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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2, I960 4 MEDFORD- .TRIBUNB' 'Everone ID Soulliern OreMOB . Reads The Mll Tribune Ifcibllshed bnlly except Sat':rdy by GERAJLjD T LATHAM Bui IMr FHICW ALLEN JR.. Mng Editol EARL H ADAMS. CUT ESlWr uADiiv rHIPMAN Teleg Editor KICHARD JEVraTT. Spo'rU, Ed or 5 m? ?TARCHER. Women'i editor : rnf NMvniaDer BnteTed'".. Second ' matter .t Medford. Oregon, under Act of SUBSCRrPTION p'aTES By SHa - K Advance. Copy 10c Dally and Sunday-1 year S15M Daily and Sunday 6 mot . Db v and 8unday-3 mo 4 .M 'Ashland. Central Point B a r i e Point. Jacksonville nold m PhoenlK. Shady Cove. Rou . Rlv er Talent and on ;.5V0 Dalit and Sunday vear . d" v Snd Sunday-1 mo 1J0 I Carrier and Dealer. - cop, 10c "KnTTripir of City of Md'"J Officii! Pap of J.cVtKon County. BiritoTPreia n'",na",n,, Tull Leaed Wire TJ P 1 Tolephoto Newsplcturea fefflr s?nHeoKDAvncot,vmc Of- flcefln New York. Chicago Dj. ti-olt San Francisco. Loa Antelej o.0.. i. Portland St. Loult. At lanta Vancouver. B.C NEWSFAPtS PUILISHEHS ASSOCIATION EDITORI Al Flight o' Time Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. u and 50 vean oe. 10 YEARS AGO 9.. 1950 (Saturday) A Eugene truck driver nar rouwly escaped death or lerl- ous in ury lasi ms " -- the Dodge bridge on the Sam. Valley highway collapsed Be neath his truck, plunging him Into the Rogue river. Five Medford persons sus tained minor injuries last night when a car in which they were riding collided wl h a passenger train at the Sixth l. railroad crossing. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1940. (Monday) . Searchers are scouring the Umpqua forest area north of mil,, fnr a Medford couple believed crashed in their pri vate plane. : '" , ' v. Arthur Perry i "Ye Smudge Pot" column: Ob servers predict a 'decisive crisis' in European affairs In mid-January. In this state, about that time, a session of the legislature impends, , and no way to get out of It." 30 YEARS AGO , Dec. 2. 1930 (Wednesday) Ballot irregularities in the West Medford and Oakdale precincts are charged by de feated mayor candidate. Medford milk Is now all oraHp A. a change made neces sary by a recent city ordi nance designed to protect the health of the public. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 2, 1920 (Friday) The local Christmas Seal ...i.. is now underway. PreclDitation in Medford during November totaled 9.23 Inches, SO YEARS AGO Dec. 2. 1910 (Friday) The members of the Med- fmd Typographical union have completed arrangements for a grand ball and supper nt the Nalatorium hall on .Inn 9. The Saturday Evening Post this week has a story about John D. Olwell, Mediora, wno almost single-handedly organ. lzed a fruit trade between Oregon and Europe. - What's Your I.Q.? Nln at tin correct Is tuetritr; lovan 91 eight ll ticllltnt) Nve six it good. 1. A quarter section of land is made up of how many acres? 2. Which stale was settled first, Florida, Massachusetts or Delaware? 3. What is the area of triangle whose base is three feet and its altitude five leei 4. If you walk one mile at the rate of two miles per hour, and ride four miles at the rate of eight miles per hour, how long will it take you to cover five miles? 5. With what type of cases does an appellate court deal? 6. How many cubic feet are there In a cord? ' 7. What city in the United States is known as the largest railroad center? 8. Who wrote the "Just So" stories? 9. What is fallow land? 10. Under what federal de nartment in the Bureau of Public Roads? Answers: I. 160 acres; Florida; 3. IVi square feet; 4. One hour; 5. With appeals from lower courts; 6. 121 cu bie feel; 7. Chicago; I. Rud .b.IwnPlcrop.9; Vo?dD.p meni of Commerce. :' Centred African Parky The real need for the political leaders of the Central African Federation, according to the Brit ish press, is trust. . ' "The Guardian" suggests specifically that po litical leaders of the Commonwealth take a part in the London talks starting Dec. 5 to promote a feeling of mutual confidence. "If the black and white leaders in the Kfioaesias coum De urougm to talk to the black and white leaders of the Com monwealth," the British journal points out, "it seems likely that some confidence between them would emerge. ... A new racial experiment in Central Africa would have a much better chance if it were underwritten by the multiracial Com monwealth ; and if the Commonwealth cannot try to help an afflicted junior member, what can it do and what is it for?" The Federation, created in 1953, consists of the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia and the British protectorates of North ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Southern Rhodesia is a white settler