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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1800 - A : "Evaryoiw In Southern Oreron UmAm TK Malt Trlhiina" PubllThfd Dolly except Saturday by 13 Nortll fir St., Ph BP3-SU1 Jflmffff W BUHL. Editor RKRB GREY Advertlilm Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bui Mrr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnl Editor EARL H ADAMS, City SMUOr UABUV PUimllU Talaa KMIn RICHARD JEWT.TT, Sporta Editor OLIVl STARCHER. Women'a Editor DALE EH1CKSON. Lircuiaqon war An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered ai second clave matter at Aledtord. ureron. unaer nci ui March 3, 1897 ftTtnSHRrPTION RATES By Mat) - In Advance. Copy lOo Dally and Sunday 1 year ISM Dally and Sunday mol 1.00 Daily and Sunday 3 moe M Sunday Only One year Mao rirplM-ln Artvance Medford Ashlend. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix, Shady Cove, Ro(ue Riv er, Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday 1 year SIS 00 , Dally and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City ef MeotoHf Official Papir ef Jackson CotmtT United Press International Pull Leased Wire O.P.1. Telephoto Newspletnre " MEMBEROF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATIONS Advertlilns Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO. INC Of : flees In New York Chlcano De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis At lanta, Vancouver. B.C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 vesrs ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 26, 1950 (Wednesday) Rogue valley winter pear growers will vote soon on proposed amendments to the winter pear marketing agree ment already approved by the department of agriculture. A banquet will precede the first-night opening of the 10th annual Shakespearean festi val in Ashland, Aug. 2. 20 YEARS AGO July 26, 1940 (Friday) A year ago today Medford suffered from 108 degree tem perature but today the tem perature reached only 73 de grees. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Swiss scientist has found the 92nd element, that sciente has been looking for since 1789. Many a man never knew the 92nd element was lost" 30 YEARS AGO July 26, 1930 (Saturday) Allied Industries, Inc., form ed to develop Roxy Ann coal beds. Ned Sparks, the glum film comedian, is in the area this week to fish in the Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO July 28, 1920 (Monday) Eads storage warehouse was destroyed here in a $100, 000 fire last night. The local Chamber of Com merce is putting pressure on the state highway department for a paved road to Crater Lake. SO YEARS AGO July 28, 1910 (Tuesday Judge K. K. Hanna, cir cuit judge .in Jackson and Josephine counties for the past 25 years, died at hU home here yesterday afternoon. Medford has received as surances that it will be the site for the 1913 convention of the Pacific Coast Associa tion of Nurserymen. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or Ian correct Is superior: taven or eight is excellent; five at It la goad. 1. Who was Vice President during Franklin D. Roose velt's first term? 2. Does human hair grow from the roots or from the ends? 3. In Spanish countries, is a short sleep at midday known as a fiesta or a siesta? ' 4. Mindanao is part of . Which Pacific island group? , 5. Does the compass have 24, 28, or 32 points? 6. Does the buffalo on a Buffalo nickel face to the left . or to the right? 7. What is the legal docu ment summoning a witness into court? ...... , 8, Which type of U. S. naval vessels bear the names of fish? 9. Character study by means of handwriting is known as gr y? 10. The nickname "Old Line State" is applied to Massachu- setts, Maryland, Missouri, or Rhode Island? Answers! 1. John Nance Garner. 2. From the roots. 3, Siesta. 4. The Philippines. 5. 32 points. 8. To the left. 7. Subpoena. 8. Submarines 9. Graphology. 10. Maryland, Salem-IUPD-Francls I. Smith of Portland Monday was re appointed by Gov. Mark Hat field. Ben Robinson of Imb ler was named to the state forestry board to succeed Ray mond M. Kell who resigned. NATIONAL EDITORIAI Welcome Back, Will Welcome back again, Will Shakespeare. Welcome back again to Ashland, where you have, over 20 seasons, made your mark as an honored member of the community, as one who has brought to us all and to our guests the joys and moods and anguish of your comedies and histories and tragedies. And welcome again to your devotees, both before and behind the footlights those who do, and those who watch and thrill to the printed word coming alive and colorful. DANNERS and lights and trumpets; a sea of "expectant faces; the greenery and the new statuary; dancers and singers; greeters and ven dors these are part of the scene. And behind