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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."
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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