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AUDifnrmEAtT OF cmCULATIONS ; Advertlsine Rnni"t,vewi, n, WEST HOLIDAV CCv INC Of fices In New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lnfla Vanp.'iuver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight or Time Medford and Jack:! County History from the flies of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1951 (Tuetday) The regional conference on children and youth held here yesterday attracted what some observers said was the "larg est crowd, of influential people brought together In Medford In a long time." A 10-ycar-old Washington grade school youth died last night from injuries received earlier in the day when he fell out of a tree near the schoolgrounds. ' 20 YEARS AGO vv 97. 10.41 IThursdavi An unprecedented medical Aiannvnrv WHS made here YCS- terday when doctors perform ing an autopsy on a o-yeai- old Medford man louna mat he had two hearts, both of which apparently tuncuonea normally. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A con temporary reports 'each coun ty should have a representa tive In the legislature alone.' From the current session, this appears to be a powerful fine idea." ;. t 90 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1931 (Friday) The county roadwork proj ect for the unemployed will nd in March. "he Medford Chamber of Commerce has endorsed a plan to publicizo the Pacific . highway as a tourist route. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1921 (Monday) Stockholders of the Jackson County Fair association have elected to hold the event Sept. 14 to 17 this year. . Bert Anderson of Medford has been appointed to the state game commission. 50 YEARS AGO Feb. 27, 1911 (Monday) With the advent of good weather construction has started on two new school buildings located on Jackson and Queen Ann streets. Medford will participate in "Colonist Day" March 1, at the suggestion of Gov. Oswald West, when letters will be written Inviting easterners to settle in Oregon. What's Your I Q.7 seven or eight li excellent! five e sis is gooa. 1. Which American states man named his estate Monti cello? 2. Name the capital of Ber muda. ( 3. The State of Maine is noted for Its production of white potatoes or sweet pota toes? 4. Who wrote the book, "Tne Razor s Edge"? 5. What ambitious engineer ing project was started and abandoned in Maine as a pow er supply source? 6. In which group of Pa ciflc islands is Guam? 7. Who Invented the light ning rod? 8. In which country is So fia? 9. Is brass an clement or an alloy? 10. In musical crmposition what do the letters "If" indi cate? Answers: 1. Thomas Jeffer son. 2. Hamilton. 3. White po tatoes. 4, Somerset Maugham. 5. "attamaquoddy project for ha. netting the lid. 8. The Marianas, 7. Benjamin Frank lin. 8. Bulgaria. 9. Alloy (cop per and sine, sometimes with tin). 10. Fortlttlmo (very loud). a , FEBRUARY 27, 1961 Clear but Wrong The Oregon Senate, by a vote of 25 to 3, has approved a bill exempting fraternal organizations from property taxes. If the House follows suit ana tne governor signs the bill one thing will be accomplished : the matter will be clarified for tax assessors. The old law, usually ignored, required that lodges and clubs had to be charitable institutions to claim an exemption. And the matter had to be cleared up. It put county assessors in a nasty bind. BUT a double question will remain. How much free-loading must taxpayers subsidize, and what should be the limits? Restaurants and bars in fraternal buildings undersell downtown . competition and thereby increase their business because of the tax ad vantage. This, in turn, reduces trade elsewhere, reducing tax receipts for the county. Since gov ernmental expenditures don't go down when receipts do, somebody has to pick up the tab. Guss who? Many operate as businesses and should be taxed accordingly. Capital Journal, Salem. Lumber No. 1 in Dixie Cotton is no longer new No. 1 industry in Dixie is lumber. The fast-rising lumber which last year topped $8.5 billion in gross pro duction, is of special interest to Oregon. While Dixie's yellow pine isn't as strong or as adaptable as Douglas fir, it is competitive with Oregon's lumber. Produced in an area of lower cost labor, it is nearer the big Eastern U.S. markets. Excellently suited to pulp manufacture, the South's pine grows to compared to 50 or more The crown of the new South is made up in part, at least, of gold which once belonged to Oregon's lumber industry. Oregon Statesman, balem. Shape of Things to Come A recognition of reality is the beginning of adjustment to it. The South's steadily growing realization that desegregation will become the prevaling pattern in race relations is, therefore, the most hopeful of auguries. Dr. George Gallup s most recent survey of Southern opinion on this subject makes it clear that, although the change is not welcomed, it is recognized as ineviable. v "Do you think the day will ever come in the bouth," tne liauup interviewers asKecl, wnen whites and Negroes will be going to the same schools, eating at the same restaurants, and gen erally sharing the same public accommodations?" 