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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, ORE. THURSDAY. AUGUST 4. 1960 Everyone in Southern Oregon Jitui" . ..- Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North fir St., Ph SP 3-6141 ""Robert W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adve'.-tising Manager GEHAltU 1 ijrt innm dub mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mng Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women'! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An TnHpnundent Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Aot of " March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Dally and Sunday a moi. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on vnotor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year 818 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.80 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance "official Paper of City of MedfnrJ Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Internationa) Full Leased Wire P P.1, Telephoto Newsplctures " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UKLULATlUna Arivfrtiginff Representative WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York, Chicago. De. trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland St. Louis, At lanta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER A PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORI At ASfsbcMTIfblr, fclHIIMH,', Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 veers ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1950 (Friday) Ben Day, Gold Hill, was elected president of the Jack son County Talent Alfalfa Growers' association yester day. A children's parade will kick-off the start of the an nual Jacksonville Gold Rush jubilee tomorrow. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1940 (Sunday) Local growers are satisfied with the improvement in the cannery market this year corn Dared to a year ago which has some Bartletts selling at 35 a ton. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Prog risn mnde another stride here with the installation of the dial nhone system. Hereafter any wrong number is the fault of the user's forefinger. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1930 (Monday) . The local boy tree-sitter has been Informed that he will have to come down soon and go to school. Huckleberry picking has started in the Union creek dls. trict. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1920 (Wednesday) The Oregon census showed a population gain of 783,285 or 18.4 per cent. Local police have been re' ceiving many reports of thefts of gasoline, garden hose and home-made beer. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 4, 1910 (Thursday) Local representatives ap peared Dciore the Interstate Commerce c o m m 1 s sion in Washington, D. C, today and demanded that Southern Pa cific be compelled to lower its shipping rates in Medford to conform with the rates in other Pacific coast cities. -The city water department has been receiving complaints that there is too much water available as persons are let ting water run onto their neighbors' property and oth erwise wasting It. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior: even or eight Is excellent) five or tlx l good. 1. Is Sir Walter Raleigh, Christopher Columbus, or Captain John Smith reputed to have been the first Euro pean to see tobacco? 2. Berne is the capital of which European country? 3. Is it correct to use the term "movies" in a formal sense? 4. Name the capital of the Dominion of Canada. 5. What was Pilate's first name? 6. The year 1900 was, or was not, Leap Year? 7. Is a hurdy-gurdy a form of transportation, musical in strument, or child's game? 8. Must 14, 16, or 18 ciphers be added to the figure 1 to make a quintlllion? 9. Salt water does, or does aot freeze? 10. Is tripe obtained from iwlne, cattle, or poultry? Answers! 1. Christopher Co lumbus; 2. Switzerland; 3. No. Moving pictures; 4.. Ottawa; 5. Pontius; 6. V'ei not; 7. Mu leal initrumenti 8. Eighteen; i. Does; 10. Cattle. Focus On San Francisco plays 1 ;x ii . i longevity irom an pans oi me worm, appropriate ly enouerh. iust as Congress resumes a session in which medical care for the most debated issues. Equally appropriately, the national nolitical narties are preparing an election campaign in which polls of congressmen and the nation s newspaper editors have placed this issue second only to foreign policy in the na tional debate. j The medical care bill passed by the House, 381 to 23, June 23 would set up a new program of federal grants to the states for medical care of the low-mcomed aged. It is a sharply toned down version of the Eisenhower bill to esablish a federal - state financed, state - administered "Medicare" program. Opposed to the House bill in the Senate are eight plans ranging from the administration measure to the something-for-everybody - Mc Namara (D-Mich.) bill which goes even beyond tying medical care for the aged to the Social Security system and extends coverage to all re tired persons except retired railroad and federal employees, who would be allowed to buy it. The House-passed bill has the support of the American Medical Association and the health in surance industry. Both previously had opposed any government plan for medical care of the aged. THE program of the Fifth International Con- gress of Gerontology in San Francisco ranges from general problems to the specifics of gentic theory, clinical medicine, psychology, social sci ence, and social welfare. The symposia are spon sored by the International Association of Ger ontology, a world-wide non-profit league of