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V i in, .lit from Ihe Si. ;i Yin r.irtle n Hiis i )' i U will Arthur I'rm s "Vi I'll ,f Ii" ha, i t liit I'.it" cnlll ; lit.', hi ll l i . 1 1 ITIIMlv r i .1 crowiie! hi l;:l inn nut-., lii' ll ami 1VI..ITII in, !!,, iinlilan ill a: inn el' I hi- a ,,l th hi .-.il all I; . rnlia' 1 IM i.ua;l ,: 111. nU'l". the i!il or S uilli Ann a S3 Jl., r.i .GO ;U5 (Mo. -.day) .i-!-, v .unci 1 1 an urn -i)'1 A I Ja " (' ah, I'M I) (', oc 1.1 I i.l. ('.u rn! U,i. I"!!, n a a fi all ore: ''Let nie mm' an 'Amr.aers: 1, r.o. 2. ';!- da:! nobly." 3. '"ihe I-oid is my hcp..!od." 4. Cninr- e. 5. Tci n s. 6. True. 7. 6 lool. 8. "rue. 9. Mr.-.rh. 10. "i.?t m go now," The. Manor and the Valley j T'oLHie Valley .Manor is going to be one of the I ).-! sict:lacular Imildiniis on the Pacific Coast, I both liuin the standpoint of location and from 'tiii' standpoint of design. ; Now at its full height on top of Barnebiirg ' ':!. ii commands a view in all directions over ii e Rogue valley. And it is attracting a lot of a'.H-ntion from tourists, many of whom ask j-'.Vh.-'.t's THAT beautiful building going to be?" The Manor, a retirement home for people of . one means, will lie ready for occupancy late in -'o ember, if all goes well. .. ""'K I'RKDK'T that it will have a considerable v impact on this area. It will bring several hundred people here- people with money to .(end with local merchants. It will have a sub .am ial payroll. And, since thev will come from all Darts of the nation, it will tend belter-known than it is. In addition, the building itself cannot avoid becoming something of a' landmark. 'Now if we could just hurry up the elimination of the smoke and haze which becloud the view every working summer day . . . E.A. DST Vote Again Oregon voters will once again ballot on dayli' ht saving time this November. We're favorably inclined, in a mild sort of way. toward DST. I!ot we don't go to the lengths'of the "Oregon ('! r-;e ('oeimiiiee for Daylight Saving," which is lii.rhng out arguments favoring setting the clocks ahead one hour between the last Sunday in A'iril until the last Sunday in September. 1 'e rea go all out. 1' p'-ni : i v 1 1 1 ll'!i.V children; I'oi el' a: : !c : lor hetter business and industry; tor tlie right to enjoy the Ood-given recreational ad vantages o!' Iiing in Oregon." ! I'Vom tile sound of that one would be led to 1 , I'e.'.v that DST is the panacea of ail the ills liuniest if, economic and social of society. k wouldn't, of course. It would just make 'tilings a bit more convenient for those many peo i p'e who would like to have an extra hour of day il'. it in the evening, and for those whose activities an- limed to coincide with those in DST areas. ,T- " ,71 1 1 1, K, as ini I ' measure, we icaled, refuse it V'e can e:et along nicely either way. Ihil drie-in theater operators will get work t up aga.inst it, for it cuts into their business. And l a .'in a.nd TV people will get worked up in favor ill it, lor it would make broadcasting scheduling c ; ier and cheaper fur them. Wish these and some others it is an emotional i'Mie, and they can be expected to fight for or a;;a"! i it wiin some Ileal. Mm1. We just hope' (faint hope!) that no one will ..bring mi that moldy old lie that standard time I is "i inn's time." We feel it is somewhat insulting 'to the Unity to accuse Him of starling all the fuss o.. r time changes. F..A. j Ecafs and Safety I '' 1 !' Iht' vv when probably more pcjih' will iit taking to ilu y;iUt than any other oi!r;nr Hie summer- has been named National S.;;'.1 iioaiiu;t Week. i iien- hai' li.'en se'eial boating fatalities in -I --on e'.n- ;!y in reeeiit months. And there will I e ii'oi'e- --umI-'ss everyone who uses a boat real that il e.:n eause injury and death, i i-'iinv; is a most pleasurable recreation. Hut, !!:. - an automobile, a boat . 1 e a:sd re.-ie('t. ie nuHe potential hazards in boating a;e in driving a ear. One of the t!i.:t the "inles of the road" are not i.'U'.'My learned and respected on the as thev now are on the highways. a t arc the danjrers of hidden hazards lo s, submerged objects which can't be the oj'rralor. 1 r .ere is I ho additional hazard of drown of trouble something that even auto acciiii nts don't usua'ly involve. f :u .-iiK'nts - boating or otherwise -are ' ;.oidalde, and are not reallv "acci- iii' u;iv id avoid !.r a-;iitiy. is to usc common sense r ri'iiiiiini'iit. know' its capabilities aiuli ..n'i d". have the needed safety pear. ! n ii . of the uanii', and take no chances, j is num.. hoatini; can lie nolh pleasure 'I a.'i'V, for you and others. K. A. r r il Only '. i:m; t all's a vandal? "uv concMMon we nave readied is mat 'o Dit-r stui.iditv and ie-norance. a ii ' ' .'', - 1111 I'.-HKUKll explanation ll.V anyone VIm- that she contact him re Wii.lld iii'ill.,'1 a'u'lv lileak windows, throw paint. ! Kardms any commercial deal ..