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Newspaper Page TextTHURSDAY. ' .. MEDFORD JTRIBUNI . . .' "Everyone tn Southern orenon Reada The Mail Tribune" Published bally except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO 33 North Flr St.. Ph SP 2-6141 ROBERT W" RUHL Editor HERB GREV Advertising Manajei GERALD T LATHAM Bus Mgr ERIC W ALLEN IR Mm Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIP.MAN Teles Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Edltol OLIVE STARCHER Women' Ed tor DALE ER1CKSON CirculaUon Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as econd class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Copy 10c ',' Dally -nd Sunday 1 year $19 00 Daily and Sunday mm 8 00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Rlv er Talent and on .notor rnn'et Daily and Sunday 1 year 81J00 Da'lv and Sunday 1 mo 1 Ml Carrier and DealTS copy 10c All Terms Cash In Adyanca "official Paper of city of Medford Official IPaper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire II P 1 TclcphotoNeW!iptctureB Tjember of a''11" OFCrRCm.ATlONS Advertising Reniwnjtattw WEST HOLIDAY Cir INC f lecs In New York Chicago Do. '..' trolt. San Frnnclwo I.ns Angeles Seattle. Portland S' Louis At lanta Vnnc.Hjyer B t' NATIONAL EDITORIAL aatAc8TitN. Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson Counly History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Fb. 16, 1951 (Friday) rtt CnnarlnlpnrinnL Vernon Thorpe reported this morning that workmen started pourm concrete- for the three main beams of the Jackson st. bridge across Bear creek. Kiwanis corn kept custom ers cramped with chuckles last night as the third annual Ki wanis Kapers and Minstrel show made its first Medford appearance. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 16. 1941 (Sunday) Medfnrd'a first fatal 1941 automobile accident occurred inrtnv when n 24-vear-old man died of injuries sustained In a two-car accident at North Riverside ave. and Kennett at From Arthur. Perry's ' Pnl" column: "From all reports on the Oriental situation, the waters around Singapore have more , mines than the hills norm of Jack sonville." 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 16. 1931 (Monday) . Construction of the new 'Medford High school building on Oakdale ave. started today. Several valley organizations are seeking a survey of the Rogue river to determine po tential power plant sites. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 16.. 1921 (Wednesday) An OAC expert will outline a plan for the new county fairgrounds here next week. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Car penter have returned here from a trip to San Francisco. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 16, 1911 (Thursday) The Senate Fisheries com mittee voted 3 to 2 today In favor of the Pierce bill to re open the Rogue river to com mercial fishing. John F. Stevens, head of the Hill railroad empire in Oregon, said in Madras yes terday that the Oregon Trunk line will reach Medford with in two years. M"s Your LQ.7 Nine or ten corner ft superior liven or eight it excellent; five ei lix it good. 1. Which religious body has the largest membership in the Dominion of CanodaV 2. Yehudl Menuhin is fa mous as a cornctist, cellist, violinist or pianist? 3. in which country' did Pearl Buck, the author, spend her childhood? 4. A gambit is a term used in hockey, badmitton, chess, or tennis? 5. Is the velocity of wind measured by a barometer, hy drometer, or anemometer? 6. Did Alexander the Great ever reach India on his con quests? 7. State the simplest for mula for finding the total surface of a cube. 8. Wellington is the capital of Australia, Union of South Africa, of New Zealand? 9. Was the Liberty Bell cast in London, England; Phil adelphia, Pa.; or New York City? 10. Is venison the meat of bear, rabbit, deer, or ostrich? Aniw.rit 1. Roman Cath olic. 2. Violinist. 3. China. 4. Chtif. 5. An.mom.t.r. 6. Yai. 7. Squara an adga and multiply by iix. 8. Naw Zea land. 9. London, England. 10. Dor. 4 lS" NEWSPAPER Cn2rtf PUBLISHERS FEBRUARY 16. 1961 A New Look Having had some rather harsh things to say about Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. dur ing last fall s campaign, be able to declare that, the emotions of an election battle, he makes a lot of sense in some of his activities. We have been particularly impressed with three things which have come to our attention recently: 1. He is the moving force behind a plan to expand the research clone regarding state insti tutional care, looking toward a lessening of hu man misery AND a decrease in tax expenditures. 