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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. SUNDAY. AUGUST 21, 1960 MEMTOITBINIItt 33 Worth Fir St., Ph St 2-8141 Zsn w ruml, -sanoV- HXRB OBEY, AdvMtliinf Manaaar ceraijd t Latham b5 m!" RICHARD JKWET aln&u iJS ai.c r.:iiv.nau.l. circulation MKT r"i uiDipwwBni newspaper Jittered " second elait matter i Madtord. Oreoon. under Act of Maref, a 1aav 8t!HAcnrpfnM hatvh By Mali IB Advance. Copy 10c ur no punqayi year eio oo Sally and Sunday mot jj oji uauy mna ounaay 3 mos e Sunday Only One vear 4 ?n By carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point Be isle i-oim, tfacKEonvilie, UOIO H II Phoenix. Shady Ceve, Rogue Rlv er Talent anrt nn ternta ,nii(a. Daily and gundayj year $18 00 Da'Iy and Sunday 1 mo t.SO Carrier and Dealer! oopy 10c an rerma casn in Advance "otflcTaj Paper tfTSWHTXitrmi Official Paper of ieekaon County UnltedT Press InternatldnaT"" ' Full Leased Wire U.P.I. Telephoto Newaploturea MMHEH UF AUDIT BUREAU OrCIRCULATICNS Advertlslni Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. I flees In New York, Chicago De. trolt, larjfranclioo. Lqe Angelei Seattle, Portland at, Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NIWIMMl PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION S0ITORIAI C6T'N ran Flight or Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the fllai ot The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGIO Aug. 22. 1950 (Tuesday) Jennings Pierce, manager of radio station KMED, will be master of ceremoniea of the street entertainment planned for Thursday night's fall open ing festivities1. The Medford Rogues base ball organization la in a dire financial predicament, the business manager said yester day, 20 YEARS AGIO Aug. 22 1940 (Thursday) The board of directors of the Talent Irrigation district have announced they will re fund bondo to the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation in exchange for the district's old securities. From Arthur Perry's "Yo Smudge Pot" column; "The Central Point oroquet grounds are ready to open. Croquet is the grandpaw of golf and old timers can remember when the mallet flew off, and hit a preacher In the shins," 30 YEARS AGIO Aug. 22, 1930 (Friday) Sheriff Ralph Jennings ap pears in golf pants as the re sult of losing a wager on a pee-wee golf game. Clifford (Racy) Moore, a for mer local high school football star, is In a Klamath Falls hos pital with a severe case of pneumonia. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 22, 1920 (Sunday) Vice Presidential Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt did not arrive In Medford on time due to a train wreck near Merlin and leas than 100 per sons were on hand to greet Mm when he arrived several hours late today. Three forest fires are burn ing in the county. 50 YEARS AGO Aug. 22. 1910 (Monday) A forest fire raging out of control near Ashland would seriously endanger that town if the wind should suddenly shift. Six more companies of state militia and a pack train have arrived in Medford to help fight fires in the Crater forest What's Your I.Q.? Nina ot tan correct ts superior; seven or eight Is eacillent; five er lii Is good. 1. Is Alaska about two, three, or four, times the size of Texas? 2. Name the author of the book "Grapes of Wrath." 3. Which cities In Minne sota arc nicknamed the "Twin Cities"? 4. Was Japan atom-bombed once, twice, or thrice? 5. What does the German word "verboten" mean? 6. Who was the composer of the opera "Carmen"? ' 7. Do automobile tires lose air faster in winter or sum mer? B. Is the Tropic of Capri corn north or south of the Equator? 9. What is ethnology? 10. The capital of Maine Is Lewiston, Augusta, Portland or Bangor? Answers: 1. Twice. 2. John Steinbeck. 3. St. Paul and Minneapolis. 4. Twice. S. Forbidden, t. Bltet. 7. Sum mer. 8. South. 9. Science of races of man. 10, Augusta. NATIONAL Jm The Billboard Argument Some of our good friends who write editorials are finding many things wrong with a proposal that you will find on your ballot at the November election. The proposal is that the erection of billboards on some hiorhwavs in Orecron be reirulated. There have been efforts for many years in Oregon by groups and individuals to regulate bill board advertising on highways. Their efforts were accelerated recently when the Congress stip ulated, within legislation which provides federal funds for re-building of transcontinental high ways, that those states which regulated billboards on highways would be granted additional federal funds for highway construction. IN THE opinion of these Oregon people there always has been