ger ontological societies. Previous congresses have been held in Liege, Belgium, in 1949; in St. Louis, 1951; in London, 1954;. in Venice in 1957. The aim is to coordin ate and correlate knowledge of the aging indi vidual and of changes that take place in aging populations. The State Department has officially invited delegations from every nation with which the United States maintains diplomatic relations. Special entry permission was extended to ger ontoligists from the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania. The Ford Foundation and various U.S. government agencies are underwriting foreign participation to the tune of $110,000. THE San Francisco Congress and the national political debate both reflect the mounting preoccupation of this nation with its ever-growing number of oldsters. Politically there is the prac tical consideration that the population aged 65 or more constitutes an army of almost 16 million voters. When the Social Security Act was passed in 1935, oldsters made up only 6 per cent of the population; now they constitute 9 per cent. Their number increases by about 1,000 a day; by 1975 there will be at least 20 million some estimates go as high as 28 million in the 65-and-over age group. To tap a rising market, manufacturers of con sumer goods are beginning to design products with special appeal to the aged, and retirement communities are being built for them. If the man who has something to sell finds it worthwhile to cater to the elderly, certainly the politician and, for equally sound reasons the medical practition ers and social scientists, increasingly will do so. E.R.R. Keef in Trouble? If anybody wants to know why Estes 1 Ke- fauver, who ordinarily dearly loves a Democratic convention, was conspicuous by his absence at Los Angeles, it is necessary to look no further than today, the day of the Tennessee Democratic primary. Ketauver s principal drew T. (Tip) Taylor of Jackson, perhaps the Volunteer State's most ardently segregationist politico. Taylor is berating Kefauver for, among other things, voting for the 1960 civil rights bill. Actually, Kefauver was sponsor, of an amend ment, later altered, that in its original form ac cording to proponents of the bill, might have gutted the measure. TAYLOR also is charging that Kefauver reg- ularly "deserts Dixie," is a "one-worlder," and shakes hands with Negroes. Kefauver, for his part, says that his foe. to the Tennessee Valley Authority, a political talisman in that state, is secretly supported by its enemies. Despite the fact that state energetically, the voters appear apathetic. The lack of interest would normally favor in cumbent Kefauver. But Taylor is a vote-getter; he lost the groubernatorial nomination in 1958 by fewer than 9,000 votes. heeled, while Lstes is soliciting contributions. Drug companies, upset by the investigations of Kefauver's Senate Antitrust subcommittee, are flooding the state with ( Ihis could heln Kefauver ple buy pills than sell them.) in any event, it bee-ins skipped Los Angeles. It wouldn't have helped a bit in Tennessee for Estes to go on record for the civil rights plank or, say, to be espied by the TV camera with SoaDv Williams' arm around his shoulder. E.R.R. The Elderly host to 2,000 experts on .ipii u the aged will be one of opponent is Judge An while giving lip service both men toured the His campaign is well- anti-Kefauver material. in the end more Deo- to he clear whv Estes Dennis the 'She's Busy fightih' with aw CALL YOU BACK LAIeK ; Reds Want Accord On Nuclear Test Ban, Reports Show By K. C. THALER United Press International London - (UPD - Latest indi cations from Geneva are that Russia still wants an accord with the United States and Britain on a three-power nu clear test ban, probably short ly after the U.S. presidential election. Russia's desire to keep Red China out of the nuclear club appears to be the chief motive behind the Kremlin's puzzling persistence. Significantly the nuclear talks at Geneva are the only East -West negotiations that have continued since Soviet Premier NIkita Khrushchev torpedoed the summit and the 10-natior disarmament nego tiations at Geneva. Diplomats in the know say they have good reason to be lieve the Soviets do not want Communist China to become an independent nuclear power - at least not now. Favors Delay A strong section In the Kremlin hierarchy is under stood to favor the delay of the emergence of Red Chinese nu clear weapons for as long as possible. Two other, though less prominent, reasons are cited for Russia's insistence on a nuclear test ban - Russia's testing grounds are compara tively close to centers of pop ulation, and a new series of nuclear weapons tests would add to the heavy arms bill. If a test ban treaty were agreed in the near future other nations outside the "nu clear club" would find it dif ficult to start testing. The Implication is that Red China would find it hard, if not im possible, to go against the decision of the nuolear world powers. Heighten Pressure In the absence of any Big Three agreement Red China is expected to heighten pres sure on Moscow for the quick supply of technical knowhow to produce her own nuclear bomb. Alrendy Red China is re ported to be pressing ahead with nuclear weapons experi ments and some observers be lieve she might be able to test her first atom bomb within 18 month. The Kremlin apparently tacitly shares the western view that nuclear arms in Red China hands might prove dangerous, especially in the light of Peiplng's light-hearted assessment of the conse quences of a nuclear war. Red China, with a population of Try and By BENNETT CERF- A FATHER and his ten-year-old son occupied seats of a