2. He is an advocate of developing a me chanical or electronic method whereby the results of an election will be known quickly, accurately and more economically than is possible with to day's century-old procedures. 3. He has exhibited sense) in opposing- ehantre simply for the sake of change, specifically the state s institutions by I AST. December, in a paper, he discussed search to improve Oregon's program of penal, mental, health and custodial institutions. He gave two premises, as follows: "1. When you are dealing with the infinite variety and depth of the problems of more than 10,000 people, as we are in our state institutions at a biennial cost of almost $50 million and at an untold cost in human grief it seems to me that both compassion and economy would dictate that you constantly and ac tively seek to Improve the effectiveness of your treat ment programs. This means clinical research. "2. It is a fact on which attention is rarely center ed that most governmental programs seek to deal with effects, with the results, of our human shortcomings. Seldom- do they deal with causes, and in this regard, our stale institutions have been no exception. This fact seems to me to dictate the need for basic research." "THE board of control suggestions on research to the extent of get ting the various institutions together to do ex ploratory work toward the development of a research program. . . As to the board of control itself, Appling last night presented a stout defense of the board as the administrative unit for the state's institutions. He is all for the "virtuous objectives" of in creased efficiency, economy, effectiveness, sim plicity and responsiveness, he declared. But he said that the proposed reorganization plan, drawn up by Uov. Mark Hattield, fails to accomplish these very objectives masquerades. IT MUST have taken courage for him to come out as flat-footedly as this in opposition to the pet reorganization project of the Governor, who, ji n j! l f i i i j. j?e; alter an, iirsc appointed mm to onice. But his statement is eloquent and persuasive. (It also is based on the same objections to the plan voiced heretofore The plan as it would Appling declares, does not reduce the number of executive agencies ; rather It would not consolidate related functions : it it would "un-consolidate and un-relate" them, and would put under separate departments the many functions (housing, feeding, medical serv ices, education, rehabilitation, recreation,- con struction and maintenance, collections, and others) now performed under central adminis tration. ... , ' MOR would the plan decrease the likelihood of of units so uncoordinated that efficiency would be lost. Just the reverse, Appling declared, and cited many specific examples of coordination and cooperation among It would add to, not bureaucratic insulation," on to give other equally opposition. He wound up by quoting Ex-Governor Oswald West, at whose recommendation the board was created, thus: "All state institutions should be placed under a single Board of Control and to avoid creating new officials and expenses, the Board should consist of the Governor, Secretary ot State and Stale Treasurer. By this arrangement the management of our state in stitutions can be greatly simplified and the cost re duced." This is at true today at it was 47 years ago. FINALLY, Appling appeared yesterday after- noon before another legislative committee seeking authority to explore the possibility of developing machinery for counting election bal lots, quickly, accurately and at a cost less than the present antiquated methods. His request should be approved speedily. Appling's statement reveals that he has uiven the matter considerable that he will need legislative approval and a min imal appropriation to pursue the matter. ". . . In this age of mechanical miracles," he said, "certainly it is not somehow we can bring elements needed to lift me past, ana gear them to the present and future. AS WE said, we didn't like Appling's campaign tactics. But, as a responsible official, he is giving evidence that he is not afraid of change, when change is indicated, nor is he enamoured of change for its own sake, with little promise of improvement. These three separate instances research, unified administration of the state's institutions, and improvement in election techniques sub stantiate this conclusion. E.A. at Appling it is now a pleasure to when not engrossed in conservatism (in its best in the administration of the board ot control. , letter to another news- the need for more re has adopted Appling's under whose banner its in these columns.) affect the institutions, it would