-nap off radio antennas, cut shrubs or trees, or! n"M !,av,M" ii , I Hide, Hi- Is a sreen Swede. i" 1 lowers hy the roots. l, kllllws ,us w.,v m.mn. j 1 i-.; only answer is that whoever does this ; Hut hor nucstions rt-mird--nil e-' ('estruetive mi.-ehief is a stupid icrW-an ' m,r l-i . i ' I need a little studv. Kirst. it limhfcile or nioroa - inou- entitled to pity than L mistake to think that j Cdlolll C. E.A, . ' "Uini-a ate gelling bad." It is to make Medford even! y claim that "Your vote for i'ine is a vote for healthy, clean, wliolesome lamily we plan to vote for the to get worked up about must be- handled with ' thi'iti, in luiatinu' as in Answer MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Dennis the Menace mm ' look how fast can grcia a mustache. Dad j Letters lo the Editor must bear writer, although under certain name or initial tor 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 necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is Pool Questions Answered To lht( Editor: I would like to answer sumo of the ques tions brought up by Mrs. W. W. Brawn. The "8 foot wading pool" which was supposed to have cost $4,000 is actually 20 feet in diameter and was donated to the children of Med ford by the Crater Lions club, paid for by the money raised at a TV Auction held early this spring. The cost was 52,800. The big pool in question cost $74,3K7.7!J, instead of the SfU.OOO quoted, which is still a lot of money, but you must remember that the bath-house1 and filtering syMeni was de-1 signed fur a diving pool, plus) the swimming pool. Would i you like your children swim-j min in water that was not; adequately filtered and heal ed'.' The stale health depart ment wouldn't. As for Die partitions, doors and clothes bags. 1 believe that is a case of nut enough money. I bet the children us ing (lie pool are much happi er with the added size of the pool than they would be with a private booth to dress in. The cut feet (we prefer to call them abrasions) are an unfortunate occuranee which, could only be prevented by j requiring all children who i don't swim well to leave the, pool after one hour in the wa ter. To prove what I mean.! soak your hand for one hour! in 8(1 degree water and see! how tender it gets. The abra-; sions are caused by the ten-; tier feet (actually the abra sions are on the ends of the toes in almost all cases) be ing constantly rubbed on the bottom and sides of the pool.j I am sure the city parks and1 recreation director would in-1 vite any interested parent to j examine the pool for a n y ! roughness that could possibly cut a foot. It is regrettanle that the hard work of the Crater Lions club, the city of Medford en gineering department, the park and recreation director. ;iiut myself as the contractor. hould be questioned by some ; one as misinformed as Mrs. liiawn. I sincerely hope that this letter h;is answered some of her questions and put the Jackson Pnol in a little bet ter liuht. Thank you. Kdward Me Karlane Holiday Pool and Const. Co . UUU Cunningham Medford Kditor's note. It has also been pointed out that the cost of the big pool was wholly de frayed by funds from the Jackson county housing au thority, donated to the citv ! for pool purposes when it was i liquidated, and no t.i funds j w ere ncd Cosi of the pool also va considerably lower than those in oilier cities. Cow. cwc ndEconomici T" Kiinnr. ins iimr n( lalent w riles the most intru;. Mint! teller II lit 1 h:i i-,. ui in some time We will d:s- count her prol.lem of hiah d- ii.incc as bemK of little con- sequence and one that will be cuii'd bv time llecausc anv- one that has cog.- and a calf to spare can certamlv aciiuire a used car from someone un- aide to buv gasoline Uesidcs, ! ii cow is a goon ereon rating 1 ' Ulls i-.veren Ackim Iw ,""' .1,'1!,T ';"''"" icau the name and address of the circumstances the use of a pen I often the case. just that people are short of ready cash. That is the rea son that loans are hard to gel. Second: There is no need to worry about getting a new j president. We will get one and, no doubt, some one will like him. Jl will be essential for the new man in the White House to sign a great many financial bills to keep our economy rolling. Third: No, people do not fear what is coining. We arc a sturdy and brave race. Of course people are happy when they are busy doing things that they like to do. Then they havo no time lo worry. Who started credit and loans? They are money lend ers' gimmicks as old as com merce and trade, to exploit merchants that were short of ready cash to float a big deal. The acquiring of interest was the money lenders' motive. The Government has credit and loan affairs if you can qualify, but I do not advise it. Credit and loans are part and parcel of our way of life. Our government pays out a million dollars a day to a par asitic class for the use of money. At present the nation is rolling on the arms