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Newspaper Page TextOriDA9,eTtlt 23. 19(0 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. .Everyone in Southern Oregon DjH. Tti. Mali Trihtinnn Published Daily except Saturday by! S3 North rir JtPli8P 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB tiREY Advertising Manager GERALD T LATHAM Bus 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 Independent Newspaper : Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act or March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mall In Advance. Copy I0o Dally and Sunday 1 year 15 00 : Dally and Sunday mos 8 00 . Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.2S c..r.Bi Onlvhna vear 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Point .Eagle Point. Jacksonville, jjoia nui Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Rlv An tnatar routes Dally and Sunday I vear 818 00 Da ly and Sunday J mo I SO carrier ana ueawra n,,,. ' All Terms Cash InJVdvanc "hrfldaT Papefof City of Mrdrnrff Official PaPof Jackson Count' 'United Press International Full Leased Wire 0 P.I. TelephooNewjplctures Mln3EROFUplT BUREAtT .' or CIRCULATIONS iippct unl ITIAV CO.. INC !f- flees In New York Chicago Be. Irolt. San Franclico. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis At. lar-ta. Vancouver, a.t.. . NEWSPAPER PUILI1HEM ASSOCIATION NATION At EDITORIAI AS)CTlQr Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County History from the files ? Tht Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 veara 0- 10 YEAHS AGO Sept. 23. 1950 (Saturday) ' Methods at the Oregon state penitentiary are 50 years behind the times, according to Austin Flegel, democratic candidate for governor who gpoke here, last night. Medford High school open : ed Its 1950 football season ' last night with a 27 to 6 vie 'tory over Tillamook. - 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1940 (Monday) - Ex Governor of Hawaii Lawrence M. Judd spoke in Medford yesterday and urged acceptance , of that territory as the 49th state ,of the Union. . From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Sev eral woodpiles for campaign colored gentlemen to crawl Into, and make an Issue, have appeared In the residential areas." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1930 (Tuesday) . The Jackson county court has refused to grant aid to .California indigents working " here so they can conserve funds for home use. Winter weather yesterday brought rain to the valley and snow to the higher ele vations. . 40 YEARS-AGO Sept. 23, 1920 (Thursday) The state game commission has said it will stock no ', streams with trout unless the streams have .first been screened. Firemen are now circulat ing additional petitions seek ing a special election that would determine whether or not the county courthouse should be transferred from Jacksonville to Medford. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1910 (Friday) State Railroad Commission er Oswald West is expected to be almost the unanimous choice of Democrats as their party's candidate for the gov ernorship of Oregon as a re sult of tomorrow's primaries. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina et ten correct Is tupeiiari en ei slight Is excallint; five ei ila It food. I 1. Name the first Secretary . General of the United Na tions. 2. Necrophobia is the exag ' Berated fear of what? . 3. Are Trupplsts Alaskan hunters, geometrical figures, or an order of monks? . 4. In the Bible, why did Jesus come "from Galilee to Jordan, unto John"? 5. Was Al Capone convlct- "ed for hijacking, beer run. ning, murder or evasion of income tax? 6. At the time of the South African Boer War, who was on the British throne? 7. In what Pacific naval action in WW II was the air craft carrier "Lexington" sunk? 8. After assassination was Mohandas K. Gandhi's body embalmed and scaled in a . crypt? , 9. Name the Inventor of the . telephone. 10. The young of elephants, whales, moose and hippopo tami are all called what? Answerii 1. Trygvle Lit. 2. Of dtath or horror of in dead. 3. Order of Monks. 4. To 1m baptised, t. Tax evas ion. 6. Quaan Victoria. 7. Bat II of tht Coral Sea. (. No. (Cremated.) S. Alexander Graham 811. 