increase them. institutions. decrease, the "layers of Appling said, and went cogent reasons for his thought and study, but too much to expect that toirether those modem voting procedures out of Dennis the THE STORE.HE FOUOWHWE---: Independence Hears for New West Indian Island Nation By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign N.w Analyst Kingston, Jamaica IIIPD - An independent West Indies fed eration is on the verge of tak ing Its place among the free autfuapaa nations oi tne western, hem isphere. It will em brace a mixed population of a Utile more than three million people and include 1 0 principal islands spread Newsom Matter of Fact ay Joseph ai$oP THE TWO-HEADED MONSTER Washington - When Presi dent Kennedy meets with Ni- kita S. Khrushchev-as he is pretty sure to do by the end of April at me latest - one of the meeting's numerous handicaps will be, ironically enough, the 1 n c o m plete ness of Khrus chev's author ity. Kennedy, the leader of a loose alliance, can now speak for the West with fair confidence that his views will ultimately prevail in the councils of the West. But this is by no means the situation of Khrushchev, the dictator of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev is on warning, in fact, that if he seeks to speak for the Communist part of the world, his views will most em phatically not prevail throughout the Communist bloc. For the American and other Western policy-makers, this is the most immediately im portant meaning of the as tonishing, recently obtained documentation of the row be tween the Soviets and the Chinese Communists. These documents apparently take the form of a very full rec ord of the proceedings of the prolonged secret Conference of the leaders of the world's 80 Communist parties, which took place in Moscow in No vember. 'PHE unofficial British So- 1 vlet expert, Edward Crankshaw, was the first with the news that this hardly credible record had been ob tained, presumably from sat ellite sources, by the West ern intelligence services. The same documents which Crank shaw summarized in an im portant article published over the week end, are of course in the hands of the American government. American expert opinion confirmed Crank shnw's estimate that the doc uments reveal "the most ser ious crises the (world) Com munist party lias had to weather since the Russian revolution," In this space and else where, the existence of a Sino-Soviet disagreement has often been pointed out. The main issues dividing the two giants of the Communist bloc I Alson have also been described. lion with utmost obstinacy. But the new documentation j even if the Soviets approve has now shown.lhat the dis-iit. pute is immeasurably deeper,! In short, the Western lead- more bitter, and more irrecon cilable than had ever been imagined. At 'the Moscow con ference, Khrushchev in effect called Mao Tse-tung every bad name in the Communist book. And the Chinese dele gate in Moscow, leng Hsiao ping, replied to Khrushchev in kind before all the delegations there assembled. . The essence of the .dispute Is whether another world war is Inevitable and. according to the Chinese, really almost de sirable. Since the more fur ious exchanges only began when Khrushchev was mov ing towards a summit meet ing with President F.isen- MEDFORD MAIL Menace SOX & CANDY BARS! ing across 1,000 miles of the Caribbean. Independence for these lush green islands has been 20 years in the making and in general the transition from British colonial status to' con trol of their own foreign pol icy, currency and treaties should be painless. Some, such as Barbadoes, Jamaica and Trinidad, long have enjoyed internal self rule. Slructually, it will be a weak federal , government with many key powers re- hower, it is quite clear that Khrushchev's desire to nego- tiale with the leaders of the West was the catalyst that brought the Sino-Soviet dif ferences so violently into the open. PRESUMABLY Mao Tse tung and the other Chi nese leaders are just as en raged by the current spectacle of Khrushchev s moving heaven and earth to secure an early meeting with Presi dent Kennedy. The. Moscow conference in November pro duced a lame, division-concealing formula leaving Khrushchev apparent free dom of action. But it is abun dantly plain that this free dom of action docs not in clude freedom to speak with authority for the Chinese. Consider, for instance, how this affects one of the few areas where the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. have a vivid, un deniable common - interest. Both this country and the Soviet Union will gain very greatly if Ihey can reach agreement on an