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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1960 4 A "Everyune In Southern Orefoa n,1. Th Mall Trlhiiiu" Published Dally except Saturday by 33 North Mr St., Ph SP2-SU1 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Adveltlslnt Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR.. Mnft Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telef Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICK3QN. Circulation Mgr An Indeoendent Newsoaoer Entered as second class matter at Mediord. ureiron. unaer act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai) In Advance. Copy 10c - Daily and Sunday 1 year C15.00 -; Daily and Sunday 6 mos- 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 8420 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ashland. Central Point Essie Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Rlv. r Talent and on Ulotor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $16 00 Dally and Sunday mo 1.S0 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash tn Advance "Official Paper of City of Medforl Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephoto Ncwsplctures ," MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of. ; flees In New York. Chicago. De. ' troit. San Francisco. Loa Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. At lapta, Vancouver, B.C. NEWSPAPER PUIIISHERS ASSOCIATION EDITORIA Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1850 (Saturday) State forest patrol crews are battling a lightning-caused brush and forest fire in the Missouri Flats district of the lower Applegate valley. City Water Superintendent Robert A. Duff said today that the exchange of land be tween the city and federal government has nothing to do with the building of a pipe line from Big Butte Springs to Medford. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1940 (Monday) Central point Is believed to have more men in the mili tary branches of the country than any other city of com parable size. From Arthur Perry'i "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The song of the Woodsaw, a minor sign of fall, is heard in the residential areas again. A number of taxpayers protest half past four in the morning Is too early for a woodsaw to tart singing." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1930 (Tuesday) Copco has asked for per mission to build power dams on the Umpqua river. Fisher men claim such projects ruin the fishing, Canners are offering $30 for No. 1 Bartletts. 40 YEARS AGO Aug, 12, 1920 (Thursday) Medford police are striving to break up a local epidemic of petty thievery, The preliminary census count gives Jackson county a population of 20,405. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 12, 1910 (Friday) : The Medford Stung club, a group of local investors who have lost money in stock swindles, lost another $9,000 today when the United Wire less Telegraph company of fices around the country were closed up. The Interstate Commerce commission has given the Southern Pacific railroad 30 days to answer a complaint by local growers that their freight rates are too high in this city. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or tan correct is superior even or slant Is ascsllanti five ei Is is good. 1. Mercury is also known s Q 7 2. Omega is which letter Of the Greek alphabet? 3. Was Ralph Waldo Emer son English, American, or Canadian? 4. In which government de partment is the Office of In dian Affairs? 9. "Ah," "oh," and "lo" are what parts of speech? 8. What does "C.O.D." sig nify? 7. Name the legal docu ment, used in land transac tions, that Is spelled the same forward and backward. 8. The Roosevelt dime was released to the publio In 1034 1940. or 1D46? 9. How many days after Easter is Ascension Day? 10. What relation are the sons of first cousins to each other? ' Answers: 1, Quicksilver. 2, The last one. 3. American 4. Interior. 5. Interjections. . "Collect on Delivery." 7. Deed. 8. In 1948. 9. Forty clays. 10. Second cousins. r. NATIONAL Bi'Partisan vs. Non-Partisan Elsewhere on this page is a letter signed by Harper Edwards, chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Jackson county, taking the county court to task for appointing three Repub licans and only one Democrat to the home rule study committee. Edwards thinks the committee should be bi partisan. We think it should be non-partisan. And there's a world of difference. IF THE home rule study committee gets bogged down in partisan politics, we might just as well wash our hands of the whole affair. Party politics has its place. But its place is NOT in reviewing the structure of county gov ernment, and seeing if it can be made more el fective and responsive to today's needs. What the committee as we can tell does have) is members who are interested in the good of the county, not in the success of a political