the scene, the great and com plicated mechanism of the stage, only a little of which is visible to those who come to Shake speare for entertainment There are lound tne Dusy seamstresses, the prop men, the actors pacing or sitting as they rehearse that line again; the shops and storage rooms; the prompter's booth hidden beneath the stage ; the vast and complicated electronic mon sters that control the lights; the busy typewriters of the publicists; the jungle of props and ropes and wires all hidden from public view. SHAKESPEARE in Ashland in the summer is o. -fino fVoa-r'lrmmirv f hinor But unseen, unattended, usually quite un known, are months of quiet labor and preparation and selection ; of planning and drawing and blue printing; of long discussions and long-laid plans. It is the labor of committees, and conferences, and phone calls and letters and telegrams; of men and women who ask no reward but to be a part of Shakespeare in Ashland in the summer, and work at it all fall and winter and spring. Without all this bhakespeare in Ashland in the summer would not be possible. But it is, and it enables us to say, with pleasure : Welcome back again, Will Shakespeare. -E.A. . Man and the Weather Back in the days Harvey Brandau were flying over-age warplanes into the middle of thunderstorms, there has been much interest in this area in the possibilities of artifical control of the weater. (Actually, "control" is too strong a word. Each attempt has had a specific, and limited, purpose.) But Jackson county and its environs has been the site of a number of weather modification experiments, ranging from those designed to in crease winter precipitation, through attempts to eliminate hail by seeding thunder-clouds, to dis persal of fog. CUCCESS-has been varied, and in most cases, problematical. As a result, the last of the experiments, conducted by the California Ore gon Power company in wintertime snowfall, was discontinued this year. The valley's fruitgrowers, who first tried planes, then ground seeding, to control hail, abandoned their project earlier. In each case, the statistical analyses of the experiments did not show sufficient results to justify the continued expense, which was con siderable. But weather experimentation, elsewhere in the nation, is continuing. ITNDER a 1958 law, the National Science Foundation was directed to conduct experi ments in weather modification, and to keep track of other experiments, of which there are quite a number, conducted by other agencies of gov ernment (including the armed forces), other units of government, and commercial and foreign experiments. The first annual NSF report on weather modi fication does little more than to describe how the .work is proceeding, and to conclude that much more basic research is necessary. But it points out that the newest wrinkle in observing weather from satellites above the weather may well be the biggest step forward in long-range forecasting, and in evaluating mas sive attempts at weather modification. THE stakes in this are high, and we sometimes are inclined to believe that not enough ur gency has been accorded research in meteorology, including aspects of weather modification. For the nation which can control, to any sig nificant degree, the world's weather, will be in a position of tremendous advantage, both military and economic. By the same token, the weather holds the possibility of tremendous danger as well as tremendous benefits. The "bal ance" of the world's weather is, some scientists believe, a delicate thing, and by tinkering too much without sufficient facts man might, inad vertently, bring on a new ice age, for instance. CVER since he first invented, or put to his own " use, fire, the lever and the wheel, man has increasingly controlled his environment. Weather control is simply an extension of this tendency into a new field. But in his advancing technology, he has reach ed a point where his control of his environment is capable of affecting the entire world and its living inhabitants. We'd feel a little more comfortable about the whole thing if man were making progress in get ting along with himself equal to his progress in probing the secrets of nature. E.A, and enlightenment. when Gene Kooser and an attempt to increase massive modification of Dennis the ' Its Wpggv bank an' tfs MYtfOKty' TMtTS K'HAT 1 5HOULDA SAID," Washington Report By WILLIAM CHICAGO Chicago - An atmosphere of remembrance, of nostalgia, and of homecoming overhangs the Republican national con vention. The con vention o d d ly suits (Chicago. And Chicago o d d ly suits the conven tion. For if this s p r a w ling, b r a w 1 ing city itself is traditionally an urban Demo cratic stronghold, this is far more than merely a city. It is the capital of a