race, "pork barrel." social secur ity, unemployment checks and public welfare. The mon ey comes from taxes. When there is no tax money avail able our economy will come Ui a halt, but not for long. II is so complex that it will need to be reorganized at once. Walter Recce Gal ice, Ore. Flag Disrespect 'I'd tlu- Eaitor: t saw an in trrcstitij; siyhl a couple of days ayi). It was lii'Hinmnf! to sprin kle and as 1 was walking dnwn a .sidewalk, 1 noticed a man lakin.u our American Klat; from the flagpole it was atlaclied lo. I saw nothmi; out of tlie ordinary when 1 wit nessed this because it was startini: to rain. However, what followed was a ditlercnt story. When this individual had finished his duty, he literally crum pled our fins; and placed it under his arm, much as you would crumple a piece of pa per, and then walked off. 1 couldn't help but Hunk to myself as 1 stood and watched . . . have we taken our freedom so much for granted that vc would be al lowed lo (rent the flan of our country with so much dis-re-spect" ,lust a thought. Mrs. Sharon Mayer 418 Haven si. lUi-dford. , Atomic Surplus? ' Kditor: I want lo cx- I '"VfS "' H'anks to whoever i" maiWd nu- a copy !"r llu' Socialist newspaper I "Weekly People ' I doubt I 4 ''r' ,,ull'l' ' kM 'i"- ' roan it.. Ann 11 1 did tmd ,ln I don't believe I would ! "1 unfiiu,iiu mi n anyway as i only nave a one track mind. And tins being the case. 1 have only been able to der over one thing, and that is if there should be an atom ic war. 1 wonder how many new army surplus stores will spring up over this country of ours I. eo J, Townsend Houto Xo 1, Hex b20: Kagle Point, Ore., j Democratic Venezuela 'Flying Off in All Directions'; Communism Influential By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor Caracas - 'L'PIi - Venezuela is ttie picture of a man flying off in all directions, all at the same time. 1 1 s leader ship under one - time C o m m unist Romulo Bel ancourt is so dedicated t o the democrat ic princi p 1 e that it wel- rini. M-wso.M comes even criticism designed ultimately to tear down the slate struc ture. There is freedom of speech and thought. There are no Communists in the executive branch of government, but Communists speak freely and seven arc members of tile lM-member lower branch of Parliament. Two are in the .il -member up per house. Its leaders e.-ii nate that at the time of th overthrow of the Marcos Paacz Jimenez dictatorship, !(; per cent of its people were illiterate. Its annual iccei.ie of a lit Tocky & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann I mmmm I "GROWTHMANSHIP" I Last week at St. Louis the Vice President announced that "we are now ena.qed in what will become, bef or e this year is out, a major national debate over the subject of economic growth." Who will be debating with whom, and about w h a t? According to Mr. Nixon, while we are in favor of growth, the critics of the Administration, namely Governor Pockefeiler and the leading Democrats, are not to be taken seriously. For they are playing "the most fashionable parlor game of our time - a game that might be called 'growlhman shipY Just why do these playboys spend so much time and en ergy on a mere parlor game? It is because they realize the great importance of our slow ed down ralo of growth. At our rate of growth in recent years we are unable to meet our public needs, lo add to our defenses, and at the same time to keep on increasing private investment and to keep on raising the civilian standard of life. We have been producing less than wi p.i-cd and less than our econ omy is capable of producing. TpRO.M 1953. which marked the end of the Korea war boom, through 11)59, the aver age rate of increase of output has been only 2.4 per cent. The average is low because in those seven years there were two recessions. The net result was that the average rate of increase was less than the average, 3 per cent, from 1870 to lfllUI. Yet in these seven years of sluggish growth, the country has had the capacity - it has had the labor, the capital equipment, and the technical know-how - to grow at the rale of at least 4 per cent. It may not seem like a big difference, to grow at an aver age rate of less than 3 per cent or to grow at an average of 4 per cent. Bui in an economy of S500 billion, it makes an enormous differ ence. Each percentage point of increase is about S5 bil lion, and so the difference between our recent average rate of 2.4 per cent and the 4 per cent which wo are quite capable of is that difference between adding S 12 billions a year and adding $2(1 bil lions a year to our wealth. We have a rapidly growing population. At only $12 bil lions increase, we cannot spend more on defense and on our public needs - such as education and urban redevel opment and scientific research - without reducing the im provement in, perhaps with out cutting back, the civilian standard of life lint at 4 per cent