ample justification for reg ulation of the construction ot billboards on highways. They can point to the Oregon landscapes with their case well. The federal highway construction bill onlv served to stimulate their camnaien. Principal objections tms seem to be : The federal government is bribing the states to control billboards. This is an infringement up on freedom of speech. Any advertising that is truthful and decent should be permitted any where. It billboard advertising is controlled news paper advertising will be next. "N THE first point, it seems to us that because the federal government is providing billions of dollars for building highways, it has the right routes be kept op free of On the second and advertising is unlike newspaper, radio or tele vision advertising. Nobody is compelled to read an advertisement in a newspaper or purchase a newspaper; anybody can tune out any advertising he dislikes on radio and TV. The billboard ad vertisers have a captive audience, the people who travel the highways. On the third point, measure on the Oregon ballot proposes to reg ulate billboard advertising is not unfair or unjust. It specifies that there can be billboard adver tising at all highway approaches to all cities for the convenience of motorists. All the motorist wants to know about services and products avail able in that city can be told him adequately on billboards at the approaches to the city. T'HIS won't put the billboard companies out of business. Far from it. It will confine billboard advertising to meet ing the needs of motorists. Any other inteprctations of the regulatory measure are muddying the waters and missing the point. Pendleton East Oregonian. A Sorry Record World Refugee Year, in which 88 countries and territories joined efforts to rescue 15 million persons without homes, has now been counted a dismal flop. And as a black eye for "free na tions," i.e., the U.S. Officially, the 12-month campaign to assist displaced persons ended on July 1. And, as it ended, it had resulted in total monetary contribu tions of less than half the $12 million sought to help two million "hard core" DP's considered most desperately in need of assistance. COME of these most unfortunate of the home- less have languished in European camps for 10 years. Many are refugees from behind the Iron Curtain, families who risked their lives to find homes in free nations and are are still yearn ing, waiting, hoping. To be sure, World Refugee Year did result in some good. A number of nations eased laws governing the admission of displaced persons. But without funds of their own and with inter national charity failing to measure anywhere near their aggregate needs for relocation funds, mil lions of DPs were unable to go to lands where they might now be legally admitted. THE U.S. Congress appropriated $10 million to help the World Refuge Year program, but only half of this sum was ever put to such usage. Anil even with the intense publicity given the DP's problems, private voluntary agencies in this nation were able to raise only 20 per cent more than they normally obtain for refuge aid. In contrast, Great Britain raised $21.0 million specifically for World Refugee Year. In this per spective, it is not difficult to understand that the image of the U.S. has been tarnished and and that displaced persons remaining in European camps now mutter bitterly about the insincerity of U.S. propaganda broadcasts which they heard before they tied to "freedom" and which they still hear while they live in virtual captivity from which they despair of being liberated. Eugene Register-Guard. Smith Rebukes Policy Critics Myrtle Point - (Wli - Elmo Smith, former governor of Oregon and a enndidnte for the U. S. sciiale, rebuked crit ics here Saturday of Ameri can policy and defense. Smith, Albany publisher, said America now has surged ahead in missile develop ment and that the main goal cluttering of beautiful billboards and make of our editor friends to better transcontinental to suggest that the new billboards as possible. third points, billboard the extent to which this of Americans should br to make the "cold war" as live able as possible. S m 1 1 h said "there is no room in the United States for a second-best philosophy." Smith itiiiHn hie n.mimelltc in an address to a picnic crown at the annual coos county fair. Dennis the 'Wouldn't it ee keem if Washington Report By WILLIAM CAMPAIGN CHANGES Washington - Richard M. Nixon's presidential campaign is under going significant j c li a n g e i In ! strategic plun j nine, These M ( nltortitlons are SHCf, based upon a "we ; Rfl anurp ru-uvui- uation of the outlook in the