community, much influenced by the Union of South Africa, from which many of its white farmers came. It ent member of the Commonwealth today had it not chosen federation. The British scheme- Nyasaland, a poor protectorate which grows to bacco and tea, and Northern Rhodesia, a pros perous protectorate, a main source of the world's copper and rich in other minerals. The idea is that Nyasaland will supply the bulk of the labor, Northern Rhodesia the raw material, and bouth ern Rhodesia the financing and brainwork. THE trouble is that Africans outnumber whites 1 14 to 1 in Southern Rhodesia, 39 to 1 in North ern Rhodesia, and 250 to nationalists understandably fear a white-domi nated federation. Dr. Hastings K. Banda and her nationalist leaders on : Banda is supposed thusiasm to the idea or joining an Jiast Africa federation proposed in Tanganyika. Sir Roy Welensky, prime minister of the Fed eration, continues to urge is growing sentiment in secession motivated by the fear that Africans would dominate the Federation politically. 1MUCH of the talk in London will be based on "the report of the Monckton Commission, a governmental study of the Federation constitu tion released Oct. 11. It gave a little to both sides, and so excited extremists on both sides. The Commission urged political parity for the 6 million Africans and 300 thousand Europeans. Sir Roy on Nov. 12 declared that Britain had a firm obligation to reject a further Commission recommendation, which is sion within five or seven -r-be written into the constitution. The conservative "Daily Telegraph" of Lon don makes a strong case Report and the Federation: "What the confer ence must examine ... is the Monckton Commis sion's gamble that rapid constitutional advance within the Federation will session against it. It is admittedly difficult to ful fill simultaneously the duties of standing by our fellow countrymen and of responding to African nationalism. Federation why its demise would be Progress The name "Bali" conjures uo a vision of a romantic South Pacific isle populated by cavort ine native dancers. But the hospital ship SS Hope was scheduled to arrive confront uglier aspects malaria, tuberculosis and intestinal parasites. For the past two months the floating medical school has been carrying aid and instruction in the healinir arts from the people of Indonesia. The response has been grati fying. When the gleaming white vessel docked at Jakarta, '.President Sukarno closed the only college-level nurses' training school in the nation for two weeks and sent the entire student body and staff to the SS Hope ""THE first aim of Project Hope is to teach, not treat. Patients generally are accepted in limit ed numbers, but the main purpose is to train native medical workers in the rudiments of public health and medical treatment. In Indonesia, even today, acute appendicitis is a leading cause of death and the typical fracture is amputation SS Hope will be anchored at Bali for about three weeks while the ship's 15 doctors and 24 nurses train native counterparts in the latest tech niques. After four more months in Indonesian ports, the ship will move on to Viet Nam for a four-month stay, and then return to the United States. If the present venture is successful, other ships may be sent on teaching missions to Asia, Africa and South America. It is noteworthy that the year-loner cruise is beine supported largely by contributions from groups, and individuals. The one-time Navy hospital ship seems to be fulfilling its role as an impressive symbol to the Asians of the good .will of Americans as indi viduals .and as a nation. As the English language "Times of Indonesia nesians) commented editorially: "The East for gete many things, but never, never, loses its rever ence for a teacher." E.R.R. would be an independ links the colony with 1 in Nyasaland. African would scrap the federa- to be listening with en the union. But there Southern Rhodesia for that the right of seces years of independence for both the Monckton erase the African ob could do so, and that is a tragedy." E.R.R. of Hope at the island today, to of Bahnese life yaws, American people to the for instruction remedy ior a compound of the limb. U.S. corporations, labor (owned wholly by IndO' Dennis the 'HOW COM Oil TELL PEOPLE XXI 0ONT WORK? ' Konrad Adenauer of Germany Selected As Man of the Week By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst The man of the Week: Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer of West Germany. '' The place: Bonn. The Quote:'"My authori ty lasts only as long as I am present, and not one day longer. But I have my Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the titime and address of the writer although undei cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name oi initial for publics tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all tetters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Rock Formations To the Editor: The mythical state of "Jefferson" compris ing the northern counties of our neighboring state Cali fornia and southern Oregon has the unique distinction of having some unusual rock formations. One of the outstanding sen tinels serving as a landmark to the early emigrants was Pilot Rock, designating both the Cascades and Siskiyou mountains ranges. Some two decades ago when the new Highway 99 cuts were made over the present site near the California stale border some symmetrical round hard rocks were imbedded in the right of way and later were photo graphed and pictured in Fate Magazine of Eyanston, 111., a magazine of true and strange stories. Then there is the history of the Siskiyou Rain Rock found on the Klamath river road in 1947 by a county road crew working near Klamath near mouth of Beaver creek. The huge rock is reported to be of soapstone and the several Indian tribes knew of its magical powers as the rock had been buried several gen erations ago to prevent fu ture flooding of the Klamath river. These are only a few odd bits of natural history. If all the weird and obscure rock formations of northern Cali fornia and southern Oregon were classified, inspected and commented upon, the contents in historical Importance and value would fill a brochure of no small edition. Perhaps some of the local southern Oregon present sites historians will in some near future be Interested to under take such a fascinating sub ject to compile the accumu lated matter in book form. There Is a vast amount of material and geologic mater ial to be investigated right In the midst of this area's Sis kiyou Wonderland. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford, Ore. Not Let Down To the Editor: We want to thank you for the fine edi torial and article you wrote about Sacred Heart hospital. It Is wonderful to know that the community has not let the Sisters down after all their years of service here. The employees at Sacred Heart wanted the Sisters to continue as their employers, as they contribute to the hap py atmosphere rather than one of tensions. This In turn makes it much more pleasant for the patients. If the Sisters had left, it would be like losing part of one's own fam ily. Everyone will have to work toward the goal of answering the Sisters' prayers for a new hospital. Carol Coslello Margaret Riley Isabell Lewis Verna Hylton Edna Teney Irene Brophy Sacred Heart Hospital Menace 1 wr eye on certain men who might some time take oyer my office. I am testing them." It was a revealing state ment from the tough old chan cellor who next month cele brates his 85th birthday. It confirmed a belief long held that in Adenauer's mind no man is so fit to lead Ger many as Ade nauer himself, until death or a far - off in f i r m i t y do them part. It was a part of that a r r o g a nee which has both endeared puii newsqm him to his fol lowers and infuriated them. If proof were needed, it also was further evidence that in Adenauer's mind he and West Germany are one, and that he will carve his niche in eternity by, if pos sible, handpicking the man who must some day follow him to carry on his policies. . It is a rare day that Ade- Fastest Growing Industry May Be Making Loopholes By DICK WEST United Press International Washington -IUPII- Although I have no figures to back up this statement, it seems safe to say that one of the fastest grow ing industries in the United States is the man ufacture of loopholes The largest loophole fac tory is, of course, the U.S. Congress, which has managed to apply the mass production technique to this ancient handicratt. 1 .would estimate that Congress spends about one-third of its time passing laws that open loop holes, and about one-third passing laws that close them. What it does with the other third is anybody's guess. The legislative output is carefully sifted by private prospectors, who hope to dis cover hidden loopholes that will turn a quick profit. The market value varies widely, but finding a major loophole, particularly in a tax law, is tantamount to striking oil. Foreigners Are Experts Some of the more ingenious loophole experts are foreign ers who have a rich lode to mine in the American tariff laws. Numerous examples of ttreir work can be seen in a 10-volume study recently sub mitted to Congress by the U.S. tariff commission. I was especially intrigued by the volume on shoes be cause it showed a rare sample of a loophole within a loop hole, or rather an open loop hole within a closed loophole. On two occasions, the com mission said. Congress has passed laws "to close