parlor car traveling from Washington to New York. The boy never stopped prattling and as the train pulled out of Wilming ton, a man sitting just back of the father com mented, "Say, that boy of yours certainly talks a blue streak, doesn't he?" "He does," agreed the father wearily, then added, "He looks like her, too." Colonel Corncob chal lenges you to try out these new tongue twisters (you've got to say them quickly.) t Betty Blue blows big black bubbles. Two toads totally tired tried to trot to Tedbury. Mitzl misses Miss Smith, Miss Smith misses Mitzl. Pure food for poor mules. "There's one dcfinlto drawback to taking movies on a vaca tion tour," points out Jules Maiigny. "You have to get them developed back home to discover what you saw." 0 1M0, by Bennett Cert. Dliti IbuUd by King Futures Syndicate Menace two now. Can she more than half a billion, be' lieves she could survive such a war. Spy-in-Sky Defense Programs Face Speed Up Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD-The Air Force's spy-in-the-sky defense satellite programs faced a speed-up today follow ing disclosure by the service's missile development chief that "very, high pressure" had been exerted. Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, head of the Air Re search and Development Com mand, Wednesday declined to name the sources of pressure, but said they wanted "to ac celerate and expand some of these programs." Midas Included Included in the programs are Midas, to detect enemy missile firings within secon is after launch, and Samos, to take high - resolution recon naissance photo graphs of enemy launching sites, mili tary installations and trans portation systems. Both programs are in the research and develop m e n t stage. Two Midas test satel lites have been fired from the cape. The first failed when the booster rocket exploded, and the seco-ir went into orbit but its equipment malfunc tioned. No Samos satellites have been launched. Vandenberg Site Possible Schriever told newsmen that launchings of mllltaiy satellites, presumably Midas and Samjs, "could be expect ed" from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., before the end of the year. He added that "chances are there will be some -military space shots during the next few years from Cape Canav eral," although there would be no more for the rest of this year. It has been reported that the Midas II firing here last May would be the last from the cape and that the program would be shifted to the West Coast where polar orbit launchings are possible. BOARD CHAIRMAN DIES Easton, Pa. -(UPD- John F. Magee, 67, board rhcirman of the Alpha Portland Cement Co., died Wednesday. Stop Me Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer althaugh under cer tain circumstances the use ot a Sen name or initial for publlca on is permissible. The Mall Tribune reserves the right to edit a' letters with an eye to clarlficaUon and condensation. Letters submlttea for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Inaccurate Assertions To the Editor: In a recent letter to the editor, Mr. M. E. Norton made false, inaccurate and libelous assertions and accusations concerning me and my candidacy for Con gress from the 4th District in Oregon. In the first instance, he as sumes that I make $18,000 a year. Last year I actually paid income taxes on $13,188 from the practice of medicine. In the second instance, he assumes that I am a wealthy man and, as one, have no knowledge of the needy, the elderly or the infirm. , I was born the only son of parents in very moderate cir cumstances. My father never made more than $100 in any month of his life. As a small boy I worked on a farm for $1 daily that I might purchase my clothing and school books. I worked my way through col lege as a nightman in a garage, as a clerk in a hard ware store, as a waiter, as a sawmill worker and as an employee of our national for ests. I worked two summers as a Union Oil employee in Eugene. Having graduated from the University of Oregon, I taught and coached for two years that I might continue my medical education. By stoking furnace, waiting on table and managing a fra ternity house, with the assist ance of scholarships each year, I graduated from Har vard medical school, cum laude, in 1927. I came to Medford in 1930 owing $5,000. 1 have practiced continuously for 30 years among our people, with the exception of the 3 war years. I was the sole financial sup port of my father for the last 5 years of his life. I was the sole financial support of my mother during the last 20 years of her life. No one could do those things and raise three daugh ters and be a wealthy man. No one could be a successful doctor in this community for 30 years and not understand the needs of our older citizens. And then Mr. Norton says, I quote, "As everyone knows, Dr. Durno is the man who opposes most anything which might benefit the aged, es pecially health insurance." I have repeatedly said that the problem of the aging is a matter of national concern. It is not Republican. It is not Democrat. It is not political. It is a social and economic problem which must be solved either under our free enter prise system by the American Medical profession and volun tary insurance agencies or by the proper agency of govern ment. We should await recom mendation which will follow the White House Conference on Aging scheduled for Jar. uary, 1961. In the meantime, I would recommend that con tributory funds be made available from both a federal and state level. I would furth er recommend that need be the determining factor and that -this investigation be car ried out on a local level by local agencies that presently exist. I am opposed