10. Calves. Hopeful Signs Is the American public beginning to wake up to the unsavory menace not to say incon venience, cost, and unpleasantness of growing air pollution? There are signs that it is. Locally, the Medford city council is holding a series of meetings with various groups in prep aration for submitting a city air pollution control ordinance. A statewide conference on air pollution con trol, sponsored by the board of health and the bureau of municipal research, will be held at the University of Oregon next month. City represent atives are invited to attend. MATIONAL magazines have, at last, ceased poking fun at poor old Los Angeles alone, and waked up to the fact that air pollution is a wide spread, national problem, ana not limited to just a few areas. Some cities have been remarkably successful (Pittsburgh, for instance) in eradicating the worst of their problem. Other cities are finding that it will take some work to find out exactly and how it can be best , Industrial firms are advantage to spend time and money cleaning up their own operations, before an 'aroused public forces them to do so. SOME steps are being fn plotil' fVio nit TVfni - moving awfully slowly, and meanwhile, as this is written, the smoke-laden air permits a visi bility of less than two miles on the valley floor. From a distant mountaintop, the air above is pure and clean, but the valleys are hidden by a blue-gray pall all of it man-made. And in Medford, the fall and winter bring the constant threat of a cold-air inversion, when all the smoke and cinders are held down under a blanket of warmer air above, and sometimes mixed with fog, to provide a dirty, sticky, foul smelling atmosphere in which we must all live and breath. THERE'S a new ray of Two big companies Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific are actually making money by cleaning up the air. They're .putting out a new mill product charcoal briquets, made from fly- ash and cinders. We quote from a memo on the situation which crossed our desk: r ". . , Weyerhaeuser mills at Springfield and Kla ' math Falls, in Oregon, and at Everett and Longview,' Washington, cinders that would otherwise go up the" smokestacks are bringing new income to the com munity. The collectors are catching cinders at mill power-houses where hog-fuel is burned to make steam and create electricity. "It. Is understood that Georgia-Pacific mill at Toledo Is trapping and collecting their cinders from stacks and selling them to the Oak Knoll Charcoal company, Corvallis." A ND finally, of much "Rogue valley, with springtime smudge, the "Inadvertently, Weyerhaeuser is also helping Los Angeles, over a thousand miles away, to re duce its air pollution problem, since California orchardists . are coming to prefer the smokeless briquets over smog-making oil for their smudge fires. Things, air pollution control-wise, seem hope ful. E.A. No. 6 "Free and Helpful "For once in their lives, taxpayers of Oregon can strike a blow for education without costing them a cent. "They can do it by voting for measure No. 6 on the state ballot Nov. 8." This quote, from an Oregon Journal editorial, tells the essentials of the story in a nutshell. . The details take a few more words. TOR many years, Oregon's colleges and uni- vprsit.u have hnrrowpri mnnfiv to hnild dormi tories, cafeterias, sports It has repaid the borrowed money by charg ing fees for their use. No tax money is used for their construction. About half of all the campus buildings are built with non-tax money. But there is a limit on how much they can borrow (in the form of self-liquidating bonds). They have just about reached that limit. And, because enrollment is going to increase by more than 60 per cent in the next 10 years, they are going to need more dormitories, cafe terias, sports facilities, and other non-tax build ings. ..... SO the limitation must be raised. Or else tax funds will have to be used to build the needed buildings. Ballot measure No. 6 will increase that bond ing limitation, so that more pay-for-themselves buildings can be built, to accommodate the many additional students. So, when you go to the polls Nov. 8, just re member this: . . "For once in your life, for education and it won't cost you a cent. "You can do it by voting for measure No. b on the state ballot." Remember it "State cation." It's No. 6. E.A. what their problem is, countered. finding it to their own taken in Jackson county o unll a falron Rnfr ir'a hope, though, in addi- more significance to the its pears, peaches, and memo added: facilities, and so on. you can strike a blow Bonds for Higher Edu Dennis the Menace 'But n's all rismt fopto have a SConb HAHGMS OVTS THE FIREPLACE ... 