1157HEN this question was put to Southerners m August. 1957, only 45 per cent of them said yes. In January of this year, however, 76 per cent of the persons interviewed in the South thought the day will come. Why, then, is there still so much resistance I Perhaps the answer lies in part in a desire to make the change come gradually so that its im pact will be blunted and the community better prepared to accept it. lERHAPS, however, the resistance is less mas sive than loud-voiced politicians of a bygone era like to pretend. The premacy and relentless segregation can still rally the noisy diehards. . But the time can hardly be far distant when politicians of a new day will begin to rally those whose faces are turned to the future rather than to the past. When that day dawns, the walls of discrimination will crumble; and the South will be immeasurably the happier for it. Washington (D.C.) Post. , None Wise Enough Recently the Supreme Court of the United States voted 5-4 to uphold the right of Chicago city fathers to censor films before presentation. Chief Justice Warren wrote a vigorous 24 page dissenting opinion, in which he listed past instances of censorship to buttress his argument against cne wnoie concept or allowing one group to decide what another will see, hear or read. The Chief Justice noted that before World War II these same Chicago censors banned the March of Time because it criticized life in Nazi Germany; another Chicago censor banned a film because it was against her own religious beliefs; newsreels, supposedly pro labor, were banned in Ohio and Kansas; "Witchcraft," a study of su perstition, was banned for years because 'it show ed the Devil as really a fine fellow at heart, and Memphis censors banned "The Southerner" be cause it "reflected on the South." American adults should have the right to judge for themselves the truth, beauty, style or content of any piece of literature, work of art or film or play. There is none wise enough to make that decision for all. The Argus, Seattle. Governor Rossellini wants the Washington Legislature to submit a constitutional amendment to permit the levy of a graduated income tax. He needs to find some $50 million to keep the state's deficit from getting bigger. Our neighbor state, however, has been as allergic to an income tax as Oregon voters have been to a sales tax. Bv the way, this is the first time in years that no biil for a sales tax ha3 been introduced in the Oregon Assembly. Oregon Statesman, Salem. . , "king" in the South. The industry in the bouth, usable size in 20 years years for the Uregon nr. king industry in the prophets of white su Dennis the 'The ladies on merjiswoN laugh an' Joke WHEN THEY WASH CLOTHE S -. Communications How Much More? To the Editor: We protest! Yankees, yes! Cubans, no! We have more than a belly full of feeding and giving homes and jobs to foreigners. Going to all kinds of expense to see that they are well taken care of when millions of Ameri cans are hungry and out of work! How much more must we endure? Do you want a revo lution here? We do not beg, we demand, that every one in need in this nation either be given em ployment or the funds to pay for food, clothing and shelter and medical care. Never in history has there been such a rich so - called Christian country having so much and giving so little to its poor. Hypocrites and whitcd sepulchres Give us help or give us Communism! Roy G. Sandwick 765 Marion St., N.E. Salem, Ore. American Custom To the Editor: Our country is fortunate in having a Demo cratic occupant In the White House during a recession, which could develop into a depression. It is an American custom and a very good one. Which leads me to tills ob servation: While we get fig ures showing the number of unemployed, no one seems to know how many millionaires are among us. Believe it or not, I am not one of them. David Prisch P.O. Box 292 White City, Ore. Golden Rule and the Irish To the Editor: I have been reading of and listening to the radio reports of a man who is said to have escaped from the mental ward of the Vet erans hospital in Roseburg. Of course, like most others in this southwestern corner of Ore gon, I do not know this man nor know of his problems. However, it appears he has harmed no one prior to the attempt of sheriff's deputies to take him back to the hospi tal, and then only to prevent their doing so. Why not leave the man alone? That is, ac cording to the news reports, what the man has demanded. Far too many people like to force others to live according to 'their own rules, that is, to say, "Do as I Do," and "if you don't, we'll lock you up." Perhaps if those who are trying to force him Into their pattern of life had his pro leins. they'd do much worse. Wouldn't it be something if we were all carbon copies of one anoUier? My Grandad once said to an uncle of mine (unrelated ex cept throush marriage) "It's a good thing all fellows don't see alike or they'd all be after jny wife." Could be. My rule is "Do unto others as you'd like them to do to you." Best rule ever made, me thinks. This Irishman (partly anyway) enjoys a battle of words, written words, 'tis the Irish in me, I guess. And when I get my Irish up I make up for all my more peaceful mo- ments. Of course I can't see to box, so I'm forced to do battle the way I can. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star Rt. Butte Falls, Ore. A Hard Choice To the Editor: In reply to Malemute Slim regarding the abolishment of capital punish ment: Dear Slim: Glad to learn you feel very dramatically about the very brutal slaying of little 8-ycar-old Vicki Lee Morris down by Redding Calif., and no doubt you en vision yourself as the dis traught father of the helpless and hapless little girl. But won't you please look on the other side of the coin and imagine yourself the father of that young, misguided 15-year- old boy? We all know that boys of that age are develop ing very rapidly Into menfind Menace sometimes their male devel opment far exceeds their moral and spiritual develop ment. If that boy's father allows him to be tried as an adult in an adults' court instead of the juvenile court where he be-longs-then I would say that that father must surely have failed that boy in other re spects also, and should as surely share In his guilt. As for the state - of Cali fornia taking that young boy's life-tWo wrongs never made one right; and what chance would that boy ever have to learn what is right if that state, that has never given him the chance to learn what is right, now takes away his life? . 1 say, what better argument could we have for the new C. C. C. program President Kennedy is wanting to put again in force to provide out door work and play for other young men like him, before they find themselves Inadvert ently in a similar position? "An ounce- of prevention is better than a pound of cure," so more power to the Y.C.C., the Boy Scouts, the Y.M.C.A. and the boys clubs all over America. (I'm sorry the girls don't have as many.) But now that the worst has come to this young man, let us compare his case to that of the young Leopold whose part in the brutal murder of young Bobby Franks occurred nearly a lifetime ago. If the state had taken away his life at that time out of vengeance, neither this world, nor the next, would ever have seen the complete transformation that could and did take place in that life. And so I say, hard as it might have been, I would much, much rather have been the mother of that slain little girl, than to have been the mother of that deluded, mis guided young man who the state of California must now endeavor to set back upon the right track. 1 Mildred Engman, . 1107 East Main st., Medford. Willow Tree To the Editor: A willow tree grows in Medford on a unique plot. The oddity is that a work shop was built around the tree 10 years ago at number 7 East Ciark st. by the present occupant, Mr. W. A. Farmer, now retired. The tree, now about three feet in diameter, inside the work shop was only about eight or nine inches in dia meter at the time the shop was constructed in 1950. At present there are four large limbs six feet above the cement floor protruding through the roof. A willow tree grows very large and quickly. After having been topped several times, this one still stands close to 30 feet tall. When the writer passed by the novel structure recently Mr. Farmer was in the pro cess of making ready a cable to anchor to the part of the tree above the shop roof. Mr. Farmer plans to cut off the tree three feet above the shop floor and to use the remain ing stump as part of a second work bench in the 8 by 10 foot building. It was our impression that the tree was a source of shade to its owner all these years and as the adage goes, has rather out-grown its useful ness as the added girth has narrowed down needed room for more essential conveni ences. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman st. Medford. Made Her Sick To the Editor: Two short letters in your paper Tues day, Feb. 21, make me sick. David Frisch says a Republi can trying to beat Morse will get a clobbering. Did it ever occur to you that a decent and honest Democrat might beat him in the primary? It was a Democrat named Bfcd MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOTO, ORE. Foreign N De Gaulle By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Newt Analyst r Notes from the foreign news cables: Belgians Cooperate The Belgians are expected to go along with United Na tions Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's demand that they get out of the Congo, but with an important "if." That is, if the U.N. en forces a Secu curity Council resolution that "other nation als" should al so be ordered to withdraw. Newsom me omciai position is that Belgium can be responsible only for with drawal of military advisors still depending on Belgian au thorities. These are mostly in University Honors College Widely Noted Editor's note: The "hon ors college" at