to the Forand Bill because that bill would provide care for many who are under Social Security and are financially secure. It would provide nothing for those who need it most - those not under Social Security and who are medically indigent. Dr. Edwin R. Durno Candidate for Congress 4th District, State of Oregon U.S. Still Plans Polaris For NATO Washington - (UPD - The United States said today it has made "no change what soever" in its plans for even tually arming the North At lantic Treaty Alliance with land-based Polaris missiles. A State Department spokes man denied news reports from London saying this country might delay the project be cause of political factors. The U.S. offer to supply NATO with the medium range Polaris was first made by Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. at a NATO defense ministers meeting last April 1. NATO negotiations on the plan have been going on ever since, but in an air of little urgency because the land based Polaris is not expected to be ready until about 1963. DEAN LEFT OUT Canterbury, England - (UPD -The caption under a picture in the current issue of Can terbury Diocese Notes: "We regret that our photograph does not include the dean, who was standing on the may or's right hand." In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS In a study entitled The In vestors of Tomorrow, Keith Funston, its president, says the New York Stock Exchange has made great progress in the past five years in spread ing share ownership but, he adds, a great gap still exists in the public's knowledge and understanding in this field. . He goes on to say: "While many people under stand some of the advantages of owning stock, only one adult out of four can ade quately define common stock . . . This lack of knowledge on the part of so many people is a critically inhibiting factor in the growth of share owner ship." ONE suspects that what Mr. Funston is saying, in guarded and cautious and care fully disinfected lan guage, is that too many peo ple (meaning, of course, un informed people) look upon the nation's stock exchanges, of which the New York ex change is the best known, as legalized brothers of Ne vada's gambling casinos and tend to think of stock buying and selling as a respectable substitute for shooting craps. NOTHING, of course, could he farther from the truth. As a matter of fact, ownership of stock of our great modern industrial corporations is a sensible, practical modern form of socialism. The dictionary definition of socialism is: "A political and econmic theory of social or ganization based on collective governmental ownership and democratic management o f the essential means for the production and distribution of goods." The encvcloDedia definition goes a little farther, defining socialism as "both a doctrine and a movement which seeks in nlace in the hands Of the people, either DIRECTLY or through their government, tne ownership and control of the principal means of production and distribution." WHAT is a corporation? The truth is that a corp oration is a business organi zation that is OWNED AND rrNTRrT.Y.F.r bv the people who own its capital stock. All that is required to become a part owner of a corporation is to have up money enough to buy some of its stock. You then become one of the OWN ERS. If you don't like the way the corporation is being run, you can go to its annual meeting and VOTE AGAINST THE MANAGEMENT. If enough stockholders vote against the management, it gets thrown out - just as in ripmncratie countries govern ment gets thrown out if enough people vote against it. ONE of the oddly interesting facts about our big corp orations - which isn't as gen- .-nll., ,,HarctnnH as it should be - is that in the case of to mini indeed of our Dig corporations the owners (shareholders) lar oumumuci the workers. The standard Oil Company of New Jersey, for example, hrt t tho last count avail able as this was written, near ly THREE TIMES as many stockholders a s employees. tt c ctopi r.nmoration. one of our industrial giants, has about 50 per cent more own ers than wrkers. Roughly the same situation exists in the case of General Motors. WHAT Mr. Funston is get tins at is that if more people understood the busi ness of stock ownership there would be more owners of shares of stock, and that would be a good thing. He is suggesting that the wise and sensible way to become an owner of shares of stock in our big, basic industries is to STUDY carefully the business of buying shares of stock. If you buy unwisely, of course, you will lose your money. Reserve Unit Here Gets First Award A first place award among 27 similar divisions has been awarded to the Naval Reserve Electronics Division 13 - 5, Medford, according to 13th Naval District headquarters in Seattle, Wash. This is the first time since 1951 that the annual trophy has been awarded to an Oregon unit. Medford also won the 1951 cup, and placed first In competition in 1959, but later ruled Ineligible on a technical ruling. Competing divisions are lo cated in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Points in the contest are awarded on the basis of advancement, training quality, training duty completed, leadership, drill attendance, and overall per formance adjudged during the annual inspections by dis trict officers. The local reserve unit is commanded by Lt. R. A. Schuchard. Matter of Fact jo-ph a,. REPUDIATION" Washington-Vice President Nixon's public abandonment of the policies of Secretary of Agricul t u r e Ezra Taft Ben son, which were also President Ei- 1 ? gsenhowers I notifies, lust about complet es a job that had to be done. The Vice m Hot JOSEPH ALSOP ihtrpn ar.finp ricaiuw.. thought