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 publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper) in fact the contrary is often trie case. Seeking Friendship To the Editor: If you can spare a little of your precious time I would be appreciated it very much. What I want is this: I al ways wanted to make some friends of about my age your country through letter-writings. But I did not know how to do it. Recently, however, I am writing this letter as I have learned the name of your paper through an organiza tion. ' I have been prompted to write this letter to you by a sincere desire to do my share toward strengthening even further the ties of friendship that keep your nation and mine united as brothers. I am interested in American life, how Americans live at home, how they think, the books they read, the hobbies they pursue, etc. I sincerely beseech you to help me in my quest for knowledge, as Well as in my attempt to improve my knowledge of the English language. If you can publish this let ter in your paper I would more than appreciate it. In the event of receiving so many answers as a result of that publication It will be no prob lem for me, because our or ganization has so many mem bers and I can divide those answers among the members. Perhaps you can not afford any space. In that case I like to ask your favor to pass this letter to some youth clubs and urge them to cooperate with me. I hope this did not cause you any Inconvenient. Yours very truly, Noriko Sumida P.S. Let me introduce my self briefly. I am 21 years old and graduated from Mihara High school three years ago, and be working a large school work organization. Attending to a dressmaking school at night. I am S feet 2 inches tall and my hobbies are ping pong, Ikcbana, and dressmaking. I can to reckon on the abacus. My address Miss Noriko Sumida, 112 of 3 Hlgashi-machl, Mihara city Hiroshima-prefecture, Japan. My sister Jeruml Sumida very anxious to have someone to write to In the United States, too me. She is In the 2nd years class of Mihara High school. We thank you for your kind attention in ad vance. Everything OK? To the Editor: Mr. Richard Nixon made a speech, said in effect that he would stand squarely on the platform of "What Is right with Amer ica". There Just couldn't be anything wrong. Haven't wc reached the desired level of unemployment? And haven't we reached the desired level of Interest rates? Haven't wc made money scarce? The rich get1 richer. Nixon allowed, quote, "It Is the duty of the opposition I party to point out what is wrong with America . 1 Ah! But those pesky wrongs he would take care of. if elected, by giving them the old Republican treatments. He would talk them down, sweep them under the rug, veto them all, or he could just ignore them into oblivion. Nixon, the fair haired boy of the internal conquering empires of high finance, of interst gougers, give him your vote and he will reward you by running you through their money wringers, that he will do as sure as the Nixon ian money policies are tai lored to their greed. ' But red blooded Ameri cans, not wanting to slink in to Nixon-publican slumber, they have a better choice: Kennedy, the man who is owned by nobody, who is not a negative null, no Goldwat- er in vein, he has the will and the courage to remove the stumbling blocks to Ameri ca's progress at home and abroad. Sulen Drangen . 417 Lane St. Yreka, Calif. Niks? To the Editor: Maybe some of the UFOs in -the sky, now appearing, are - "Barbecue niks". H. W. Robertson 103 North Central Ave. Medford Jacksonville . To the Editor: Having read several communications in your paper, I thought it about time for me to make remarks about Jacksonville, as I was born here almost 88 years ago-Dee. 13, 1960 will be my birthday. My mother, Mollie Boss Stanley, was the first white girl born here, and my grand parents-Col. John E. and Elizabeth Ross-were the sec ond white couple to be mar ried here. They lived and thrived on the donation land claim, now divided into many smaller tracts and homes. Some of the most influen tial people were born here. Many are on the hill, asleep In death, but 1 have been spared, There are some things greater than money, though it takes money to make the show. The trees and hills, the quiet and peace-pheasant and quail come to the dooryard. There are some beautiful yards. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd March have a yard all built with human hands. They live on the White place, a son-in-law of the late Thomas Reames. Evan Reames was married to my mother's sister, Jennie Ross. If you want to meet fine, good people, come to Jack sonville. I go away, and come back. It's home to me. Winifred Cantrall Jacksonville, Ore. SOC and Southern Oregon To the Editor: Last Thurs day E. H. Slngmastcr request ed additional help in raising money for athletic scholar ships at Southern Oregon col lege. Tuesday, Robert Brant ley discussed construction of a new grandstand at Medford high school. Many Ashlandcrs have long considered Southern Oregon college 'theirs'. No doubt this misconception dates back to the old 'Normal School'. It evolved Into Southern Oregon College of Education. Recent ly It has been authorized to grant degrees in academic fields other than education: thus the name Southern Ore gon college. Ai the college grows (about Hammarskjold's Smashing Victory Gives Him New By PHIL NEWSOM ' UPI Foreign Editor The man of iha week) United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammers kjold. The place: U.N. headquar ters. New York. The quote: "... My rec ord is on the table with such completeness that it is unnecessary for me to add to it or to' explain anything. . I stand by it. There was an unaccustom ed biting edge to Hammars kjold's voice as he replied to vicious at tack by Soviet Deputy For eign Minister United Na tions Security Council. Zorin had accused the U. N. Secre tariat of put PHIL NEWSOM ting out false information 15 per cent each year) so do the needs of the school and its students. The people 'of Ashland have failed in part to meet these needs and thereby have no right to re fer to the college as 'theirs'. The time has come when a portion of the SOC activities should be taken into the com munities where the students' homes are; especially to Med ford and Grants Pass. Ash land is a city of many elderly retired citizens and these peo ple are not particularly inter ested in the problems of the college. Mr. Singmastcr cites . the problem encountered by the Red Raiders' Booster club in raising money for athletic scholarships. Each year there are more students who need help, and this coupled with steadily rising tuition costs (up over 100 per cent in past 10 years) has caused an acute problem. If the businessmen and merchants of Ashland can't raise the money needed for . scholarships, . then they must look elsewhere for help Mr. Brantley suggests we Medfordites invite the SOC football team to play all their home football games in the MHS stadium. Many people have no doubt had this same idea in mind as a' starting point for better relationships and understandings between the people of Medford and SOC. A few of the more evi dent reasons for such an agreement would be: 1. The physical features of MHS field are far better than those of the SOC field in Ash land. 2. Roughly one-half of the students enrolled at SOC are from the greater Medford area. Wouldn't these students, who commute to classes at SOC each day, rather see the Red Raiders play their home games at MHS until such a time as SOC can construct an adequate football stadium? 3. Many people in the Med ford area are sports-minded and would turn out to see the Raiders in action on the home town field. 4. Financially, the college could do better by playing in Medford. Should Southern Oregon College take a more active interest in the Medford area is it not possible they might get some of their badly need ed backing from the citizens of this city? As the school grows beyond the capabilities of home-town support, it should stretch its arms to other communities in Southern Oregon, for which Southern Oregon College is so aptly named. Dick Simonson 538-A Haven St. Medford. Questions for Charlie To the Editor: Most Amer icans agree that the most im portant problem with which our nation is confronted is the menace of the growth of communism both abroad and at home. If the progressive implementation of the com munist Blueprint for World Conquest" which was first drawn up at the Second Con gress of the Communist In ternational in 1920 is not soon stopped and finally reversed. the years for any of us to live as free men are few. Because I am sure Con gressman Porter agrees the problem Is a vital one, and be cause he, as the leader of our congressional district, has more opportunity to do battle against communist cold war aggressions, I ask him the following questions. When an swered, we should have a bet ter basis for determining if l i A Power, Adds to U.N. about the Congo, of seeking to "undermine" the govern ment of Premier Patrice Lu mumba and' of siding with the "colonial powers" to pre vent the Congo from attain ing full independence. ' U. S. With Dag. Hammarskjold proved he could take care of himself in oratorial in-fighting, and the United States moved quickly to his side. Said U. S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth: ''The Soviet Union does not want the United Nations to succeed in