adequately policed suspension of nuclear tests. General tests -suspension will effectively close the nuc lear club's membership list Thus the two giants will con firm their own virtual nuclear monopoly, and they will enormously reduce the risk that haunts them both, of an accidental nuclear war. But the new documenla tion discloses that one of the subsidiary causes of Chinese discord with the Soviets has been the Kremlin's reluc tance to add nuclear weapons to Communist China's arsen al. With grim persistence, the highly competent Chinese scientists are now laboring to provide the weapons the Kremlin has refused to pro vide. WHAT then is to happen at Geneva on March 207 The talks about nuclear tests suspension will then be re sumed by Arthur Dean, the able new Disarmament Nego tiator chosen by President Kennedy and his chief disarm ament advisor, John J. Mc- Cloy. But even if Dean and his Soviet opposite number can agree on a satisfactory inspection system to guanm-1 ter if it weren't for the Ven ice test-suspension, it will still I ison in the freezer. be worthless if the inspection system omits the whole of China. And one can be sure the Chinese will resist inspec- ers must now fact the fact ! that the Communist bloc is j no longer a Kremlin-con-! Irolled monolith. Instead, it is a two-headed monster, ' whose heads are wholly at I variance about the road the. monster ought to take. The American policy-mak- i ers' inclination is still to see what can be accomplished With the Soviets, and to hope that it anything is accom- plished. the Soviets can bring j So here's to more girls, boys the Chinese around. All the I and women learning the pleas same, the monster's novel j ure of hunting, be it jack-two-headedness constitutes a! rabbits, squirrels, deer or elk. very big new problem. j Mrs. V. M. Adams (c) 1961 N.w York I 12211 South Stage rd. Herald Tribun. Inc. Medford TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Communications ... lh. Editor must bear the nama and address of lha writer, ""hough under -cum.iances th. us. of a pen name or inUia or pubUca .on The Mail Tribune reserves tne rigm jo em. ...... - Th. tetters condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words Th. .teller printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper, in tact me contrary is often the case. Sanitary Verse To the Editor:. We note with much interest, and pride, that at long last a step is being taken in the direc tion of investigating air (and water) pollution which may be affecting Gold Hill. (M.T., Feb. 10). But we wonder why this particular moment was chosen to initiate the venture. In this season of the year the rains lay the dust. And the wind predominately moves to carry anything in the air from our cement plant away from the city. For some reason it seems obviously ridiculous to spend time and money when any school boy would know tests under the above mentioned conditions of weather would prove nothing. Of course there is a ceme tery directly west of our ce ment plant. (And let it be maining with the individual island. Thus, Jamaica, with approx imately half of the federa tion's population, will retain most of its own revenues and will be free to pursue the swift pace of its industrializa tion, agricultural and tourism programs. Similarly, Trinidad will re tain the bulk of its oil rev enues and Barbados the in come from its sugar. But, with independence, all the islands will face a com mon problem. This is one of exploding population, which in most of the islands means an average of close to 400 persons per square mile and Barbados exceeds 1,300. Emigration of some 85,000 West Indians to Great Bri tain since World War II eased the problem only temporar ily. Here in Jamaica, the diffi culty is being met by an in dustrialization program under direction of the government established Jamaica Industrial Development Corp. and by an agricultural program to teach farmers modern agricultural methods. Capital in Boom ,j Kingston, Jamaica's capital, is a boom town today, with thousands of new housing units going up and new manu facturing firms coming in a steady stream under incentive laws which include every thing from tax benefits to government help in building and planning factories. As a further boost to Jam aica's booming tourist indus try, a whole new vacation area is being planned for the island's western tip. Boosting both Jamaica's in dustry and its agriculture has been the intensive mining of bauxite, key ingredient of aluminum. Bauxite compan ies employ thousands of Jam aica workers and are using freehold areas not in use to improve both the breed of Jamaican cattle and