a loop hole in the tariff laws by which foreign producers are, by artful manipulation of a product, avoiding an import duty imposed specifically for the protection of the rubber soled footwear industry." But in both cases, it added, the legislation was "so com plex and ambigious as to be unintelligible to persons not familiar with the background and legislative history, and troublesome and difficult even for those who have knowledge thereof. In other words, the closed Rockefeller Indicates Get Himself Reputation, Run for By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington-flJPD-What Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller seems to be trying to tell Vice Presi dent Richard Nixon is that Nixon should an eet him- H self a reputa tion. Perhaps R o c k e feller thinks that Nixon now should run for governor to prove his vote-appeal. Nix on is not going to do that. . Go get yourself a reputa tion! That is what a champ says to a preliminary fighter who is so impertinent as to ask for a title shot. Rockefeller's announcement this week that he would be a 1962 candidate for reelection in New York was notable chiefly for what the governor said about Nixon. Rockefeller nauer thinks of himself as anything but indestructible, and it was coincidence that the interview quoting h l m came out on a day when a temperature and a cold had confined him to his home. For with his own birthday onjg a little more than a month away, he could not re sist a slight boastful dig in his birthday message to the 8tf - year - old Sir Winston Churchill. "I think back on your great leadership abilities which I was so often able to admire at conferences and in conver sations," the message said. It was a delicate reminder to Churchill that Adenauer still is active politically and next year enters upon his fourth national election cam paign. But, while Adenauer has shown himself arrogant and at times infuriating, he is a man to whom West Germany can indeed be grateful. As vigorously as he oppos ed Hitler's Nazism and as he opposes communism today, he also battled to regain for Ger many a place in the family of nations.; loophole was still rather porous. To Close Loopholes As I understand it, the duty on rubber footwear is higher than the duty on leather footwear. But if the shoes are made of both materials, the duty rate of the more expen sive materials applies and leather is more expensive than rubber. Therefore, foreign manufac facturers who were exporting rubber-soled sneakers to this country began to put strips of leather between the inner and outer soles. This enabled them to pay the leather sole duty rather than the higher rubber sole duty. You get the picture? Later on, they opened the loophole a little wider by making sneakers with leather tongues. This made the leath er duty rale apply to the whole shoe rather than just cne sole. Congress is expected to try to close the various tariff loopholes next year, but by that time, . I fear, someone will have invented an electro nic loophole detector. If so his fortune will be made. Watch Asked on Information Flow New York -IUPII- Rep. John Moss, (D-Calif.), has called on the public and the press to keep a careful watch on the incoming Kennedy adminis tration to see whether it ful fills its promise of greater freedom of public informa tion. Moss, chairman of the House subcommittee on government information, spoke Thursday at the opening of the nation al convention of the Sigma Delta Chi Journalism Fra ternity where he was present ed the organi'ation's 1960 Freedom Award. The conven tion was attended by more than 500 college students and professional newsmen. READY COOKED MEAL Cincinnati, Ohio-(UPIl-Harry Muthert went to the refriger ator Thursday to prepare his breakfast and found it al ready cooked to a crisp. A short circuit had caused a fire in the unit, doing $150 dam- ages. Muthert went out for breakfast. , did not mention the vice pres. ident's name. It was not nec essary. What Rockefeller conveyed was that he did not recognize Nixon as the national leader of the Republican party. Nixon's Claim Strong The governor, of course, is under no compulsion to recog nize Nixon as his political leader nor as the national Re publican leader. But the vice president s claim is substan tial. Nixon has just emerged from an election in which he split the presidential vote right down the middle with In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS From London: Sir Winston Churchill jut ted his chin this morning, nar rowed his eyes and said ne was going to HAVE A PARTY to celebrate his 86tn Dirtn day. The press men (as the English call them) report: "His doctors auailed before the look that has chilled the great statesman's opponents for more than eu years, oui