Africa. A strong United Nations means stabil ity and 'order ... the verbal attempts to discredit the Secretary-General - who enjoys our full confidence - and the United Nations would be se rious enough. "But it is ominous when we add to this the record of So Election Memo: Political Parties, Platforms, Phoney By LYLE C. WILSON Washington OJPH - Some an gles the voters should con sider with a national election coming up are these: The political nnrtips solicit- T ing their votes are' irrespon sible and more r a u d u lent than real. The politi cal platforms .".T Ti-iuSr are phony more often than not' and their promises are not binding. Neither can platform pledges Often be enforced by party discipline. , The dividing line defining the two-party system in the United States is mostly imag inary. It isn't there. Easily Demonstrated The fraudulent nature of political parties easily is dem onstrated. For example: Try to define the purpose of the Democratic party in specific terms mutually acceptable to Sen. Harry F. Byrd of Vir ginia and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Dit to the Republican party in terms which would embrace Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York. Platforms are phony in proportion to the extent to which party members in of fice ignore them. Presidents usually stick close to the plat forms on which they sought election. Many members of Congress more often are irre sponsible, refusing to make good the platform promises. The platforms themselves us ually are the product of cyni cal compromise and-or pure bait to attract various minor ity voting blocs. - we want him to continue rep resenting us. First, Congressman Porter, you have advocated for some time that we grant diplomatic recognition to Red China, pro pose its admission to the Unit ed Nations and trade with it in non-strategic goods. Question: In what way would such action decrease the threat of world commu nism? And, conversely, in what way would recognition and interchange promote the cause of freedom as we know it in the United States? Second, Congressman Por ter, as late as Nov. 1, 1959, you advised that Castro was, in- your words, "not a dic tator," that he was not "against the American peo ple," and that he "has a large belief in human freedoms" and by inference from the foregoing that Castro was not a communist or sympathizer with the communist cause. Question: In what way has Castro's rise to power and his subsequent actions promoted the growth of "human free doms" for Cubans or for Americans in Cuba? Do you still believe Castro is not a communist or a sym pathizer with the communist cause? Third, Congressman Porter, according to articles in the Eugene Register Guard, you have accepted money from Cyrus Eaton, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, to pay your round-trip expenses to three disarmament confer ences in Europe. Question: In what way will the meetings you have attend ed serve to deter the commu nists from their goal of world domination, and did your at tendance equip you to better aid in the ultimate defeat of world communism? Dick Christiansen 1369 Forrester way Eugene, Ore. viet efforts to penetrate the Congo physically." Whatever Zorin had hoped to accomplish, he failed. Instead of reprimanding Hammarskjold, the U. N.'s full General Assembly met and instructed him to con tinue his "vigorous" action in the Congo. The count was 70 0, including the important Afro-Asian nations. Prestige For U, N. Hammarskjold had done more than win a personal vic tory. He had pushed the au thority of the Secretary Gen eral to unprecedented heights. In its earlier concept, the U. N. would be called upon to act only In situations which threatened int e r n a t i o n a 1 peace. In the Congo, it was inter vening to establish internal peace. The dividing line between the major parties is unreal because neither party has a solid policy foundation ac ceptable to its national mem bership. A conservative South ern Democrat most likely would become a registered Republican if he moved north, for example, to Michigan or New York. , All Mixed Up ' American politics is a crazy, mixed-up thing. But better times are coming. How fast depends mostly on political developments in the South. When Southerners have a two-party system of their own, a chance to vote radical or conservative without wast In the Day's News By FRANK A reader of this column mailed in the other day a clipping from it in which a reference was made to "the Russian ship which was launched into the wild yon der" and a comment in par entheses to the effect that