the lands Joys of Hunting To the Editor: I would like to put in my two cents worth in answer to the lady who wrote about the poor jack- rabbits. Evidently she is not a hunt er, or at all familiar with guns or hunting, or she would know there is a great differ ence in a hunter snooting at a running rabbit and a TV star pot shooting at some poor standing Boob. That idea is the one we are trying to get away from when we teach our kids how, where and when to use a rifle. The ones who are taught to respect a rifle as such do not go around shoting at everything they see. All hunters do not go out to kill just for the killing but for the hunt, and the pleasure of being out in the woods. The game they bring home is us ually incidental, although I know of two or three families around here who would have rather slim pickings this win- I I usually get my buck every i year, but even if I don't, I still j mark the days I spent hunting as some of the most enjovable of the year. I would rather have my boy out in the woods ! hunting with men than in a 300-horse power car zooming to some hamburger joint or super market for his meat. His chances of living are a lot better and the " odds of him killing some one else a lot less. Another thing: I have found the hunters in the woods, both male and female, a lot more j polite than the meat hunters 1 1 find In the suuer markets. gossiping and blocking the aisles. known right here that nobody is more friendly to the ceme tery or cement plant than ourselves. In fact we regard "our" cement plant as a veri table institution, no less.) And tests in the area of the ceme tery could prove very effec tive now, when the winds carry from the cement plant to it. But, we don't think the in habitants of the graveyard care about the dust in the air. May we call the attention of Mr. Moore and Mr. Gerow, the official sanitarians as signed to our Gold Hill Prob lem, to the following: East is east and west is west And never the twain shall meet The wind that goes with the dust it blows Is the same on our Gold Hill street. For months the wet wind veers to west (Ah, here's your chance to make the test) With the source of dust in the West, you see "No dust" is proved. Con clusively! But oh, you sanitary men! When wind drives from dry west again, I!ask your noses and be wary Or you won't feel so sani tary! "Gold Hill Billy" Gold Hill, Ore. Executives Defended To the Editor: To all fair, logical and open-m i n d e d people, the surest way to de stroy faith in a government is to play up the evil twins of favoritism and partiality. Like the freeing of those 11 arrested, convicted and jailed commies from down Califor nia way. It seems to have come about by a federal court choosing to go along with some obscure technical point or Jaw-loophole the Red's at torney had dug up, freeing these turn-coats to go back to wrecking our so dearly Dougnt tree way of life. Then there is Boss Hoffa of the Teamsters union who, noutiea tnat federal attor neys had him up on charges of member union funds mis use, yawned: "Just another fight." And Boss Bridges of the Pacific Coast Longshore man union grinned his satis faction when a district court, on some alleged minor error, quashed the repeated at tempts of government attor neys to have the chronic trouble-maker returned to his native Australia even though the government there an nounced, he would not be allowed to land. How different the sudden coming to life of the U.S. District court trial of some 30 electrical companies? Ac cused of agreeing collectively, (this seems OK when a labor union is in a hassle with man agement) to what they deemed safe in bidding on government contracts, the long arm of federal law reached out to grab top eche lon executives of General Electric, Westinghouse, Allis Chalmers and others to ar raign them in federal court for a tongue lashing by holier-than-thou Chief U.S. District Judge J. Cullen Ga ney, all heavily fined, some clapped into jail and others out on suspended sentence, probationed on good be havior. These men, proven loyal by years of faithful service to country, helping to create jobs for tens of thou sands wage-earners, to be treated like some petty vag rant offender, let out on pro bation? Yes, all this, and to be bannered in the public press (Mail Tribune, Feb. 7, Page A 5) so much like when petty offenders were put up to pub lic disdain with head and hands protruding from the old blue-law wooden pil lories? Is this America? Are v being led into some socialis tic affair, the thing initiated by the FDR team and mentor Harry Hopkins who is cred ited with saying, "we must bleed the American pigs dry before