the Univers ity of Oregon is an experi ment in quality education which is attracting nation al attention. One U of O professor voiced the opinion that it would have a sig nificant effect on education thoughout the nation in public institiont of higher education. A ttory concern ing the program published recently in the New York Herald Tribune is reprinted here, both to describe the experiment, and as an in dication of the widespread interest in it. By TERRY FERRER Education Editor New York Herald Tribune "I feel keenly about the responsibility of a large uni versity to its best students. State universities have neg lected their ,best students, while the states have been willing to put up money to take care of the average stu dent and even pay for reme dial work for the poor stu dent." Dr. Robert D. Clark, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Oregon, last week was explaining one of the most unusual programs to be undertaken by a large state university an Honors College. The Oregon Honors College opened last fall on a three-year experimental basis, with 129 selected freshmen and ninety-two students from the upper three classes who transferred into the college. All are aiming for a Bachelor of Arts, Honors College De gree. Got $97,500 Grant In December, the Carnegie Corp. of New York gave the college a three-year grant of $97,500 to help with the hir ing of more faculty, needed in the smaller classes of the new college. Dr. Clark, who proposed the idea of the Honors College three years ago, said that it "has exceeded my expecta tion." In a telephone inter view from the campus at Eu gene, Ore., Dr. Clark explain ed that the college's incoming freshmen sixty men and sixty-nine women were largely invited from the top 10 per cent of their high school classes. However, the honors students actually were chosen solely on the basis of their scores on aptitude and achievenment tests of the Col lege Entrance Examination Board. (Oregon freshmen can now enter the regular under graduate courses of the uni versity if they have a C aver age in high school and do not take College Boards. Next fall, however, all entering freshmen will be required to take College Boards.) "We invited a inumbcr of freshmen with good College Board scores but a poor high- school record, Dean Clark said. "They have all worked out well. About 90 per cent did very well in the first quarter ending Jan. 1," he added. Oregon operates on a three-quarter academic year No Cafeteria Program Dr. H. Thomas Koplin, as sociate professor of economics who is director of the Honors College detailed the curricul um: "It is not a cafeteria pro gram whereby any student may choose this or that. It is a four-year relatively inter- grated program which will be- that set the "Almighty Roose velt" back on his heels and told him "you are not a dic tator and you are not going to be." Then he had to go to Warm Springs to get over the hysterics. C. W. Corey showed his ignorance begrudging old Golf Ball Ike a few days pleasure How many years have you been in the service of your country? Is it the working class that is starving or the class that won't work, and ex p e c t s government to do everything for them? Hattie Walker 260 Orange. AsMiiri. Ore. ews Desk: and Algeria; Japanese Troops Katanga province. Other Bel gians serving under contract to Congolese forces, and polit ical advisors hired by Congo lese authorities are, according to the Belgian view, not under Belgian control and there fore must be dealt with by the United Nations in consulta tion with the Congo govern ment. The Congo is a major issue in the forthcoming Belgian elections. The government is expect ed to counter Socialist charges of lack of prepara tion, foresight and a clear realistic policy with a re minder that leading Social ists played a major role in Congolese independence, even urging it earlier than the date favored by the Social Christian-Liberal coalition. Determination Whatever happens in the of Oregon's New gin In the student's freshman year." The superior students select ed for the college, Dr. Koplin continued, get "both a good general education and a good specialized education." They take about two-thirds of their work in honors courses and the rest in regular university courses. Besides the honors courses, there are small semi nars, "colloquiums" of ten to fifteen students working on a subject outside each student's major field, independent work and tutorial teaching. "We are trying," said Dr. Koplin, "to do everything we can so that the able student will not be held back by in stitutional rigidity." He added that in many fields, the stu dent need not take any course at all, but just come in for the comprehensive examina tion at the end of the year, and, if he passes it, get credit. Yet there are some restric tions. For example, every student must show compe tence in a foreign language equivalent to two years of col lege work before he can grad uate from Honors College. May Save A Year Students at Honors will also have a chance to accelerate