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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1960)
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. From Oregon's Press Oregon') newspapers art, generally, vigorous and woll-edlted. The following are dltorlali, articles or column common! from varloui Orsgon papers, quoted either In full or In part, and lolocled because of Ihslr gonsral interoil, Tholr publication does not Imply olllior approval or dltapproval on the part of the Mall Tribune of the oplnlon given. SUNDAY, JULY 17, 1800 m eej)j)j)j) JINX YEAR? Thin I Iho hex year for (li Amorlcun prasldoncy. "Cut' torn" say llio nnin oli-etod to tlia Wlillo llouso Dili ycu will dlo In office 1 h I ghoulish prospect voivoi from tlia fuel Unit ev- ory president oloclod In yenr ondlntf In "zero" during the pint 12(1 ynun h fulled to sorvo out hlit tenure. Thoy have not all dlod dur- Ins the term to which they were eluded In a "Hero1 yenr, but nil of thorn huvo left 1000 Pennsylvania avenue In a coffin, It bt-Kiin with William lien ry Harrison, who waa duct ed In 11140 and nicroinhed to pneumonia contracted during nil Inuutturiil festivities. Klectctl In 1H00, Abraham Lincoln wnl nuirderrd as he hemin Ida second term In lSlln. Jiunos Garfield wna elected In 1BH0 and waa ihot mortal ly with In two month) of en terlng offlco by a disgruntled oiriceieekcr. milium Mckinley wai elected to his second tormln 1000 and assassinated by lunatic the next summer. Wnrrcn G. Harding, elected In 11)20. died of causes which are still somewhat a mystery not (iilte half-way through nla term. And Franklin O. Hoosevolt elected to his third term In 1040, riled ns he begun hi) fourth term In 1045. This la 11)110. And a good year In which to give vice presidential candidates good looking over. - Forrest W, Amsden In Coos Bay worm, STATISTICS! Statistics are fanciful, In terming In themselves, but not always applicable to given situation. Look at t h e s o figures on defense spending: Boulder (or Hoover, which I) It?) Dam cost "only S200.. 000.(100. Wo spend that much on defensp every two day), In less than a week of de fense spending, we could build the St. Lawrence Sea way and another Boulder, presuming that cosla were sla ble. Wt could build a million' dollar hospital In every coun ty In America for the cost of one month s defense spend Ing. Our entire national hlglv way program could be paid lor in three months. The Nation has another suggestion for getting rid of the $40 billion we spend on aeiense every year, if, says the magazine, wo send a mil Hon American boys and girls to school in Itussin and If the Russians send a million here, the cost would be about $:7 billion. If the Russians contributed nothing to the project (except the kids), we still save $:i billion a year And we'd he safe from their bombs and they from ours, as long as each country had a million children in the other. That's an Interesting sug gestion, ns interesting as the listing of other ways to spend $40 billion a year, Anothor statistic: $40 bil lion a year Is about $4.30 a week for each man, woman and child In America. That atatlstlc will be no surprise to anybody who ever both ered to compare the amount on Iho left side of his pay roll slip with the amount of the chock. - Eugene Register-Guard. REPORT ON FLORIDE In 1093 fluoride waa added to tho water supplies In Cor vallla and Philomath. The Corvnllls Gazctte-Ttimcs, re porting on results, says that "pronounced reductions In tooth decay are- credited to fluoride." Research on the project Is being done by Dr. Gcrtrudo Tank, herself a den tist, now a dental specialist on tho faculty of OSC, which has been doing extensive re search on nutrition and den tal health since 1943, aided by a federal f nint. Dr. Tank la quoted as say ing that "all available scien tific evidence Indicates that thoro is absolutely no danger In witter fluoridation," whoro the additive, brings tho fluo rine ratio to one part In a million. Such Is the mind-set of the foes of fluoridation that they will pay no heed to the evi dence assembled by scientists, )o they continue to block ef forts in many cities to add fluoride for the protection of the dental health of children. Salem is still In the "dark ages" on fluoridation of Its water supply: - Oregon Statesman, Salem, EDITOR'S POLITICS It la not uncommon, we're told, for husband and wife to cancel each oilier out at the ballot box. We've known a lew Minnies In which one member of tho team was a He publican and tho other a Deui ocrat. When they spoke of it It alwuys was Jestingly. Wo always suspoctud, however thut in privacy the situation generated some hcut in an aloctlon year, One of tho most Interesting cases wa ve come upon In valves a newspaper family. Co-owners of tho newspaper Nowaduy (Long Island, N.Y.), are Marry Guggenheim and hla wlfo, tho former Alicia Patterson. Ho is of tho Gug gonholm family that made a great fortune In mining. She Is the daughter of Col. Joe Patterson, founder of the New York Dally News, and grand daughter of Joseph Medlll founder of the Chicago Trib une. In this election year Mr. 335 Landowners Assisted by State Farm Forester A total of 3113 landowners In southern Oregon was glv en forestry assistance during the 1000 fiscal year, accord- Ing to Farm Forester Jim Fisher, Oregon state forestry department, Medford. I he landowners own or manage more than 13.000 acres of forcstland. Good cut ting practices are being fol lowed on ncaly 70 owner ships that were advised on forest