we butcher them." F. J. Clifford Route 2, Box 200F Central Point, Ore. Picture of Cuba To the Editor: Do we really ; know what is going on Cuba? The following is a quote from Dave Dellinger, in "The Independent." "During my first few days in Havana, I was constantly amazed at the number of peo ple in the streets and other public places day and night. Saturday night, Oct. 29, I first witnessed a well-attended baseball game and then joined the 35,000 people who attended the Feria de la Vaca (a fair to raise money to buy cows for the Cuban coopera tives, with its gay music and holiday atmosphere. . . . "Monday morning when I was interviewing the editor of the anti-Castro Times of Havana, he volunteered the formation that 'all the small night clubs and public places are prospering like tney nev er did before, L.uue piotcs that used to be half empty are jammed every night." "An hour after I left his of fice, I picked up the New York Times (available all over Havana) and read two dispatches which said that 'on a sultry Saturday night, the Cubans are silent ana me streets are empty,' and : The country continues to be con cerned today about an invas ion. Few people were on the streets of Havana '.md traffic was light.' I suppose that even this example is political in that the Times' correspondents (who seem to cover very little territory and to talk mostly to other correspondents ana a few upper-class Cubans) were trying to imply that morale is bad and the regime is crack ing up. Every indication l found was that the revolution has tremendous mass support and will continue indefinitely unless the United States in tervenes in Cuba's internal affairs even more extensively than she has already done. It has become increasingly difficult, with the ban on travel to Cuba, to find out anything accurate about what is happening there. Paul Har vey, Hearst, and Howard don't need to travel there to misrepresent the facts, how ever, so we wind up believ ing all sorts of atrocious charges about graft, commu nism, dictatorship, etc. While some of these charges may be true, a few dissident voices like the one quoted above seem to cast doubt upon our whole picture of Cuba. Truman O. Price Jr. 2633 14th Ave., West Seattle 99, Wash. Editor's note: True enough. Yet it should also be pointed out that the Times of Havana finally has been forced to cease publication, and the New York Times no longer circulates in the island. Nature's- Firsts To the Editor: Man schemes to rival the Moon with his own satellite. Mother Nature, however, as with the Moon, usually has the "First at the Patent Office." Mother Nature taught us as to war, one les son: An armament-race can bring extinction. One dino saucr, stegosaurus, was as heavily armoured as a battle ship. It is extinct. Hummingbirds were feath ered helicopters millions of years before the first cave man. Bats had radar 25,000, 000 years before U.S.A.'s sub marine Sailfish, using radar, sank a Japanese super-plane-earrier. Men make cordage, ropes. Monkeys swung on jungle liane swings 10,000,000 years before Java man. Pack rats used cholla cactus "fin gers" around nests long be fore men had barbed wire en tanglements. Queensland's archer-fish, to get dinner, "fires," through its cannon like snout, a drop of water at insect above. Bombardier beetles dis charge a strong - smelling smoke-like liquid, like poison gas. Dandelion's seed was model for parachutist Nazis, uniformed as Holland's regu lars, for Rotterdam's destruc tion. Airplane engineers study fishes, birds, with millions of years of Motor Nature's ex periments, in streamlining. Airborne maple seeds also drift to distant food-soil. Be fore steam, even warships were sail-maneuvered. Watch a linden seed scudding, in a gale, over a frozen lake. Na ture invented sails aeons be fore the first Chinese used matting ones to aid wheel-barrow transportation, as writer had travelled in the Orient. C. M. Geothe 3731 Tea st. Sacramento 16, Calif. Ne-.c-1." Is Our Friend v'i tne Editor: Some of you - j wondering why I should be sticking my nose into our city of Gold Hill, problem. After all, who am I that I should? Who am I? I'm no one in particular, and yet I am some one of importance. So are you! Why am I someone of im portance? Because I am one of THE PEOPLE of Gold Hill. So are you! As one of the people of Gold Hill, it is my duty to do what I can to make it a belter place to live. If there is a need for something, I must do my part to help fill the need. If there is a prob lem, then it is necessary for me to help solve that prob lem. It is my responsibility to be proud of our city and to love it. Also, it is my duty to