thev stood their ground and insisted that a party would be too much of a strain. "Lady Churchill sided with the doctors. So. . . Sir Winston had to give in and GIVE UP THE PARTY." IN a way, its' too bad. Over these six long dec ades, the old warrior has gen erally done as he pleased, re gardless of opposition . . . and, it should be added, re gardless of DANGER. It's terrible to be 86-espe-cially in Sir Winston's case. rvNE word more. House of Commons will miss him today-and are letting it be known that they will miss him. He is the DEAN of the Commons, the last survivor of the great parlimentarians who began their careers dur ing the reign of Queen Vic. toria. , And- He is the last survivor of the day when all that was needed to quell trouble any where in the world was to SEND THE BRITISH FLEET. There was a long period of peace in those days. It is known to the historians as the Pax Brittanica-the Peace of Britain. It came about be cause in that period Britain had the will and the physical power, to turn over her knee and spank any upstart who BROKE the peace. FROM Salem: Reports by the secretary of stati that Senator-Elect Maureen Neuberger, Demo crat, personally spent $522 in her winning campaign for the post of U.S. senator from Ore eon. On November 21, 13 days AFTER the election, her campaign committee reported that they had received contri butions totalling $96,208.00 and had spent the same amount in the campaign. At the same time, the sec retary of states' office reports that Elmo Smith, Mrs. Neu berger's opponent, makes af fidavit that he personally spent $100 in his campaign for the senatorship. On November 21, his campaign committee reported officially that they had received contributions totalling $89,944.00 and had expended $84,612.00 in his campaign. QUITE a discrepancy? Y-e-e-e-s. But, in Oregon I think, no one expects a can didate for the office of U.S. senator to spend $80,000 to $90,000 of his own money to get elected. If that were the case, there wouldn't be many candidates. And the tew who might be able to spend that might not be of the type we would want. Also It would be unwise to pro hibit people from making campaign contributions to the candidate of their choice, 1 That's a fundamental right. BUT It does seem wise and sensible to require that cam paign contributions shall be reported and the donors iden tified BEFORE THE ELEC TION, rother than three weeks AFTERWARD. If the voters know how much was given out, and WHO GAVE IT, before they go to the polls to vote they will be able to draw their own conclusions and vote ac cordingly. But three weeks afterward is too late. By then, the water has gone over the dam. Ted Gambit Estate Appraised at $812,526 , Portland-WPD-The estate of the late Ted R. Gamble, prom inent local businessman, has been appraised at $812,526, according to an inventory filed Thursday in Probate court. Gamble died last May II That Nixon Should his Democratic opponent, To say. that Nixon's asso ciates were shocked If not sur prised by Rockefeller's repu diation of their man's leader ship probably would be to put it too mildly. The play of the Nixon camp, however, will be to play it cozy unless Rocke feller roughly forces the is sue. The showdown must come in time, of course, and it should be spectacular. Rocke feller is properly judged to be a statesman eager to be elected president. Nixon like wise. The Republican party may prove to be too small to contain two such lively am bitions. Won on Platform Rockefeller bowed out of this year's contest for the presidential nomination with a statement which by impli cation tagged Nixon as the choice of the party bosses whereas Rockefeller, still by implication, was the choice of Washington Report ly WIUIAM DIPLOMATIC FACE Washington - What kind of working-level diplomatic face will we turn to the world in the oncoming Kennedy ad- "sj ministration ? Will it be the face of socially-minded Ivy leaguers i n -terested most of all in wel farism and the progress of liberalism? This often was the face of the field diplomatic corps of the Roosevelt-Truman era, even though its most dis tinguished secretaries of state, Cordell Hull and Dean Ache son, were themselves prac tical men concerned more with power than with re formist programs. Will it be the bluff face of big business so influential in the diplomacy of the Eisen hower years - even though, here again, Secretaries John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter were not themselves symbols of big business? Or will the: new working diplomacy's face be more that of the trained politician, tougher and more savvy than the Ivy league type, and less tactless than the tycoon type? mHESE are more basic ques- tions than they might at first appear, and perhaps more basic even than the identity of the new secretary of state. For among the new winds now blowing is a wind which warns us that a fresh start at the working diplo matic level is highly desir able, in many places at least. One of the great problems (and great opportunities) for President - elect Kennedy is simply this: To iind ambassa dors and lesser representa tives to serve abroad with tough-minded flexibility and the capacity to act quickly in crisis. There should be no more automatic obedience to rou tine state department direc tives from Washington. There should be no more unwise bowing to all the automatic techniques and attitudes of the past. The new ambassa dors should be neither book ish reformers nor men whose whole background has been in commerce. IT IS TIME to give a chance to the young politicians, not the slavishly partisan politicians who in their Dro fession have learned how to deal with people. We need men not afraid to file and forget all the timid bureau- T ry and By BENNETT CERF YOU MARRIED LADIES who worry too much about masked prowlers and marauders in the night: could it be that you're neglecting danger from within? Sociology Professor Ed- v assembled some startling statistics which reveal that a woman is in more danger of being attacked by her own husband than by any other assailant. Twice as many women required hospitalization last year from husbands' blows as from all the at tacks by gangsters and burglars on the police registers! That shnook of a husband of yours is definitely not as harmless as he looks! , A top man in our defense department a couple of decades ago failed to meet the exacting standards of an important English friend Mr. Winston Churchill. "That fellow L ," Churchill would grumble, "carries his own precipices around with him." Another time he voiced the suspicion that "L throws a ban-1 ana peel ahead of himself before walking into a conference." i CUbyiaBaa0eilBIMribuia4lvlCJriiIW)ira8a4kat Governor the rank and file. Later 'as the convention delegates mill ed around in Chicago, Rocke feller yanked Nixon into line on Republican platform prin ciples. J Next day, Rockefeller flew into Chicago, emerged from his airplane brandishing : a copy of th(J) platform propo sals to which - Nixon had agreed. Rockefeller .said ito the welcoming throng: "If you think these do not represent my ideas, you're crazy." . Nixon pushed the: panic button 'when. 'he brought about the huddle with Rocke feller which produced the Rockefeller Republican plat form. If Nixon pushes that button again between now and the 1964 Republican na tional convention, the vice president probably will cease to be the party leader. The new leader could be Rocke feller of New York. - S. WHITE era tic cautions - don't do thiS thing, don't get mixed up with that fellow - which flow from the state department just as they would flow from any other bureaucratic center. " Here is one illustration of what has been wrong. (And there are others like it, to this correspondent's knowl edge.) In Mexico City we maintain a vast diplomatic establishment. It is 10 times more critical as a post than it looks. For actually it is our central headquarters in Latin America against tha p e n e tration of imperialist Communism in all this hemis phere. And Mexico City is'also the Soviet general headquarters for that penetration. fVR just -retired ambassa " dor to Mexico, Robert C: Hill of New Hampshire, isi - ai politician and, as it happens, a quite conservative one to boot. But. he found long ago mat he could not do his job there if he listened to every counsel of carefulness that came from the state depart ment. So he went ahead on his own judgment to get 'to know all factions in Mexico i n c 1 u d ing the Communist stooges who were supposed to be off his list. -,i He warned Washington long beforehand that CastrrP ism was going to be very naSly in Cuba and elsewhere. He did not obtain that intelligence by playing it safe. He got it by making it his business to meet not just the people who like us but also the people Who definitely do not. '' ' Hill, of course, is going out; because the Democrats arc coming in. This is as it shoulci be, in our system. But plenty of Democratic Hills - young1, industrious politicians with, drive and guts - will be avail able to President-elect Ken nedy, if he wants them. " (Copyright. 19B0, by United; Feature Syndicate, Inc.)" Joseph Youth, 17, Hit, Killed by Car Joseph-IUPD-William Percell", 17, Joseph, was struck and killed by a car Thursday aft ernoon on Sheep Creek High way one mile east of here. State police said Percell was struck as he Oilked along the edge' of the high way. The victim was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Per cell of Joseph. Stop Me I
