, is much more comfortable with Try and Stop Mo By BENNETT CERF AN EDITOR asked an applicant for a secretarial job, "How many words a minute can you type?" "What size words?" countered the applicant. "Do you, for Instance, have fre quent occasion to use the longest word in the Eng lish language? It's floe cinauunihilipilification." It wasn't until she was on the job for a week that the editor discovered his new secretary had heard him spell that very word correctly on TV quiz program, the pre ceding evening. She was ready when opportunity knocked! a Former President Truman always has been hipped on the sub ject of American htatory. They tell of a night when he was four years old and couldn't get to sleep. "What's going on In that head of yours?" asked his mother. TJie boy answered seriously, "I've been lying awake going over all tht battles In the Revo lution," e a The teacher was talking about fur-bearing animals. Tell ma, I Michael." aha ordered. "Do we (et fur from skunks?" L' A "We sure do," responded Michael. "Just as fur as we kin." - 6 IMO, tjr Benaelt Oarf. Dleuibutel ay tUag Features IradMtt Men-ace Lippmann the Elsenhower philosophy than is Governor Rockefeller. TN HIS challenge to Mr. -Nixon, the Governor was asking him to do the impos sible. He was asking him to say now where he and the President agree and where they differ. Mr. Nixon cannot do this. If he says he agrees wholly, he will surely lose votes that he very much needs for the election. And if he dis agrees radically, he mrist do the unthinkable thing of quar relling with the President and with the men who are nomi nating him. After his nomination, Mr, Nixon will have some more freedom to maneuver. He will be able to move in the general direction of what used to be called Elsenhower or Modern Republicanism, to the general position which Mr. Elsenhow er himself turned away from after the mid-term election of 1958. But Mr. Nixon cannot, and perhaps would not wish to. move into the field of thought and action and policy which is now occupied by Governor Rockefeller and the probable Democratic c a n d i dates for President, that is to say by Stevenson or Kennedy or Sy mington. a lOR those who wish to study - the central issue of the campaign and indeed the cen tral issue of the 1980s, there is nothing better as a begin ning, it seems to me, than Governor Rockefeller's speech of June 1 on how to promote higher rate ot economic growth. For the question of how na tional power is related to the use of economic resources in the Soviet Union and In the United States there Is a classic statement made by Mr. Allen Dulles to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Nov. 13, 1959. And for the closely related question of how increased pro duction can support public purposes, I would strongly recommend a little book which has just been publish ed. It is called "The Question of Government Spending." It is by Prof, F. M. Bator of the M a s s a chusetts Institute of Technology. It is not any easy book to read, and it requires close attention. But it is ob jective, scholarly, and highly analytical, and it will, ! think, have a gradual though pro found influence on American thinking in these matters, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Difficulties Beset Khrushchev Beneath Totalitarian Facade; Prestige Involved Br PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor It Is possible, as Western capitals have speculated since the collapse of the summit, aWL I that Niklta '' Khrushchev (Of V " irouDie wiin in the high command o f own Commu nist Party. Reports from behind the Iron Curtain in d 1 e ate he may be having other troubles as well. None of these would seem to indicate any imminent dan ger to his leadership. Rather they contribute to a picture of somewhat less than perfect state as seen by Marx and Lenin. Crops Fail Dust storms sweeping as far to the west as Yugoslavia were harbingers of a vast crop failure in Kazakhstan, one of the 15 republics with in the U.S.S.R. whose bor ders extend from the lower Volga to the frontiers of Red China It was to Kazakhstan that Khrushchev shipped millions of young citizens of the U.S.S.R. in an ambitious pro gram to turn virgin lands Into a large new breadbasket. Khrushchev's own prestige was heavily involved in the Kazakhstan project which last year was hit bv drought and in which last fall only two- nitns of the autumn plowing was completed. Crop prospects in the San Francisco Said Naturally Air Conditioned Boston -(Science Servicel- San Francisco has a complete ly automatic, built-in air con ditioning system that not only gives it cool summers and mild winters but also results in substantial economic advan tages to commercial jet air craft operators. San Francisco has mean summer temperatures lower than those of any other large city in the United States. In July, the average maxi mum temperature is a cool 64 degrees. In September, the warmest month, highest tem peratures average a comforta ble 68 degrees, Halbert E. Root of the U. S. Weather Bu reau at the San Francisco In ternational airport reported. Due To Location Mild weather In the San Francisco bay area is due to its particular location on the eastern shores of the Pacific ocean and to Its topography. These combine to provide what amounts to a naturally automatic atr-condltloning sys tem, Root reported in the cur rent issue of Weatherwise, published for the American Meteorological Society here. In the present age of jet- powered aircraft, the cool temperatures and brisk winds of this air-conditioned region provide great advantages for air travel. These result from the fact that the thrust of a Jet engine depends directly on the density of the air (the den sity being greater at lower temperatures), and that each mile per hour of headwind on take-off means less speed need be provided by the plane's en gines in order to reach flying speed. Planes Can Carry Mora When compared to a near by inland location, Jet planes departing from San Francisco International airport could carry an average of as much as 12,000 pounds more per flight, Root reported. San Francisco's air-condi tioning system also supplies sailing enthusiasts with excit ing sport to test their skill. At the peak of flow on a normal ebb tide, the water is rushing out under -Golden Gate bridge at a rate of about 4,600,000 cubic feet per second, about seven times the flow of the Mississippi river. Detense Money Increase Sought : Washlngton-IWD-A Senate group, Including presidential hopeful Sen. Stuart Syming ton (D-Mo.) charted a drive today to increase the $40, 383,000,000 defense money bill which already contains more than $1,000,000,000 ask ed by President Elsenhower. The Defense Department appropriations bill, represent ing the biggest chunk of the governments cold war expend iture, was scheduled for floor action by the Senate. Lively debate with presidential year overtones was expected. Symington was among the senators working on addition al Increases for Inclusion in the big bill. Ukraine, still the U.S.S.R.'s chief breadbasket, also have been reported unsatisfactory. Disenchantment Sean Out of this must come some disenchantment with the Mos cow planners. The Polish government, a reasonably loyal satellite, has Communications Letters io the Editor must bear the name and addresa of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mall 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 necossarlly represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary is Mumpslmus To the Editor: "Mump slmus," Is a word used to ex press the frequent error com mitted by historians, profes sors, writers, and others, as they cling obstinately to old errors or disproved ideas, re gardless of right or reason. "Sumpsimus," is the correct expression for replacing an erroneous one In familiar use. Many pseudo-false mump slmus errors in history books, social scientists books, philos ophy books, in fact, almost any study, where careful re search has not been under taken, these errors are repeat ed without an effort to ascer tain the truth of such alleged fact or statement. In philosophy, the appeal to other thinkers is the weak est argument. "Truth is to be respected rather than per sons." All knowledge takes its ori gin from sense experience. There are no innate, inborn or existing ideas in a person from birth. Psychologists assure us that it is virtually Impossible to concentrate on anything for more than a short time. Yet, emotional appeal or persuasion may induce a per son to substitute emphatic entertainment for understand ing. Polarization by group unity or cohesiveness,-"We feeling," used by many pseudo orators and the demagogue, such as the show of hands, rise and stand together, march togeth er, become easy victim of group hypnosis. Don't applaud speech because everyone was applauding. The group is not always right. Maintain your own intellectual inde pendence. Impressive words. exciting and interesting con tent,, with emotional appeal, such as, "likes" and "dis likes," is no guarantee that the speaker or writer has stated anything worthwhile. Today, the same vague lan guage, that issues can be made out of abstractions which are over the heads of the voters. Few serious minds believe that "ideology" can furnish a blueprint and through "social engineering," they will bring about Utopia and new social harmony. Ralph Waldo Emerson, In 1840 observed: "that men. only in Spring and Summer were they reformers; that in winter, they stood fast by the old ways and customs." "Re form has no gratitude, no pru dence, no husbandry." "Publicity," a great states man revealed, "Is the sover eign antiseptic and the best of all policemen." Thus this letter. Stephen E. Glllls, White City, Ore. How Much Longer? To the Editor: I have been persecuted by our United States Government ever since 1918, and it is now 1960 which figures out to be about 42 years. I wonder Just how much longer this is going to continue on. I have even put items in newspapers accusing our Gov ernment of being crooked. Has the Government said any thing about It or made any denials? Could it be that truth is stronger than fiction? If Mr. J. Edgar Hoover and his whole organization is as honest as he wants the public to believe, then why is our country in such a. mess? I defy him or any of his prize stooges to contact me in front of a news reporter, a sten ographer and a witness, so I would at least have halt a chance. Leo J. Townsend. Rt. 1, Box 620 Eagle Point, Ore. Longest Minutes To the Editor: In regard to the letter by Mrs. Howard Davis In the Mail Tribune June 10. I am sure Mrs. Davis sin cerely believes what she has written and Is trying to be helpful to the community. All Do FALSE TEETH Reek, Slid er Slip? FASTI STH. aa Unproted powder to be t prink lad oa upper or lower platee. Bold. (Ha teath more Brralr U plaea. Do not Hide, allp or roc. No rommi tr-orj, pMtj uite Of fwlinji. fab Tarthli alkaline inon-eeldl Doaa ot eour osteite 'Jlti odor" idea lure brratnl. Oat r A8TKKTH at aaf true oouaiae. been forced to turn to the United States, that hated sym bol of capitalism, for wheat to meet its food requirements. Not even in the days of the czars could Russia have been called a unified nation. Nor can the IS republics today be considered a single unit, often the case. the things she states I also believed until I tried to put them to use. Last year my Mother