vast area called the American Middle West - and it is the capital. still, of the Republican party. The Middle West is the heartland of Republicanism. the birthplace of the grand old party and the spiritual home of the first Republican prest dent, Abraham Lincoln, whose nomination occurred just a hundred years ago. pHICAGO, in a word, is the more or less inevitable na tional meeting place for the Republicans. So it Is the seat of many mixed memories for them. For example, it was here that the Republicans marshaled in 1952, after 20 years in exile from the White House, to begin a triumphant march back with the nomina tion of Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower. It was here also, in that same year, that the brilliant ly wrong-headed, the brave and honorable "Mr. Republi can," the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, suffered a last and movingly gallant defeat in his long and doomed ambi tion to reach the presidency. It is an easy writer s cliche to proclaim that ghosts are in such a place as this. But, forgive the hackneyed expres sion if you will, they do rove here all the same. As a " William S. White LUCY'S MASTERPIECE "This political cartoon," Amercla's No. 1 Fussbudget told Charlie Brown In the "Peanuts" comic strip last week, "Is guaranteed to cure all of the world's troubles!" At first glance, her claim may seem exaggerated. But on second thought, if G.O.P. and DEM. slopped glar Menace S. WHITE bystander I, for one, can still see, as though this were yes terday, the frantic movements back and forward over this city of eight long years ago as the massive Taft and Eiscn. hower forces grappled in com bat for the mind of the Re publican party. e TN THE thick of action al- ways, day and night, stood Taft. His own commander, his own chief of staff, he strode caucus room and corridor, the endless lights glinting on his eyeglasses as he battled for Robert Taft and Robert Taft's concept of what the party should be. Removed from the public eye and from the pub lic pit of action, Eisenhower was operating wholly through his advisers. Taft's basic strength was Middlewestern; Eisenhower's as Eastern. So when the smoke cleared, the losers, for the record, were Taft and the Middle West; the winners, El senhower and the East. Now, looking back on the past Chi cago from the Chicago of the present, one sees that the vic tory was far from total, ine Eastern or "modern" Repub licans had won a great bat tle, but not an ultimate war. For the new Republican nominee about to emerge from these iess-than-frantic present proceedings, Richard M. Nixon, is a bridge and blend between the Taft old guard and the Eastern new guard. Taft was beaten here, yes. And Taft ' was soon to die. But Taft Republicanism, diluted perhaps, still lives on here. e e a AND ONCE again - as al wavH whpiv thpv are real ly in trouble - it Is to the Middle West that the Repub licans have returned. They have looked homeward to the real capital of the GOP; they have come home again. The shy and gulping young man of 1952, who had so LUCY c GOP Civil Rights Position Dictated Just Bv Mathematics of 1960 Election Year Bv LYLE C. WILSON lntcrnntloiml Amplittliontpr, Chlcago-UOT-Tho simple milh metlc of the civil rights dis pute troubling f! I this Kepubll i. ' lean National u o n v uiuiuu could bo solv e d by any third grade student. The problem la this: Sub tract 11 from 17. Tho an- Drle C Wll.ee swor ,g slx, Go to Uie head of tho class, Jun 1 if $) sir Castro's 'Show' Impressive But Latin Disaffection Grows By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor With Soviet Russia. Red China and Communist North Korea prominently represent ed, Fidel Cas tro returned to the rugged Sierra Maes tro this week to host a youth con g r e s s com m e m orating the annivcr- .. , i. i I'HIL NKWSO.M u I y -U movement. Not surprisingly, the con gress was meeting under the sogan, "for the Liberation of Latin America" meaning liberation from Yankee Im perialism. It was a show consider ably short of the one million attendance originally adver tised, but still an Impressive display of the bearded Cas tro's ability as a crowd pica er. These were the mountains which Castro used as his base In his revolution against Pres ident Fulgen Batista, and it was from them on July 26, 1953, that he launched a bloody but abortive attack on Batista's Moncada barracks In Santiago. Campaign Springboard Now, like the Pled Piper of Hamlin, Castro has piped the way to the mountains for this youth rally which in ac tuality Is a springboard for his Communist-supported hate campaign to split all of Latin America away from the Unit ed States. Not all of Latin America reacted as favorably to the quickly leaped from obscuri ty to a gilt-edged nomination for vice