love all the people of this city. These also, apply to each of you. All too often, we look on the gloomy or negative side of things. We talk about the bad things and so seldom re member that there are also good things. So what if we do have air pollution? It is something that can be cor- rected. If we didn't have the cement plant how many men would have to look for work elsewhere? Then, there's the question of the filtration plant. We do need something but is this the only answer? Let's all of us, THE PEOPLE of Gold Hill look into this carefully and give it serious thought! The glorious Rogue river flows almost past our Dack doors but not much has been done about it. Why? A won derfully beautiful swimming, etc., area could be made right there under our bridge. Tour ists would stop to enjoy it and would remember the name of our city, Gold Hill. Let's stop "piddling around " ana lake acuon-au ot us now! What's that pretty green "tiling" in the center of the city? You know, where they had the Christmas tree. Ohhh! Its a park? How come we never see anyone "park" there? What's it for, to look at? Np? Then how come no one seems to dare set foot on it? I thought a park was to be enjoyed-I never even see those who made it enjoy it. Is it holy ground? Or maybe untouchable? I'm not bein-' funny-I'm serious. "Necessity is our friend!" Mrs. R. P. Corona 904 Fifth Ave. Gold Hill, Ore. Kids and Cars To the Editor: Thank you very much for your editorial in Tuesday's paper, on cars not being playthings. You are so right. The silualion has gotten so far out of hand that a measure is about to be placed m legislature (HB 1092) which would raise the driving ase from 16 to 18. This measure has been dis cussed in a number of organi zations and one in particular suggests a probationary 2-year permit which would be re vokable for stealing, sexual delinquencies, failing grades, drinking, etc. This seems to be a good idea, but quite a load for law enforcement to keep up with. Circuit Judge Charles Fost er of Lakeview had an article in your paper about two years ago that was almost identical to this one printed yesterday. They both are in a position to realize our growing concern or what SHOULD be a con cern to all families. The Febru ary issue of the magazine, "Scouting," has an article by All Stale Insurance, which has been following this situa tion for a long time, and it also substantiates both Judges and your article. Minnesota has also found a need' for this driving age change. They will have it legally at 18 also. Probably the reason this situation has gotten out of hand is the fact that used cars are now inexpensive and some well-meaning parents have been pretty free with gifts of ears to Joe and Jane. It is sad that a few responsible youngsters who don't abuse the privilege of driving have to suffer for the negligence of others, but that's life. Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the public and I hope you'll follow up on it from time to time. We're terribly concerned with the lack of interest in furthering education in this competitive world of today, and we're equally concerned with the corrupted morals of children who suffer from this "floating boudoir" because of the privacy and lack of super vision that the car affords. We love our kids and would like to see them grow up (o have good educations and lead a decent wholesome life. (Name on file) Medford. Mother Shipton's Words To the Editor: Was look ins over old scrap book yesterday and noticed I had written down some prophecies by a Mother Shipton, which she made over 150 years ago. They are as follows: Carriages without horses shall go and accidents fill the world with woe. Around the earth thoughts will fly in the twinkling of an eye. Under water men shall walk, shall ride, shall sloop, shall talk. In the air men shall be seen, in white, in black, in green. Iron in the water shall float, as easily as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found and shown in a land that's not now known. Fire and water shall won ders do, England shall at la.it admit a foe. Women will dress like men and trousers wear, and cut off all their locks of hair They will ride astride with brazen brow, and love shall die. and marriage cease. And nations want and babes decrease, and wives will fondle cats and dogs. And men shall live much as hops, just for food and lusts. I When pictures look alive i with movements free, when I ships like fishes swim beneath the sea. When men. outstrippinc I birds, can soar the sky. then nan tne world, deep drencnea in blood, shall die. Mary E. Atkins. 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford.