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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORO MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. THURSDAY, JULY 7, I960 4 A "Everyone In nouthern OreeoB Readi The Mall Tribune1' Kbi'lVhedTJiiiiy except Saturday by MKuruuu pkintinu i;u. JiaNorth Flr St., Ph BPa-SUl ROBERT W ROhL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising- Manaier r;F.KU,D T. LATHAM. -Bus. MKT. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Mns. Editor KARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telef. Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE STARCirER. Women'! Editor DALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mt An Indeoendent Newsoap Entered b second cU matt ter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3, iby SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance. CopT 10c Dnflv and Sunday 1 year $1.1.00 Dnily and Sunday 6 moi. 8 00 Pallv and Sunday 9 moi. 4J3 Kniirinv rinlv One vear S4.30 By ("iirrter In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point Eaftla Point. Jacksonville, fiold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogut Riv er. Talent and on motor route, riaiJv and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms casn in Aavanc . "Official Paper o"fClty oMWedforff O f f i r 1alP an tr of Jackson ConntT United Press International Full Lenscd Wire U.P.I. Tclcphoto Nevvsplcturea ""member OF audit BUREAXT" OF UlRUULeAilUna Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC. ON fices In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, Lot Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWJPAMt PUBUSHEKS ASSOCIATION EDITORtAI Mrl Flight o' Time Medford end Jackson County History from the filei ol The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30, 40 and 50 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 7, 1950 (Friday) Tommy Nelson, player-man-seer of the Medford Rogues, has resigned his position to re turn to Santa Barbara, cam. to be with his son who was seriously injured in an auto accident recently. The Jacksonville Museum, which is not yet completed, will open to the public on Monday; dedication will be in August.- 20 YEARS AGO July 7. 1940 (Sunday) ' A eunman held up the Sig nal Oil service station. River side ave. and Eighth st., early this morning and got away with S27. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: I "Messrs. Hitler and Mussolini are expected to be looking for peace in a week or ten aays. There is no use jaDDing out their right eyes with an olive branch in the rush to give it to them." 30 YEARS AGO Julv 7. 1930 (Monday) Army worms have invaded the valley, local orchardists reDort. Large quantities of cherries have been canned by the Rogue River cannery in the past week. 40 YEARS AGO Julv 7. 1920 (Wedneaday) The first forest fire of the season was reported in the Butte Falls district yesterday. Recent rains have caused a total loss of the hay crop In some sections of the valley. 50 YEARS AGO July 7. 1910 (Thursday) A quarter block lot at the southwest corner of Central ave. and Sixth st., has been sold for $50,000; on it will be erected a four-story business building. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct la superior; aeven or eight is excellent; five ef he la good. 1. The adverb "maybe" may be used properly as one or two words in a sentence; true or false? 2. "The auld kirk-hammer strak the bellSome wee short hour ayant the twal."-Burns. What is a kirk hammer and twal? 3. Exports 1801: 65,000 bbls of rice, 8,000,000 lbs of cotton, 8,500 bbls of indigo, 5,996 hogsheads of tobacco- from what State? 4. Jesse James was once Secretary of Commerce; true or false? 5. Was Henrik Hudson an Englishman, Dutchman, or German? 6. What is the unit of mea surement for diamonds? 7. In which ocean is the Sargasso Sea? 8. How is the word "flage olet" pronounced? 9. Was the first Sunday School In New England es tablished in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, or Connecti cut? 10. Who was nicknamed "Old Blood and Outs"? Answers) 1. Fall. 2. Church hammen twelve. 3. South Carolina. 4.. Fall. ( It was Jene Jones.) 5. An English man. (In Dutch employ.) I. The Carat. 7. The Atlantic, I. Flaj-o-let.' I. Rhode Island. (Pewiucket in 1793.) 10. Gen. George S. Pattern Jr. NATIONAL Those "Blue" Laws During its next term, which opens in Oc tober, the United states bupreme (Jourt will con sider several cases, all dealing with the consti tutionality of the so-called Sunday closing laws now in lorce m a number or states. It has been 60 years this or any related question before it for decision. It has refused to consider a number of appeals, lor tne reason that no was apparent. But in recent months all parts of the country, court a valid justification for considering the matter. . - MO ONE, we presume, will argue with a state 11 law, based on the health and welfare of the people, which requires that each worker have one day m seven free from But there is a considerable Quarrel with the theory that this day must, through legislation, De bunaay. The Sunday closing laws, and as such are constitutional proviso that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ... DY CUSTOM and tradition, Sunday is a work " free day. But in today's complex society, there are many people who must work that day to keep essential services functioning. They include police officers, firemen, gasoline station attendants, telephone operators, ainine employees, taxi drivers, hotel personnel, radio announcers and so on. The justification for who advocate compulsory mey are "essential." ' Well what's essential? Drutrs? Food? Cloth- ing? Automobiles? Hardware? And who draws the line? (In Virginia, it is illegal to sell on Sun day any food which needs cooking except that state s iamous bmithlield hams. ) THERE'S an added factor one of religion and basic justice. Say a store is operated by a devout Seventh day Adventist, who observes Saturday as his Sab bath. He keeps his shop closed Saturday as a matter of religious conscience. Why, then, should he be' required to keep it closed Sunday too, simply because that is someone else's holy day? The same applies to Jews and Seventh-day Baptists. And there are plenty of good, moral, honest and reputable people around whose religious con victions do not jibe with those of any organized church. If they have no religious scruples against jsunoay work, why should they be penalized be cause others do? A WRITER in the current issue of "Liberty" puts it this way: i "Sunday blue laws are anti-Christian and anti American in that they reduce to the status of second class citizens "1. Ail those who for one religious reason or another choose to worship on a day other than Sunday. "2. .All those who for one reason or another choose not to worship on any day at all. "3. All these who for ' reasons they are not re quired to disclose to anyone else belong to Sunday keeping churches, but attend their churches infre quently, irregularly, or not all all. "It is this large and unvocal majority of the population of the United States who are told by the. well-organized and vocal minority that having one day of the week for rest, relaxation, and family together ness, et cetera, is a 'social necessity'." Such a day undoubtedly is a "social neces sity," but it needn't be Sunday not by law, any way. E.A. r There Are No Majorities Note that the three the quotation above, taken together, are listed as a majority. This is true, for organized, Sundaykeeping, churchgoing people in this nation are in a minority. But it is also true that there is no such thing as a true majority. It will also be noted that the "majority", claimed above is in truth a group of iiimuiiues, ana uecome purpose of comparison. AMERICA is composed of minorities and frimvuri Una if a nacnnf! n 1 Df itnuivf nv A ri-vsw If we ever forget this, and insist on a deaden ing conformity of the majority, we're done as a vigorous, progressive, dynamic nation. Each person who reads this is a member of one or more minorities, whether they be political, religious, temporal, occupational, racial, or a dozen other classifications. This is the reason why the United States Con situtional guarantees protecting the rights of the minorities are so important. e . e IN DEMOCRATIC nations, majorities rule. This it na if aforililJ Ya But it should never jority is nothing at all but an assemblage of min orities, united for one specific purpose, such as electing a president, or passing a school bond iss'Ue. i . . : ; And even such a majority is illusory. There are more people who don't vote than there are who do. E.A. since the court has had truly national question a number of cases, from have arisen, givine the . - . 'e work. . ; - laws are, In fact, religious questionable tinder the this, according to those Sunday closing, is that classifications listed in a majority oniy ior tne be forgotten that a ma Dennis the Communications Loiters to iht Editor must bear th name and addrees 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 paper) in fact th contrary is Rational Life To the Editor: This writer is strictly in accord with the editor's attitude regarding health insurance for the aged. At the present time there is deplorable situation in Ore gon relative to the attitude the state welfare organization takes toward the people on welfare who become ill. It has come to the attention of this writer of numerous oc casions where the welfare or ganization has refused to pay for drugs and physician's service on a technicality. We have heard that man does not live by bread alone. But welfare should be wel fare and nothing less. And man cannot live on technique alone unless it is an elaborate technique. That technique should include complete health service. Most people that seek wel fare do so as a last resort. They are not bums as the welfare bureau is so prone to imply. To apply for welfare is to face an inquisition sav oring of the middle ages. It is a harrowing ordeal to apply for benefits from the state welfare bureau. (Death where is thy sting?) It seems the purpose of our lawmakers is to strip the aged and infirm of the last vestige of dignity and reduce them to the status of a pauper and moral leper. People that have always made their way with hard work and honest deal ing resent being looked upon as chislers and