president of the Unit ed States, Is "Mr. Republi can" now. To all the Republi cans assembled, here Chica go means much. But to this man, Richard Nixon, it means Incomparably more than he could ever tell. Chicago and fortune eight years ago put his feet upon a ladder reaching higher than he had ever dreamed to reach. What now do Chicago and fortune hold for a man now Infinitely more poised and skilled as he reaches for the very topmost rung, election to the American presidency? Feature Syndicate, Inc. Copyright 1960 by United '"IsMUltJ ing at each other, and the early American spirit of "Don't Trend On Me" came out from behind that rock, and Uncle Sam stop ped standing there with his hands nt his side, maybe . , , juut maybe , . , Well, what do you think? ior, and tell the Republicans how you did It. Simplicity, Itsolfl Thcro aro 11 states In tho ono-tlme solid South, tho states of tho old Confederacy. Thero are at least 17 North ern and Western Industrial states-big city atates-ln which tho Negro voto la a likely bal ance of power in any close election. The reasoning of New York Gov, Nelson A, Rockefeller mid tho other In dustrial stnto polltlcos l quite evident. They expect this oloc tlon to be a cloao one and they aro willing to bid high rally as Castro wished. Colombia gave him a flat turn down. But thore were official delegations from Mex ico and Chile, with others ex pected, officials or unofficial, from such countries as Ven ezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. An official guest of tho gov ernment was Jacobo Arbcnz who once headed a Commun ist regime In Guatemala until a successful revolution drove him out. There is no doubt that throughout Latin America thero is a reservoir of deep sympathy for Castro. Legislators In botli Mexico and Vcnzculca have declared they must stand with Ca.ttro In his economic war with the United States. But there also Is a growing awareness among Latin Amer ican governments of the ex cesses of the Castro regime 'Shushers' Maintain Order; West Yearns For Greater Color By DICK WEST International Ampitheatre, Chtcago-AJPD- The acoustics in the Republican convention hall arc pretty bad. You can hear all the speeches. Otherwise, It's a fine show that the GOP Is put ting on in the stockyards here. If some one -would only invent a bovine deo dorant, It would be even bet ter. The delegates obviously are wearing their best television manners to make certain that nobody mistakes them for Democrats. If they keep It up, they may become the first party to have a four-year term In the White House cut short by time off for good behavior. I do not mean to insinuate that the GOP has been turned into a group of "grumpy old politicians." After all, attend ance has been holding up very well at the striptease clubs near the downtown conven tion headquarters. Democrats' Behavior But when the delegates gel out to the convention hall. I they remember how the Dem ocrats recently filled the na tion's TV screens with five days of disorderly conduct. If they don't remember, they soon get reminded. . Instead of employing ush ers, the Republicans are using "shushers." Consequently, the convention thus far has been a model of decorum. The delegates have even been circumspect about using the stock broker's booth which has been set up just off the convention floor for their convenience. Possibly they fear that if the market broke It would create a panic. The first 30 minutes of each session are taken up with mus ical numbers. This tends to lull the audience Into a false sense of security. Suddenly the gavel pounds and before the delegates can bolt for the doors, the aisles are blocked off by the color guard and flag-bearers. They arc then obliged to remain standing during the pledge of allegiance, the National An them and the invocation. Everyone Sils Down By the time this is over, everyone Is too tired to do anything but sit down, Hence, the speakers are assured of a stationary audience. When I first heard that pro gram director George Murphy had drawn up a tight conven tion schedule, I figured he would have to build a trap door under the podium in order to maintain it. I was surprised, therefore, when the firsl session, a mat inee, ran along generally on time. I was even more sur prised when Son, Karl E. Mundl (Il-S.D,), who was scheduled to make a gavel presentation, failed to Bhow up. Mundt is not ordinarily Dirk Weil for the Negro vole to protect tholr party on the homo grounds. Nixon's Reasoning Identical Vlco President Richard M. Nixon's reasoning Is Idontlcal but blonder in scope. It la that In a national election ho must risk or discard the chanco to carry some of the 11 Southorn states If It Is necessary to protect the Re publican ticket In tho North. Nixon also expects a close election. The Democrats In Los An geles made an all-out plat form bid for the voles of and of the dangers along the path down which he Is lead ing Cuba. Other Warnings Argentina has warned him against his plunge Into the arms of the Communist pow ers. Peru led tho way to take the U.S.