south and bor der states. The Nixon belief now is that Son. John F. Kennedy, t h e Democratic presidential candidate, will not be so strong in those areas as the Republicans themselves had supposed after Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas consent ed to take second place on llio Kennedy ticket. The Vice-Presidents first campaign sortie into the south into North Carolina - has produced many optimistic statements from the Nixon camp. Such statements arc, of course, standard stuff. Pub licly, you always shout that everything is looking better and better. In this cuse, how ever, theso claims are more than routine propaganda, This time, the Nixon people really believe their own press re leases. TIXON'S reception In North ' Carolina h u s genuinely convinced him he ought to put a great deal more effort into the south than he had any Intention of putting only weeks ago. This conclusion is by no means solely based upon the fact that the GOP civil rights plank is relatively less ad vanced than that of the Demo crats. (True, Nixon is not at II neglecting this point.) It arises more from Nixon's re discovery of a basic fact of political life. This Is that, wholly apart from civil rights, the south tends to be marked ly conservative. Topic A - civil rights - so fascinates many politicians, and some political observers, that llicy don't realize tills: If nobody had ever heard of the civil rights issue, the whole tone of the Democratic con vention platform - incompar ably the most liberal ever written by a major party in this country - would still be pretty bitter medicine in the south. Maybe it will still be swallowed; but at best it won't go down easily. IT IS equally true that many (and Nixon himself origin ally was among them) have m i s u n d c r stood Johnson's probable plus - value to the Democratic campaign. The easy assumption that a Lyn V William a. White -By BENNETT CERF- A H0U i offer: -is these explanations current market letters: "The stock, while suit able for long term invest ors, may be considered to have reached its imme diate objective" means, "The underwriting syndi cates won't let us have any more shares." "Management is young and aggressive" means "Sales are under five mil lion dollars"; "Manage ment is sober and ma ture" means "Sales are levelling off." "This stock has long been one of our favorites" means "We recommended it two years ago. It hasn't gone down too much and we still play golf with the management." "Chart action shows the stock to be building a base" means "The damn thing just won't move." "The market looks to be in a broad trading range" means "Our statistician didn't show up this morning." C I960, by Betmslt Cart Distributed by KJok Features Siradioelaj Menace it SNOWED? S. WHITE don Johnson on the ticket would automatically "take care" of the south never had any validity. The professional liberals who so bitterly resisted John son's efforts to obtain the top nomination were fooled by their own stereotypes: John son was a Texan. Texas was in the south. Ergo, Johnson was a "southern politician." The fact is that he never was any kind of typical southern er, either in personal attitudes or political views. When he tried to say he was more western than southern he was telling the simple truth. Indeed, It Is entirely pos sible that before the race Is over Johnson will be seen to have been of at least as much assistance to Kennedy outside the south - specifically In the midwest farm belt has been, It. He Is and always has been, In southern terms, much too liberal. His real opposition in Texas has always come from the old-southern wing of the party. rpiIE Nixon people, at any -- rate, are catching on to this situation, The Vice-President is thus now arranging to go south moro frequently, more determinedly and more hopefully than he had ever expected to do. Ho now be lieves that In some southern states he might do better than President Eisenhower d i d, either in 1D52 or 1958. The purpose is to present Richard Nixon as holding firm civil rights views - but far less advanced views than the Democrats; as a sober, digni fied man and a prudent man on "spending"; as a poor boy who came up the hard way through a southern law school (Duke university) while Jack Kennedy was living it up as a rich boy at Harvard. (Copyright, I960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Six Persons Alum To Census Takers Wnshlngton-IUPlI - The Cens us Bureau says it has six prob lem children or rather, prob lem adults. ' Out of the roughly 100 mil lion persons counted In the 1900 census, they are the only ones who have been reported for refusing to answer ques