mendicants. However, lawmakers seem to lack the touch of tact and too often those delegated to carry out the edicts of the lawmakers are no less crude. That .is understandable, for the agent has no cultural ax to grind, and at the same time cannot give what is not po- sessed. At this juncture we harken to our way of life and our cultural environment. For as we live there is no induce ment to develop the best that is in us. but to emphasize the suspicion and greed that we must be on guard against. Otherwise we ourselves be come the victims of avarice and chicanery that greets us on every hand. So as we learn the facts of our life we can hardly help becoming more charitable even to bureaucrats. They too are the product of their en vironment. Thus we see the advantage of a more rational way of life and why the Soviet Un ion is able to outstrip us In every endeavor where they apply themselves. Walter Reece, Gal ice, Ore. - Recreation Planning To the Editor: Being a moth er of two pre-school children, I certainly appreciate the ef fort the young girls are put- forth for these children with their supervised summer play ground activities. However, it seems to me that after taking time to suggest and plan a program of this type, the per sons who suggested this Idea would put forth enough ef fort to supply the girl with at least a minimum of .equip ment to work with. Arts and crafts Is one of the programs offered to these children, and it seems only logical that equipment be furnished for this as was promised. Just today one of these young supervisors told me that she was promised both a schedule and equipment and at yet hai received neither. Menace represent the views of the often th case. She has only what she brought herself. Today some 30 young boys gathered for a scheduled ball game and were Immediately informed that they couldn't play today because the man couldn't be here to watch them. How could 30 boys got mixed up on a date? What a let down for these boys. ' Could the organizer of this go ahead with it, or did they plan on having a few girls do the work alone? Medford, being a city of some size, has very little recreation for the 5 through 9 year age chil dren. I think we could take a minute of time, couldn't we? (Name on file) Medford. Hurrah for M. J. Olson ' To the Editor: Thank God for. the M. J. Olsons of this country-if there were only more! And as to the Walter Reeces of this country, since our government is so gener ous with its funds (note "our great big highway bungle" in July issue of Reader's Digest) pernaps tney would set- up a fund whereas they could move permanently to their beloved Russia and stay there. I am for everyone being as happy as possible, so long as it isn't at the expense of others. I think Mr. Olson's last paragraph bears rcpealing only addressed to Administra tive Government In General. Something needs to be done and soon. Robert A. Young 1045 West Valley View rd. Ashland, Ore. Treat Them Alike To the Editor: I presume something is being done about the charges of discrimination in law enforcement in favor of juvenile hoodlums of prom inent families made by Mrs "Name on file" a few days ago. I don't want to see kids jugged but if we're going to crack down on 'em we better treat the prominent and obs cure alike. O. D. Martin 208 Vashti Way Medford. Old Timers Take Parade Blue Ribbon Ashland-The Rogue Valley Old Timers club took the blue ribbon prize In the motor ized division of the Fourth of July parade here recently, Twenty-one' old cars were paraded down Siskiyou blvd to Llthia park where they were placed on display for tne afternoon. Driving for the first time were Lawson Scott Jr., Med ford, a 1924 Model T coupe; and C. Goodlctt, Phoenix, 1923 Model T touring car. The local car club has been invited to be guests of the Eugene Horseless Carriage club to the annual Salmon festival at Reedsport July 16 and 17. Both clubs will meet jointly for the first time; The old timers will par ticipate In the parade, clam bake, boating events, and the salmon feed. Persons Interested in par ticipating may telenhone Earle Swift at Murdock 5-6984 for mora Information. I Organized Labor Beginning Power Pitch At LA. Convention; By LYLE C. WILSON Los Angeles -llll'U- This Is the dny on which organized labor will begin its effort to sew a union label on the Dcmocra tic i hi .j a yivai M tlal plutform. ' I First up foi Party's prcsl- up for the unions will be Walter P Reuther, head man ot the United Auto- Lrl. c wilrao mooue worn crs and No. 2 in AFL-CIO. Reuther generally Is regarded as labor s political Mister Big, Reuther also is generally re garded as a dedicated Ken ncdy-for-Prcsident strategist. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS Let's shed n tour today for young Juck Kenned y. He seems to be out in front on the Democratic side, so they're GANGING UP on him. Former President Truman started it the olnor day when (with reporters in hearing dis tance) he allowed that maybe Mr. Kennedy isn't old enough or experienced enough to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States Besides, he added, the Los Angeles convention has been "rigged" for the young man from Massachusetts. QUESTION: 1 How docs one RIG a party nominating convention WOULDN'T know, but I'm reasonably certain that If HST knew how to rig the up coming Los Angeles affair for HIS candidate (presumed to be Mr. Symington of Mis souri) HE'D RIG IT. As a rig ger of such affairs, he has had quite a lot of experience in his day. BUT let's get on with the rat-killing. In answering criticism of his youth, 43-year-old Ken nedy said health and vigor are needed in the White House in these parlous days. . And- Hc referred to illness suf fered by recent Presidents. That stirred up another nest of hornets. WHEN the "Illness" crack came over the air waves to Los Angeles, John B. Con nally, chairman, and India Edwards, vice-chairman of the Johnson-for-Presidcnt Com mittee, were holding a news conference. They were asked by reporters if they regard ed Kennedy's remark as an oblique jab nt Senator John son, 51-ycar-old senate lead er, who suffered a heart at tack in 1955. They replied that they would be glad to match John son's medical record against Kennedy's history of Addi son's disease. Connally also referred to Kennedy's long absence from the senate In 1954 when he underwent op erations for a back injury. 11HAT'S Addison's disease? " We'll have to get out the doctor book. It describes Addison's disease as a disor der of the medulla of the adrenal gland, which forms adrenalin. The book adds: "When people become angry or frightened, large amounts of the adrenalin hormone flow in the blood. As a re sult, the blood pressure is increased, the heart beats faster and the bronchial mus cles are dilated. The Individ ual is prepared for violent muscular action. For this rea son, adrenalin has often been called the 'fight or flight' Try and fill -By BENNETT CERF- pHARLES CHAPLIN JR., in famous father, tells of the telephone. He wouldn't talk in met, scm mm off in a tirade. "Bloody racket," he would shout "Blast the fools who in vented it! Shut it off! Shut it off!" And yet, when the time came to invest his money, what stock do you think Charlie Chaplin favored above all others? You guessed it! American Tel and Tel! An IU wind blew a Mtuv tian to tho stage door of a ' mmmor theatre. He but- tonholcd the neurotic dlreotor of same and ordorod, "Take me to your loader." The director yawned and ropliod languidly, "You'll have to rohoarso that line aome more, doar boy. Your diction is aoploraDle.M a,.-,:,-.--.., Frank Boy den pinpoints the exact moment when a boy boeomM a, man. It's when be begins to walk around puddles Instead of through them. l BsantttCart, nietritiea lg Hy.t (jplhtta Thiil Is a good break for Sen. John F. Kennedy of Mas sachusetts, Reuther has be come a key man In the Demo cratlc Party by reason of his political know-how and his po sition in thu lubiir movement. On the record Is the political fact that In 105(1 Reuther luid the power tu break the back of the opposition to tlio nomi nation of Adlal E. Stevenson. He accomplished that by de moting Michigan Gov. G. Men tion Williams from favorite son status and delivering tlio big delegation to Stevenson. To match Heuther's position In tlio Democratic Party, you must go back some years to the era of the late Sidney 1IUI man. ilillniim rose from labor leadership In the garment In New Red Chinese Aggression Overshadowed, But Persistent By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From Nepal's remote capital of Katmandu a few days ago came word of a Red Chinese attack on the even more re mote kingdom of M u s tang. The king of Mustang and his family were reported fleeing south. F o r those con c e r n d 1'iiiL nkhsom with such events, the very obscurity of Mustang presented a chal lenge. Demos Break Bovine Tradition; Fumes influential By DICK WEST Los Angelcs -WD - For the first time in 12 years, we are about to have a national po litical convention without a barnyard bouquet. Since 1948, all the Demo cratic and Re publican con ventions have been held either In the Stock yard Amp ithenter in Chicago or the Cow Pal ace in San Francisco, the prevaling Dick Will Because of hormone because It Is roused by anger or fear." As for Mr. Kennedy's back Injury, it started with foot ball in college and was aggra vated when his P-T boat was blown out of the water by Jap shells In the War In the Pacific and Kennedy, al though Injured, struggled heroically to save the lives of his men. WHAT'S this Presidential nomination business com ing to? It's beginning to sound like a . horse trade back In the days when before acquiring a nag the prospective buyer went over It with meticulous care, looking at Its teeth to determine its age, feeling Us legs for spavins and Inquir ing searchingly into Its life history In the way of heaves, glanders and such. RED-FACED EDITORS Atlanta- 0IPD - The weather man had promised showers for day s, but continued drought prompted the Atlanta Journal Wednesday to head line Its weather siory: "Wea therman Gives Up." The newspapers hit the strcet-and the rains came. Stop Me his revealing book about hi latlor'a nfl ) f n flUAfalnn 4n lit. over one. Just to hear one Reuther Is dustry to a position of veto power In a Democratic Na alllonal Convention. That con vention took plac In 1044. Democratic