-Cuban quarrel be fore tliu Organization of American States to prevent Communist Interference In the United Nations. The violence of Sovlot Pre mier Khrushchev's assertions that Russian rockets would come to the aid of Cuba has Increased hemisphere aware ness of the' danger of Com munist Infiltration. It led Dr. Jose A. Correa of Ecuador to warn Russia In the United Nations Hint Interference In Latin Amor lean by any power, especial ly a "far distant" one, would earn only "animosity and pro found dislike." regarded as camera shy. I checked with the senator Inter and he explained Hint there had been "confusion In the marching orders." He eventually presented the gavel at the night session when, co incidental, the TV audience Is bigger. All in all, the convention Is operating like a clock, But there arc times when I wish It would operate like a conven tion. Bethlehem Steel Executive Dies Bethlehem, Pb.-HIPD - Fun eral services will be held here Wednesday for Eugene G. Grace, 83, retired president of the Bethlehem Steel Co., who died In his home Monday after a long illness. Grnce wns the son of a sea captain who turned down templing offers to play pro fessional baseball after hitting a home run against the Boston Braves in an exhibition gamo. He chose Instead to become a 15 cents an hour crane oper ator, and rose to the presi dency of Bethlehem in 1916. A leader In the industry for more than a half a century, his Income ranged above $500,000 a year. In 1029 the time of the stock market crash -his salary and other earnings brought him an esti mated total of $1,560,000, Under his direction Beth lehem became second only to U. S. Steel and Increased Its annual output from 950,000 to 20,500,000 tons. Grace retired In October 1957 and was named honor ary corporation chairman, Counsel With ... Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Fred R, Brennan, C.I.A. PHONE SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE Agency 27 North Holly Street iioi-lliei-n Negroes. Domocriitlo presidential nominee John V. Kennedy then moved quickly to nppcuso tho outraged South erners by pulling Sen. Lyn don B. Johnson of Toxus on tho ticket in second place. Johnson probnbly will hurt tho Democratic ticket In the North-nmong the Negroes, He niny help It In tho Smitli nmong the while folks. Hut the hard-nosed Domocriitlo civil rights plank Is expected to bo attractive to norlhorn Negroes, despite Johnson, For the Republicans l trump political cards such as those will take some doing and that la whnt they worn trying to do Monday night and lodny. Tho Deinoeratlo civil rights plunk bears down on tho assertion Unit all men are created equal. The Rcpul. llcuiu, of course, will go along with that. As between Northern Ne groes, and Southern whiles, some aro more equal Hum others. Tho Southern whiles aro caught In tho middle, hnvo not much-It nny-lnfluonce In either pnrty. If the Nixnn Rockefeller forces compel this convention to mulch thu Democrats In a proclamation on civil rights, the South will have no place to go, unless It be up In smoke. All of this may revive among Southern leaders tho free elector defense agnlnst Uie political power of tho Nortli. litis would Involve llio selection of presidential elec tors who would not be pledg ed to cither presidential can didate. If neither candldnl) obtained a majority of the electoral college on the basis of the November polling, tho free Southern electors would possess a balance of power. They might make a donl with one or the othor of tho major pnrty candidates for a repudiation of the more ex tremo portions of either civil right plank. It could hnppon that way, but It probably won't. Smith, Maurine To Appear Together Bend-H'PH-Republican Elmo Smith and Democrat Mnurino Nruberger, candldnles for the) U.S. Senate, will nppear on the same plntform for the first time July 30 when they an swer questions for the Oregon Form Bureau federntion here. The occasion Is the bureau's mid-summer resolutions con ference, EE" HAVE AN - I EXTRA VACATIONS ON THE WAY! r Sac us NOW-avan If tou're going NEXT SPRINOl Came ea In fer Mil fatly lllnlieieal IHerMera, SEI GIORGi LIWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE Wa Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickers PHONS SP 2-677 111 E. 8th Are you Insuring only the probables? How about the Improba ble!, Ws can tell you what they are and what It will cost to give you real PEACF OF MIND. That's what good Insurance provides. GO W BY I