with $211 billions, we can afford to do the things that reasonable men. including as we shall see the Vice Presi dent himself, think should be done. That is why concern with game. ! Tl'DCUNG by his St. Louis , " speech. Mr. Nixon does not Walter Llniiiiiaiin 1 understand the problem. For pon-lHftrr scoffing at the nomilar interest in growth, he con cludes his own speech with a broad general endorsement of a large spending program. That, at least, is what he calls it when Governor Rockefeller and the Democrats propose the same kind of a program Umttr his auspices it ceases tle more than $850 annually per capita was among the highest, if not the highest, in all South America, but actual ly was concentrated among a few, Its rural population was a wandering one, with only a few owning land and the others roaming from plot to plot as the land wore out or changed ownership. The government today has crash programs under way in the field of education, indus try and agriculture. It is a government in a hurry to shape a Venezuelan national consciousness and to lift standards of living in all fields. In education, some figures help tell part of the story. In 1958, school facilities in the primary grades were available to only 600,000 chil dren. That figure is doubled today. In middle education, the number has jumped from 30,000 to 86,000; and in the universities from 8,000 to 20,000. to be a spending program and it becomes "investment in the public sector." He would invest in "our public education establish ments, in our national trans portation system, in the re newal of our run down urban areas, in the development of our natural and human re sources, in providing imagina tive new leadership for the exciting scientific and tech nological revolution which will dramatically chahge the whole character of life in America and the world in our lifetime." He goes on to say, as if he thought he were Nelson Rockefeller, Jo.in F. Kennedy, and Hubert Humphrey rolled into one, thai "timidity in these areas wculd be as detri mental to the nn.innal inter est as timidity in private in vestment." TN THIS extraordinary pass- age Mr. Nixon has adopted the domestic program of his opponents. But there is still a differ ence between him and the Democrats and Governor Rockefeller. He does not say, and assuredly he does not know, how to pay for the ex pensive program which he now advocates, for it cannot be paid for unless there is a substantial rise in the average rate of growth except by cut ting down on private invest ment and on private consump tion. So if Mr. Nixon wants his promises to the voters to be taken seriously, he will have to learn to play the parlor game of growthmanship. rPHERE is one other feature of the speech which calls for a few .words. In a long passage Mr, Nixon talks about the Soviet rate of growth, which he puts at 8 per cent and our own which he puts at 3 per cent. He then says that the opposition critics are proposing to raise the Ameri can rate lo that of the So viet's. If the critics do that, they are exaggerating. A sus tained average rate of 4 per cent would be ample for us. Mr. Nixon says, too, that the critics think, as Mr. K. appar ently believes, that the Soviet economy will by 1970 catch up with and surpass the Amer ican. No serious American stu dent of this subject agrees with Mr. K. What the serious critics say is that the Soviet economy is about half as big as the American and that its rate of growth has recent ly been at least twice that of the American. This means that the annual increment of new wealth - which is avail able for military and civilian purposes and for private con sumption - is about as large in the Soviet Union as in the United States. (Thus call the U.S. economy 100 and the U.S.S.R. s 50. If ours grows at about 3 per cent, there is an increase of 3. If theirs grows at 6 per cent, there is also an increase of 3.) VOW with equal annual in 1 ' crements the Soviet Union directs a larger portion than we do to national purposes. To understand the significance of this Mr. Nixon need go no further than to the studies of the CIA and the testimony of Mr. Allen W. Dulles: "The major thrust of Soviet economic development and its high technological skills and resources are directed toward specialised t-idustrial, m 1 1 1 tary, and national power Matter of Fact a THE U2'S REAL MEANING Washington - In the last 18 months, the Soviet air defense system has been rapidly and powerfully re inforced with a dense, na tionwide net of surface-to-air rocket sites. The new anti - aircraft rockets to be fired from these sites are joskfu ai.sop estimated t o approach the American Nike Hercules in range and over all efficiency. These singularly unpleasant facts are among the more im portant bits of information which the American govern ment largely owes to the now suspended U2 flights over the Soviet land mass. Ironically enough, therefore, the