party. In this case a partisan label isn't wanted. A good citizen s label is. KA. It Sounds Odd Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Alexander Pope. Ex-Gov. Elmo Smith is the Republican candi date for the U. S. Senate in the fall election. One of his stoutest supporters is, of course, Gov. Mark O. Hatfield. Smith was one of the leaders in Hatfield's campaign for governor, and the two have been close politically. How, then, does one trom Governor HatrieJd recorded in this and other Oregon papers by A. Robert Smith, our Washington correspondent, who interviewed the Governor last week? OVERNOR Hatfield, the reporter noted, "plans to campaign for the Republican sena torial candidate and thinks Smith can win with a smartly conducted, hard campaign which in cludes getting across a new profile or image of the GOP candidate to the voters." Further, the governor of Smith, "He is establishing a political person ality and protile that perhaps he clidn t have when he was governor ..." 1 he story indicated Hatfield ' did not contend that Smith is well-versed affairs" and then went on as saying he would campaign for him "with no reservations and with every bit of enthusiasm that 1 have because I ieel that He may not be concerned but I think he would do a the state of Oregon." THESE quotations are, of course, taken out of the context of the whole article, which showed Hatfield strongly favorable to Smith, while be lieving he has an up-hill fight against his Dem ocratic opponent, Mrs. Maurine Neuberger. liuc if accurate (and well-earned reputation for accuracy and depend ability), they are o'ddly revealing of certain "res ervations" and doubts the Governor may have, nis disclaimer noiwunscancung. the obliquely critical sound strange coming from such a shrewd po- ltical thinker as Mark O. vete? Or honest, unthinking frankness? Or was it something else ! E.A. Hidden The freeway creeps The completed section closest to us is in the Grants Pass-Sexton Mountain area, but it won't be many months until we'll be driving over many more miles or high-standard treeway hereabouts. And this, according to Charlie Stanton of the Roseburg News-Review, poses a hazard. Pointing out that high-standard freeways con stitute the safest possible driving, Stanton also believes that the safety and ease and speed pos sible on them will increase the hazards of driv ing, on old highways, on county roads, and on city streets. PVERY driver knows that his own mental at- titude, and his high w a y "conditioning," makes a great deal of difference in how he drives. Stanton fears that, after sailing along at 65 or 70 miles per hour on a freeway in perfect safe ty, drivers will not be able to make an easy and immediate adjustment to the hazards of lesser roads. i. He sees the results already in other sections of the freeway completed. Coming south from Portland, drivers breeze along in fourlane com fort past Albany. Then they hit two-lane road. Accidents on the freeway are rare; accidents on narrow, two-way stretches of 99 are frequent. Stanton believes the fact that drivers do not make the proper switch in attitude is at least in part responsible. yHE same is true, of course, when one leaves a freeway for a county road, which may ap pear deceptively straight, wide and well-paved, put which has sharper turns, less accurate bank ing, and is not designed for freeway speeds. This is something to keep in mind as the free way grows in southern Oregon. . It will provide easy, fast, and safe driving. But it will bring with it the hidden hazard of be coming accustomed to ease and safety which vanish as soon as one leaves it. E.A. should have (and so far explain the quotations was quoted as saying in national or foreign to quote the Governor Smith is quahhed with national policies, good job of working for Reporter Smith has a assessments of Smith Hatfield. Was it nai Hazard nearer and nearer. Dennis the Jp58 'I'LL HAVE ITOV0R Jgt PLEASE Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address 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 represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the eau. Democrats Dissatisfied To the Editor: Please find attached a copy . of a letter which has been sent to the county court. Your printing it in the Communications col umn of the Mail Tribune would be appreciated. Harper Edwards. The Hon. Earl M. Miller, County Judge, Jackson County, Courthouse, Medford, Ore. Dear Sir: Of the four members re cently appointed to the home rule committee by the county court, three are Republicans and one a Democrat. With the county as equally divided in party registration as it is, and the committee being of such general public interest and concern, the Republican members of the county court should have laid aside their partisan party preferences long enough to name a bi partisan home rule commit tee that would be truly rep resentative of party