tions. One man declined to tell how he refrigerates his food. He said the question was an invasion of privacy. Bureau officials said he might change his mind when he's reminded he faces a possible S100 fine or 60 days in jail for refus ing to answer. of a few terms often found in Foreign Notebook: Algerian Blow-Up; Red China Trade; Successor for Adenauer By WILLIAM J. FOX From the foreign editor's notebook: Algerian Blow-Up The next mnlnr atnrv mil nr France may well bo another blow-up over Algeria. Inflam mable temnPrK nmnnO Fronnh settlers and the army In Al geria, ana tnose of pro-French Algerian factlnna In Fror. are gradually rising ov?r the new rebel wave In North Africa. Executions by the Al gerian rebels of two French Communications Letters Jo the Editor must bear thi. nd 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 vinw to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed In this column do not necossarlly represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary Is often the case. The Signs To the Editor: This is for 'Malemute Slim": It's good, with gentle ways, to Be inclined. And have no wish to kill. To creatures dumb we should be kind; And like them all, but still You hit upon a subject that I wish more people knew. It's simple, yet Its moans a lot, uaiiea "Uther Fellow's View." Ohl It makes a lot of differ ence From where you gel to look, Whether you're the man on shore Or fish upon the hook. Things that chill our hearts with dread Are hard for someone else to tread. Malemute not only found His long-sought Fisherman's Dream, He also found his landing. I know because you've read the signs The signs of Understanding. Mrs. Paul Struck Box 32 Prospect, Ore. Fall's Coming To the Editor: Summer so swiftly Is passing us by. In deep melancholy I heave a deep sigh. The laurels are shedding, Dry leaves going fast, The green ones are wailing For winter's cold blast. The squirrels are busy With acorns for winter. Hibiscus are blooming, Red petals a-glitter. The hills are all brown, And walling for rain. Some people are busy With school clothes again. Whatever the season bur hearts should be gay. Farewell Melancholy. Fall's coming this way. Mrs. Delbcrt Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Here's a Chance To the Editor: As you know, Governor Hatfield and a group of state officials will be in Medford Wednesday, Aug. 24, to hold an informal hear ing on revision of state gov ernment. The governor hopes to get suggestions from people in the valley as to any ideas they may have for changes and Improvements at the slate level. This meeting will be open to the general public and I should like to urge all League of Women Voters to attend and to urge their friends to attend. This is a fine oppor tunity for the individual citi zen to contribute his thinking on how state government should operate. Let's show the governor and his group that Jackson county citizens are glad to have this chance to express their ideas and wishes on how the state should operate. Mrs. Kenneth H. Baker Public Relations Chairman Medford League of Women Voters Medford. Solemn Event Coming To the Editor: One is made well aware that all is not well when he reads, sees, or hears what is transpiring In this world of ours. We note J. Edgar Hoover's ,nnnr( in T, ir,c.-l 1- m. , th V , une. lhe upsurge of crime has been reported to be the high- est in the west. Crimes of vio lence are up 19 per cent and property crimes 15 per cent. The other day a good friend of mine who has a cabin up in a secluded spot spent the day cutting some winter wood. Yesterday he went up to haul it and it was all gone. Just a few weeks ago near the same spot a elderly gen tleman gave permission to a young fellow to secure water from his well. Upon filling the bucket the boy threw its contents all over the elderly man. At the same time this boys' friends were thumbing their noses at this man and saying things we wouldn't re peat here. This is just a small example soldiers and one civilian along with the increased pace of terror attacks, thus far have not produced any major reaction on public opinion in France. That is due primarily to the fact that in August vir taully the whole French na tion has its mind on vacations. But when the holiday season is over next month, pro-settler propagandists are likely to go to work full-blast In another effort to force Presi dent Charles de Gaulle away from his conciliatory policy of the result of the luck of proper parental training. We are so busy now in our mad rush to make the next dollar that we are letting our children rush on to the road that leads to perdition. I know from