facts actually gathered by the U2 rather directly contradicts the over-optimistic interpretation of the U2 episode which this reporter, among others, help ed to disseminate. When the U2 story first broke, it was natural to read very good news into the bad news. If the U2 could easily reach Sverdlovsk with its cameras, it seemed to follow that the B52s of the Strategic Air Force could just as easily reach Sverdlovsk with their bombs. HPHUS the U2 episode's most - significant effect in this country was to give a false picture of the contimiirg power of the Amer'-""n deter rent in the period rf ;'ic mis sile gap. As uau".l, the Ad mini'. r: lion f::iled to set the record straight. So did the recent report of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Yet the record needs to be set straight on the eve of the election year debate on this country's strength and pos ture. The record shows that ser ious weaknesses in the Soviet air defense system were in deed revealed, in the earlier period of the U2 overflights. At that time, the Soviet anti aircraft radars were found to be highly inaccurate in one of their main tasks - determin ing the exact altitude of their targets. Two years an, an attempt was made to intercept a U2 with a Soviet fi-ihier plane, no doubt beca i-c the U2's operating altitucio had been wrongly estimated on the basis of misleac'in- radar data. The fighter re-u'-cd its own operating ceiliir; at about 10,000 feet below the U2, which was flying at 70,000 feet. The fighter also lacked any "snap-up" capability with goals. A major thrust of our economy is directed into the production of the consumer type goods and services which add little to the sinews of our national strength. "Hence, neither the size of our gross national product nor of our respective industrial production are a true yard stick of our relative national power position. The uses to which economic resources are directed largely determine the measure of national power." (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. I a. . . . "- r - ' - a. a ; . - ' a I " V ! " , -1 ' fiafielJlMtaaAn the CauHhwte num. MOtOAN . HAICXO SNOOOIASt, FUNtlM 0MCTC4S DAY OK NIGHT J! Ask Us About the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN Which Wt Heartily Recommend and Endorn THURSDAY. JUNE 30, I960 Joseph A.-p an air-to-air rocket, compar able to the American Side winder. It fired ii- ennnon in vain, and the u'2 flew on wards untouched. OINCE that time, however, the Soviet air defense sys tem has been improved in several important ways. MIG 19 fighters with much better altitude characteristics have been introduced. Last year, one of them went above 90, 000 feet to set a new altitude record (which was later brok en by U.S. fighters). Again, new radars have been introduced which are far more accurate at high alti tudes. What is known here about the fate of Lt. Francis Powers's U2 is in fact mainly owed to the data from these radars, as described in the monitored radio traffic of the Soviet air defense system. Finally, the inadequate and incomplete surface - to - air rocket defenses of the earlier period have now been re placed. In the short space of only a year and a half, the new system already described has been installed and is being rapidly completed. None of these developments was the immediate cause of the destruction of Lieutenant Powers's U2. It was destrov. ed because engine "flame-out'' caused it lo lose altitude, and to descend within range of the Soviet air defense system. THE Soviet defense system, in truth 1 nnl ..... .., qriiCC- live against aircraft fivimr at the U2's normal altitude of io.uuu teet, as was shown hv i'l-.e successful U2 flight on April 9. But the Soviet sys tem is unquestionably effec tive against aircraft fiying at the B52's maximum altitude of 55.0000 to 60,000 feet. Thus the story of the U2, as one unchallengeable Ameri can authority has summed up, "has no bearing at all, either way, on the power of our strategic deterrent." Meanwhile, t h e improve ments in the Soviet defense system that have been sum marized have quite direct bearing on our deterrent power. They certainly do not mean, of course, that the de terrent is now powerless. The Soviets must certainly believe that they have reduced the B52's ability to strike home at their Russian targets. But they cannot believe that they have reduced it enough. Oth erwise, the Berlin crisis would have ended differently. Yet the stark fact remains that there was no substance in tlie hopes which were temporarily raised by this re porter and other optimistic interpreters of the U2 story. Instead, there is the same old hard reality of the period of the missile gap, with all of its potential dangers, (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. HELP US! We need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, end bedding. 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