strength in the county. With Democratic registra tion ahead in the county, on what grounds do these over done Republican commission ers weigh their appointments three to one in favor of Re publicans? These commission ers were warned recently in a letter from me that Demo crats expected and demanded equal representation on that committee. What has happen ed is a good example of the pol-tical misuse of their ap pointive powers. They have laid themselves open to cen sure. It gives our county Dem ocrats good reason for dissat isfaction. Harper Edwards, Chairman, Jackson County Demo cratic Central Commit tee. Editor's Note: See comment In editorial column. Seeds, Weeds; No Grass, Alas To the Editor: I wonder if this has happened to any of your subscribers? I've been trying to grow grass in my front yard. I've tried for months and I've worked hard. I've purchased the best fertilizer and certi fied seeds, but all that came up was uncertified weeds. I don t know if the weeds were certified or not. But Ihey would grow, certified or what. They came up and grew Into a solid mass, where I expected, of course, my cer tified grass. But with my neighbor, I have a different story to tell. He just filled up some holes, but he raked It well. He paid no attention to the kind of seeds, expecting, I suppose, just a mass of weeds. Hover, lie must have used a different technique. So help-me-Hanna, in about a week, even his backyard is as fine as I have ever seen, while I can't even keep the weeds in my front yard green. Malcmute Slim. Section 5. White City, Ore, U.M.C. Audit To the Editor: In your Aug. 10 edition, there appear ed a picture of Fred H. Holmes with the announce ment that he had been ap pointed chairman of the au diting committee for the United Medford Crusade. This Is perfectly correct. However, some queries have reached the U.M.C. of fice as to whether this com mittee was assigned the an- Menace nual audit of U.M.C. books. The answer is "no." Haskins & Sells, Certified Public Ac countants, have made an ex haustive yearly audit of the UMC books for the past seven years. Mr. William Cobb, the new manager of the local Has kins & Sells office, has kind ly consented to carry on this tradition of public service, which is rendered on a gratis basis. The auditing committee. headed by Fred H. Holmes of Rodolph, Zamsky & company, Certified Public Accountants, will undertake the work of counting the money received at the campaign report meet ings. Each year a similar com mittee has been of great as sistance in making a count of tne contributions turned in at each report meeting by sec tion and division. The count is maae quicKly so that a re port can be made to the cam paigners before the hour-long meeting is over. For the information of those whose interest may be arous ed by the annual audit, it should be said that these audit reports may be inspected ei ther at the UMC office or at the county clerk's office, where additional copies are on file. Harold B. Cook Executive Secretary United Medford Crusade P. O. Box 5000 Medford Bouquet To the Editor: Recently on a vacation trip from Califor nia to Medford we stopped at Shasta Dam. Arriving in Med ford we found that my hus band's billfold had dropped out of tne car at the dam. He called the Oregon state police to see if anything could be done about recovering it. They immediately radioed the California police and a patrol car from Redding went to the dam to see If the billfold had been found. In an hour we re ceived a call telling us that the billfold had been found and it was sent to our address in Portland by registered mail. The billfold was recovered six hours after it had been lost. It is our opinion that without this prompt action by the officers it might not have been found. Needless to say, we are very grateful for their help. How little the services of the police departments are appreciated until an incident such ns this occurs. This is our verbal bouquet to them. Mrs, Donald J. Millage 3504 S.E. Harrison St., Portland 14, Ore. Vote Getters To the Editor: In re re marks (well timed) on the mis erable mosquito question by Potpourri, we, the valley res idents, join her in a very loud "me too!!" In my visits and talks with the tourists who so admire our valley and are constant ly enticed to come here, I no tice such remarks as "We don't mind giving our money, but we d-m sure resent giv ing our blood via the 'mos quito bank'." With that parting shot they make a hasty exit from the general area. It seems to mc, since the politicians are literally scratching the bottom of the barrel for campaign issues and vote getters, they might give some thought to the above mentioned menace. With our 100 per cent mos quito bitten population, he (or she) would be sure of THAT many votes. But It should be done now, Hamamrskjold Speaks Out, Wins Security Vote on Congo; His By WILLIAM J. FOX The man of the Weeki United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammer skjold. The Place: United Na tions' headquarters. New York. The Quote; "The immedi ate solution of the Con. golese problem Is a ques tion of peace or war." Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, second secretary-general of the United Nations, has been- called a "global fireman" because of his efforts to preserve peace in a pugnacious world. His way is the path of "quiet diplomacy," the pri vate conference, the compro mise worked out without the glare of publicity. But this week ne teit im pelled to speak out in blunt words that warned the world it faced a possible Armaged don in Africa, where the breakaway province of Katan ga had threatened to fight the entry of U.N. forces from oth er parts of the Congo. Had Effect His public declaration had the desired effect. The U.N. Security council wound up a marathon session by voting to send a U.N. military force into Katanga and calling upon Belgium to withdraw its troops "immediately." Tension immediately eased, and another possible flash point for the start of World War III was damped down. The task of implementing the Security council decision was thrown back into riam- marskjold's lap. It's a task he'll complete, for he has a not "in the future" promises. We just aren't that gullible any more. "Another disgusted chemical user." Mary Williams 357 Orr dr. Central Point, Ore. No Hoot To the Editor: The follow ing are my sentiments after driving past one of our local pear orchards with the car windows rolled down, while the spray rigs were putting out their pojson (the planes are even worse!): Malathion-parathion It's the bunk and I'm not lyin' Spraying poison in the air That falls to earth they know not where. Burning noses, running eyes May be some fool's PEAR adise Good cultivation and irri gation Produced fruit minus aggra vation. Spray poisoning is mighty bad Once in your blood stream, no cure is had. If one must poison to get iruit For orchards I don't give a hoot! Mrs. Tom Robnett 350 Meadows Lane Medford. Fisherman's Dream To the Editor: Malemute Slim from White City, Your letter was clever and witty. You said you went fishing with home-made flies, And were trying to think up some whopping big lies To tell the fellows at the home. You decided this would be uncouth, So you made up your mind to tell the truth. Then all at once there were fish everywhere, In water, on bank, and in the air. Out of this spraying of water and foam You chose of the best to take them home, Now you have but one little care, Where and how to get back there. That place is on a well- known stream; A beautiful place called Fisherman's Dream. The way to get there is set your mind free From the cares of the world, lie down, you see Full length, at ease, in the ' shade of a tree. Gaze lazily upward toward the sky. Let the cares of the world all pass you by; Don't think of this world's greed and strife, Just close your mind to Uie woes of life. These things are only a heavy load And will get you lost on a dead-end road. For Sham and Pomp are only a show, They make life seem sordid and base, They are not found at Fisherman's Dream, Where fish are all over'the place. Mrs. Paul Struck, Prospect, Ore. doggedness of character that belies his quiet self-effacing exterior. ' A mountain-climbing devo tee in his spare time, he bor rowed terms from his hobby to paint a word picture of his philosophy of statesmanship when he took over as U.N. chief In 1953: "We need perseverance, pa tience ... a clear awareness In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Soviet news agency Tass (the Soviet version of our AP an dUPI) reports from Moscow that Pilot Francis Gary Powers has pleaded guilty to the substance of the charge that he spied on So viet Union in his U2 plane. The Tass report adds that "the guilt of the American flier, who is due to go on trial in Moscow, is confirmed by material and written evi dence, the findings of experts and the testimony of wit nesses." HERE'S the the storv: other side of Reports from Washington based, of course, on diplo matic reports from our state department people in Moscow and elsewhere) indicate that Powers has been BRAIN WASHED into confessing spy ing activities. The state department un derscores the fact that Powers has been under the exclusive control of Soviet authorities for more than 100 days." WE KNOW quite a lot about this brain washing busi from the experiences of our men who became prisoners of war in Korea and were "brain-washed" by the Red Chinese. From these experi ences we know that commu nist brain washing is a ter rible ordeal. TORTURE is the real name for it. The fact that it is mental torture doesn't make it any the less horrifying. The victims of this savage torture are kept half starved. Thus their powers of resis tance are weakened. They are kept awake for long periods -three,four, even five days or more. In the intervals, when they are briefly permitted to try to sleep, they are forced to lie facing strong lights, which are thrown into their eyes. THEY ARE questioned con stantly, day and night. The same questions, over and over. The questions all have the same grim tenor. They bear constantly on the things the victims are accused of having done. Over and over, they are asked: "Now you DID do this, didn't you?" As, in their semi-delirium, the victims give answers that appear to concede that per haps they did do the things they are accused of, the pres sure on them is temporarily "The Truth About Air Safety Despite hysteria and hokum, commercial aviation is building an impressive reoord of accident-free passenger miles with even greater advances expected in the future. This vitally interesting article will be found next weekend in Family Weekly l!J! 'I -WssasraaasasBBJOraaiss 1 0 .inrtonwU. -, a swVJLtk aial jfiiaii Mill jadJ,JMi Also In the August 14th issue: Next Weekend and every weekend, Don't Medford Mail Tribune Methods Described of the dangers, and of the fact that . . . the safest climber . . . never questions his ability to overcome all difficulties." A native of Jonkoping, Swe den, the ' 55-year-old Ham marskjold comes from a fam ily of the old Swedish aris tocracy which for hundreds of years has contributed to his country's public life civil serv ants, lawyers, soldiers and relaxed. Thus the half-con scious sufferers are led craft ily toward what appear to be confessions. YOU WILL perhaps remem her that at. first we were half-inclined to condemn our men in Korea who broke down under this inhuman treatment. But . . . gradually . . . as we began to get the real facts ... we became more tolerant. More understanding. Competent psychiatr 1 s t s eventually came to the con clusion that no living man could be expected to be cap able of resisting indefinitely these brain-w ashing tech niques. sc faaybe Powers DID confess. Maybe in the agony of this inhuman brain-washing he did admit that he was guilty of everything his tormentors were accusing him of. If so, who are we to con demn him? WHAT the Russian commu nists are aiming at, of course, is to trumpet over the world the allegation that this wicked American spied on Russia in the hope of gaining information that would en able the U. S. A. to DESTROY the U.S.S.R.-and finally CON FESSED the truth. The traditional punishment of the spy is DEATH. WILL THE Russian rulers shoot Powers against a wall? It seems improbable. More likely, they will com mute his punishment to life imprisonment, thus seeking to gain credit for mercy in the eyes of thoughtless people over the world. . : . 1 ' : s Look AND WATCH FOR OHOTS by Robert J. Serling iiialTti'tifflfriilTs'i'! "American Husbands by Dr. Margaret Mead "I Was Just Thinking . . ." by Patty Johnson "My Favorite Golf Jokes" by Bob Hope "Princess Anne Grows Up" by John Hochman: "Take A Salad . . ." Cookbook Section Junior Treasure Chest Quips and Quotes "My Life With Caryl Chessman" by Cameron Shipp statesmen. His father was prime minster of Sweden dur ing World War I, and he him self was undersecretary of fi nance and chairman of the Bank of Sweden while still in his 30s. Hard Worker . A bachelor, he has an apart ment in New York and a home in the suburbs, but is) such an indefatigable worker that he sometimes seems to have little time for either. In 1955, he made a "mission to Peiping" and talked the Communist Chinese regime into freeing 15 American fliers held in Red prisons. A year later, he managed to bring into being the long-discussed but never-realized U.N. police force that was placed in the Middle East to preserve peace in the wake of the Brit-ish-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt. That same year he was less successful in making an im pact in the wake of the Hun garian revolution, mainly be cause the Soviet Union and its) Hungarian puppets refused to honor General Assembly reso lutions. Heavy Movement of Grain Predicted Salem - (UPD - An unusually heavy movement of grain into Portland elevators when the new crop is harvested hai been predicted by T. R. Har ry, grain division head of the Stale Department of Agricul ture. He based his prediction or the fact that supplies of grain in the PorUand terminal ele. vators have been reduced sharply. July grain, receipts in Port land continued the decline which started in May. In July 14 full shiploads of grain moved to foreign countries. This compared with 12 car goes. in June and 25 in May. DISSOLVE CONGRESS ' Chicago (UPD William L Smith, the beatnik presiden tial candidate, said Thursday if elected the first thing he) would do "would be to dis solve Congress." Smith, who won the nomination in a New York Greenwich village saloon,- admitted bravely, "Wa don't have a chance of win ning, but we'll present the is sues." Today" 1. 1 Are Too Domestic" Mss?3-" Weekly 9