leudura then were less concerned with pro tecting Hlllman from charges that he was In political ca hoots with American Commu nists than with denying that he possessed or used a voto power on th 1944 choice of a Democratic vice presidential nominee. Henry A. Wallace was dropped that yvnr on grounds he would cost FDR a lot of votes. Th word passed that James F. Byrnes of South Carolina, was FDR's choice for vcep. Parly managers met unci were agreed to nominate Uyrncs when National Committee Whero was it and what was It? Initial research proved dis couraging. Britain's Royal Geographic Society didn't know. Neither did India House. The Nepalese consul didn't know either. Some thought It was a part of Nepal but not a kingdom. Gradually, scraps of Infor mation emorged. Mustang is a vassal state of Nepal with a population of about 200,000, mostly Buddh ist. The town of Mustang is 10 miles from the Tibetan border on the Kail Vandnkl river. It Is 10 days walking ells- Freeway aroma of these conclaves, the recent tendency has been to equate politics with the scent of livestock. But this year, as you know, the Democrats are making a break with the bovine tradi tion by holding their conven tion in an arena ordinarily In habited by athletes Instead of cows. Smells Oas Fume I have Just completed a tour of the Convention Hall and I detected no distinctive odors except funmcs from the near by freeway. What effect this will have on the political sit uation I am not prepared to say. In fact, It was rather hard for me to tell whether the basic aim of the convention is to choose a presidential candidate or stage a television spectacular. The convention directors arc sparing no trouble or ex pense to make things look good on the little screen In the homes of the voters. The way the trend Is going, I wouldn't be surprised If we eventually quit having elec tions and started picking our presidents according to their Trendcx rating. Has Prompting Device The first thing I noticed at the hall was a motorized plat form designed to raise and lower the convention orators so they all will look six feel tall. Thus It won't be neces sary for any speaker to stand on a box or wear elevator shoes In order to see over the top of the rostrum, Also hidden In the rostrum WHEN ONLY Thtrt't a "qutfntii" In our turroundingt thai ipi undirttandlng Aeaii Iran iht Cwtlheuia " MANK MOROAN - HAIOtD INODODASt, fUNHAt 0IMCTOM fMyOK NIGrir PHONE if J-J030 Ak ui shout the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCI PLAN which we heartily recommend and endoris, Key Man Chairman Robert V limine. gun reminded them that FDIl had OK'd Uyrncs with tlio stipulation, "clear It Willi Sidney." Illllmaii bnlked nt nyrne.t. Of this disagreement was horn the nomination of Hurry S. Truman (or vice president. Some mouths later, 1 1ST he. came President of tlio Unlloct Slates. So It was that Hill man's veto loft Its mark on history. The Now York Times' Arthur Kroek wrote tlio "Clear It with Sidney" story soon after all concerned de nied that it was true, II Is Son. Lyndon B. John son's bad luck that big labor does not want him nomlnuteit for president. So, he probably won't hu nominated. tance from the nearest air strip, and since there are no recognizable roads, walking Is the only way to gel there. Communication with Katman du Is by a shaky wireless sys. tern which frequently docs not function. This Information would be of lltle Interest to anyone lie sides the Mustangcse, except as an Illustration of the diffi culties facing such nations as India and Nepal In their strug. gle against Red Chinese en croachment on their frontiers. In the sweep of events of recent weeks-failure at Ilia summit, collapse of disarm, anient talks, tho fall of gov eminent In Turkey and Kim rea and near-anarchy In Japan -more lias been little time to note land-hungry Red China's unremitting pressures on her neighbors. In the latest Incident, Ne palese army officer was killed, and 17 others were ar rested by Red Chinese troops Inside Nepalese territory. Attack Expected These troops are part of Red China's Tibetan garrison and they recognize no boon, darlrs In their pursuit of hap. less Tibetans seeking to es cape the Communist Utopia Impressed upon their home land. In any evont, latest dis patches from Katmandu say that political circles there now are convinced Uie red Chines will make a direct 'attack against Nepal. They are equally convinced that In event of attack, the United Nations and the United States will come firmly to their aid. How this could be accom plished is something of a mys tery, since no such help was forthcoming when the Reds took over Tibet. Red Chinese troops already arc within three days march of Katmandu from their near est garrison at Koradl. The farthest point In Nepal Is but 20 minutes flying time from Red Chinese Jet airfields. are two prompting devices which will make it posslblo for the orators to faco tlio cameras on cither side and still read their lines whllo appearing to speak extempor aneously. Maybe I'm Just old-fashlon but I liked conventions better" when tho orators were uncle vatcd and unprompted. I sup pose I will even miss the old barn smell. WILL DO L 1)