their courses and finish col lege by as much as a year earlier. This, Dr. Clark feels, is particularly important for Washington Report By WILLIAM THE BATTLE Washington - The great bat tle of the year for the Ken nedy administration is about tn onnn over federal aid to education. The c e n tral problem of the President and o f Secretary j oi ii e a 1 1 n, 4 Education and Welfare Abra h a m Ribicoff White can De pui in a short, ironical sentence. But it will require a long lot of doing to overcome. They have got either to con vert or to defeat head-on the very same two oddly mixed groups - the conservative South and the great pockets of extreme liberalism in the North - which elected Mr. Kennedy in the first place. If they can do neither - con vert nor defeat - then they will have to surrender. They will have to accept an educa tion plan running far short of what they want - or nothing at all. And, for good measure, there is yet another complica tion, that of religious differ ences. ON the surface, the big issue would seem to be the money involved in the Presi dent's program - $5.6 billion over several years. But on the inside, the difficulties are far more complicated than money. They come to these: 1. Many Congress lonal Southerners who loyally sup ported the Kennedy - Johnson ticket want federal assistance to the states to stop at school construction. The administra tion wants to include aid for teacher salaries. 2. Many Northern Demo cratic liberals want school aid - any kind of school aid - to be denied to Southern com munities refusing to desegre gate. 3. Many spokes men for church and private schools, notably Catholic dignitaries, are profoundly opposed to any bill granting benefits to public schools and excluding the parochial and private schools. But this is exactly what the Kennedy bill would do. And the fact that the President is himself a Catholic is a delicate addrd human factor. (The Congressional Republi cans are sharply divided. On the whole, however, they will far tjj Belgians in way of direct negotiations be tween the French government and the Tunis-based leaders of the Algerian rebellion, President Charles de Gaulle can be counted on to push his own idea of the future "Algerian Algeria." De Gaulle is going ahead with his plan to decentralize the Algeria ad ministration and put Moslems in local councils of regions mapped out according to their population and background. His government also has an nounced that the Algerian military command will be di vided into two. This was in line with De Gaulle's idea that political control of Al geria must remain in civilian hands, while the army, con centrates strictly on the job of combating the armed Mos lem guerrillas. Meanwhile, go-between Tu nisian President Habib Bour- students who will go on to graduate work, either profes sional or educational. Dr. Clark pointed out last week that a few other state universities have somewhat similar honors programs, but none, he said, offers as inte grated a program over a four year period as Oregon. Michi gan State. University has had an Honors College since 1956, but it begins only in the sophomore year. Wayne State University in Detroit has its new Monteith College, offer ing small-college atmosphere ! in advanced inter-disicplinary courses which are elective. The University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill has a Freshman Honors Program." Stimulating Effect The Oregon honors College has a stimulating effect on the whole undergraduate com munity. Dr. Clark said. Even the 7,400 regular undcrgradu ates who are not part of the program are "very enthusias tic and proud of their new col lege." i Such programs as these can provide tomorrow's spuerior undergraduate with an outlet for excellence even at the largest public institutions, which can then truthfully ful fill their oblgations of serving every kind of student and not just the medicore or the poor. We need more Honors Col leges. S. WHITE Operation Kennedy - Ribicoff here.) HOW, then, does Secretary Ribicoff propose to take up arms in this sea of trou bles? Those who talk to him find him in that curiously blended mood of worry about and eagerness for the combat, of realism and high hope, which seizes any good poli tician when the vital action impends. His greatest asset is his sim plest. Ribicoff is the ablest professional politician within the administration, excepting the President himself. His years in Congress and later as governor of Connecticut gave one assurance to the White House at any rate. In Ribicoff, the President has sent for a man, and not a boy, for this job. Thus, armed with high po litical savvy. Secretary Ribi coff's battle plan follows nat urally. He has selected the Southerners as his targets of maximum opportunity. He has stoutly refused to see educa tion aid made the carry-all for segregation. Let aid go for ward on its own merits, he says. Let segregation be fought out where it belongs, in the courts and by adminis tration actions separate from the education bill. TOO, he tells