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0 : PcrDally pt Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO ROBERT W RUHL. Editor - wttrr GREY Advc tisinR Monager rFRALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr FRICW ALXEN JR Mng Editor FARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor mrHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Ed.tor DALE ; ERKSONirculation Mgr ' An" Independent Newspaper Entered second class matter at Medfod. Ore, under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance. Cody 10c Dally and Sunday 1 year IS 00 Daily and Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill phoenix aphndy tove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 vear $18 00 Da'.lv and Sunday 1 mo , t.80 Carrier and Dealers copv 10c AH Terms Crah .nAdvancf "Official Paper of City of Medford - Official Papw of Jackson Counly . ' United Press International Full Leased Wire U P.l Telephoto Newspictures "MEMFIER OF AUDIT B t IRE A tT" pmciJLATjoNS AdvertlKing Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO.. INC Of fices in New York Chicago De troit. San Frnncluco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL E D I TO R I A I AS(sbcU-ATfo J J Flighfo' Time Medford and Jackson County History (ro.n the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1950 (Tuesday) Gov. and Mrs. Douglas Mc Kay arrived at the Medford hotel this morning to begin a series of appearances that will keep them in southern Ore gon most of the week. Four horticulturists from the Netherlands arc spending several days in Medford this week studying the local fruit growing industry. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1940 (Thursday) In compliance with a recent school board ruling, a seventh '. grade girl student was sus- ! pended from Rogue River grade school Monday for fail ure to salute the American flag: the girl is a member of Jehovah s Witnesses. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The price of hogs is gently rising. A federal agency fears this will derange prices, and unless checked will make a ham sandwich cost more than a hog." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1930 (Friday) - The Oregon State Labor Federation convention opened here today. Eighteen students from Jackson county have enrolled at the University of Oregon this fall. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1920 (Sunday) Jackson county won the third place prize at the recent state fair, Wheat has dropped below the $2 per bushel mark here. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1910 (Monday) : Cornice pears from the Hill crest orchards received the banner price of the year to date when they sold recently for $8.70 a box in New York. - Two days of predicted rain will bring a temporary halt to apple picking in the valley. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior: liven or eight Is excellent) five ei lis Is good. 1. In southern U.S., would ; a "Yankee Dime" mean a hug, or a kiss? 2. Baton Rouge is the cap ital of which State? 3. Which word is iiejorrect- PUBLISHERS -"ASSOCIATION iy usee: mere were two or three, or at the most, a dozen . people there." ; 4. Name the capital of : Egypt. 5. In which slate Is the famous Snoqualmie water fall? 6. How many Jacks show ing only "one eye are in a standard deck of 52 plnyiae cards? O 7. "He came out from the house," What is wrong with the sentence? ' 8. In its journey around the earth, in which direction does the moon travel? 9. How many inches are one mile? i 10. In what language was the Magna Charta written? Answers. 1. Kiss. 2. Lou isiana. 3. People, should be replaced by persons. 4. Cairo. 5. Washington. 6. ' Two. 7. "Out" should be fol lowed by "of," not "from." 8. West to East. 9. 63,360. 10. Latin. 2. ' " 0 c9 What's There's a woman in the Gold tt area (whose name we didn't catch) who has a far better memory than "E.A." She called Saturday, "Aren't you just cifusing us more? In May, I voted 'yes' on the doer control measure, because I didn't want dogs confined. And I did it becaus mat s what a Mail Tribune story said. She's right so very right. gici we were wrong editorial here Friday. THE ballot measure was worded then (and will UC again 11CAL IIlUlllIl J mua. "For clogs running at large yes." "For dogs running at large no." And that's even worse than the way we mis remembered it. All of which troes to prove two points : 1. That confusion minds of editorial writers as well as others) over the silly ballot wording, and, 2. That editorial writers had best do their homework before rushing into print, depending solely on a faulty memory. A NOTHER call we received Saturday was from " a lawyer who thought we were a bit too rough on Jerry Scannell, the deputy district attorney who we accused of doing nothing to abate the confusion. ; Our lawyer friend said the whole trouble stems from an old law (we agree), that there have been no amendments to it to clarify its in tent or application, and likewise no court de cisions on which to base a legal opinion. Thus, he said, the district attorney's office has no basis to offer any advice. "THIS may be true. But, as legal counsel for the county, it seems to us that the district attorney s omce Has an obligation to do its utmost to clarify any legal questions arising (and in this case they're com plex), or, failing that, to admit defeat and come out and say plainly they don't know, and that it will take a court to unravel the tangled skein. The district attorney's office did neither. It wrote an obscure, fuzzy and (as far as we're con cerned) totally meaningless "opinion" for the county clerk. Does ANYbody know the score? E.A. Mr. Khrushchev s Big Lie The use of lies and falsehoods by Communists is nothing new and normally does not require special comment. But Nikita Khrushchev's use of the Big Lie technique before the Assembly had a breathtaking impudence which made it a special insult, to uie mieiiigeuce. The lie was as simple as it was enormous : The head j5f the greatest colonial empire of the present day told the people of the world he has no col onies, and spoke sanctimoniously as the enemy of colonialism. The man who ordered the Hun garian Revolution throttled in blood dared weep crocodile tears over the fate of the many states now members of the United Nations who have been given their freedom with no struggle of any I:ind in recent years. It was a shameless per formance. , LET us look at the Soviet colonial empire. It consists of two parts. One part is made up of states nominally independent, but enmeshed so completely in Moscow's military, political and economic power that they cannot act with true independence. These states are: Poland East Germany Hungary Czechoslovakia Rumania Albania Bugaria Outer Mongolia North Korea THE other part of the Soviet colonial empire is made up of the non-Russian peoples and lands which were first subjugated by the Czars, incorporated into their empire and then resubju gated by Lenin and Stalin so that today they ate still vassals of Moscow. Many peoples live in the prison of nations that is the Soviet Union today, but the chief ones among them are the following: Ukranians Byelorussians Lithuanians Latvians Estonians O Armenians Georgians AzerbHijanis Uzebeks Q Turkmen Kirghiz O Tadjiks Tartars Yakuts Buryats But all means let all colonialism be ended as soon as possible. But let the United Nations and the world make sure that the Soviet colonial em pire be included. That empire, unfortunately, has grown while the other empires of the past have been dissolving before our eyes. New York Times. Mr. K's Convincing Khrushchev's violence am? nasty behavior at the United Nations.nd his attack on the. respect pire be included. That empire, unfortunwrely, has probably done more to convince doubting Amer icans that the U.N. ka good thing, after all, than anything that has lrappened for ye's. -E.A. C. ' a. tlfe Score? and said: so very wrong in an still is rampant (in the United Nations General q ets MEDFORD MAIL tennis the Menace 'Here! An' tell my cow i'u picxsowe MORE FOB HER TOMORROW' ... 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 contrary is often trie case. Drama of Politics To the Editor: If we were to give this essay a name we would call it: The Drama of Politics. Shakespeare tells us that; "All the world's a stage," then he proceeded to w.ite political dramas. Any one that is inter ested in politics or Shakes peare will note the political flavor of his plays. And that is the main thing that makes them universal classics. Of course there are a great many people who read newspapers that do not know what drama is or what politics are. Some people think that only wars are drama, not realizing that they are also politics. We also have cases where there is re ligion in politics, but more often there is politics in re ligion. We define politics as the clash between economic and social classes. In other words, individuals and groups with an axe to grind. The interests of the man that owns the axe and the boy that turns the grindstone are not identical. In time there develops an emotional conflict. Drama is born of a conflict of interest and is given expression in clash of personalities and groups of individuals, classes and nations. When large groups clash within a nation it is either a riot or civil war. When inter ests of national ideologies clash in violence it is just another war. That which is called a cold war is conflict ing interest on ideologies maneuvering for a strategic position or advantage. Our political campaign is a skirm ish between progressive forces and the element of reaction in defense of the status quo. To any one interested in world affairs these are thrill ing times. It was sheer drama when Mr. K assaulted the UN. It was spectacular drama at the storming of the Bastile. Dramatic repercussions fol lowed the firing on Fort Sumter, Then there were the ten days that shook the world and it has been trembling ever since. We have been treated to so much drama since the Russian revolution that it has become commonplace. Inse curity and conflict has been a way of life. We have ex perienced so much suspense that our nerves are calloused. Only the ignorant have been blissfully happy. The strategy usea against the spread of Commuriism was largely a campaign of vilifi cation and ignorance. Witch hunting became a vogue. Of all of our political leaders in the national capital, Charlie Porter has madeOthe most realistic attempt to meet the menace of a changing world. He wants to learn. Walter Reece Galice rd. Merlin, Ore. Builders - Not Spoilers To the Editor: First of all thanks for a very good paper. 1 enjoy your editorials and sports coverage. Q But since this is an election year, I must gel my two oils in. What amazes me is this - with 00 per cent of the papers and 97 per cent of ths maga zines in favor of thiCicpubli can party since the mid-thir ties, the Democratic party still continues to grow. With every daily in California pro-Republican, the Democrats have a huge majority. The only reason I can figure out is that tho people know who gave thorn WPA, CCC, Social Se curity, Federal Housing, GI Bill of Rights, TVA, Unem ployment Insurance, tighter banking laws, tigSV marfj't control of Wall st., flood con trol of all major rivers, coun- i''rhere i.t not a state in the TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the U.S. which has not progressed under the Democrats, includ ing our neighboring state of Washington, which by the building of the huge dams on the Columbia, has been trans formed from agricultural and forest products into industrial ones. Their forest products now rank ninth on the list. These are but a few items that I can think of now. In closing I would like to say the only mistake FDR ever made was to make Eisenhower what he is today, and that the Dem ocratic party is a party of builders and not of spoilers. George Roekel 1001 West Harbcek rd. Grants Pass, Ore. With His Boots On To the Editor: Ever hear of John Day valley? Well, it is a short secluded valley lying on the eastern slope of the Siskiyou range of mountains where the mountains make a left-angle turn south in west ern Siskiyou County, Cali fornia. As the story goes, as told to me almost half a century ago by an old time miner of south ern Oregon, John Day, a mountain hermit and alleged horse thief, was a notorious character and had full control of a one or two mile long valley named after him (later). His surroundings were so se cluded and protected by nat ural boundaries that all of ficials of the frontier law en forcement agencies were at a disadvantage to approach the much sought after mountain man villain who evaded the outside world as much as pos sible. After a rendezvous in Yre- ka, Calif., by night rides un der disguise, he ventured to be bolder one day, through misjudgment, and on that fa tal day he was recognized by the law officers and a shoot ing affray took place on one of the principal streets and John Day was overwhelmed by a posse and died as he had lived with his boots on. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. SheV'Regusled" Too v To the Editor: "Bravo" for your editorial re Uog Con trol. My sentiments exactly! Perhaps more pressure from your "news medium at least, would result in some proper service to the people of this area from the district at torney's office! I have called the county clerk's office about this mat ter and have received exactly the kind of "double talk" you mention, which they were merely passing on to me from the district attorney's office. I say also "I'se regusted! Mrs. Russell Carr li45 Madrona lane Medford. Time To Wake Up To the Editor: JJsincerely hope that Congressman Charles O. Porter and all oth ers who would officially rec ognize another gangster led nation, Red China, had the opportunity of watching the real Khrushchev at the U.N. on television. His perlorm- ,Wj during Harold Macmil- lan's address only proves the real Soviet and Comiaeinist objective, i.e., to have-tmly what they want. Considering that Mao Tse- tung thinks that Khrush.hev has gone soft, how can any body in his right mind be lieve that recognition of Red China would be a step toward world peaS2 Or th it admit tance to the U.N. would do anything other than put another desk pounder and wrecker of the league of free nations into of position of using this body as a place to spread Communist doctrine? On the other hand, if we (. ForeinNotebook: Khrushchev's Tirade Seen Tied To Berlin; Airlift Possible By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor From the foreign editor's notebook: Jigsaw Puzzle West Germans think they have the answer to Nikita Khrushchev's attacks on United Na tions Secre tary General Dag Hammar skjold and his demands for reorganization of the UN sec retariat. They b e lieve h i s ground for rejection of UN intervention if the Berlin cri sis gets hot. UN effectiveness in the Congo spoiled Khrush chev's plans there and the Germans believe he wants to take no chances that the same thing happens to him in Ger many where his prestige stakes would be higher. want to sell out the small na tions of the world who are looking to our system as the best way of life, then recog nize Red China and make it be known that we have capitulated. When will we wake up to the war that is now in prog ress? If we don't realize it we should, the fight has been on for years and every step that Communists gain is bringing them closer to the time when "they will bury us", literally. Gene M. Williams 1017 Reddy ave. Medford. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS In Portland last week, Dr. While-Stevens of the agricul tural division of the Ameri can Cyanamid company told us that while what is happen ing to American agriculture as the result of a law may not look very good to us now it may be very good for all of us over the long pull. TS HE right? Or is he wrong? It's hard to say. In search of an answer, let's take a look at Gold Beach, over on the Southern Oregon coast. In the interval between the days of old, the days of gold, and the recent past, the principal industry of Gold Beach was commercial fishing. There was a cannery at the mouth of the Rogue. It pro vided a market for the fish ermen who spread their nets for the salmon when they entered the river in their an nual runs. That went on for decades, Then, as in the case of agri culture, there came a law. It was a law iorbiading com mercial fishing in the Rogue. IIHAT happened? " The cannerv closed. The fishermen lost their jobs. The town stagnated. For a time, the picture was a gloomy one Then . . . There was a change. There came the sportsmen. They came at first in small numbers. They went home and told of their catches. Hearing the stories, MORE SPORTSMEN CAME. They wanted boats. They wanted guides. In the course of time. the former commercial fisher men were earning MORE as guides and boatmen than they had ever earned before. THE sportsmen were fol lowed by the tourists. The tourists demanded more and better roads. With more and better roads, MORE TOUR ISTS CAME. Also more ijrtsmen. The sportsmen not only wanted to fish. They wanted to take their fish home with them. That result ed in a custom cannery, which does a thriving business. The sportsmen and the tourists wanted places to stay, so new and modern motels were built. In time, there came saw mills and plywood plants, pro viding payrolls. And so on. Today Gold Beach is one of the brightest, busiest, handsomest small cities on the northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon coast. rTHERE are problems, of course. For example: The fishermen and the tour ists come in thousands. In the aggregate, they catch a lot of fish. When the commercial cannery closed, it closed down and dismantled the hatchery it had maintained. With no hatchery, there are fewer lit- -ted West Germans expect the Communists to step up their campaign against free West Berlin on Oct. 15 in connec tion with the scheduled meet ing of West German veterans' organizations. The West Ber liners expect the Communists to close off Berlin travel to persons attending the meeting, just as they did rectfnUy against a meeting of persons expelled from Germany's former eastern territories. On that occasion, the West in stituted a "baby airlift" cir cumventing the Communist ban on rail and road travel. African Turmoil When Britain granted inde pendence to Africa's most pop- Free Electors Ominous Sign For Jack By LYLE C. WILSON Washington (UPW The most anxious news from the South for Sen. John F. Kennedy p r o b ably is from Georgia. Georgia i s an anchor state of the solia South. It never has bolted a Dem ocratic nomi nee for presi dent. Only A r kansas Lyle C iVUson shares with Georgia that dis tinction of party loyalty. Georgia now seems to be moving away from the Demo cratic party in a