experience that this fast pace we find our selves in can lead down. In fact a sick bed experience gave me some time to think. We ale so busy now that we don't have time even to visit the sick and infirm. I used to feci that way too, but now I find that one must take the lime. Many golden hours are squandered in useless and non-essential practices. What, may I ask, are wo humans here for? Just to gratify our own likes and dislikes? One of these days, sooner than any of us realize, our Heavenly Parent is going to call us to give an account. Will we be ready for that, the most solemn event In all history? Henry Johnson Jr., 2400 Highway 66, Ashland, Ore. Information Sought To the Editor: I am writing to your paper in the hope that some of your readers may as sist us in satisfactorily com pleting a project of historical interest. For some time now we have been attempting to trace the route, camps and grave sites of the lost wagon train of 1845 which traveled through Eastern and Central Oregon in late summer and early fall of that year. The train, estimated at over 200 wagons, left old Ft. Boise on the banks of the Snake river and traveled eventually to The Dalles under the guid ance of Stephen II. L. Meek, brother of Joe Meek. Their hardships were great; over 40 deaths resulted from their ill advised attempt to shortcut the old Oregon Trail to The Dalles. Many versions have been handed down; many stories told. Since this is the train that discovered gold-Inter to be the source of intensive searches for the lost Blue Bucket mine-much specula tion and theory has been re pented as fact. We hope eventually to es tablish the main and divergent tracks of this hardy group, but after 115 years the task is a difficult one. If any of your readers can aid In identifying members of the train, or disclosing addi tional sources of information about the route, or feel they have any information which could help, that help will be most gratefully received. They are urged to write to the fol lowing addresses: Keith Clark, 724 S. 12th, Redmond, Ore. Lowell Tiller. 12308 N.E. Russell, Portland, Ore. He's Reassured To the Editor: The editorial page of M. T. for Aug. 16 was most reassuring. E.A. has two editorials. He tells us that Hyatt lake has everything ex cept a hair cut and a shave, and that the fall season is just around the cornier. How dce-llghtful and thrilling. Mary A. Williams is so hap py about a mosquito spray and C. M. Goethe of Sacra mento, California, is gaga about grasshoppers. Their ,, (t. color, that is. William G. Woolven is only mildly disturbed about Sen ator Kennedy's religion and Judith C. Lobdcl comments on higher education. She is for it. Who isn't? Earl C. Gaddis is confused about the aged and confounded about taxes. He says taxes are too Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when vou eat, talk or laush. Just surlnkle a little FA3TEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder elves a remarkable sense of added comfort and security bv holdlilft plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pany lastt or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acld. Qat FASTEST! at any drug couutel. of "self-determination" for Al- gcrics. And the stepped-up rebel wave of terror will pro vide the fuel. Communist China Trade Red China is likely to con tinue its strong bid for In creased trade in Central and South America, with the em phasis centered particularly In Cuba, Chile and Argentine. The Increased trade, the Reds hope, will follow from the in creasing flow of cultural con tacts in the Latin lands. Adenauer Successor Informed insiders In Bonn say that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer quietly has accom modated himself to the Idea that Economics Minister Lud wlg Erhard will succeed him nt the helm In West Germany. But they add that Adenauer still Is not willing to formally Indorse Erhard for the top job. He will cling to his post ns long as -his health permits, and then. bow out without pin pointing a successor. But, this time, also without fighting Er hard as he did a year ago. Then, he surprised the whole Free World by reversing his decision to run for president and yield the political leader ship to younger hands. He hung on as chancellor, a post for which he will be opposed next year by popular West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. But the same inside sources say Adenauer is "not at all afraid" of Brandt as a rival for political power. Nationalist Chinese . To many Nationalist Chi nese, the Democratic party In the United States looks like the friendly undertaker, Itch ing to bury Chiang Kai-Shek. But Chiang's Kuomlntang ad ministration is convinced all the way that Washington's China policy faces no change under the Republicans. How ever, while worried about the Democrats, the Nationalists doubt that any radical over night change would occur in U.S.