the Southern ers - and rishtly- that the principle of states' rights is not absent from the adminis tration's bill. For, he points out. each individual state would in itself decide how much, if any, federal money would go to teachers pay and how much to school construc tion. Finally, he tells the Southerners that their states would draw larger federal aid - because on the whole they are poorer - than would the states of the North. Now, if Ribicoff can carry the South, he will win. (If he can't, all bets are off. any how.) For. given heavy South erner backing in Congress -where he is well-liked because he is no south-hater - he can simply say to the Northern extremists that if they really want aid to education, they will forget their segregation riders. True, the objections of re ligious groups would no diubt remain. They could hardly be decisive, however, in these circumstances. (Cooyriqht, 1961. bv United -. . .... .?1 Congo; guiba is treading cautiously in his attempts to get peace talks between De Gaulle and the Algerian rebels under way. Bourguiba is anxious to end the fighting but must be careful not to commit himself too deeply and then find him self trapped by the Commu nist-leaning extremist wing of the rebels who believe time is on their side and want the fighting to continue. Trial Balloon? Some foreign diplomats in Tokyo believe the politically rash suggestion by Japan s United Nations Ambassador Koto Matsudaira that Japan send troops to the Congo was trial balloon deliberately floated by the government to see what the reaction would be. Strong opposition imme diately shot the baHoon down. Others, however, believe Mat sudaira made the suggestion on his own in an attempt to embarrass the government, which he believes soon will relieve him of his U.N. post. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Among other controversies in Salem in this legislative year has been the age at which youngsters should be licensed to drive cars. It is now 16. There are proposals in the legislature to raise it to 18. One not very sound argument in favor of the change is that it would at least keep more teen-agers off the roads. Perhaps that illustrates as well as anything else the fuz ziness of our thinking on this rather important subject. DOME good advise on the 3 subject of teenage driving and how to handle it was proffered in Portland by Wal ter G. Lundsford, who is Western regional representa tive of the Auto Industries Highway Safety Committee, whose membership is made up of people and industries that are interested in more safety on the highways. He address ed the annual meeting of the Oregon Highway Lifesavers, whose members are interested in the same subject. Among other good things, he said: "Where teenagers have re ceived ADEQUATE training, their accident rate has been reduced BELOW THAT OF ADULTS. . . The 16 to 18 age group has no worse record than the average ADULT dirvers." He added: "It is the group between 19 and 23-youngsters beyond the supervision of teachers and parenls-which has done the most damage." TTE WENT on to say: "Industry as a whole wouldn't think of putting a new employee on a highly complicated machine without adequate training. The air plane industry is an example. Before a pilot is permitted to take command of a plane he must go through a severe course of training and must demonstrate his abality to handle a plane with a maxi mum of safety." . The point he was making is that it is TRAINING, rather than age, that should govern the issuance of driving li censes. . . The age limit leg islation now being considered in Salem misses that point entirely, he told his hearers. JUDGING by his talk in Portland, as reported by the press, Mr. Lundsford doesn't think "too much of Oregon's driver education pro gram. He told his listeners: "You (of Oregon) passed a driver education measure in 1957, but so far only 12 per cent of your eligible stu dents have received training. Last year there was more than $200,000 left in the state driver training budget for other departments to fight over." Which is to say: Not enough of Oregon's eligible teenage students have been given the kind of driver training that will enable them to handle an automobile with reasonable safety to them selves and others. Ttf R. LUNDSFORD'S address J.'-- contains a lot of food for thought. It suggests that the teenagers of today can no more be kept out of automo biles than their predecessors of a couple of generations ago could be kept away from horses. In those benighted days, parents would have loved to keep their youngsters away from horses . . . just as we of today would love to keep OUR youngsters away from cars. Horses were dangerous then. Cars are dangerous now. But our great-grandparents were wise enough to realize that youngsters and horses (which were then the prevail ing mnde of transportation) just COULDN'T be kept apart. So they compromised by teaching their children (usually, at a tender aee) how i to handle horses safely and I intelligently. I Wed better take a leaf