suf fered a heart attack, and we tried desperately to get a doc tor. Each one we called re ferred us to another doctor and the doctors' exchange. We took Mom to the hospital, as I believed there was always a doctor on duty there. We found they had to call him and it took 1 hour and 40 minutes for him to arrive. Those were the longest min utes of my life. My Mother passed away a little while after he finally arrived. I feel if we could have had some help sooner, Mom might still be here. She was an old lady, but to me the dearest person on earth. So I learned through bitter experience that things are not tne way Mrs. Davis sincerely believes them to be. Signa Mitchell 698 Wilson rd. Central Point, Ore. Lost Mine Still Waits To the Editor: It's there somewhere, waiting to be found -the lost sheepherder's gold. To all available infor mation the search continues. The lost Owyhee Sheep- herder's long lost gold story recalls to me what a Prine ville, Ore., rancher told me ten years ago about a home steader. A number of years before he had picked up some fabulous rich gold specimen rock near the head of a dry wash, but having no knowl edge of the source of the find, gave no further heed to the Incident. By making an unofficial survey of the region on a state map we are Inclined to be lieve the lost mine is much farther west than had first been anticipated by the for mer searchers around 48 years ago. To our way of thinking the area would take an intensive amount of close searching as the most likely and probable method would call for the presence of min eral formations associated with gold bearing ore. To be sure, there is a vast amount of desert to be gone over, and is the main reason that so much of the surround ing area is bleak and dry, al though a rich find may await some desert rat sometime. Bert Kissinger 920 Boardman st. Medford Thai's That To the Editor: Who knows a somewhat good, a good, or very good reason why the Democratic convention should nominate Adlal Stevenson for the presidency and Sen. John Kennedy for the vice presi dency? "I do," says the Owl. "And why, Mr. Owl," asks the Wind, "is this true?" "Because," says the Owl, "it would pay off old scores, don't you know." "And why is that the case?" the Wind asks. "Well," the Owl answers, "because once Adlal ran, and they (you know who) didn't, and another time, and they didn't. But yoke Adlal and John together, and they will. And that's that," says the Owl. The Owl's Ghost (Name on file) Medford OFF STREET PARKING... So Important these days. We have It for all funeral services end weddings. "To merit your continued con fidence Is our aim." LITWILLER ' FUNERAL HOME Highway 46 at Normal Ave, Aihland Dial MU 5-4541 Only local member of Oregon Even after 40 yean of com munism, strong nationalistic groups battle underground for independence. One such exists in the Ukraine from which comes a underground sabotage direct ed against the Kremlin, Activities Stepped Up This group recently has been reported stepping up its activities, including the smug gling of nationalist literature into the Soviet Union. Iron Curtain sources say that brochures and leaflets, often printed on cigarette pa per, have been widely dis tributed. An article In the So viet army newspaper Red Star attacking the pamphlets only drew attention to them and increased their circula tion. These same sources say that Soviet authorities have Jailed hundreds in a concerted crackdown on underground organizations and others sus pected of anti-state activities. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS From Washington: The political spotlight con. tinues to focus on two men who insist thev are not ran. didates for the Presidential nomination. The men are Adlai Stevenson, the Demo cratic nominee in 1952 and 1956, and Nelson Rockefeller, the Republican governor of New York. Both clearlv itateri thi. positions Sunday as NON-can-didates. But that did not eliminate them as possibili ties. Neither IH h. ...... u fuse a draft. -" a a a THAT is to say; Mr :,.. ... Rockefeller share Their problem is to get the n.omLna on 'or President of the United States handed to them on a silver platter, with perhaps decorations, like watercress or Darsiev fully arranged around the cages. No one has yet sutreeat, It in print, but it Isn't impossible that they would appreciate It still more if the platter were borne by a handsomely uni formed flunkey . . . who might even kneel humbly when of fering it. It might be added that soft music would help. a THE Washington dispatch adds: "Mr. Nixon also has a prob lem. His problem Is how to keep the conservative Repub licans behind him and still keep enough independents and switch - over Democrats and Republicans back of him to win." "Mr. Nixon can't make too many liberal sounds without antagonizing the conservative Republicans ... By his own figuring, voters are divided into 40 per cent staunch Re publicans, 45 per cent staunch Democrats, with the remain ing 15 per cent made up of independents and Democrats and Republicans who switch around. "So, If he is to win, he will have to keep his 40 per cent and try to cut into the nebu lous 15 per cent of ln-and-outers." MMMMMMM. suppose that's the mod ern political way to look at problems involving getting elected to office. Any way to get there seems' to be the modern idea. But - Will Shakespeare, who liv ed and wrote a long, long time ago, gives us in his immortal Hamlet a more admirable way: "This above all; to thine own self be true, "And it must follow, as the night the day, "Thou canst not then b false to any man." a a a IN OTHER words: JUST BE YOURSELF." It isn't bad advice. V C. M. Utwlller so Mrs. UtwMer National Funeral Directors Au'n