management, the for ester stated. A) a result of the forestry assistance, nearly 230 acres received forest stand Im provement work by thinning and control of competitive vegetation, over 450 acres were planted with tree seed lings, and more than 100 acres pruned towards the fu ture production of "peeler logs" for plywood. One of Eight Projects Iho Medford funn forestry project is one of eight such projects established by the Oregon state forestry depart ment to assist private wood land owners. Other project) are located at Salem, Albany, Tlllnmook, Oregon City, Eu gene, Forest Grove, and La Grande. Besides advising private woodland owners, the farm forester works closely with other slate, federal, and pri vate foresters in promoting good forest management. Among the cooperative pro- grama Is the Agricultural Conservation program con cerned with aiding private landowners financially with the Improvement of their woodland. Complete Information on the farm forestry assistance may be obtained by writing post office box 71, Medford, by telephoning NOrmandy 4-1213 by contacting the state forestry department head quarter) on Table Rock rd., Medford. Newly Elected Head Of NARCE Dies Joseph L. Spllman, newly elected president of the Na tional Association of Retired Civil Employees, In Washing ton, D. C, died recently fol lowing a heart attack, accord ing to rccont word to the southern Oregon chapter. Spllman was elected nation al president at the June convention. The southern Oregon chap ter also announced that it will have no meeting) until September. Guggenheim la supporting Richard Nixon and his wife Is plugging fur Adlal Stevenson. Shu speaks In tho editorial columns and ho In a signed column on tho editorial page. This Is most unusual. It Is not unusual, however, any newspaper editor will tell you, fo ru wlfo to disagree with some of the editorial views of her editor husband, Usually this nevor goes any further thun a good discsslon at home, And it can be most helpful to tho editor. Where other) may hesitate to tell him they dlsugrcn with an editorial his wife does not. She gives him . the other slrio and forces him : to defend his thinking. i Do members of a newspa-j per') editorial department I ) t a f f disagree politically? , We've been asked that ques- i Hon many time). Tho answer Is that of course thoy do. A news staff whose members were all of one party would bo hard to find. We've never known an editor who asked the political affiliation of a ' man when he hired him. Moat 1 editors couldn't go through their newsrooms and tell you the politics of the people working there. It Just doesn't i make any difference. A newspaper') view) on pol-, itlo are expressed In the cdl- torinl columns, not the news i columns. An editor hopes there are no communists on his staff but beyond that he . doesn't glvo a hang how they -think politically. He knows . that some do not agree with his political thinking but he doesn't consider it of any im-: portance. - J. W. Forrester in ' the Pendleton East Oregonian. j Logging Truck Hits Bridge on Applegate Road A loaded logging truck and trailer turned over and struck the railing of the Cameron bridge on the Big Applegate rd. Friday afternoon, state police said. The truck and trailer are owned by Dumian Eatrcmado, Gold Hill, and was driven by Charles Burton Beck, route 1, box 480, Gold Hill. The driver apparently escaped In Jury, police said. State police said the truck and trailer were nearing the curve approach to the bridge when the driver apparently lost control. The truck skid- cd 2(10 feet, turned over and lid into the bridge railing. Most of tho logs rolled over the bank, state police said. Driver Charged State police said the driver would be charged in Gold ' Hill Justice court with cither failure to operate on the right I side of the road or violation j of basic rule. Claire Axtel, Eagle Point, reported to state police that her pickup truck and one driven by Charles Jcnks, 1819 Taylor st., Medford, collided about 7 p.m. Friday Just off the Crater Lake highway near tho approach to Eagle Point. Minor damage resulted to both vehicles. Two .nation wagons collid ed Saturday morning ot the intersection of the Crater Lake highway and the Sams Valley Gold Mill highway, state police said. Vehicles involved were driven by Ruth Jackson Brown, 22, Oswego, N. Y., 1 and Mary Stanley, 47, Grants Pass. Minor damage resulted , to both vehicles, officers said. The New York driver was Informed a complaint will be filed in district court charg-1 ing failure to drive on right side of highway, police added. ; Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF OINCE WORLD WAR I, points out Arthur Salomme, many ! .cities In Eastern Europe have, through capture or legis- i latlon, been shifted across International borders. Such a 1 city, for example, wns the Gorman city of Lcm- 7-rt burg, rennmcd Lwow when It was ceded to Po land In 1919, nnd renam ed again as Lvov when it was incorporated Into the Soviet Union. A schoolboy in 1958 made tho mistake of men tioning in clnss thill tho rent name of tho city was Lomburg. Tho shocked teacher barked, "Pupil Iv'unov will march to the front of the class and re cite ten times: Pupil mill say we're in Lvovl" Mother," wallod tho daughtor of a confirmed beatnik, "I'm fretting mighty tired of running; around In circle." "Shut up," i-aapcd tho dear, Victorian mother, "or I'll nail your other foot to the floor." (Hick, sick, nick.) 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