-China policy, no mntter whether Sen. John Kennedy or Vice President Richard Nixon replaces President Ei senhower. What they seem to fear is a gradual corroding of American interests in For mosa at the very moment high already. We agree. How about - no we can't shoot the senior citizens. Too humane. Carl Calison thinks there is an idiot in the woodpile. Could be. Pat Graham likes his cartoonists nasty and in plain view. Front page will do. Malamute Slim gets "canary" and bursts out in song. David Frisch, Rev. A. Gil man, H. R. Bulman and Stephen E. Gillls swim where this writer can't even see the bottom. Too deep for him. He can't swim. When it comes to politics and religion . . . the way to keep friends is to keep still; unless you embrace the same faith as the other fellow. Then let him do the talking. He will like your company be cause he enjoys your con versation. In that case one happy person is better than none. We are told that we may have the religion of our choice, but we find each and everyone so attractive that We cannot decide. We feel the same about politics, and to vote for one and not the other make, us feel sad: We have friends in both places. Both parties, that is. However we are ag'in taxes, but both parties are for taxes, so we must be opposed to both parties. Taxes are the golden eggs that kill the geese. (Name on File) Galice, Ore, KSffJ'fSPMWtllf j,1 'aaaawaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaeaaaai A BEAUTIFUL SETTING Here the surroundings, the chapel, everything is designed to create an air of quiet composure and comforting warmth; to make your last tribute to a loved one, a beautiful, consoling mem ory. when the Nationalists, defense and political posture depends largely on massive American assistance, both economic and political. In the Days News Br FRANK JENKINS The big news as this is writ ten Is the verdict In the Pow ers trial. The big point of the verdict is the Russians chose LENIENCY rather than ven geance. WHY? One can only guess. The hpat 0ueaM aeems to be that the rulers of Russia came to the conclusion that thev could gain more by showing mercy than by mulcting me ages-oia penalty of death for the con victed spy. At any rate, the death pen alty wasn't asked for. If it had been asked for, it would hnv hppn inflicted. We must remember that this was no ordinary court, In the sense that we of the free world understand courts. It was a big show. THERE was an Interesting sidelight. As soon as the verdict was announced, the dispatches tell us, the capacity audience in the Hall of Columns in the Soviet Trade Union building where the "trial" was held broke Into stormy applause. The audience was composed almost exclusively of Rus sians. That seems to indicate that the policy of leniency In dicated by the "verdict" is popular among the Russian people. WHY Is that Interesting? Well, if the time should come when the rulers of Rus sia felt that cultivating the good opinion of the PEOPLE of Russia was worth while, it would mean something. It would mean that the rulers of Russia FEARED the Russian people. One of the lessons of history Is that when despotic ruler9 begin to fear the people it is a good sign. New Ambulance on Display in City The new Volkswagen am bulance to be awarded through a special fund to som Oregon community Is on dis play today and tmorrow at Morse Motors, Medford. . Civic leaders as well as county and other public of ficials are invited to examine the ambulance, which hag . been engineered especially for use off paved highways, and will even traverse open range. VW dealers in Oregon have created a fund, to be known as the Volkswagen Ambulance Fund. It will pay one-half the cost of the ambulance to the Oregon governmental subdi vision or private non-profit organization deemed most In need of such an emergency vehicle. A. K. (Woody) Morse speci fied that a county, city, fire district or a private non-profit organization such as a hospital or clinic would be equally eligible. The application or request for information should be made on a letterhead of any Interested organization to The Volkswagen Ambulance Fund, Riviera Motors, Inc., 1737 Southwest Morrison St., Portland. The final application must be received by Sept. 30. The award will be made by com mittee of state health officials. The committee's decision If expected about Oct. 15. PERL Funeral Home SPACIOUS PARKING LOT