it "ISN'T BLUE out there in space, you know." Enclosed with : it. was a clipping from one of the cur rent news magazines quoting Air Force Major Robert While, who recently flew his X-15 rocket ship higher than man had ever flown before. This paragraph from the mag azine was heavily under scored: What did Major White see? He says: "It was a VERY DEEP BLUE, but not exactly like night. There was a dis tinct contrast. Your view en compasses three distinct bands -the earth, the light BLUE of the sky and then the very DEEP BLUE of extreme alti tude." Hmmmmmmm. How come? Did somebody goof? WELL, it's like this: Major White flew high cr than man had ever flown before, but he didn't fly out of the earth's atmosphere. At his highest point, he was up about 25 miles above the surface. The earth's atmos phere is somewhat more than 100 miles thick. Major White was only about a quar ter of the way up through, the atmosphere. And- , It is the light passing through the gases that com pose the earth's atmosphere that make the blue. THIS is what happens: The earth's atmosphere Try and Stop Me - By BENNETT CERF pEORGE HOXIE, famed photographer, known as "Hocus. y Focus" In his home bailiwick of Oxford, Ohio, has been studying the names of some of tlie settlements in the Na tional Parks' Camp ground Directory,- and calls our attention to the following: Detachment Meadow, Frog Hollow, Hobo Gulch, Honeymoon, Virgin's Bath, Pink Beds, Graveyard, and Purga tory. It would be fun sending : friends picture cards with pdstmarks of some of these communi ties thereon. e " Musea Walter Tumulty, just back from Reno: "A man never really knows his wife's true value until a judge tells him what she's going tl nick him for alimony." . ; Mourns a poetic father of a Princeton (Dphomoret " "I worked my way through college I Am heroe often do. Now rm right back where I started: ' Working my eon's way through." ' Prestige If, Hammarskjold reasoned, the Congo and other emerg ing African nations were to be saved from the push and pull of the big power Cold War struggle, they first must be assured ol stability within. This was preventive diplo macy which Hammarskjold believed to be within the lim its of his assignment. Hammarskjold had foreseen the dangers as far back as 1953 when he first took over his job. He traveled in Africa, studying the problem at first hand. Long before the Congo crisis erupted, he was ready with plans for assistance for these new nations, both eco nomic and administrative'. This week the quiet Swede had won a massive vote of confidence and a new concept was being written into tho U.N. charter. ing their ballots, the realign ment of political parties will move along quickly. Presidential elections ' in 1928-'48-'52-'56-four of tha last' eight-proved that tha Solid South isn't solid any more. President Eisenhower in 1952 carried Virginia, Ten nessee, Florida and Texas. In 1956 he carried those four plus Louisiana. Vice President Richard M. Nixon has a good chance to break into the South this year. More significant than Eisen hower's score in Southern states was his popular vote, Southwide. In 1952 he polled 47.7 per cent of the vote in 10 Southern states to Adlai E, Steve.nson's 52.3. JENKINS is made up of nitrogen, oxy gen, hydrogen, neon, helium and other gases. When light passes through these gases, all the different rays are scat tered. Some are scattered more than others. The shorter the wave length of the light, the more it is scattered. Blue is scattered the most, red the least. Therefore, the greatest part of the sky appears to be blue, as these scattered rays are reflected back to us from all parts of the sky. . .. If there were no atmos phere around the earth, part of the light from the sun would hit us directly, and the rest would simply go past. The sky would always LOOK BLACK with the sun, moon and stars shining in a GREAT BLACK CURTAIN. This is the point: If and when man GOES BEYOND the earth's atmos phere, he will find himself whizzing through the BLACK VOID of outer space. . ' WE of course have to tak that for granted. No man born of woman has as yet seen outer space and returned to tell the tale. But wait! It probably won't be long. TN fact- - George M. Low, an offi cial of the National Aeronau tics and Space Administra tion, told a bunch of editors and publishers in Washington the other day that Russia in ready to send a man into or bit around the earth and MAY PICK U.S. ELECTION DAY FOR THE SHOT! So- ' If and wheTi this Russky gets back, he'll be able to give us eye-witness testimony as to whether outer space-is black or blue.