national sense. Many Georgians would tell you that the move is the other way, that the political party of their fathers has moved away from Georgia. The solid evidence of move ment is last month's straw vote in Georgia on the ques tion whether the state's presi dential electors should be pledged to vote in the elec toral college for the Demo cratic presidential ticket. An overwhelming vote for pledg ed electors was expected. There was a straw vote majority of more than 20,000 for free electors. Except as it may detract from the ag gregate of the electoral col lege vote for the Kennedy Johnson ticket, this is no cause for unrestrained Re publican applause. The vote is not at all evidence that Georgians love the Republi can party more, but only that Georgians love the national Democratic party less. All good citizens might re joice in the outcome of the straw ballot as evidence that the South is moving, if slow ly, toward a legitimate two party system. The straw vote was not binding on the elect ors, who may or may not de cide to cast free rather than pledged votes in the electoral college. If they cast free votes, it would not follow that they would go to the Republican Nixon-Lodge ticket. More like- Iv. Georgia s electors would vote fc-V some notable South ern conservative, such as their own Sen. Richard B. Russell or Sen. Harry P. Byrd of Vir ginia. If such maverick Georgia electoral votes and others similarly freed in the South prevented either major party ticket from obtaining an absolute majority, the contest would go to the House of Representatives. Southern c o n s e r v atives would like that. In the House, tie fish to go out over the bar to return four years later as big ones. So far, the com mercial fish hatchery has not been replaced by a sport fish hatchery. WHAT to do? Here's what they're do ing. They're buying salmon eggs in the state of Washing ton and hiring them hatched. Then they bring the little fish back to the Rogue and put them in ponds to grow -ger. When they reach the right age they turn them loose in the river to go out over the bar return (it is hoped) four years later as full grown fish to provide sport for the growing number of sports fishermen. THEY call the operation Salmon Unlimited and fi nance it by selling member ships, after the manner of Ducks Unlimited. It s some thing of a gamble. Maybe the salmon will come back to the place where the eggs were taken instead of coming back to the Rogue, where they were released from the ponds they tarried in while getting big enough to take off for whatever far places the salm on go to while they arfesrow ing up. Anyway, it's an interesting experiment and the Gold Beach Dopltre willing to gamble. They've gambled s(i lot since the gold mining days, and so far they've done all right. J2i us country, Nigeria, it left tribal and cultural divisions as deep as those in the Congo - but with nothing resembling the Congo mess. The jger ians are better educatSrand more accustomed la govern ment. But, as in tSr Congo, one region is rich and popul lous enough to overrule the other two. In the Congo, it is secessionist Katanga. In Ni geria it is the rich and feudal north, composing one of Ni geria's three regions. In ad dition, tribal rivalries have resulted in demands that the three existing regions be broken into six smaller ones. Rioting and violent deaths al ready have resulted. More are likely. in State of each state would have a single vote, 26 votes being necessary to elect a president. Under such circumstances, Southern states could, would, band to gether. It could happen. The state's rights bolters tried to bring that about in 1948,' failing by a whisker. More immediate, however, is this question: Washington Report By WILLIAM EVEN ODDS Washington John F. Ken nedy is now running a vast collective thing called the Democratic party against a r e I a t l v ely smaller if still huge collec tive thing called the Re publican par ly. Only sec ondarily is he running against Rich- -i TV.T ATIvn William 8. auu. White Richard Nixon is now running funda mentally against a man called Kennedy-and never mind the the parties too much. This is one of the several reasons why this presidential election is so extraordinarily hard to predict. Kennedy, though no mean contender in any personality contest, is neverthless not really depending on his ap peal as a person. At bottom he is depending on the Mosaic like cummulative appeal of a party which is far the larger of the two about 6 to 4. And though he presents himself as more modern than Nixon, Kennedy also calls up mem ories of a more remote past. TJE stresses what the Demo "cratic party did two dec ades ago, in the era of Frank lin Roosevelt. Nixon stresses what Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nixon not the Repub lican party have done in the past eight years. These differences in em phasis are no accident. The final impression Ken nedy wishes to leave is this: "Look at what the Democratic party historically has done for you." The final impression Nixon wishes to leave is this: "Look what Dwight D. Eisenhower in whose administration I my self haveserved -has done for you." If Kennedy could assume that all the country's more-or-less Democratic voters would go for him he would never irecd to get out of his office chair. If Nixon had to assume that all the more-or-less Democrats would so vote then, would be no point in his ever leaving his chair, for he would have no chance anyhow. Tsy and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF "11 TOSS IO-RT'S triumphant autography, .Act One, has -L'-l occasioned a certain amount of kidding by some envi ous contemporaries. His old-time collaborator, George S, Kaufman, for instance, phoned him to report, "Moss, your book is such a smash that all your fellow playQ'ghts have decided to pay you a sig .nal tribute, for the next year every one of them has promised to name the first act of his new play in your honor, Act One!" o -Qnissionary, back from a long and arduous tour of duty among the cannibals of New Guinea, was asked, "Do you think you made any progress over there?" "I timistic missionary. "On Fridays now I've noticed that the) cannibals eat only fishermen." Oscar Wilde, at a London hotel, once ordered a water cress .FWdwich. What the waiter brought was too big for the finicky Mr. Wilde. "Isked for a water cress sandwich," he snorted, "not a loaf of bread with a field of green in the middle of It!" O1960, by Seanett Cert Distributed by Kla( resume Syndicate A, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1960 British genius for compro mise is expected to show at its best in this week's labor party conference at Scar borough, Yorkshire. The prob lem wili be whether to sup port theejiefense policy of par ty leader Hugh Gaitskell, which depends on the nuclear deterrent and the western al liance, or to go with that of Frank Cousins, a powerful trade union leader who wants Britain to abandon nuclear weapons. The split could cost Gaitskell his job or it could result in a compromise involv ing partial agreement with both sides. It would satisfy no one but it would leave the party intact. Georgia What do the rumblings of Georgia rebellion mean for the Kennedy - Johnson ticket? Not merely in Georgia, but throughout the South? Five Southern states bolted the Democratic ticket in 1928. Four in 1948 and 1952. Four years ago there were five Southern bolters. It is begin' ning to look like a trend. S. WHITE A LL the same, the Broad way and Las Vegas odds makers continued to favor Nixon. (This correspondent, parentheticaly, wouldn't risk a dime on the outcome at this point.) Essentially what they are betting is that the ticket splitting of the last two presi dential elections will char acterize this one, too. They are gambling that Nixon will get practically all the tradi tional Republicans plus a big bloc of independents and dis satisfied Democrats, as Gen eral Eisenhower certainly did in 1952 and 1956. Whether they are right in this nobody can say. But one thing can be said for sure: There are, at any rate, far more complicated and unread able factors in this election than in any we have ever known. My own hunch is that the gamblers and the pollsters, too are taking a tremendous risk in trying to be even half positive about anything. For a single example: Even if Nix on carries a popular majority there is a far greater than normal possiblity of a Ken nedy victory anyhow. Under the system, of course, a man winning a state by a single vote takes all that state's electoral votes. Ken nedy is going allout, to a de gree rarely seen, for the states of massive electoral power. Precisely six of the 50 states California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania-could hand him 181 of "the 269 electoral votes needed for election. rpHESE six states, morever, -- mostly are precisely those in which the so-called "Cath olic issue" might well help rather than hurt, and where pro-Democratic union labor is the strongest. Give all those six to Nixon and one could predict a Nix on landslide, considering his probable greater rural and small-town strength than Kennedy's. Give them to Ken nedy and you could predict at least a Kennedy victory, regardless of Kennedy's pop ular vote total. All early predictors are quite welcome to have the field alone. (Copyright. 1960, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) xl GeoKgej really do," nodded liValwavs op