that Benson ought to be junked since 1956. After the disastrous 1958 Congres sional election, he made an active effort to junk him. The former chairman of the Re publican National committee, Meade Alcorn of Connecticut, was the man chosen for the job. Since it was clear tnai xne President would not listen to the straight policy arguments against Benson, Alcorn, on Nixon's advice, made the po litical arguments. These had been only too amply under lined by the election returns. Yet the President's angry answering blast all but blew Alcorn through the door, into the next room; and after that, the subject of Benson was not raised again. IT IS a proof of the Byzan tinism of the Elsenhower White House that the subject was never again raised. The hapless Benson has managed to combine a more than lour- fold increase of the huge ag riculture department appro priations with an actual de cline of farm income. This year, the $6 billion-odd that will be spent through Benson amounts to something like half of the reduced revenues of the American farm com munity. . . This incredible record is de fended by Benson on the ground that Congress would never enact "The Benson Pro gram." But in fact neither Benson himself, nor his chief, the President, has ever, at any time, launched an all-out, knock-down, drag-out fight for decisive legislative changes in the farm program. Prayer has been the Ben son specialty, and latterly he has become a sort of Ancient Mariner of Washington, al most literally "stopping one in ten" to assure these reluc tant listeners that his farm policy was working better and better. Once he even cornered Sen. John F. Kennedy's per sonal chief of staff, Theodore Sorenson, in the Senate cafe teria. CJINCE sentimentality has no place in government, the fact that his failures have made the Secretary of Agri culture a somewhat pathetic figure has no bearing on the case. There was a touch of ruthlessness in the way the Vice President, free to junk Benson at last, duly and pub licly did what he had wanted to do for so long. But in the circumstances, ruth lessness was justified and even called for. As already noted, moreover, this junking of Benson was not an isolated episode. It was, instead, the culminating epi sode in an Important process, Since Friday, July 22, the Vice President has been brisk ly disentangling himself from the President. The pace of this process was forced, -and It was therefore given an undesired dramatic character, by Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's threat to make a floor fight about the plat form at the Republican con vention. Civil rights and de fense, the two main issues on Hi. Every detail hlenJea1 in eompteh SERVICE HARMONY ' As ha Ft SMC MOMAN HOU DAY NIGHT Ask us about the OREGON FUNERAL INSURANCE PLAN which we heartily recommend and endorse which Rockefeller and Nixon thereupon reached agreement on July 22, were again issuu on which the Vice President has never agreed with the President. Rockefeller did not h a v the votes to make a respect able showing in a floor fight. The Vice President would have much preferred the less drastic method of distinguish, ing his own positions from the President's positions after the convention was out of the way. But Rockefeller, by threatening a floor fight, forc ed Nixon to say what he had always meant to say rather earlier than he had meant to say it. e THE Democrats will of course cry out that this is "repudiation" of Eisenhower, and in a sense they will be right. Because of the consti tutional changes already ex amined in this space, a mod ern Vice President cannot imi tate Vice President John N. Garner, for instance, who toolc rather well-marked indepen dent positions while maintain ing friendly working relations with President Roosevelt. A modern Vice President is like a Cabinet officer, who must either go along or get out -the thing to be got out of, in the Vice President's case, be ing the National Security Council. . Accordingly, Nixon has swallowed his objections and gone along. But objections there have been. He has al ways believed in a stronger defense program, more force ful civil rights program, a changed farm program, a somewhat less conservative domestic economic policy. About Eisenhower, he was once heard to remark won derlngly: "In domestic matters, you know, he's really more con servative than Bob Taft." If the Vice President's own views now emerge, and the opposition cries "Repudia tion," it does not matter very much. As his party's nominee, Nixon not only has the right to speak his own mind, as Eisenhower recognized in his telegram of congratulations at Chicago; he also has the duty to do so. (c) 1960 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Cuban Exile Said in Miami Miami -IUPD- Cuban exiles said today that Maj. Raul Chibas, former head of Fidel Castro's revolutionary tri bunal, had arrived here, and was staying out of sight of newsmen. , Chibas and his wife came to Key West in a 17-foot boat Tuesday and asked immigra tion authorities for political asylum. Cuban sources here said Chibas, who presided over the tribunal which condemned Jesus Sosa Blanco to death in an open-air trial, had been questioned and released by the immigration department. Chibas joined Castro's 26th of July movement more than three years ago and helped raise funds for it here and in New York. After Castro took power, Chibas became head of the tribunal which sentenced about 600 persons to death amid criticism from around the world. He served briefly as min ister of agriculture and held the railroad commissioner's post until he lost it after a reported argument with Cas tro. riw (aanawM SHOOOtMt, MNMAl VtaO FHONI M
